DudaOne

Duda's collection of templates houses 67 contemporary, mobile-responsive designs.

DudaOne lets you preview each template in desktop, tablet and mobile configuration before selecting one.

While DudaOne's templates aren't as pretty or sophisticated as those of Squarespace, they are highly customizable. DudaOne's templates are also switchable – you can change your template after you have created your website, but only to another template within the same template family.

Once you have selected a template, you can start building your website with it, but if you are pressed for time, you can populate it with content from an existing website on the Internet. In fact, DudaOne is the only website builder that enables you to save valuable time by importing all of your existing images, contact details, social information, text and more from any other website or Facebook business page in just one click.

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If you have used website builders before, DudaOne's interface should look familiar to you – options to edit your website are placed in the column along the left side of the screen and options to save, publish, upgrade and undo/redo edits are laid out in the bar along the top.

While DudaOne's interface looks similar to that of its competitors, its powerful set of editing tools is what sets DudaOne apart from most website builders.

Like Wix and Website.com, DudaOne offers free color palettes (or schemes) that you can easily apply to your website in just one click. Color palettes are also customizable.

In addition to your website's color palette and fonts, you can also customize your site navigation to your precise specifications – you can even specify the navigation style of your site on desktop, tablet and mobile devices.

You can also set your website background image or color either for every version of your website at once, or individually for the desktop, tablet and mobile versions of your website.

DudaOne's editor uses the drag-and- drop technology, which means you can drag and drop elements to anywhere you want on your web pages. DudaOne doesn't come with a mobile editor, but every element in DudaOne can be customized on a per device basis – you can hide an element on the tablet or mobile version of your website, so you can customize the mobile look of your website to some extent.

When adding a new page to your website, you are given a selection of 12 page types to choose from, including blank page, About Us, Contact us, Photo Gallery, Restaurant Menu, Complex Page and more. You can also add a page from an existing site.

If you don't want to add a full page to your website, you also have the option to add a pop-up window. You also get to choose from 11 pop-up page types. Popups in DudaOne can be set up to appear when clicked as a link, in a button or as an action from an inSite.

Every option dialog for every DudaOne website element comes with a Settings option that lets you edit the element's spacing, CSS code and the actual HTML code for the element.

You can also add entrance animations to add a nice finishing touch to your elements.

Unlike website builders like Weebly and Wix, DudaOne doesn't offer any app store for third- party integrations. But it does offer users a collection of handy, customizable features.

DudaOne offers eCommerce functionality in all their plans. The Free and the Business+ plans support up to 10 products. You also get to choose from several shipping configurations (including FedEx, UPS, USPS, Canada Post, Russian Post or setup custom rates) and payment gateways (including online payment via PayPal, Stripe and Robokassa, or offline payment via money order, check, wire transfer, etc.).

The Business+eCommerce plan comes in two versions, 100 products or 2500 products. This plan offers 30+ payment gateways, including American Express, Authorize.Net, Moneris, PayPal, Stripe, Swipe HQ, 2Checkout and more. Like the Free and Business+ plans, it allows for offline payments such as checks, money orders, phone orders, wire transfers, etc..

Digital/e-goods are supported on all DudaOne plans. You can offer video, audio, files, images, documents, etc. for purchase and download on your online store.

All eCommerce-related emails sent from the DudaOne platform have fully customizable text.

Duda's eCommerce platform also comes with advanced features such as maximum/minimum purchase (ie. you can set the maximum or minimum a customer must purchase to check out). While one would expect this to be a paid feature on other website builders, DudaOne offers it on all three tiers of its plans, including the DudaOne Free plan.

Promotion features, however, require subscription to the Business+eCommerce plan. An upgrade to the plan will allow you to share your store on Facebook, list your products on eBay and/or create discount coupons.

To add images to your website, you can either choose from the built-in stock image gallery, drag and drop photos from your computer, or import them from online sources like Facebook, Flickr, Dropbox, Google Drive or Picasa. You can even enter an image's URL or perform a Web search to find the image you want.

Just like all other elements on your website, you can choose to hide any image on a device of your choice, whether it be desktop, tablet or phone. Some images don't work well on smaller screens and instead of shrinking it to fit a mobile screen (and sacrificing image quality, clarity and details), you can simply omit the image on the mobile version of your website. So this is a valuable option.

In terms of photo editing, you can crop and resize an image. You can also use the embedded version of Aviary for some advanced editing and effects. And just like all other elements, you can edit via the element's CSS or HTML codes.

When adding a photo gallery, you don't get as many choices and settings as you would with Wix or Website.com. There is only the grid and masonry gallery layouts available, or you can add an image slider.

While most website builders come with a free 1-year domain registration, DudaOne doesn't offer any free domain. In fact, DudaOne doesn't offer any domain registration services – you cannot purchase a domain from them.

When you sign up for the DudaOne Business+ and Business+eCommerce plans, you can connect your website with a custom domain. But while you can't purchase a domain name directly from DudaOne, there is a Hover integration built right in the DudaOne publish flow. That means, you can purchase your domain from Hover. Hover is a division of Tucows Inc, the third largest domain registrar in the world, only behind GoDaddy and eNom.

With this setup, you have the freedom to purchase your domain name from any registrar you want, for example GoDaddy.com. DudaOne has put together a list of registrars that are compatible with their service.

DudaOne also doesn't offer any email services. If you want to create a [email protected] custom email address, you will need to purchase separate email services from other providers. Hover offers email service plans.

For support, DudaOne offers a very extensive knowledgebase and email support. Unfortunately, there is no live chat support or phone support available – phone and live chat support is reserved for the DudaPro (reseller plan) users only.

Their knowledgebase is comprised of step-by- step guides and videos, case studies, as well as webinars and ebooks, white papers and sales collateral.

Duda started out as a website builder dedicated to mobile websites. Through the services of DudaOne, they also offer a responsive website builder for building optimized websites that will impeccably fit all screen sizes.

DudaOne doesn't offer as many template designs or third-party apps as Squarespace or Wix; it doesn't offer domain email services like Website.com, nor does it give you a free domain name. But their advanced features like eCommerce and inSite offered even at the free level makes DudaOne a serious consideration as a powerful website builder.