New drag-and-drop website builder, BoldGrid, works with WordPress and integrates a wide array of features for novice designers and professional webmasters alike
Todd Robinson co-founded Los Angeles-based InMotion Hosting more than 15 years ago, growing it from a small shop to a highly reputable web hosting company known for its impeccable customer service. Throughout those 15 years, Robinson and his team observed some changes on the website building and design side of things. Entrepreneurs and small business owners no longer needed to outsource all their site operations thanks to the emergence of companies like Wix and Squarespace.
While those DIY website builders work well for some, Robinson saw a need for a similar solution that could fully harness the power of WordPress – the most popular content management system in the world that powers 74,000,000 sites across the globe. WordPress is free and open source, which means that the source code can be modified by anyone, resulting in a platform that offers more flexibility and robust features than any other. So, Robinson formed a dedicated team and developed BoldGrid, the first full website builder that works seamlessly on top of WordPress to enable users of all skill levels to quickly and efficiently create beautiful, responsive websites.
For novice users, BoldGrid offers inspirational themes that are categorized by industry, complete with stock photos and professionally written copy tailored for that industry, making it easy for small business owners to launch their company’s web presence. A recent survey shows 46 percent of small business still don’t have a website and of those that do, nearly a quarter of them are not mobile friendly. BoldGrid ensures all sites have responsive design – meaning site content will automatically adjust to fit the screen its displayed on – and it allows users to preview pages on all devices from the desktop dashboard. And if something doesn’t look quite right, users can easily rearrange the format with BoldGrid’s drag-and-drop editor.
For expert webmasters, the drag-and-drop editor improves workflow, saving valuable time and money. The fact that BoldGrid is built on WordPress ensures developers have access to thousands of plugins to add new capabilities as necessary. BoldGrid has more functionality than any other web builder in the world, and unlike others in the market, ensures creators have full ownership of their site and all of the content on it.
BoldGrid is free and since its release in July of this year there have been more than 20,000 installations, with that number growing every day.
About BoldGrid:
BoldGrid, incubated at the top-rated web hosting company InMotion Hosting, is a premium website builder that works on top of WordPress to enable users of all skill levels to quickly create beautiful, responsive websites. The intuitive drag-and-drop interface is designed to automate previously tedious tasks and improve the overall workflow to save everyone from beginner to expert web designer time and frustration.
For more information about BoldGrid and to download the software for free visit www.BoldGrid.com. In depth tutorials, tips and the latest news from BoldGrid can be found on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Google+.
About Todd:
As president of BoldGrid, the first full website builder that works on top of WordPress, Todd Robinson oversees the growth and strategic direction for the company. BoldGrid was incubated at the top-rated web hosting company, InMotion, which was co-founded by Todd in 2001 and where he also serves as acting president.
Todd has a degree in mechanical engineering and began his career in the hosting industry in the late ‘90s leveraging open source tools including Apache, Perl and mSQL. Over the years Todd and his team have successfully grown InMotion from a basement “office” to nearly 300 employees and hundreds of thousands of customers. Attributing much of the company’s persistent growth and success to the use of open source technology, Todd continues to embrace, celebrate and support the principles of open exchange and community-oriented development within his companies. He carries this collaborative learning philosophy into his management style and places great importance on the continual growth and development of his team.
