Step 1. Register (sign up) for your free Web Hosting Account

To be able to create and maintain your websites at Olvius.com, please sign up for your personal account with us - click here to register. Your personal account will provide web hosting services, online web site design tools and web applications operated and hosted by Olvius.com.
With single account you are able to maintain multiple websites. Making a complete copy of a page or the whole website is just one-click function.
 
Upon successful registration you will receive notification email with activation link. Follow the link to activate your account. The link leads to the Log In Form to enter your user name and password.

Step 2. Give your website a Name and start from a Web Template

After successful log-in, you will be directed to a Create Site page, enter a desired site name there and click on a template icon from the list of Templates. The name for your website will be the first part of the domain, i.e. a sub-domain. What is good that the name of your website can be changed at any time, i.e. your website can be easily renamed later on. Please read our terms and conditions and click on the check box if you agree.

Then browse the list of Website Templates to choose from. You may want to click on "full size" link under the Website Icon to open the Template in separate browser window to see how it looks like.

If you are happy with the chosen template, then you will just need to type your text in the boxes on the pages. Otherwise, you may start from any template: the visual style of the template can be fully customized to fit your preferences and taste. Click "Create Website" button to have the site created for you.

Site will be in unpublished state, it means that it is not visible for general public and can be viewed and edited only by you as the site owner.  To make the site visible online, click on 'Publish website' button on the Administrator Panel. 

Step 3. Edit the content of the pages of the website and customize its visual appearance

The site can be edited online any time with your user account, regardless of its state. If the site is published and you continue editing then the revised version of the site's page appears on Internet immediately after you click 'Save Page' on the Administrator's Panel.

In the Edit Mode you will see your website exactly as it will look like for regular visitors. Hovering mouse pointer over the page's editable elements, will highlight them. Double click on element to launch HTML and Style editors to customize the element. Use 'Administrator Panel' to maintain site's pages, to reconfigure common style of the page
or the site's common frame.

Click here to see How To Edit Website Content and set the visual style

Step 4. Publish website online

Once the text has been typed and spell-checked, layout of the pages looks good, then just click "Publish" button on Administrator Panel. Your website will be published instantly.

You may prefer continue editing the content of your website all the time when it is published, it is perfectly OK with our technology.

Any changes on the site become visible to all its users as soon as you click "Save" button.

If you own a separate domain name, you may want to assign it to your website.
This can be done any time on Website Configuration form of the Administration Panel.

You can protect some or all you pages with a password. In this case add your own users and assign each user access rights:

• Owner - will be able to edit the page content
• Read only visitor - able to review protected page(s) upon successful login
• Data Entry - to add new database entries, products, services, etc.