Create a Website

What Is a Widget?

A widget is an essential building block pre-set with default content and having a certain function. Widgets are divided into categories that can all be found in the Widgets tab of the left panel.

Basic

This is a basic set of elements necessary for creating a website.

  • Text: Basic content of any website. You can choose the text style, formatting and color
  • Image: Upload your image or choose one from the library
  • Gallery: Helps to arrange pictures in a beautiful way
  • Slider: A set of slides, each may have a custom text and design
  • Menu: Helps to create site navigation
  • Button: Is used to display a call to action or to embed a link
  • Icon: Is used to point out key aspects of the text and add a visual highlight to the content
Structure

  • Separator: Helps to separate website elements from each other in a neat way
  • Space: Creates an empty space between widgets
Content

  • Quote: Allows to complete the website content with a quote
  • Card: Is perfect for showing selling points and offers or describing products and services
  • Table: Can be used for arranging large amounts of info in a consistent way
  • Pro Table: Can be used for creating tables, fine-tuning the design, copy and merge cells
  • Reviews: Allows to add up to 9 reviews about your products, services or work
  • Steps: Horizontally arranged sequence of steps
  • Timeline: Vertically arranged sequence of steps
  • Price List: A list of products and services with their short description and price
  • Spoiler: Help you arrange convenient site navigation and page structure. It allows you to hide long text, detailed descriptions, answers questions, and more.
  • Timer: A countdown to the end of a special offer or product launch
  • HTML code: Allows to embed and edit custom HTML code on the website pages
  • Google Search: Helps your visitors find what they need within a website
  • News Widget: Shows a preview of the latest news added to your website blog
  • Basic Button: Is used to display a call to action or to embed a link. We recommend using the Button widget that you can find in the Basic section. It includes all functions of the old widget and has advanced design and link settings
Online store

  • Product: Built-in online store widget by uKit
External

  • Ecwid: Online store widget by Ecwid
  • Cost Calculator: Creates a cost calculator for your products or services, questionnaires and feedback forms with the help of uCalc
Media

  • File: A document, software or any other file that can be downloaded from your website
  • Video: Allows to embed a video from YouTube or other video hosting
  • SoundCloud: Allows to add tracks from SoundCloud service to your website
Contact

  • Contact Information: Displays your contact details
  • Contact Form: Helps you create a feedback form, an order form, or a review form
  • Callback: Allows your website visitors to request a callback
  • Map: Shows your company location on the map, specifies your business hours and other useful information
  • MailChimp: A service to send automated emails. Place a MailChimp form onto your website and collect subscribers
  • LiveChat and JivoSite: Online chats to provide live support to your website visitors
Social

  • Social networks: A set of links to your social media accounts or groups
  • Share buttons: Create Share and Like buttons for your website with uSocial
  • Facebook: Shows the feed and followers of your Facebook page
  • Twitter: Displays the stream of your Tweets
  • Instagram: Shows pictures of your Instagram account
  • Pinterest: Pictures from your boards on Pinterest
  • Disqus: A commenting service that lets arrange the discussion of your blog posts
Old widgets

  • Gallery: The old version of the Gallery, also helps to arrange pictures in a beautiful way. We recommend using an updated version of the widget that you can find in the Basic section.
  • Heading: Helps to arrange content into groups that are visually discernable. We recommend using the Text widget from the Basic category. It contains the Heading widget functionality and many extra features.
  • Space: Creates an empty space between widgets. We recommend using the Space widget that you can find in the Structure section. It has all functions of the old widget plus an extra one: you can change the space in the adaptive site version.
  • Icon: Is used to point out key aspects of the text and add a visual highlight to the content. We recommend using the Icon widget that you can find in the Basic section. It includes all functions of the old widget and has advanced design and link settings, as well as a richer icon library.
  • Separator: Is used to point out key aspects of the text and add a visual highlight to the content. We recommend using the Separator widget that you can find in the Structure section. It includes all functions of the old widget and has advanced design settings.

Note:

You can enable/disable the old widgets in the Settings section on the dashboard:

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