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Yola offers two services; free and Yola Silver(Yola Gold has |
Yola offers two services; free and Yola Silver(Yola Gold has yet to be announced). The free accounts have a website limit of 5 sites, a download capacity of 1024 megabytes, and basic webbuilder tools. The Silver version requires subscribers to pay an annual rate of $49.95. Yola Silver has many additional features over free, including an expanded storage capacity of 25GB, a domain name with privacy guard ,additional themes,Yahoo ad credits and more webbuilder tools. |
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Users can have [[domain name]]s in .com, .net, .org, and .biz, each costing $19.95 a year. Another feature is the "Hide Yola Logo". This enables the user to have a clear footer, without the logo. |
Users can have [[domain name]]s in .com, .net, .org, and .biz, each costing $19.95 a year. Another feature is the "Hide Yola Logo". This enables the user to have a clear footer, without the logo. |
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Revision as of 17:29, 26 June 2010
| Company type | Private |
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| Predecessor | Synthasite |
| Founded | South Africa, March 2007 |
| Founder | Vinny Lingham, Co-founder and CEO Brent Viljoen, Co-founder and CTO |
| Headquarters | , |
Key people | Trevor Harries-Jones, CFO Sean Crotty, VP of Product Development Randy Almond, VP of Marketing Lisa Retief, VP of Engineering David Saxton, VP of Business Development |
| Products | Yola Web Site Builder |
| Services | Website builder, Web hosting |
Number of employees | 500 |
| Website | yola.com |
Yola, headquartered in San Francisco, offers a website builder and website hosting. People without programming skills and limited knowledge of HTML and graphic design can make web sites using Yola. Yola’s drag and drop system allows users to incorporate widgets without knowing HTML. Yola also integrates e-commerce and blog software, and acts as a domain registrar. It competes with WebStarts, Weebly (formerly Synthasite), Jimdo, Webs, uCoz, Wix, and other web hosting and creation sites [1].
About Yola
The name Yola comes from the Hindi word jhola[2], which has several meanings, one of which is "hatch" (used from a marketing perspective to signify that “Yola is where you hatch your big ideas”).[3]
Corporate history
Vinny Lingham founded SynthaSite in March 2007. In November 2007, the company raised a $5 million round of financing from Columbus Venture Capital and launched the beta version of the product.
In February 2009, SynthaSite announced $20 million in Series B funding from Reinet fund.[4] The company was renamed Yola on March 26, 2009.[3] Lingham said the rename was in anticipation of the company’s future direction, and that "The name SynthaSite has brought us to where we are today, but it won't take us where we want to go. We're reaching a global market and need a name that is easy to say, resonates in any language, and captures the creativity and excitement that our users bring to their Websites."[4]
According to Yola management, together with the Synthasite users, there are now more than a million users of the tools, including small businesses, individuals and groups.[5]
Features
Yola offers two services; free and Yola Silver(Yola Gold has yet to be announced). The free accounts have a website limit of 5 sites, a download capacity of 1024 megabytes, and basic webbuilder tools. The Silver version requires subscribers to pay an annual rate of $49.95. Yola Silver has many additional features over free, including an expanded storage capacity of 25GB, a domain name with privacy guard ,additional themes,Yahoo ad credits and more webbuilder tools.
Users can have domain names in .com, .net, .org, and .biz, each costing $19.95 a year. Another feature is the "Hide Yola Logo". This enables the user to have a clear footer, without the logo. Yola has renewed their packages. The old feature to remove the Yola footer has added to Yola Silver package.
Awards and honors
- 2008 Fast 50 Reader Favorites[6]
- 2008 Industry Standard 100 Award[7]
- 2008 Webuser's Gold Award[8]
- 2009 R.E.C.S.S Support Awards[9]
References
- ^ Kincaid, Jason. (June 10, 2008). "Weebly Adds AdSense Support For Drag And Drop Cash." TechCrunch. Retrieved June 17, 2010.
- ^ http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/translation/hindi%20%28transliterated%29/jhola/
- ^ a b Ha, Anthony (March 26, 2009). "SynthaSite no more — website builder now called Yola". VentureBeat. Retrieved June 15, 2009.
- ^ a b McCarthy, Caroline (March 26, 2009). "Web site builder SynthaSite rebrands as Yola". The Social. CNET Networks. Retrieved June 15, 2009.
- ^ Ha, Anthony (January 7, 2009). "Website builder SynthaSite reaches 1M users". VentureBeat. Retrieved June 15, 2009.
- ^ The Fast 50 Reader Favorites of 2008
- ^ 2008 The Industry Standard 100 Award
- ^ Webuser's 2008 Gold Award
- ^ 2009 Winners Of R.E.C.S.S Awards