WYSIWYG Web Builder is a visual website design program for Windows. It turns page objects and their settings into HTML, letting you build a site in a desktop workspace, manage its pages and publish the resulting files to your web host. Its design tools support both freely positioned objects and structured layouts that adapt to the browser width.
Working with page objects
Text, images and other components enter a page through the Toolbox. You can drag an object into the workspace, resize it and change its properties. Selecting text exposes formatting controls, while selecting an image exposes tools such as cropping, brightness and contrast. The Property Inspector provides controls for dimensions, backgrounds, borders and text styles.
Blocks combine ordinary objects into reusable sections, such as a header, contact form or image gallery. After inserting one, you can change its individual objects rather than being restricted to the original arrangement. Groups of objects can also be saved as your own blocks for use in another page or project.
Site Manager and Object Manager
WYSIWYG Web Builder keeps the site’s page structure in Site Manager. Pages can be added, cloned and arranged within the project, with their names becoming the filenames of the generated pages. Object Manager handles the contents of an individual page, including stacking order, visibility and locking, so overlapping elements can be selected and organized separately from the page tree.
Responsive layouts
Absolute layouts let you position objects at chosen coordinates, including overlapping them. To adapt this design to different screen widths, you create breakpoint variations of the page.
Layout Grids and Flexbox use a different approach: their containers determine where objects flow and how much space they receive. Text and images resize within that structure as the available width changes. Flex Grid adds CSS Grid layouts with named areas across rows and columns. Those areas can change position at breakpoints and have their own spacing, alignment, borders and backgrounds.
Free positioning suits layouts whose exact object placement matters, while a flowing grid allows text-heavy sections to expand and rearrange within their columns.
Photo galleries
A Photo Gallery object holds a collection of images with optional titles and descriptions. Titles can be entered individually or derived from filenames. You choose what a thumbnail does when clicked: display the larger image in a window or dialog, start a lightbox slideshow, or follow an assigned link.
Responsive thumbnails resize with the gallery and can use different column counts at different breakpoints. For a categorized collection, you assign labels to images and enable the filter bar. Visitors can then select a category to display the matching pictures, with styling and transition options for the filter controls.
Form submissions
WYSIWYG Web Builder builds forms from input fields, checkboxes, radio buttons, selection controls and file-upload fields. A form container determines which controls belong to a submission. A Layout Grid can also act as the form, allowing its fields to follow a flexible page layout.
The form’s action determines where the entered information goes. You can connect an external processing service or your own endpoint, or use the built-in PHP processor on a PHP-enabled host. That processor can email submissions, save records to MySQL or CSV, and handle uploaded files as email attachments or files saved on the server.
Submission settings also define the success and error pages. An autoresponder can send a confirmation to the visitor, with submitted field values inserted into its message. Server-side processing runs on the published site; a local file preview does not execute the PHP processor.
Selling through payment services
Shopping functions connect page objects to services such as PayPal, Stripe, Ecwid, Paddle and Gumroad. An image, button, text object or menu item that supports events can become a purchase control. Store credentials are configured where the chosen integration requires them, and the object’s event settings identify the product or purchase action.
Stripe products and prices are created in Stripe’s dashboard, while the page event specifies a Price ID, quantity and payment or subscription action. PayPal events can carry product details, and Gumroad uses the product URL. WYSIWYG Web Builder supplies the website controls; the connected service handles the corresponding checkout and product administration.
Built-in CMS
The built-in CMS separates editable content from the surrounding page design. A CMS View object marks the area where server-managed content appears, while the rest of the layout is created with the normal design tools. When a visitor requests a page, that content is merged into the layout.
An online administrator can add, edit, copy and remove content pages. The CMS Menu follows the server’s page structure, and the search component maintains an index of that content. Site content can then be updated through a browser after the layout has been published. The CMS uses PHP and a MySQL database on the host.
AI layouts
WYSIWYG Web Builder can also create a starting layout from a written description of the pages, components, colors and style you want. A supported AI provider returns layout instructions that the program turns into page objects. Generation can produce a new site or insert a section into an existing page.
Reference images can guide the layout when the selected model supports image input. The generated design uses image placeholders, which you replace with the intended pictures. Provider choices include cloud APIs and local models through Ollama or LM Studio; cloud services may charge separately from the Web Builder license.
Site publishing
The editable project is kept in WBS format, while publishing produces the website files. Those files can be written to a local folder or transferred through the built-in FTP, FTPS or SFTP connection. Publishing controls select the whole site, individual pages or page groups, and can transfer only files changed since the previous publication.
WYSIWYG Web Builder licensing and extensions
WYSIWYG Web Builder is paid software with a fully functional trial. The purchased version remains usable without a time limit, with updates included within that major version. Free and paid extensions add further components; the Plus package bundles paid extension packs with the application.
