Build your website
Pick a theme, fill it with your menu, hours and photos, add pages and blocks, and preview the result before anyone sees it.
On this page
Verimly gives every business a website that stays up to date by itself: your menu, prices, opening hours and locations come from the rest of Verimly. You choose how it looks and add your own story and photos. You can design and preview on every plan; going online needs Pro, see Publish your website.
Before you start
- You need the Organization settings permission. Owners have it. The default Manager role does not, so a manager cannot open Website unless an owner adds it to their role.
- Add your menu and your locations with opening hours first. The website reads them. See Add a product and Set up your locations.
- Gather a few photos: a cover photo, a logo, and at least three for the gallery. JPEG, PNG or WebP up to 10 MB each, see Upload photos to your website.
Start your website
In the back office open Website.
The first time, you see a start screen with a list of themes and the facts it will use (number of locations and dishes).
- On Pro and Business, Create and publish my website builds the site from your menu, hours and locations and puts it online at once. If you would rather edit first, choose Not yet, let me edit first.
- On Starter, choose Use this theme and open the editor. Your design is saved as a draft until you upgrade.
After that, Website shows a preview of your site, its Status (online or offline and the live version), and a checklist Finish your site: a cover photo, a logo, your story, at least 3 gallery photos, dishes on the menu and a short intro for Google. The checklist is optional.
From here:
- Edit website opens the editor.
- View site opens the live site (when it is online).
- More has Change address and Online store and QR codes.
- Domain and Policies are their own pages, see Connect your own domain and Privacy policy and terms.
Choose a theme
A theme is a complete page design: its structure, its own blocks, header and footer, and colours. The editor offers seven.
| Theme | The idea |
|---|---|
| Magazine | Editorial serif type and fine rules: your name large with today's hours, address and buttons, an optional photo above (never text on the photo); then your story with photos, the menu and your places. |
| Carte | The menu is the site: your name, today's hours and buttons, then the menu starts on the first screen; an optional shopfront photo and your venues. |
| Slides | Bold full-width colour panels: one with your name, hours and buttons, a photo panel, up to three dishes with photos as one set; then menu and visit. |
| Gallery | Photography first, dark and calm: a plain opener with your name, hours and buttons, then a tidy photo grid. |
| Brand | Loud colour and big type: your name or slogan once on a colour field with hours and buttons, a strip of words or menu categories, dishes with photos, the menu under bold category bars. |
| Shop | Utilitarian and list-first: name, hours and action rows, an optional photo strip, then menu and hours in plain rows. |
| Venues | For several venues: your name and the venue list (status, address, menu and booking per venue), venue photos where you have them, then the menu. |
Each theme comes with three colour palettes, and you can change colours, fonts, corners, spacing, heading style and button style afterwards.
To switch, open Edit website › Site › Theme and pick another theme. Choose Use theme and layout to rearrange your home page into the new theme, or Only the look to change only colours, fonts, header and footer and leave your pages as they are. Your texts, photos and blocks stay either way. Anything the new layout has no place for moves to the bottom of the page. A message lets you undo the switch.
Use the editor
Edit website opens a full-screen editor. Your changes save by themselves as a draft, and the header shows Saving… or Not saved yet. Visitors do not see anything until you publish. Use Undo and Redo in the header, and Exit to leave.
The left side has four tabs:
- Blocks lists what you can add. Drag a block onto the page, or into a column.
- Outline shows the structure of the page; drag to reorder, and duplicate or delete a block.
- Pages lists your pages.
- Site holds settings for the whole website.
Click a block on the page to edit its settings on the right. The header lets you switch the page you are on and the preview size: Phone, Tablet, Computer or Full width. Preview shows your unpublished draft in a full-screen view.
Blocks
Blocks are grouped as Content, Photos, From your business, Layout and Advanced.
- Content: Opener, Text, Call to action, Highlights, Questions and Reviews.
- Photos: Image and Gallery.
- From your business: Menu, Opening hours, Locations, Map and Contact. These read from your menu and locations, so they stay current. Sold-out dishes are hidden from the menu block.
- Layout: Columns, Divider and Space.
- Advanced: Form (see Add a form to your website), Custom HTML and Embed for YouTube, Vimeo, Google Maps, Instagram, Spotify, SoundCloud or TikTok links.
Each theme also adds its own blocks, listed as [Theme name] blocks. A page can have up to 80 blocks. Columns cannot go inside columns, and a column holds up to 12 blocks.
Pages
Under Pages you can add up to 20 pages, for example Events or Catering. Give the page a name and an address such as events; the home page is always at /. Each page has its own Search and sharing settings, and Show in Google lets you keep a page out of search results while it stays reachable by its address. You can reorder pages, and deleting a page also removes menu links to it.
Site settings
Site has these sections: Theme, Logo, Navigation, Footer, Contact, Social media, Order and book buttons, Legal, Search defaults and Custom CSS.
- Navigation by default links the header to the sections of your home page (Menu, About, Visit, Contact, where they have content) and to your other pages. Add links to choose them yourself, to a page, a block on a page or another website.
- Contact uses your location details when left empty. With several locations, each shows its own address and phone.
- Order and book buttons are explained in Order and booking buttons on your website.
What happens next
Menu, prices and hours update by themselves. Everything else you edit goes live when you publish. See Publish your website for publishing, versions and taking the site offline.
Common questions
Can I change the web address?
Yes. Website › More › Change address, or connect your own domain, see Connect your own domain.
Who can see my changes before I publish?
Only people who open the editor or Preview in the back office. Visitors keep seeing the last published version, or a "coming soon" page if the site is offline.
If something goes wrong
- Website is missing in the menu: your role lacks Organization settings.
- The menu block is empty: you have no available dishes yet, or all are sold out. See Add a product.
- Changes do not show for visitors: they are in the draft until you publish.
- You see a "fix highlighted fields" notice: a value is not valid, for example a link without
https://. Fix the marked fields.