Website builder FAQ

Yes. Building, editing and downloading your website costs nothing. There’s no account, no sign-up, no watermark and no paid plan. Putting your site online can also be free on Cloudflare Pages or Netlify. The only thing you might pay for is your own domain name (like yourname.com), and that’s optional.

No. Open the website builder, pick a template and start editing. Nothing to sign up for.

No. Click or tap any text to change it, tap a photo to replace it, and drag new sections in from the Add tab. If you do know HTML and CSS, you can also edit the downloaded files directly.

Right now there are three templates: an online store (with products, bag and checkout), a portfolio (with project pages, services and prices) and a simple one-page site for any small business. You can also upload a website you already have and edit it.

Yes. Tap any text and a text box opens with your keyboard ready; tap a photo to replace it from your camera roll. Bigger jobs, like moving sections around or styling for different screens, are easier on a computer.

Recent versions of Chrome, Edge, Safari and Firefox, on computer or phone. If something looks wrong, update your browser and reload the page.

On a computer, click the text and type over it, or type in the Text box on the right. On a phone, tap the text and type in the box that slides up, then tap Done.

Click or tap the picture, then choose Replace image (or Replace photo on a phone) and pick a file from your device. For pictures that sit behind text, like a big banner, click an empty part of the banner, or select the section and use the Replace buttons listed under “Pictures in this section”.

Open the Add tab. On a computer, drag a widget onto your page where you want it, or click it to add it after the selected item. On a phone, tap it.

Select it, then use the arrows on the purple handle (or in the panel) to move it up or down, and the bin icon to delete it. On a computer you can also drag the handle’s move icon.

Use the undo arrow in the top bar, or press Ctrl+Z (Cmd+Z on Mac). Redo is the arrow next to it, or Ctrl+Y.

Open the Site tab. Changing a colour or font there updates it everywhere on your website at once.

Yes. In the Site tab, type a page name and choose Add page, or tap the bin next to a page to delete it. Link to a page from any button with #page-name, for example #about.

Yes, on a computer: switch to Tablet or Phone in the top bar, and any style changes you make apply only to those screens. You can also hide an item on certain screens under Advanced, Responsive.

Choose Preview in the top bar. Links, menus, the shopping bag and checkout all work there. Choose Edit to go back.

Only in your browser, on the device you’re using. Nothing is uploaded to Bee Randomly. Your work is saved automatically as you edit.

Yes, if you clear your browser’s data, use a private or incognito window, or switch to another device or browser. Download your .zip regularly; it’s your backup.

Download the .zip on the first device, then open the website builder on the other one, choose “Upload your own site” and upload the same .zip.

Yes. Your website stays in your browser until you download it. Bee Randomly never receives your text, photos or files.

Everything your website needs: index.html (your pages), the assets folder (design, scripts and images), style.css, index.php and functions.php (so it works as a WordPress theme), _headers and _redirects (for Cloudflare), vercel.json (for Vercel) and README.txt with step-by-step instructions.

A website is many files that must stay together: pages, styles, scripts and pictures. A .zip packs them into one file so nothing gets lost when you save, send or upload it. Cloudflare Pages and WordPress accept the .zip directly.

Yes. The same .zip works on Cloudflare Pages, Vercel, WordPress, Netlify and normal web hosting. Each host uses the files it needs and ignores the rest.

Upload it as it is to Cloudflare Pages and WordPress. Unzip it first for Vercel, Netlify Drop, GitHub Pages and normal web hosting (cPanel, Hostinger).

Windows: right-click the file and choose Extract All. Mac: double-click it. iPhone: open it in the Files app and tap it. Android: open it in Files by Google and tap Extract.

Yes. Unzip it and double-click index.html; it opens in your browser. Or use Preview inside the builder.

For most people: Cloudflare Pages. It’s free, allows business websites, and takes the .zip directly. Netlify is also free and easy. Vercel’s free plan is for personal, non-commercial sites only. Use WordPress if you already have a WordPress site, and cPanel or Hostinger if you already pay for web hosting.

Sign in at dash.cloudflare.com with a free account. Go to Workers & Pages, choose Create, then Pages, then Upload assets. Name your project, upload your .zip and click Deploy. Your site is live at https://your-project-name.pages.dev.

Unzip the file, open app.netlify.com/drop and drag the unzipped folder onto the page. Create a free account to keep the site and choose its name.

Unzip the file and put the folder in a GitHub repository, then import it at vercel.com/new (Framework preset: Other). Or install Node.js, open a terminal in the folder and run npx vercel --prod. Remember: Vercel’s free Hobby plan is for personal, non-commercial sites. For a business or store, use Cloudflare Pages or Netlify, or a paid Vercel plan.

In your WordPress dashboard go to Appearance, Themes, Add New Theme, Upload Theme. Choose the .zip (don’t unzip it), click Install Now, then Activate. Your site now shows your design. You need an existing WordPress site; most WordPress hosting is paid.

Ask your host to raise the upload limit, or unzip the file and upload the folder to wp-content/themes/ with your host’s File Manager or FTP, then activate it under Appearance, Themes.

Unzip the file. Open your hosting’s File Manager, go into the public_html folder, and upload all the files and folders from inside the unzipped folder (not the folder itself). Your index.html must be directly inside public_html.

Create a new public repository on github.com, upload all the files from inside the unzipped folder, then go to Settings, Pages, choose Deploy from a branch, select main and / (root), and save. Your site appears at https://your-username.github.io/repository-name/ within a few minutes.

Usually one or two minutes after uploading. If you connect your own domain, that can take from a few minutes up to 48 hours to work everywhere.

Yes. Each host gives you one for free, like your-site.pages.dev (Cloudflare), your-site.netlify.app or your-site.vercel.app.

Yes. Buy a domain from a registrar such as Cloudflare, Namecheap or GoDaddy (a yearly fee), then add it in your host’s settings: Custom domains on Cloudflare Pages, Domains on Netlify or Vercel. The host shows you exactly which records to add.

Yes. Cloudflare Pages, Netlify, Vercel and GitHub Pages add the padlock (https) for free, including on your own domain.

Open the website builder, choose “Upload your own site” and upload your latest .zip. Make your changes, download the new .zip, then upload it to your host again.

Cloudflare Pages: open your project and choose Create new deployment, then upload the new .zip. Netlify: drag the new unzipped folder onto your site’s Deploys page. WordPress: upload the theme again and choose Replace current with uploaded. Web hosting: upload the new files over the old ones.

Your browser is showing a saved copy. Refresh with Ctrl+Shift+R (Cmd+Shift+R on Mac), or close the tab and open it again. On a phone, close the tab completely and reopen it. If you use Cloudflare, you can also choose Caching, Purge Everything.

Yes, once you connect a free form service. Create a form at formspree.io, copy its link, then select your form in the builder and paste the link into “Send form to” (and set Method to POST). For the online store, paste it in the Store tab under Payments, shipping and orders.

To your email, through the Formspree link you set in the Store tab. Without it, an order opens the shopper’s own email app with the order filled in, ready to send to you.

GCash or Maya (shoppers send the money and enter the reference number), credit and debit cards and PayPal (through your PayPal account) and cash on delivery. Turn each one on in the Store tab.

Yes. Card payments are handled entirely by PayPal; your website never sees or stores card numbers.

Open the Store tab: add products, change names and prices, upload photos and set sale prices. On a phone you can also tap a product on the page to change its name, price and photo.

It’s a simple store for small shops: products, a shopping bag, checkout and orders by email. It doesn’t track stock, have customer accounts or print shipping labels. For those, a service like Shopify is a better fit.

Reload the page and try again. If it keeps happening, open beerandomly.space/website-builder/#reset to clear what’s saved in your browser, then choose the template again.

Your index.html is probably inside an extra folder. Make sure index.html is at the top level of what you upload: upload the .zip as downloaded on Cloudflare, or the files inside the unzipped folder on other hosts.

Upload the .zip exactly as you downloaded it. Unzipping and zipping it again can add an extra folder that WordPress can’t read.

Template photos come from Unsplash and need an internet connection to load. Photos you uploaded are inside the .zip, so make sure you upload every file, including the images folder.

Tap the text once and wait for the text box to slide up from the bottom, then type there. If nothing happens, update your browser, close the tab completely and open the builder again.

Yes. Every file in the .zip is yours. There’s no lock-in: you can move it to any host, edit it with any tool, or hire a developer to change it.

No. Your website has no badge, ads or link back to us.

The photos come from Unsplash, which allows free use, including for business. For a real business it’s still best to replace them with your own photos so your site looks like you.