Click here to start14 an online support-wizard:

Once you finish building your website with IM Creator, it’s time to connect it to a domain. There are 2 options:

Option 1 – Purchase a new domain through IM Creator: If you do not have an existing domain, you can purchase one through IM Creator, with no need for third-party suppliers. We do not charge any extra fees for purchasing a domain – you simply pay for the price of the domain set by the domain registrar ($10/yr for most domains). See step by step.

Option 2: Connect an Existing Domain: If you have a domain, you can connect it to your IM Creator website through Google Apps. See step by step.

14-days money back guarantee – Try out our service for 14 days. If you are not fully satisfied, contact us within 14 days of purchase and we will issue a full refund.

Option 1 – Step by step: Purchasing a new domain through IM Creator:

1. Open your website using the Editor.

2. Click Publish at the top right corner. You will be asked to name your website if you haven’t previously saved it.

3. Under the Publish dialog box, choose either yearly or monthly subscription.

4. Click Add to Cart following which you will be directed to PayPal. If you have a PayPal account, login. If not, insert you payment information to create one.

5. Follow the PayPal instructions. Once you finished the payment process, you’ll be redirected back to IM Creator’s editor.

6. The Publish dialog box will open, choose Buy a New Domain and click Next.

7. Indicate your desired domain and click Buy & Connect. If the domain is taken, the system will ask you to choose a different one.

8. After selecting a domain, you will be redirected to a Domain Payment Screen. Follow the instructions to pay for your domain. At the end of the process you will be redirected back to the editor again.

Note: IM Creator does not charge any extra fees for the domain. Your payment is split since the payment for the domain is yearly and transfers directly to the domain registrar.

That’s it! Your site will be up & running within 24 hours.

Option 2 – Step by step: Using an Existing Domain

1. Open your website using the Editor.

2. Click Publish at the top right corner. You will be asked to name your site if you haven’t previously done so.

3. Under Publish, choose either yearly or monthly subscription.

4. Click Add to Cart following which you will be directed to PayPal. If you have a PayPal account, login. If not, insert you payment information to create one.

5. Follow the PayPal instructions. Once you finished the payment process, you’ll be redirected to the editor.

6. Choose Use Your Existing Domain and click Next.

7. Insert your domain and click Connect

8. Go to www.google.com/apps and choose the best option for you (we recommend to start with the basic & free “Google Apps”). Follow the instructions and connect your domain to Google Apps.

9. Once you have verified and connected your domain, follow these additional instructions:

10. Login to your Google Apps Domain Management

11. Under Service Settings, Choose Add More Services

12. Under Enter App ID, insert im-creator

13. Click Add it now.

14. IM-Creator will be added as an app to your Google Apps. Click on it.

15. Under IM-Creator Settings click Add New URL and insert www

That’s it! In approximately 12 hours your site will be up and running!

1. Click “Add an Element” on the main menu
2. Click on the element you would like to add.

That’s it. Item added.

Tip: you can also drag’n’drop any of the elements from the menu into the page.

• Select: Click on an item to select it. A blue editing frame will appear.
• Unselect: Click any other item, or on any free space.
• Move: Select an element, then drag and drop it.
• Scale: Drag and drop any of the editing frame’s corners.
• Copy: Ctrl+C
• Paste: Ctrl+V
• Delete: Click the red “x” placed in the editing frame top tab (a.k.a “hat”);
• Move Element Forward: Click the “up” arrow in the frame “hat”.
• Move Element Backward: Click the “down” arrow in the frame “hat”.
• Link Entire Element: Click the link-icon in the frame “hat”.

Step by step: Purchasing a new domain through IM Creator:

If you do not have an existing domain, you can purchase one through IM Creator, with no need for third-party suppliers. We do not charge any extra fees for purchasing a domain – you simply pay for the price of the domain set by the domain registrar ($10/yr for most domains).

As always, if you have any questions, feel free to contact us at support@imcreator.com or visit our Support page at imcreator.com/support

Click here to start an online support-wizard:

Click Publish and follow the instructions, once you finished the payment process, you’ll be redirected back to IM Creator’s editor:

1. The Publish dialog box will open, choose Buy a New Domain and click Next.

2. Indicate your desired domain and click Buy & Connect. If the domain is taken, the system will ask you to choose a different one.

3. After selecting a domain, you will be redirected to a Domain Payment Screen. Follow the instructions to pay for your domain. At the end of the process you will be redirected back to the editor again.

Note: IM Creator does not charge any extra fees for the domain. Your payment is split since the payment for the domain is yearly and transfers directly to the domain registrar.

That’s it! Your site will be up & running within 24 hours.

You can add a Google map to your site using the Google Maps widget: Add Element > Widget > Google Maps

To see how to use this and other widgets see our manual at http://imcreator.com/create-a-website/widget-other

To connect your site to a domain, click PUBLISH > choose a subscription > follow the steps in our wizard to connect it or buy a new domain from us (if you buy a domain from us, we will then email you within 48 hours that the site is up)

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Slideshows enable you to show multiple images easily. You can also include a description and a larger preview, all in a single click.

See our video tutorial here.

Adding a new slideshow:

1.   Click Add an Element located on the upper grey bar.

2.   Click the Slideshow element. A generic Slideshow will appear.

Managing the Slideshow:

1.   Click on the Slideshow you’d like to modify.

2.   Click Manage located on the upper black ‘Slideshow’ bar (Tip: you can also double-click on the Slideshow).

The Reorder dialog will appear:

·        Drag’n’drop any of the pictures in the list up and down the list to reorder them. You can also use the up and down arrows located on the left side of each picture.

·        Click the Delete button, to delete a picture. The picture will disappear from your Slideshow.

·        Click the Duplicate button to duplicate a picture. A new copy will appear right under the original one.

·        Enter a title inside the text input field. This information will appear every time the mouse hovers over the picture.

·        Click the Set Info button, a Set Info dialog will appear. In it you can add a title, description and a link for each picture. This information will appear every time the mouse hovers over the picture.

Adding a new picture to the slideshow:

1.   Click Add a Picture located on the upper black ‘gallery’ bar. You can also add a picture from inside the Reorder dialog.

2.   Choose the picture you would like to insert and click Open.

The system will upload your new picture, a progress bar will appear on the lower-left side of the screen (note: pictures larger than 512 kb will be resized, so your website will load faster. This might take 5-10 seconds. We don’t recommend uploading pictures larger than 1MB)

That’s it – a new picture will be added to your Slideshow.

To connect your site to a domain, click PUBLISH > choose a subscription > follow the steps in our wizard to connect it or buy a new domain from us (if you buy a domain from us, we will then email you within 48 hours that the site is up)

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You can add our standard contact form to your site or use JotForm if you wish to have a customized form (free)

Adding a standard contact form:

1.   Click Add an Element located on the upper grey bar.

2.   Click the Contact element. A generic Contact form will appear.

3. To connect a contact form, click Connect on the upper black ‘contact form’ bar.

The Contact Form Setting dialog box will appear.

4. Enter an e-mail address inside the Target E-mail input field. This will be the address sent forms will arrive to.

5. Write a message inside the Success Message input field. This message will be an automatic reply received after someone sends you a message.

6. You can change the field titles in the form by inserting the text you wish inside the matching input field.

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To connect a subdomain to your site (xx.yourdomain.com):

1) Log into your control panel in your registrar account (where you originally purchased the domain)

2) Direct only the CNAME with the desired subdomain,xx, to www.im-router.com (we usually direct to www. This time you need to direct it to xx)

* For example if you want to use site.yourdomain.com, you should add a CNAME where the host is ‘site’ and the target is ”www.im-router.com‘.

3) In your sites editor go to Settings> Domain> Existing Domain, enter the sub-domain (xx.yourdomain.com, no www) and click connect.

4) Let us know so we can complete the process. The system automatically directs to www, so we will manually change it to make sure the sub-domain of your choice is connected.

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Each template comes with an existing menu. You also have the option to add a completely new menu/submenu.

Adding a menu or submenu

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For the background you can choose a single color, a picture or use a preset background from our collection of backgrounds.

Changing the background color

1. Click Settings located on the upper grey bar.

2. Click Background.

A Website background dialog box will appear.

3. Select Background Type: Color.

4. Click on the Background Color icon to open a color pallet, move the mouse to select a color, click Done.

Embedding a picture as background

1. Click Settings located on the upper grey bar.

2. Click Background.

A Website Background dialog box  will appear.

3. Select Background Type: Picture.

4. Click Upload.

5.   Choose the picture you would like to insert and click Open.

The system will upload your new picture, a progress bar will appear on the lower-left side of the screen (note: pictures larger than 512 kb will be resized, so your website will load faster. This might take 5-10 seconds. We don’t recommend uploading pictures larger than 1MB)

Adding a Preset Background

1. Click Settings located on the upper grey bar.

2. Click Presets.

3. Choose the Preset background you wish to add.

To connect your site to a domain, click PUBLISH > choose a subscription > follow the steps in our wizard to connect it or buy a new domain from us (if you buy a domain from us, we will then email you within 48 hours that the site is up)

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You can add YouTube or Vimeo videos.

Adding a YouTube video:

1. Click Add an Element located on the upper grey bar.

2. Click the Video element. A generic video will appear.

3. Click Embed a Video, located on the upper black ‘video’ bar. A Video Setting box will appear.

4. Copy & Paste the URL of the video you want to insert to the YouTube video URL box and click OK.

Replacing a video:

1.   Click on the video you’d like to replace.

2.   Click  Embed a Video, located on the upper black ‘video’ bar. A Video Setting box will appear. (Tip: you can also double-click on the video)

3. Copy & paste the URL of the video you wish to insert to the YouTube video URL box. Choose Autoplay and Loop settings and click OK.

Inserting a Title / Description to a YouTube video

1. Click on the video you’d like to add a title/description to.

2. Click Set Info in the upper black ‘video’ bar.

A Set Info dialog box will appear.

3. In the Set Info box you can add a title, description and a link for the video. This information will appear every time the mouse hovers over the video.

Adding a Vimeo video:

1. Click Add an Element located on the upper grey bar.

2. Click on the Widget element.

3. Click Vimeo. A generic video will appear.

4. Click Setup, located on the upper black ‘widget’ bar. A Widget HTML Setting box will appear. Enter the numeric code from the end of the URL into the info field. (The code is only the numbers at the end of the vimeo URL)

5. Check the Autoplay and Loop boxes in order to add these to your video.

6. Click OK

To connect your site to a domain, click PUBLISH > choose a subscription > follow the steps in our wizard to connect it or buy a new domain from us (if you buy a domain from us, we will then email you within 48 hours that the site is up)

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A favicon is your website icon set on the window tab of your site. To add a favicon to your site follow the steps below.

1. Click on Settings in the gray editing bar.

2. Click on Favicon. The browse window will open.

3. Select the image file you wish to upload to your site and click Open.

The icon will automatically appear in the window tab of your site.

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To add a new picture:

1. Click Add an Element located on the upper grey bar.

2. Click the Picture element. A generic picture will appear.

3. Click Replace Pic, located on the upper black ‘picture’ bar, choose the picture you wish to insert and click Open.

To connect your site to a domain, click PUBLISH > choose a subscription > follow the steps in our wizard to connect it or buy a new domain from us (if you buy a domain from us, we will then email you within 48 hours that the site is up)

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Facebook offers an easy-to-use Share dialog that you can include on your website so visitors to your site can share your site’s pages on their timeline, in groups, or send it to their friends via a Facebook Message. People open the Share dialog by clicking a link on your website, which opens a new window to a special URL on Facebook.

To add the Facebook link to your website, go to the editor of your site and choose one of the two options below:

Add a share link to the specific page you wish your visitors to like

1. Go to the page you wish to add the link to.

2. Click on Add an element> HTML. A generic element will appear.

3. Click on Edit HTML, a ‘Raw HTML Settings’ box will open.

4. Paste the code below to the box and click OK.

<a href="#" 
  onclick="
    window.open(
      'https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href), 
      'facebook-share-dialog', 
      'width=626,height=436'); 
    return false;">
  Share on Facebook
</a>

5.  The element will now appear as text “share on Facebook”. Move the element to the desired location on the page.

That’s it! Make sure to click on PUBLISH to update the live site.

Add a share link to any URL, your domain or an external website

1. Go to the page you wish to add the link to.

2. Click on Add an element> HTML. A generic element will appear.

3. Click on Edit HTML, a ‘Raw HTML Settings’ box will open.

4. Paste the code below to the box.

<a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fparse.com" target="_blank">
  Share on Facebook
</a>

5. Change the part of the code ‘u=https%3A%2F%2Fparse.com’ to ‘u=yourdomain.com’ (here you can add any URL you wish visitors to share)

6. Click OK

5.  The element will now appear as text “share on Facebook”. Move the element to the desired location on the page.

That’s it! Make sure to click on PUBLISH to update the live site.

For more information on the share dialog see https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/share-links/

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You can add various social buttons to your site by embedding their HTML code through Add Element > HTML.

See for example:

Twitter: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/tweet-button

Linkedin: https://developer.linkedin.com/plugins/share-plugin-generator

Instagram: http://followgram.me/

Pinterest: http://business.pinterest.com/widget-builder/#do_pin_it_button

For adding Facebook buttons, check out our widgets – Add Element > Widget

To connect your site to a domain, click PUBLISH > choose a subscription > follow the steps in our wizard to connect it or buy a new domain from us (if you buy a domain from us, we will then email you within 48 hours that the site is up)

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To change the password to your IM Creator account follow the steps below:

1. Log into your account to ‘My Websites’ page.

2. Click on the Avatar on the upper-right corner, next to your username

3. In the drop-down menu click Change Password.

4. In the pop-up window write your current password and the new password you wish to change to. Click OK.

To connect your site to a domain, click PUBLISH > choose a subscription > follow the steps in our wizard to connect it or buy a new domain from us (if you buy a domain from us, we will then email you within 48 hours that the site is up)

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To add a sub-menu, you need to first hide the main menu.

To hide the main menu go to Pages> Manage Pages, and un-check all the boxes next to the pages. Every un-check will hide the tab of the unchecked page until the entire menu will not be visible.

Then, go to Add an Element> Sub-Menu, and add the submenu element.
Clicking Manage Menu will allow you to choose the names of your menu tabs.

It will also allow you to create a drop-down menu by arranging the pages and checking the boxes next to the pages you want to appear as part of the sub-menu.
For more on menus and pages, see our post

To connect your site to a domain, click PUBLISH > choose a subscription > follow the steps in our wizard to connect it or buy a new domain from us (if you buy a domain from us, we will then email you within 48 hours that the site is up)

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You can add an online store to any IM template by embedding the HTML code of the store through Add Element > HTML, as simple as that.

Below is a list of some popular stores:

1. Shopify - create your online store and add it to your IM Creator site. Click here to launch your store today.

2. PayPal buttons: the simplest e-commerce solution – https://www.paypal.com/pdn-item

3. Google Store Widget: embed your own store and get paid using Google Checkout. More details can be found here: https://storegadgetwizard.appspot.com/storegadgetwizard/

4. Embeddable 3rd party store: there are currently multiple online services offering free embeddable storefronts like http://wepay.com, bigcartel.com and more.

Start building your site at http://app.imcreator.com/

To connect your site to a domain, click PUBLISH > choose a subscription > follow the steps in our wizard to connect it or buy a new domain from us (if you buy a domain from us, we will then email you within 48 hours that the site is up)

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To delete a site from your account please follow the steps below.

1. Click on Manage under the thumbnail of the site you wish to delete.  A pop-up window will appear with the current information for the site and the account.

2. Click on Delete site, and then on ‘Sure?’.

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