How to create a website

Create your own website without any skills with Orson's website builder. There is everything you need to get an online presence in minutes.
Start by choosing a template, customise it with your text and image content and publish it online. 

How to create a website

You have different ways to create a professional website today, either code it yourself, go through a provider or agency, or go through Orson to be able to make it simply without coding.
Orson allows you to create sites at your image without any technical skills. You will be able to put all the contents you want without any line of code.

The creation of your website on Orson.io will be done entirely online. No need to download or install software, web application, you go directly to http://secure.orson.io/fr/sessions/new

and with a simple email, you will be able to start your 15 days free trial period.

You will be able to start creating your professional website by choosing one of our designed templates. After the 15 days, you can subscribe to our plan without any commitment of duration which includes web hosting, unlimited storage and bandwidth and a free professional domain name with the extension: 

  • com
  • org
  • net
  • fr
  • be

No need to register a domain name, we will do it for you as soon as you will find an available domain name through our interface. If you already have a domain name, you can just redirect it to the software Orson.

How to create a website quickly? Start with a ready-to-use theme

Orson offers templates that are also called themes' which have been elaborated by our experts in design and expert in Search Engine Optimization (SEO). They have been created from the best recent practices from the internet to help you build an effective professional websites. The graphic design has also been carefully tailored to make beautiful websites.

These templates allow you to quickly start your website. They give you ideas and inspirations on how to present the content of your site. We also write some default content to give you some inspiration on how to format your text or what to write.

The advantage with Orson is that you can change whatever you want on these templates:

  • layout
  • content
  • colors
  • font

These themes are not fixed at all and can be customized as much as you want. It is a big difference compared to other website builders. All design are switchable as well without any design break.

Drag and drop to build your professional website

Orson has been developed based on a system of drag and drop, which will allow you, with your mouse, to move all the elements of your page where you want. You can also add any content to your page with our modules. There is no any limit, you are free to make the layout and the page you have always dreamed about.

If you are not used to the Drag and Drop system, you will be able to create your website with the classic click system. Follow the blue button with a “Plus” in it and you will be able to build a really professional quality website without any IT skills.

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Add any content through widgets

On Orson, creating a professional website is simple. If you want to add additional content, you have different widgets available.

Simply add your widget by dragging and drop it to the desired place on your webpage and you will only have to fill out the requested information. For example, when you create a button, Orson’s software will ask information about the button text, the internal link you want to connect or the external address of a site, and whether you want the link to open in a new window or not. 

You will directly see your modification in the website builder, it’s live preview which is called Wysiwyg ( what you see is what you get)

Orson allows you to create a professional website with the following widgets:
  • Text
  • Image
  • Carousel
  • Gallery
  • Logo
  • Google Map
  • Form
  • Video
  • Icon
  • Background image, background color and background video, background image parallax
  • Social Network Button
  • Social Networking
  • Facebook and Twitter Timeline
  • Kickstarter Crowdfunding Widget
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Connect your website to the world with the widget code

This is not all, if you want to create a personal, showcase, portfolio or business website or an E-commerce website with a particular feature or widget for example: booking system for music, you will be able to add it very simply thanks to the widget Code.

You can then implement any HTML, CSS or Javascript code through the integrated HTML editor.

That code can be added but on your own responsibility. If there are any design break, we would not be able to correct them.

Create a website with MailChimp, Zapier, Intercom connected in 2 clicks. If you want us to integrate some new widgets, we would love to hear from you. Just give your feedbacks directly through the live chat on the bottom right of the editor.

The blocks, an intuitive solution to build your website

To simplify the process of creating a website once again, we have created a system of blocks of pre made, ready-to-use content elaborated from the best practices in design and in marketing. We have designed all the content and even wrote default content as well to give some ideas and inspirations to build your own website.

These blocks are categorized ranging from presentation of a company, a team, products list to the presentation of the contact page. We created a wide variety of blocks to help you find the perfect presentation based on the content you want to add to your webpages.

You simply drag and drop the selected block on your page and then can edit the text and image content with your own. Neat.

You can customized the background of each blocks with an image, a color or even a video.

If you choose to add a background image, you can even add a parallax effect which will make your website really modern and dynamic.

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How to build a responsive design site?

Creating its website today requires us to think about the accessibility of its site on mobile. On Orson.io, all templates, themes have been designer to be responsive design from the start.

You do not need to think about the compatibility of your site with any web browser or tablets or smartphones. Our responsive design technology ensures that no matter what content is added or modified, your website content will suited perfectly to all web and web browser tools.

The grids, how to go further to make a unique website

For users who are a little more advanced and who still want to go further in building their website, we have created a grid system using the Twitter Bootstrap technology.

You will be able to create the blocks you want from the grids and widgets without limitations. Grids with 6 columns up to 2 columns are available. Building your site on the web editor is a breeze.

No need to learn HMTL, learn how to code, make his site on the web software Orson boils down to using his mouse. Orson is the best website creation software that offers this feature, loved by designers.