Asset Store Publishers: Do you use a website builder to create websites to show off your assets.

If you do, what website builder would that be?

The reason why I am asking is because there is some specific type of layout some publishers use to show off their assets, give description and screenshots and provide video tutorials and documentation, all on one website. How do you approach doing this?

Or do you create your own website from scratch?

Thanks in advance?

 

A lot of Asset Store publishers use WordPress (which is free) and a template that provides the kind of layout they want to present.

 

I was looking for a WordPress template theme that has such type of layout, but I couldn't find any. Is there a specific name they're categorized under? (e.g e-commerce)

 

I don't know. Seems like a lot of publishers use general-purpose themes rather than art portfolio or product catalog themes. They work better to show off features and link to web demos. ThemeForest is a good source. Find a couple publisher sites that you like, and scroll to the bottom of the page to see what theme they use.

 

Hi all! Yes, I use website builder MotoCMS (http://www.templatemonster.com/moto-cms-3-templates.php) to show off my assets. Perhaps you can use other website builders, but MotoCMS on me quite happy.

 

pft I just use Unity to make a WebGL Site LOL.

 

I thought you were joking, until I opened your website!

 

Interesting, can you share a link to your website?

 

LMAO AHAHAHAAH, nope..... The only problem I have with it is it takes a moment to load.
if it could load faster it would be perfect, as I can make it do anything I want. Such as live demos right on the website, etc.

 

Except be optimized for SEO.

I use BlogEngine .NET for my Blog. For my product / company site it's just an MVC / WebAPI site that I built.

 

Couldn't I edit the index.html file or whatever it is and add my own SEO to it?
And nice

 

Sure, but it won't get any content from your WebGL app. Also btw... it doesn't load at all in IE11 and in Chrome (on Windows 10) I clicked your About button and just got a black page. Also, you should look at trying to capture back button navigation and use javascript to forward it into your WebGL game so you can navigate screens with it.

 

Strange. WarHead's website worked for me. And I am using Google Chrome on Windows 10.

 

Most of it worked for me as well, just not the About page for some reason.

 

I use WIX. It's pretty nice, but a little bit bloaty and sometimes slow.

 

@Dustin Horne - Strange I haven't had any chrome issues on Win 10 either LOL.
But for IE, I don't think it supports WegGL does it? I know Firefox don't, or didn't.

My about button never messed up hmm doesn't mess up for me.
Could be a bug in unity WebGL..

 

I'll try it again. IE11 works with at least some WebGL... just no WebAudio support.

 

Working fine now.

 

@Dustin Horne - Must be some bug or something.

 

Well it was weird... it happened when I clicked the About button and was already on the About page... but it was not reproducible so probably just a hiccup on my machine.

 

I'm surprised you haven't modified the site's HTML file to automatically size the canvas to the browser's dimensions.

 

I am going too, just haven't gotten to that yet. Nobody visits it, so I'm not in a rush haha.
Well I get thousands of visits a month, but probably 99.9% of them are bots lmao.

 

If I were you, I would choose one of the website builders for business. They have all necessary features and don't require special coding knowledge. It has to be noted, some of them offer hosting like Wix or GoDaddy. Hopefully, this information will be useful for someone!

 

Wordpress.com is another one. A few days back it came up in a discussion and I discovered that it was only $4/mo for an ad-free website powered by Wordpress and included the cost of the domain. That's extremely inexpensive for a basic site and Wordpress is extremely easy to set up with plenty of good free themes available.

 

I just use BlueGriffon. None of the website builders I've encountered let you stray particularly far past their very limited construction options, so a WYSIWYG editor with code editing is best for me.

 

I use wordpress with "enfold" (https://themeforest.net/item/enfold-responsive-multipurpose-theme/4519990?ref=Kriesi).
It has an "advanced layout editor" which make it easy to customize the design. There is a good documentation too.

Loads fast, works on mobile, lots of options and easy to use.