Without Code Blog

Learn how we transitioned a real business website from Shopify to Without Code in order to expand our design flexibility. Explore the reasons for this decision, as well as how we used simple embedded Shopify buy buttons to retain the checkout and download functionality for this site.

After an extensive redesign, our new customer dashboard is now ready and live on the site. Rebuilt from the ground up, this new version is faster than ever and contains a variety of tools and interface improvements to make site management easy. 

With summer in full swing and the one-year anniversary of Without Code behind us, let’s take some time to look at what we’ve been working hard on behind the scenes and share our plans for the future.

Without Code is almost one year old – and what a year it’s been! It’s time to update you, our partners and customers, on the state of our business and share our plans for the future.

Without Code Pro member, Lucy Ledger, runs an art and design studio specializing in web and paper-based design. She shared some of her history and her experience building on Without Code for her studio website and client businesses.

As 2018 draws to a close, it’s time to sit down and look at what’s been added to your Without Code membership in the last few months and share our priorities for the year ahead. We’re very excited about what’s coming, and we have big plans to develop new resources.

Without Code VIP member, Bernie Chiaravalle of BVC Web Design, shared his web design experience and advice for other designers with us, along with some of his unique sites built in Architect. 

A long-time MuseThemes member and the voice behind many of our training videos, Ashton Bingham transitioned from Muse to Architect this year.

Without Code VIP member, Tracy Foster Pyke, Senior Designer & Illustrator, President, and Owner of Tafgraphics Design Studio, Inc, told us about her impressive creative career and how she’s using Architect to create a variety of client sites.

We’re excited to carry on a MuseThemes tradition here at Without Code: Member Updates! As a customer and supporter of Without Code, it’s important to us that you are kept in the loop on our upcoming priorities and given an opportunity to provide feedback.

As a current or former member of MuseThemes.com, you are eligible for a discount on a Without Code VIP membership! We’re excited to reward our members who have supported us as far back as 2011. The following post contains information on how to take advantage of your discount, and the process for using both sites.

Finding and committing to a hosting service for your new website can be a big decision. Similar to purchasing the perfect home for your family, there are many aspects to consider before taking the leap and moving in. This guide will explain some important aspects to explore.

Being a freelance web designer certainly has its rewards – freedom, flexibility, comfort, the list goes on. But like most good things in life, it’s going to take some work, training and dedication. To get you started, here’s a brief guide to becoming a freelance web designer.

After reviewing hundreds of responses from our 2019 survey, I'm excited to share some of the key takeaways and action items that our team will focus on as we enter a new decade. Thank you to those who responded - your feedback is greatly appreciated!

Our Site Comments system is a fantastic way to communicate with clients or members of your team.This system is so effective and simple to use that it may just revolutionize the way you approach communication in your web design business.

Without Code Pro member, Julius Kwame, is a Creative Partner and Art Director at Nomad Advertising. He gave us some background into his company, told us about his web design experience and shared his favorite client sites.

We're excited to unveil our new initiative, ThemePhotos. This is not just another stock photo site – our photos are shot and packaged as beautifully-consistent sets, each containing 20+ high resolution photos. More than enough to build a complete, cohesive website!

Long-time supporter, Barbara Ingram, joined the Without Code Pro community right when we launched. She gave us a peek inside her successful web design business and some fantastic advice for anyone hoping to get started.

Our Ecommerce Store has received several valuable enhancements. These upgrades will improve the shopping experience of your store visitors by offering them a smoother, sleeker and more attractive experience on every device.

You've probably noticed by now that our website and customer dashboard has been completely redesigned! Learn why this change was made,  how it benefits our users and some important tips you should follow when relaunching any established website.

Shape dividers are a great way to add interest to the transition between sections or rows on a page. Our free set of shape dividers offers a variety of options, perfect for adding a subtle sense of elegance to a site, or used in themed projects such as educational sites for children.

In just six short months since launching Without Code we’ve introduced a huge quantity of new themes and widgets, in addition to powerful functionality updates to our core website builder, Architect.

The Architect website builder uses a very common grid structure to lay out sites, creating rows and columns to split up content. This system made it extremely easy to create simple layouts, however, users often needed the ability to split rows / columns up into smaller groups.

Without Code VIP member, Graham Busby of beHiveDesign, gave us the inside scoop on his professional journey, how he has used Architect and other web tools, and his advice for burgeoning web designers.

The General Data Protection Regulation took effect on May 25, 2018, and many online businesses who have customers within the EU need to make changes to their site and data collection practices. Here’s a quick overview of changes made to the Architect site creator that help you comply with the new GDPR rules.