Unveiling the New _now: Visual Editing, Extended Customization

Explore what’s new under the hood of the major redesign of our AI website builder _now.

Updated: February 03, 2025

With our ears to the ground, we at cyber_Folks are constantly listening to the needs and requests of our users. This time around, our obsession with learning from our customers’ user experiences led us to make a major overhaul of the content editor and the entire product design. Let’s explore the major changes currently live in _now.

IN A NUTSHELL
Experience a revamped wizard, installation process, designer, and settings with a sleek, modern design. Customize your site’s color palette, fonts, photos, and general layout at any time to suit your style. Enjoy visual editing with our “What You See Is What You Get” (WYSIWYG) editor for easy content management. We’ve added custom HTML editing so you can embed YouTube videos, PayPal buttons, and more into your web content.

Brand New Design Capturing Small Business Life


The very first change you’ll notice is the updated product design, reflected in the website creation process and the new content designer.

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We’ve replaced the old, generic look with a more inviting and colorful experience. The new visuals reflect everyday small business life and adapt automatically to the choices you make in the web creation wizard.

The creation process is as quick and easy as before; all our AI web builder needs is information about your industry, specialization, business-related keywords, the name of your company, and your email address.

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After around a minute, you’re presented with a website draft, complete with individual web pages, layout, content, and visuals. You now have the option to either customize your website (colors, font, photos, template)—even generating a completely new draft from scratch—or save the draft and proceed to account registration or login.

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Once we’ve finished installing your website on our servers, you’re taken directly to the reimagined content designer, where you can begin editing your website straight away.

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Customize Your Site at Any Time

Let’s have a quick look at the new menu in the content designer, shall we? It allows you to customize your website at any time in the following ways:

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The “Website status” option enables you to publish your website. This only works once you’ve set a domain. While we offer a free subdomain at idl.site, we highly recommend you buy and connect your own custom domain to take full marketing advantage of your site.

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Boost Your Website” does exactly what it sounds like. By entering all the information about your business, from contact details and logotype to company history and unique selling points, our AI machine automatically updates website content accordingly.

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Style” is a new feature that allows you to customize color, font, layout, and template at any time.

Set Custom Color

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Either choose one of the pre-selected colors, or enter your own custom color that aligns with your brand design.

Select Font

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We offer 3 different standard fonts: Sans-Serif, Serif, Condensed.

Change Layout and Template

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You can customize your website’s look by choosing between several standard templates, like “minimalistic,” “professional,” “creative,” “modern,” “classic,” “bold,” “elegant,” “simple,” and “serif.” You can also change the alignment of text and visual content to suit your personal preferences.

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The cogwheel gives you two options:

  • Content manager: Access all website settings and more advanced content editing options. As always, return to the content designer by selecting “Preview” in the bottom menu.
  • Log Out: Sign out from your account.

What You See Is What You Get: Visual Content Editing

The #1 requested improvement we’ve made is to introduce a more visual way of editing content. But before I demonstrate the highlights of our new visual content editor, I want to show you the feature that allows you to switch between view and edit mode: the view/edit toggle.

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When the toggle is in view mode (eye icon with a slash), you’re able to navigate through your site by clicking any call-to-action button or internally linked content element (such as a blog listing). To return to edit mode and be able to visually edit any content element, simply switch the toggle again (eye icon without slash). Easy-peasy!

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To visually edit any content element, ensure you’re in edit mode, then simply hover your mouse over that element until “Edit Section” appears, and click onwards.

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A right-hand sidebar will open up and give you the most essential options to visually edit your content. Any and all changes you make in the sidebar will be reflected on-page in real-time. Now you can polish the length of your headline and immediately observe what it looks like.

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As before, you can take full advantage of our AI content assistant simply by clicking the lightning icon next to any text element. You’ll be able to either generate new content or reword existing content.

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Are you often on the move and prefer to make quick edits on your smartphone? No problem, _now continues to be mobile-first.

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If I might say so myself, I believe our designers and developers really nailed the mobile content editing experience—it just works!

When you’re ready, don’t forget to select “Done” before leaving the sidebar editor to save your changes. To publish these, and any additional changes made in other content elements, you need to hit “Save” in the top menu’s right corner.

Embed Videos, Buttons, And More with Custom HTML

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For subpages such as individual offers, services, blog posts, and custom pages, we’ve enabled custom HTML editing as a new feature in the visual content editor.

By switching the HTML toggle, a whole new world opens up for more advanced usage. Here are a few examples of how you’re now able to leverage your website content:

Embed YouTube Videos

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Copy and paste the embed code for your YouTube business videos to enhance your blog posts by demonstrating or pitching your services.

Add PayPal Buttons

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While _now is primarily geared towards solo and small businesses that sell services, you can now generate a PayPal button and embed it straight onto your services and offers pages to drive quick purchases online.

Shine with Ratings and Reviews

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Trust is everything these days—don’t miss out on showing off your best customer reviews and ratings from 3rd party platforms like Google, Yelp, Facebook, Trustpilot, and more!

We’re Not Stopping Here!

We’ve just gotten started and there are more features and improvements coming your way in the future. Among them, here are a few upcoming changes we think you’ll like:

  • We will complete the redesign of the entire website builder, including the advanced web editor and the website settings.
  • Many customers have requested more control over SEO. Today, we use AI and the business information you provide to automatically generate both content and metadata used by search engines. In a future update, we will let you manually customize the page title and meta description for each web page.
  • Finally, you’ll be able to customize your website menu directly from the designer.

All of the improvements I’ve shown you here came about as a request or piece of feedback shared by our engaged users. We’re grateful for your support and we urge you to continuously share your best ideas with us, either through the customer chat inside _now or by using our contact form.

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Alexander Rehnborg

Head of Marketing – _now

Language and culture equally captivate me, particularly as they intersect within the realm of marketing. With over a decade of experience in search marketing and more than six years leading international marketing teams, I frequently find myself returning to fundamental questions about what motivates people and what defines valuable marketing.

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