HeySmartGuy is both! It's a hosted application (it runs in your web browser) that helps you build, manage and maintain your website. It is also a web hosting platform, with FTP access and storage space. We've rolled your website management tools, site building tools and web hosting all into one place. It's easier that way!
We love Dreamweaver too! In fact we love it so much that we built a plugin for it, it's called Triangle. Triangle allows you to manage your HeySmartGuy website directly inside Dreamweaver. Triangle works on Mac (Dreamweaver CS3 or CS4) and PC (Dreamweaver 8, CS3 or CS4). Download Triangle (Mac and PC).
No you don't. If you can use a word processor then you can add content to your web pages. Keep in mind though, that things like the overall design, layout and "look" of your site may require help from a designer or someone who knows a little bit of HTML or CSS.
You can use your own web address, also called a URL or domain name. You can either redelegate your domain and use our DNS servers. Or you can create an A-Record in your existing DNS service to point your domain to your new site at HeySmartGuy - it's up to you. For instructions on this, see our knowledge base article.
Yeah, sure! Anything you can run on another HTML page or on your blog will work just fine. Remember that at a base-level HeySmartGuy is like any other web hosting platform.
Yes, you get access to FTP to speed up managing your HeySmartGuy website.
HeySmartGuy is a hosted service and is not available as a download, so you can't install it on other servers. Trust us - this is a good thing. Managing, configuring and maintaining servers is a hardwork. Servers can be picky and have mood swings. Just ask our engineers - you don't want to carry around a machine that goes "BEEEP* at 3am in the morning, just because one of the servers feels like a fresh shrimp omelette.
Of course! We use friendly URLs throughout and utilize search engine friendly techniques such as 301 Permanent Redirects. We even integrate with Google, Yahoo!, and Live sitemaps feature, so the system regularly and automatically generates a "sitemap" which the search engines use to ensure your website gets maximum visibility in the search results.
Yeah sure! You've got two options - when you sign up you can import your site. HeySmartGuy does it's best to import all your pages and so forth into the system (use the advanced sign up though). Alternatively you can create a blank site and FTP all of your pages up to the system. There are some limitations to this though - it won't create any Templates - just web pages, and it can only bring across the pages of your site. Some Blogs can also be imported directly. Special parts of your site such as shopping carts or others will need to be recreated in HeySmartGuy
No, not at all! We believe that it's your website and your data, we just look after it for you. You can export customer records, and you can access all your web pages via FTP. Or you can copy your web site out of the system via copy and paste. You would lose the business functionality and the special features of HeySmartGuy though, of course.
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