Upon logging into Hostinger, you’ll encounter its AI builder, which you can use to quickly create a website. Even if you don’t leverage that option, it’s easy to get started by selecting a site template. You can also start from scratch or make a handful of choices and let the AI generate the rest. The templates come in many attractive, genre-based styles, such as Photography or Travel. You can preview how the template looks on a desktop, tablet, or smartphone before you make a decision, which is a nice touch. You click Start Building to confirm the template selection and dive into editing.
Hostinger displays your progress as you build, showing when you hit milestones like Editing Text or Optimizing for Google. In the Help section, you can view a short, five-step walkthrough highlighting important UI areas. If you don’t want a default URL that features the Hostinger domain, there’s an option to upgrade to a custom domain name. Likewise, you can transfer a previously purchased domain name or buy one from Hostinger.
Hostinger has more than 150 beautiful templates that serve as the anchor on your website-building journey. That’s a lot of templates, but Wix has more than 2000. Hostinger’s templates are minimalist affairs that lean on clean, simple designs that you can change and shift around to suit your needs. Select templates now feature more dynamic smart layout options that are not bound by restrictive grids.
Hostinger’s templates adhere to the responsive design principle, so your site resizes itself to look good on desktop or mobile screens. Like Wix, Hostinger has a drawback not found in some competitors, such as Simvoly, Squarespace, and Weebly, that also use strict responsive designs: You cannot switch templates once you’ve selected one. To overhaul your website’s overall visual appearance in one step, you must create an entirely new site and transfer the content to it. That’s a drag if you want to overhaul your site’s look. You can move your site over to another Hostinger account, though, or export data to WordPress.
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Hostinger excels at site construction. Its drag-and-drop, grid-based interface is easy to use and doesn’t get in the way as you add text, video, and other content. You can add maps, a contact form, or newsletter subscription functionality to your site. A dedicated icon lets you quickly duplicate a section if, say, you need another photo row. Hostinger autosaves every few seconds, so you don’t have to worry about losing content should your cat knock your laptop off a table. A handy interface-wide Undo icon lets you quickly revert your site to a previous state. Sites also support multiple languages.
You can easily add text and SEO-friendly descriptions to uploaded images and resize photos by dragging their corners. Hostinger has a decent-sized, royalty-free photo library, so you needn’t worry about where to obtain images for your site. You can only upload one photo at a time, but uploaded images are saved in a repository. As for photo editing options, you can add animations, remove backgrounds, and resize and crop existing images. That said, the editor is relatively basic. If you want more robust photo editing options, you must wait for future updates or do that outside Hostinger. That is a shame, as many website builders these days offer image editors.
In addition, you can leverage analytics and communication tools, such as Meta Pixel, Google AdMob, Google AdSense, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Hotjar, Messenger Live Chat, and WhatsApp, to better understand your website visitors. You can also write and embed your own code.
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