How to Evaluate a BoldGrid Site

After you have installed your BoldGrid Inspiration (and even before), you may have been considering how to change the template for your business or website needs. Consider the following when you plan the creation or modification of your site.

Define Your Site's Scope

Decide on the scope of your website. For example, consider if your site will be be simply informational, or if you need to add forms for user feedback. You will want to consider how your website will represent you or your business on the internet. The scope can depend on the time you have, the resources that you have available, and other possible needs.

Decide What You Want to Change

Now that you know what you want, you need to start by looking at what your chosen Inspiration has provided. Click on the Visit Active Site option located in your Admin toolbar at the top of the dashboard.

This brings you to the site, allowing you to see it at the default level. Obvious changes such as the site title, call to action, and footer information will need to be made, but take some time to explore each page to see how you will want to change them to make the site your own. You may want to remove some of the pages, change pictures, etc. Be sure to make notes on what you want to change.

Begin Making your Changes

Remember you will be able to add or remove pages as needed. For example, looking at our sample site we decide that we do not want to use the default About Us page, but that the Services page layout fits better. In this case, we decide that we need to remove a page.

You will also want to be sure to change the written content on your pages to make it unique. Google loves unique content so making your content stand out as much as possible will help your site show up higher in the search engine rankings. In our sample site's case, we would like to have great unique content regarding the company and the listing in the area so it shows up when visitors look for real estate for the local area or cities. If you're not a customer of Web hosting Hub and would like to see more information, check out the BoldGrid Support Center website. You can see a video on evaluating a BoldGrid Site that may also provide more insight.