SiteZulu Review

The SiteZulu website editor is a simple drag and drop editor. Elements in the sidebar are dropped into either the footer or the body of the page— from there the page can be structured through column elements. It's simple and easy to understand.

Right: Website editor

I found the editor to be a bit confusing at times. When hovering elements on the page, lots of different icons will pop-up but it’s seldom clear what each element does. (It turns out there are several different icons that all “edit” the element. The editor would be less confusing if the same edit icon was used consistently.)

Right: Four icons popping out.

There are a number of other unpolished things I noticed, for example some elements (such as text boxes) can’t be moved (unless you click their icon first). Also the editor could be very slow at times (pressing undo once would take about 5 seconds to process— and sometimes wouldn't actually undo anything). Overall, SiteZulu’s website editor is simple but unpolished.

Right: Website editor

There are 35 themes to choose from. Themes are pretty nice. They don’t look outdated, but they're not as contemporary as themes from website builders such as Weebly or Squarespace.

Right: Example theme

This theme is pretty typical of SiteZulu themes:

Right: Example theme

There is a large amount of theme customization that you can do— that’s great. You can set global styles for just about anything— paragraphs, headings, navigation and more.

Right: One thing I’d love to see— being able to set a specific header height.

Themes are not responsive. Instead there is a mobile theme that shows for every SiteZulu theme. Unfortunately I found the mobile theme to be buggy— in this screenshot my header is all messed up!

Right: Mobile