Mobirise Mobile Website Builder is an offline application for Operating Systems Windows, Mac and Android to easily make mobile friendly websites. Its iOS version will be launched in the market at a later date. The application is easy to use, provides a ‘mobile first’, Retina prepared, drag and drop model. The appliance is made on a popular responsive framework available inHTML, CSS and JavaScript, named Bootstrap 3. The user interface allows the operator to select various blocks, place them on pages and customize them according to his/her needs. The blocks of Mobirise can have colored background, image background or a video background with color overlays and opacity selection option.  This site has full page headers, a menu, media, multi-column content, social links, pricing tables and footers. One or more blocks can be added to a page, hence in this manner multiple pages can be created. The user can customize which typefaces, and colors he/she would want to use, add and edit buttons and other arrangement procedures. At the top of the application’s screen there are controls which help to preview the layout on the desktop, tablet or mobile phone. The application is perfect for non-tech people who are not yet familiar with the rules and regulations of web development. It can be used by designers who want to work a visually as possible without fighting for codes. It is also open to pro-coders to use for fast prototyping. For small customers’ projects it is a great tool. It was released on September 2015. A lot of people think that website making is highly technical, expensive and time consuming work. The appliance cuts down on time for developing and reduced costs for technical development which would have otherwise been done by a web designer for an exorbitant charge. Users can select from a large array of latest pre-made blocks, for example jumbotrons, scrolling with parallax effect, mobile burger menu, bootstrap carousel sticky headers and footers etc. The website builder can be published on a local drive or FTP, which creates a number of service providers and options. The website builder is linked to many social interaction platforms and e-commerce links which can be easily added to make the websites more appealing, attractive and vibrant. The prominent features of this site are as follows:
  • It provides the option to resize and rearrange the blocks. Right now, the blocks can only be collected and placed on the top of the screen and not side by side. For parallax scrolling it is applicable, but for static pages which use a grid, when arrangements are to be transferred from the desktop to the tablet, the movement to such view portals becomes important.
  • It can add SVG Users can add JPG and PNG graphics though, the SVG illustrator keeps things simple and small.
The product is still undergoing some technical fixtures at the moment. If it gains immense popularity, it will be acting as a code editor when going to work.

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