Power Planter Australia review for Zipify Landing Page Builder

Aug. 13, 2019

Hi guys I took me quite a while to learn how to use zipify pages but it's probably just cause I'm slow to learn new software. It is a great page building program and I would recommend it. Basically you can use it to design a full shopify website if you wanted to because unlike other page building software it allows you to design headers and footers or use the existing header and footer from your shopify store if you prefer. The app has a range of page blocks. These are what you use to build each page and include things like full width images Videos Videos with text beside them Page dividers Products in a row Add to carts Headlines Text blocks Testimonial with quotation marks Multiple images across And much more I would love to see more blocks added particularly things like images with text overlay, slideshows, image sliders , background videos with text and graphic overlays and others that you see on ecommerce websites. I think this program has the potential to replace shopify themes when you're building a new site. Because you can create most things using just zipify apps. Support is good although is based on USA time so if you are in the Southern Hemisphere it is a little frustrating having to wait overnight for a reply. But the staff are knowledgeable and always get back to you. If you are trying to build a whole shopify store using zipify Pages, you won't be able to change the existing product Pages as this would require extra liquid coding. But you can create your own product information pages with buy buttons from within zipify Pages anyway. So if you had a landing page you created and a call to action button on it to get more information about a product, this could open up to your own version of a product page. Recently they added HTML blocks which is an excellent feature. It means you can take code from other apps like a reviews app and put the code on to a zipify page block so it will appear when you publish the page. An example might be to take the widget code from an app like stamped.io and place that code onto a zipify block and you'll have a great looking reviews section on your page. I've also used it to place code from the Klavio email app to create a sign up form on the website. An important feature they have is the ability to turn blocks on and off depending on the device it's being viewed on. So you can create an image block or text that shows up on your desktop website but is hidden when a Mobile user views it. You can do the reverse and have items that appear only on the mobile site. This makes designing dedicated pages for mobile and desktop very easy. Overall it is an excellent app and I'm using it every week to tweak landing Pages. I found the sample pages included in the app to be pretty ugly (sorry) so dont be put off by them. You can start from scratch and create your own. Zipify pages would benefit from employing a good graphic designer to redo all the page templates. I hope this review is helpful as I find it pretty frustrating sorting through the various apps trying to work out what they can and cant do. Brian :-)