Site Builder Tools

All Digital Beach Site Builder features

DB Site Builder Tools


Design Control


  • Edit By Device

    Customize every element per device, for full control over how your site looks and functions on desktop, tablet and mobile.

  • Drag-and-Drop Editor

    Reduce development time with Duda’s easy-to-use and intuitive drag-and-drop editor.

  • Flexible Navigation

    Choose from various navigation styles for desktop, tablet and mobile. 

  • Developer Mode

    Access your responsive website’s HTML and CSS for increased flexibility and control.

  • Text Link Customization

    Choose the font color and format that you want for your website text links.

  • Fully Responsive Framework

    Your responsive website is based on the ZURB Foundation framework.

  • Flat UI Design

    Encourage conversions on your websites with modern designs that feature a fast-loading flat user interface.

  • Favicon

    Improve your brand recognition by adding a favicon that displays on the browser tab when a website is open.

  • Rich Text Editing

    Engage site visitors by adding underlines, bold, italics, and more to text inside widgets, and by linking words to internal or external pages.

  • Customized 404 Page

    Make the most of every website visit with a customized 404 page. Edit the page as you would any other page in the platform, adding images, videos, buttons, text, and more.

  • Center Logo Navigation

    Create perfect navigation every time with dozens of predesigned navigation and header layouts. All designs are fully responsive for all devices and screen sizes. 

  • Image Optimization

    All images are automatically optimized and resized, per device and according to their location on the page, for faster page speed.

  • Videos

    Increase visitor engagement by displaying videos on your sites. Upload them directly to your site, or embed links to YouTube, Vimeo, etc.

  • Video Backgrounds

    Catch visitor’s attention with video backgrounds on mobile, tablet and desktop.

  • Photo Gallery

    Display images in an eye-catching photo gallery. Choose from several modern layouts and customize with text, buttons, hover effects, animations, and more.

  • Background Slider

    Create a moving background with the Background Slider, that enables you to show multiple images as a background.

  • Image Slider

    Arrange multiple photos in a swipeable image slider and choose from fantastic layout options. Add titles, captions, buttons, links, and more.


  • Font Styles

    Choose from more than 100 gorgeous font styles that can be used throughout your website.

  • Shrinking Header

    Create great-looking sites with trendy site headers that shrink while visitors scroll. Control the color of shrinking header text, buttons, icons and more. 

  • Copy & Paste

    Make site-building even faster by copying and pasting elements inside your website.

  • Backgrounds

    Create engaging websites by adding background images or videos, and enabling parallax effects.

  • Photo Editor

    Edit your site images from directly inside the editor with Duda’s rich, built-in photo editor. You can crop, resize, add overlays and more.

  • Free Images & GIFs Library

    Choose free images and GIFs from our extensive library, Unsplash, GIPHY, and more. Duda’s powerful Image Picker makes adding them to your site quick and easy.

  • Premium Images

    Buy premium Shutterstock images from directly inside the platform. If you like, try them out with watermarks before purchasing.

  • Easy Image Upload

    Add images from your computer, or from various locations on the web, including Dropbox, Google Drive and Facebook.

  • Page Duplication

    Duplicate any page on your site and use its design and layout in another area of the site.

  • Content Import

    Save time by pulling content from an existing website or web page. The content is automatically placed in the template and saved in the site Content Library.

  • Global Design

    Create a consistent website by defining site-wide settings for text, buttons, images, and backgrounds. Save the colors so they are easy to reuse throughout the site. 

  • Color Overlays

    Customize images and videos with color overlays. You can control both their color and opacity. 


Edit Anywhere


  • Mobile Editing

    Edit and republish any site directly from your mobile device. Upload photos you’ve taken on your device, update phone numbers, change links and more. 

  • Upload Photos from Your Device

    What could be handier than updating photo galleries and image sliders with photos you’ve just snapped on your phone? You can also add, sort and edit images from the library. 

  • Edit Frequently Used Widgets

    Edit the most commonly used widgets, including text, image slider, photo gallery, button and more.

  • Mobile-Friendly Dashboard

    When you log in from your mobile device, you’ll go directly to a new, mobile-friendly dashboard that displays all of your sites and lets you search, preview and edit them. 


  • Designed for Smartphones

    Designed specially for touch, the mobile version of Duda’s editor has easy-to-click buttons and an intuitive flow, so you and your clients find the entire experience easy and slick. 

  • Tablet Editing

    Access the DB Site Builder, including site settings and stats, in a format customized for tablet. Upload images from your device, edit widgets in a tap, and more. 

  • Add & Remove Widgets

    The inline widget selector enables you to add and remove widgets easily, and shows you exactly where the widget will be placed. 

  • Designed for Tablet

    Designed specially for touch, the DB Site Builder tablet editor includes, among other things, a wider top bar for easy tapping, and deliberate deletion to make sure nothing is removed by accident. 


Site Widgets


  • Popup

    Add popups that promote sales, encourage email signups, or personalize the site for specific visitors. 

  • Contact Form

    Make it easy for visitors to get in touch with an easy-to-edit Contact Form. It has an opt-in consent field, multiple layout and style options, and can be integrated with MailChimp, Constant Contact, and Google Sheets. 

  • Custom HTML

    Add your own HTML/CSS/JavaScript directly to your websites. Great for third-party integrations or adding custom code. 

  • Business Hours

    Let website visitors know when a brick-and-mortar store is open and when it’s not. Save time by importing and then editing business hours from an online source. 

  • Click To Call

    Enable site visitors to call a business with a single click from a mobile device. 

  • Click To Email

    Enable site visitors to email website owners directly from their websites. 

  • Online Scheduling

    With vcita, site visitors can schedule appointments via desktop, tablet and mobile. 

  • OpenTable Reservations

    With the OpenTable online reservation service, it’s easy for site visitors to book a table. 

  • PayPal

    Make it easy for site visitors to shop online or make a donation with a customizable PayPal button. 

  • Restaurant Menu

    Build mouthwatering restaurant menus quickly by syncing with a menu that’s already online and then editing as you like. Integrate images, change the item order, customize the layout and more. 

  • Social Widgets

    Make it simple for site visitors to share your site with their followers. Choose which icons to display and customize as you like. 

  • Zoom

    Add this video conferencing service to your sites and give clients an easy, quick, and effective way to engage with site visitors. 


  • Coupons

    Drag and drop coupons onto a site and control the discount, duration, etc. 

  • Disqus Comments

    With this online commenting platform, it’s easy for site visitors to engage and send feedback. 

  • Divider

    Add customizable dividers to your sites. Choose from a variety of layouts and designs. 

  • File Upload

    Enable website visitors to download PDFs, spreadsheets and more by clicking a button. 

  • Facebook Comments

    Allow visitors to comment on a linked Facebook page without leaving the website. 

  • Facebook Like

    Enable visitors to like a business’s Facebook page without leaving the website. 

  • Icons

    Choose from a library of more than 1000 icons, or upload your own SVG, and customize to suit your site’s look and feel. 

  • Lists

    Create an engaging list of anything you like, from company services to team members. The list can include titles, descriptions, images and image links. 

  • Maps

    Powered by Mapbox, choose from several sleek layouts, and make it easier for site visitors to find brick-and-mortar locations. 

  • Multi-Location

    Insert a map powered by Mapbox that shows multiple locations and enables website visitors to find the location closest to them. 

  • Share

    Make it easy for site visitors to share the website on social media networks including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and more. 

  • Yelp Reviews

    Build credibility with site visitors by displaying top Yelp reviews directly on your customers’ websites. 


Widget Builder


  • Build Websites Faster

    Automate manual processes, such as custom code tweaks, or integrate 3rd party services. This makes adding them to your websites quicker and smoother.

  • Easy Widget Building

    Build new widgets in a matter of hours, not days, using standard HTML, CSS and Javascript. For detailed information on how it works, see the documentation.

  • Custom Widget Editor

    Embed your own settings panel into a widget so that you can connect the widget to your own backend service. This can be used to both configure and display a widget.

  • Customized & Specialized

    Build widgets to meet your specific needs. Integrate external functionality (for example, with an Instagram feed), increase design capabilities (for example., with a timer), and more.


  • Update Seamlessly

    Update widgets within the Widget Builder so the updates don't break existing widgets. This means you don't need to worry about going back and fixing issues on old sites.

  • Consistent Experience

    Your staff and customers will be able to edit the widgets you build with ease, since they are built using Duda's standard UI and input options.


Templates & Sections


  • Modern Templates

    Choose from a library of beautiful, sleek, natively responsive website templates. The selection is growing all the time. 

  • Versatile & Flexible

    Digital Beach templates, organized into industry categories, are incredibly versatile, and can be adapted with ease for alternative industries. 

  • Save Your Templates

    Built a customized template that you want to reuse? Simply save it in the My Templates section of the Editor. You and your teammates will be able to use it over and over again. 

  • Predesigned Sections

    Speed up your website design process by adding predesigned sections to your websites. Each section is professionally designed and available in a click from directly inside the editor. 


  • Share Sections

    The Team Sections dashboard makes it easy for you to share any section that you’ve designed, and access sections that your teammates have designed and saved. 

  • Create Your Own Sections

    Create your own sections, or save existing rows or full pages as sections, and reuse them as often as you like. 

  • Template Reset

    DB Site Builder enables you to quickly and easily offer new clients multiple web design options to choose from, and lowers your churn rate by providing instantaneous website redesigns. 


Automatic Actions


  • Pre-Made Personalization Rules

    Select from a library of pre-made personalizations and implement them in just a few clicks. 

  • Build From Scratch

    Combine any mix of triggers and actions to create a website personalization rule that perfectly fits your unique business needs. 

  • Easy to Edit & Customize

    Personalizations are easy to edit and customize, so you can reuse a single personalization several times, tweaking it for your customers’ current needs. 

  • Time Trigger

    Create a website personalization rule based on the time of day that a visitor reaches the website. Set it to recur daily, weekly or monthly. 

  • Location Trigger

    Use geo-targeting to ensure that site visitors see content that is relevant to their physical location. 

  • Device Type Trigger

    Deliver specialized calls-to-action, messages and more that match the device a visitor is using. 

  • Number of Visits Trigger

    Determine what visitors see according to the number of visits they’ve made to a site. Change messaging for first-time visitors and for users who return often. 

  • Campaign URL Trigger

    Personalize a web page for visitors who found your customer’s site through a marketing campaign to give visitors a more consistent experience. 


  • Present New Content

    Add any type of content that you want when this action is triggered. You can add a new section to a website, show a coupon, display a special message and more. 

  • Add Custom JavaScript

    Implement JavaScript that displays when you want it to, and disappears when you don’t. 

  • Add Notification Bar

    Run a message across the top of a website to highlight a promotion or deliver a special message. 

  • Background Image

    Swap out the background of a website with an image that draws attention to an event, new initiative or holiday. 

  • Custom CSS & HTML

    Take your website personalization to the next level using CSS and HTML to create unique and engaging personalizations. 

  • Hide Content

    DB Site Builder websites are made up of rows, and they can be hidden at any time using a website personalization rule. 


Content Library


  • Content Import

    Build websites faster than ever by easily pulling all of a client’s content from a website or Facebook page directly into the Content Library. 

  • External Data Sync

    Optimize your workflow by syncing site content with an external data set connected via our API. Any time you update info in your source of truth, our platform will automatically push the change to any connected widget on a site 

  • Connect to Widgets

    Text blocks, images and addresses are just some of the widgets you can now connect to the Content Library for easy data management all in one place.

  • Business Information

    Gather all your information in text form, including name, phone number, address, text blocks, social media profiles and more, in one convenient place. This content can be connected to widgets and locations across the website for easy updating. 


  • Create Collections

    Add entire collections of business images with their titles and descriptions to the Content Library. You can connect this data to photo galleries, image sliders, background images, list widgets and more. 

  • Manage Files

    Consolidate any and all files related to a client’s business in one convenient location inside the Content Library. 

  • Manage Form Responses

    Easily view, manage and delete responses from visitors that submitted a contact form on a client’s website. 


eCommerce


  • Fully Responsive

    The DB Site Builder comes with a built-in eCommerce solution that displays beautifully and works seamlessly across desktop, tablet and mobile. 

  • Product Pages

    Choose from engaging product page layouts and customize the descriptions and designs as you like. You can also show multiple product images. 

  • Payment Options

    Integrate more than 30 trusted payment providers, including PayPal, Stripe, Authorize.net, Square POS, Stripe and Square payment gateways, and more. 

  • Maximum/Minimum Purchase

    Set a maximum or minimum purchase for checkout (for example, customer must spend at least $5 to complete the transaction). 

  • Sell on Social Media Channels

    Reach your customers where they are with Facebook and Instagram stores. You’ll increase exposure and make it easier for customers to shop. 

  • Email Marketing

    Increase your clients’ sales by enabling them to send emails to website visitors directly from the platform and customize the text for their brand. 

  • In-Store and Scheduled Pickup

    Enable customers to set a time for picking up items from brick-and-mortar shops. 

  • On-the-Go Store Management

    Download a dedicated app and manage your store when you’re away from your desk. Add new products and images, manage orders, get notifications on your phone, and more. 

  • PayPal

    Make it easy for site visitors to shop online or make a donation with a customizable PayPal button. 

  • Stock Count

    Create a sense of urgency and encourage visitors to make a purchase by showing how much stock is left. 

  • Display Discounts

    Encourage conversions by showing slashed regular prices alongside discounted prices. 

  • Shipping Providers

    Ship domestically or internationally with FedEx, UPS, USPS and more. 


  • Integrated Design

    The online storefront automatically incorporates the same color palette and font styles as the rest of the website. 

  • Tax Options

    Enable automatic tax calculations for the US, Canada, UK, EU and Australia. 

  • Gift Cards

    Increase purchase options and client base so visitors can buy your products/services for friends and family, or make a purchase to show their support in your business. 

  • Add to Favorites

    Encourage visitors to come back later and purchase by enabling them to browse through your site and mark as Favorites the items they like best. 

  • Coupons

    Generate coupon codes for particular products or an entire order. 

  • Product Categories

    Make it easier for customers to browse by organizing products into categories. Choose from several gorgeous category page layouts and customize as you like. 

  • Digital Downloads

    Offer digital content such as video and audio files, images, and documents for purchase and download. 

  • Low Stock Notifications

    Have your customers receive email updates when their stores are running low on particular items. 

  • Shipping Options

    Maintain full control over which shipping options are available to site visitors (for example, overnight shipping, standard, and more). 

  • Shipping Rates

    Set flat shipping rates or have rates calculated on-the-fly according to product weight. 

  • Tracking Codes

    Place tracking codes on “Thank You” pages to report sales into an analytics platform, and track the effectiveness of affiliate and pay-per-click campaigns. 


Blog Posting


  • Flexible & Customizable

    Add any content that you want to your posts, including images, widgets, rows and columns. As for the layout and style, customize easily any way that you like. 

  • Smart & Connected

    Two connected modes keep your blog posts looking great. Set structure in Layout Mode; add content in Post Mode. The connection between modes gives you design flexibility within a consistent structure. 

  • Blog Tags

    Optimize blog SEO and make it easier for visitors to find posts about the topics they care about with consistent, error-free autofill tags. 

  • Syndicated Content

    ATOM and RSS feeds are automatically generated and updated for every new blog post. 

  • Fully Responsive

    The blog displays perfectly across desktop, tablet and mobile devices. 

  • Smart Design

    Every post in the blog has a smart and consistent design structure. This is good for SEO and makes for a great visitor experience. 


  • Multiple Authors

    Increase the scope of your blog by enabling multiple contributing authors. 

  • Blog Stats

    Know how many people visit every post with automatic visitor tracking. Learn more about stats & analytics. 

  • Accessible Site-Wide

    You can add a blog element anywhere on the website so visitors can access the posts easily, regardless of where they are on your site. 

  • Easy management

    The search feature makes it easy to find a specific post according to the subject, author and publish date. 


SEO


  • Google PageSpeed Optimization

    All Digital Beach websites are automatically optimized for Google PageSpeed upon publishing and republishing. 

  • Global CDN

    Load times are significantly reduced thanks to DBI connecting to a global CDN (Content Delivery Network), which hosts all static files (such as images, pdfs, and docs). 

  • Dynamic Serving

    Your website automatically responds to the type of device (desktop, tablet or mobile) it is being viewed on and content is optimized accordingly to speed up load times. 

  • Robots.txt

    Automatically included, robots.txt informs search engines which pages should and should not be indexed by search engines. 

  • Sitemap

    A sitemap is automatically generated for each site, and informs search engines which pages they should crawl. 

  • Open Graph Support

    Share a website image, title and description with social networks including Facebook and LinkedIn using Open Graph. 

  • Vary: user-agent

    Vary: user-agent informs search engines that users will receive different content depending on their device type. 


  • Page Titles

    Control the title of each page for optimal search engine visibility. 

  • Meta Keywords & Descriptions

    Control the keywords and descriptions for an entire site, and for every page individually. 

  • Customizable Page URLs

    Customize the URL of any page on a site to improve search engine visibility and inform visitors of what page they are on. 

  • Alt and Description Tags on Images

    Improve the ability of search engines to discover images on a website through tags. 

  • 301 Redirects

    Help maintain strong SEO when switching from an old site to a new one by redirecting an old page URL to the new one. 

  • Mobile-Friendly Design

    All images are automatically optimized so they meet (and exceed) Google standards for mobile-friendliness. 


Dynamic Pages


  • Dynamic Pages

    Speed up your site-building process by creating multiple pages based on a single design and filled with content stored in Internal Collections inside the editor, or in external collections. 

  • Ready-to-Use Dynamic Pages

    These pages are already connected to a dataset that is managed directly from the editor. Available for real estate listings, company team pages, blank pages, and more. 

  • Any page can be a Dynamic Page

    You can convert an existing site page to make it dynamic or start from scratch, designing a page that’s dynamic right from the start. 


  • Internal Collections

    Manage content, including text, images, addresses and more, directly inside the editor. Connect your collections to Dynamic Pages to instantly create multiple pages based on a single design. 

  • External Collections

    Connect a Google sheet or Airtable to Dynamic Pages (no code required!) or with any other external database using Duda’s robust API. Every time the data is updated, your site updates automatically. 

  • API Documentation

    Build and manage Dynamic Pages without even entering the platform via API calls.


Multi-Language


  • 55+ Languages

    Choose from dozens of international languages.

  • Easy-to-Use

    Quickly create multi-language responsive websites based on easy-to-edit automatic translations by Google Translate.

  • SEO-Friendly

    Boost your website SEO ranking with language-specific URLs designed for geo-targeting


  • Fully Customizable

    Easily edit every page in every language, so nothing gets lost in translation.

  • Under the Hood Access

    As with every Digital Beach website, you can access the code on every page if you like, and make per page language adjustments.


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