SparkySite is open: less, but well done

SparkySite exists because of an ordinary frustration. We have built a lot of websites. When we wanted to build one for someone who is not technical, we were tired of WordPress plugins and of hosting that someone has to look after, and Wix and Squarespace can get expensive once you add what you need. So we built the simple version.

Not everyone needs a website with forty templates. Some people need a home page, an about page, a blog and a way to be contacted. SparkySite is for them.

Build it

Pages such as Home, About and Services are edited as plain forms with a title, an image and content. Blog posts have a title, excerpt and content, a real blog with no separate product needed. Every page, post and product can carry real content in more than one language, rather than a fragile translated copy.

A digital products listing has a price, an image, and either a Buy Now link or a Contact on WhatsApp button, so you can sell without a cart or checkout to maintain. Digital products are on the paid plans.

Publish it

Every site gets its own address and publishes in one click. On the paid plans you can point your own domain at it, and your default address keeps working while the domain verifies. You set your theme color and social links, including a WhatsApp number that powers the contact buttons across your site.

Run it

Messages from your contact page and any form arrive in an inbox inside the app, and you reply from there. Images are stored and served for you, fast, with a visible storage quota. Plus and Max can connect their own Cloudinary account.

Picture a photographer who wants a home page, a short about page and a blog of recent work. She writes the pages, adds a WhatsApp button to her services page, and publishes on a Friday afternoon. Enquiries arrive in the inbox.

Travel companies already use the same WhatsApp pattern in SparkyTours, where a quote or a departure enquiry goes out as a one-tap message.

The site, the blog and the inbox are free on every plan.

Everyone starts on the free Lite plan, no card needed. Paid plans upgrade a whole suite on one subscription, so you manage it in one place. What each plan includes is on the pricing page.

See the list on the SparkySite features page.

This post is part of our launch series, one Sparky product at a time. The rest of the series is on the newsletter page.