Design it Yourself

Create your own website to interact with your customers – add dynamic content with easy to use drag and drop functionality.

What do you get?

• Easy-to-use website creator - Design Your Site application
• Unlimited feature points to spend on the widgets of your choice
• Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) Basic Tool
• 1GB hosting space, Linux web server
• Unmetered Bandwidth/Data Transfer
• Shared SSL Secure Server
• Unique and Dedicated IP address

What do I need?

Before you can build a website, you will need a domain name (website address).

If you do not have a domain name, you can register and purchase a domain name whilst purchasing the premium website.

If you do have a domain name, check it includes a DNS Manager or DNS Service which lets you update A and CNAME records. If you can’t see these options in your Domain manager you may be able to purchase a DNS Manager or DNS Service separately from your existing provider; alternatively you can transfer your domain name to T-Suite so you can manage your domains and website services from one centralised place.

Pricing

• More about what you get (click to expand)

  
  With the Design Your Site application even the most non-technical user can create a state-of-the-art website from the robust collection of functions and features.
  • Fast setup for a great looking website – no HTML skills required
  • Simple-to-use, online editing tool for keeping your website up to date from any computer
  • Cool features like a gallery, video, maps and social media to engage visitors and keep them coming back
  • Match your website content with what customers want
  Take a look at the Design Your Site application

  Widgets are website functions and design elements that can be dragged and dropped into your website to add features such as photo slideshows, embed videos, contact forms, social media integration, maps, news, and much more.
  Take a look at the widgets available

  Our Search Engine Optimisation Basic Tool is easy to setup and helps people find your website - submits your website to the top search engines and automatically resubmits to 100 more on a monthly basis. In addition, an initial site review is provided to ensure the most common usability mistakes are avoided.

Design Your Site Application

The Design Your Site application is an evolution in web design for small to medium businesses. With its WSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) interface, even the most non-technical user can create a state-of-the-art website from the robust collection of functions and features. Industry-specific templates, image and widget placement, predefined colour and font sets make it easy to ensure graphical consistency and lets you set up a site in no time.

For more demanding users, there is “expert mode” which includes options to customise every aspect of the site –colours, fonts and more. Edits happen with a click of the Publish button, and can be made from any computer with internet access and current browser. Even beginners can have a great looking website with bells and whistles to encourage sales and keep customers coming back.

Feature list

• Quick two-step setup wizard with a selection step that allows you to add in industry-specific layouts, images and sample text to help get you started
• Professional looking design templates that you can then modify your content and embed images, videos, and widgets at any time
• Easy-to-use interface and file manager to keep content organised
• Drag and drop to add website features or integrate with Facebook and Twitter
• Choice of widgets to add functionality like podcasts, video, photo galleries and more
• Fully customisable giving you the option to customise every part of your website.
• Clipboard to easily move content to another page or to be finished later
• Easy to swap out images choose from the integrated Media Archive or upload your own

Supported browsers

For best performance we recommend the following browsers:

• Internet Explorer 6 or higher
• Mozilla Firefox 3 or higher
• Chrome version 3 or higher
• Apple Safari 3.2

Widgets

Widgets are website functions and design elements that can be dragged and dropped into your website. Widgets have different feature points depending on their function.

• Check out the available widgets (click to expand)

  	Widgets	Short Feature Description
  Business	Counter	Available in different styles, widget counts the hits on a website whether it is visible or invisible.
  	Ticker	Displays a moving ticker text that can also link to a page or URL.
  	Office hours	Displays opening hours/offices hours in a pre-defined way depending on positioning in website.
  	Shopping Cart	A shopping cart that lists a number of products which can be viewed in detail and put into the basket.
  External Content & Applications	Podcast	Displays the latest entries of a given podcast stream.
  	RSS Feed	Displays the latest entries of a given RSS feed.
  	Reservation	Form that allows visitors to ask for a reservation at a given time and date.
  	Embed	Displays external content within an iFrame in the website content area.
  Forms	Call-back form	Form that allows visitors to ask for a call-back at a given time and date.
  	Contact form	Form that allows visitors to ask to be contacted about a general enquiry.
  	Meeting Request	Form that allows visitors to ask for a meeting at a given time and date.
  	Proposal Request	Form that allows visitors to request a proposal.
  Interactive	Guestbook	Allows visitors to insert guestbook entries and read existing entries. The widget includes an email notification service and management of guest entries.
  	Location Map	Displays a map of business address using Microsoft® Bing Maps for enterprises.
  	Map and Driving Directions	Displays a map and pin marking business address with Microsoft Bing Maps, displays additional information about the address on mouseover.
  Marketing	News	Displays an overview of news, sorted by date. When an entry is clicked, a details page is shown.
  	Event Calendar	Event selection with pre-configured pages displaying a number of events to choose from (eg. weddings, vacations, parties, and family events).
  Multi-media	External Video	Displays a video from an external source like youtube.com.
  	Animated Photos	Flash photo show that uses the Ken Burns effect to display one image after another.
  	Photo Gallery	HTML based album where all images are displayed as thumbnails.
  	Photo Table	Flash photo show that displays a number of images like ‘lying on a table’. All images are displayed as thumbnails on mouseover on the bottom of the flash and can directly be selected.
  	Photobook	Flash photo show that displays the photos like a book where a visitor can turn pages.
  	Slideshow	Flash photo show that displays images in a classic slide show form.
  Social Networking	Facebook	Displays either a ‘like me’ button or a Facebook fanbox of a given Facebook page.
  	Twitter	Displays the content of Twitter widgets.

What are feature points?

Feature points are a measuring unit for the cost of each widget. The Premium Website plan comes with unlimited feature points to spend.

See Chapter 7: Using widgets in the tutorial video playlist on the Help and Support tab.

There are many ways to get some help and support whether you’ve purchased a Website Service plan or just trying to find out a little bit more. Choose from any of the options below.

Guides and brochures

Premium Website Quick Guide (PDF, 451kB)
Premium Website Getting Started Guide (PDF, 1.1MB)

Tutorial videos for Design Your Site application

• Step-by-step video tutorial playlist so you can go at your own pace (click to expand)

T-Suite customer technical support is available 24x7

Online
If you have purchased a Website Services plan, you can lodge technical support questions through the Helpdesk via the T-Suite Management Console.

Phone
If you have an urgent problem, you can call T-Suite customer technical support on 1800 TSUITE (1800 878 483).

Frequently Asked Questions

• How do I know which Website Services option is best for me?

  (a) If you have more time than budget, the Design it Yourself plan is a great option - The Design Your Site application comes with video tutorials to walk you through designing and publishing your site. So you have easy to use design tools with low cost hosting and the freedom to design your website the way you want it, with video tutorials and documentation to assist when you need it.

  (b) If you need help planning and designing your site, Design it For Me gives you packaged design plans where we consult with you and design your site for you, provide monthly maintenance, and give you access to make basic edits as needed. These plans include the monthly hosting fee and start at $99 a month and go up to just under $190 a month, depending on the level of service and number of pages selected. Your site is professionally designed and has 30 minutes monthly maintenance for a predictable and very reasonable monthly price – the cost of the design is spread out over a 12 month plan term instead of investing all up front.

• Do I need experience with HTML to use Premium Website’s Design Your Site application?
  No, you do not need any previous knowledge or HTML or programming experience to use the Design Your Site website builder tool. All functions can be used via your browser. You can create and edit your website from any computer with an internet connection, and it is not necessary to install any software.
• What is "drag & drop"?
  Design Your Site uses the principle of drag & drop wherever possible. This means that you can add widgets and other content to your page by just holding down the left mouse button while pulling an element from the menu at the top down onto your page. Moving elements around works in the same, intuitive way; grab an item, move it to its new position and let go of the left mouse button. Places that allow you to drop elements are marked with a colored border and the sentence, "Just drop it!"