New Year’s Resolution? Make Your EverWeb Made Website 2026 Ready!

To all of our readers, a very happy new year and thank you for following our blog through 2025! We’re very much looking forward to 2026! It’s going to be an exciting year. As you may know already our blog covers EverWeb – the no coding needed website builder for Mac and Windows. Here we bring you all that’s new and good to know about the product including updates, bug fix releases, and posts on how to get things done with EverWeb. We also look at industry trends that may affect your site e.g. the impact of AI in our lives and the importance of SEO just to name two important topics.

As we begin the new year, you may be thinking about how to develop your website for upcoming 12 months. Well, here are some suggestions…

1. Update Your Copyright Year: It’s always a good idea to have a copyright notice in the footer of your site. the reason for this is that it tells your viewers who owns the content. It may also stop visitors casually copying your content. In essence, you are passively deterring your content from being copied. Usually this takes the form of a copyright symbol followed by the current year or a range of years from the start year of your site to the current year (e.g. 2009-2026) followed by your company name. In addition you may want to add text such as ‘All Rights Reserved’ or add a link to the terms and conditions page of your site.
2. Update Your Home Page: If your site’s Home page has remained the same for the last year, or for longer, you could well be leaking those hard gained visitors to your site. So, for 2026 check that your Home page messaging is clear and on point. One message only is the key point here. Keep your site navigation simple too, with between 5-7 menu items only in your Nav bar. And don’t forget to keep lots of white space. Keep you Home page focus on your core business offering.
3. Funnel Through To AI: Websites funnel through in to AI tools, so make your site as AI friendly. Tools like chatGPR will show its users its sources so make sure your one of them if it’s relevant to the AI user. You still need to use SEO for search engines such as Google, Bing and Alexa, so why not make your site friendly to search engines and AI at the same time. For this, have clearly defined headings and use EverWeb’s Heading Tags to define H1, H2 and H3 headings. Also use plain and simple language, clear Q&A’s or FAQ’s, and make sure that you include pages in your site that offer one specific answer on one particular subject. Need help with your SEO, then check out EverWeb’s SEO for EverWeb video course. There’s also the handy Check Pages feature in EverWeb if you have the EverWeb SEO Power Up addon!
4. The Need for Speed: 2026 is the year where your site shouldn’t be a slouch. Technology is now at the point where speed should not be an issue. If you have slow loading pages, beware! It’s going to lose you visitors. If some of the pages in your site are slow loaders then first of all check to see if you have large images (e.g. png files can be large and some jpg’s too!) Check your image sizes in EverWeb’s Assets tab. If your images are large, optimize them first. If you still have problems, see if you can reduce the number of images per page, and try EverWeb’s Lazy Load option in the Shape Options tab. Using this option on your images will only load them when they are needed. This could save your page loading times! If you’re using video in your site, try avoiding auto-play. Video’s will take time to load before they play, so using auto-play could be a potential killer for your page loading speeds! Finally check to see if there’s anything else on your page that is slowing things down. The usual culprits are shadows, animations, images and video. Large fonts, although in vogue in website design in 2026, could also be a cause of slow page load times.
5. Design Smarter Mobile Pages:We always recommend building your site as a mobile first one. The reasons for this are easy to understand… we all use our phones to search the internet or to use AI with. Secondly, Search Engines such like Google, prioritise mobile sites over desktop sites. As such the ultimate recommendation we make to our AAI readers is that you design a responsive site. For 2026 your site should be using buttons that can be clicked upon with the thumb, so make your buttons large enough! Mobile users also want shorter paragraphs too as the need for quick, summary information is more of a priority these days. Again, think of AI summaries when writing your site’s text. The final design touch is less scrolling. Make your mobile pages clear, clean and simple.
6. Keep Things Simple, Trustworthy: The key goals for 2026 are simplicity, ease of use and trust-worthiness. Time to go back to basics, offering your visitors your core proposition without unnecessary frills or gimmicks. Sites that offer a clear vision, clear presentation, clear messaging and trustworthiness will win out. By trustworthy, you will quickly convey to your visitor who you are, how your visitors can contact you, your value propositions, your respect for visitor privacy and your site’s security which makes privacy happen e.g. having an HTTPS site and not an HTTP site. You can grab EverWeb’s Site Shield Addon which makes converting from a non-secure to a secure site easy as pie.
7. Keeping Your Site Maintainable: The last tip for 206 is one for you as the designer of your EverWeb site. Is your site easily maintainable for the future. Are you able to update your site’s content without upsetting anything else on the page? In this case, Preview your design before publishing to see how your content update affects the page. Using a Responsive design should make updating your page content less prone to problems. Can you easily update your page layout is needed? if you’re using Master Pages and tools such as Paragraph Styles, then updating your page layout should be a breeze if you need to do it. The bottom line is that using simple page structures will cause you less hassle later on!

So, happy EverWeb Designing in 2026! Let us know in the Comments below if you have your own tip that you would like to share!