Designing a website is hard. It has to look great on mobile and web, be functional and fast, and easy to work with for both owners and visitors. Unless you’re an expert, you either have to hire an expensive professional or spend countless hours of trial and error figuring things out yourself.

For some time now there have been platforms out there like WordPress and Wix that claim to be beginner-friendly and easy to use, but there are still numerous barriers to anyone, especially those without a technical mindset. Although anyone can eventually get a functional website running, the work required to maintain modern design and excellent site performance is painstaking and time consuming without years of experience.

Recognizing the difficulty of creating, publishing and optimizing content, Verst has streamlined the process with their new, all-in-one website builder. For anyone looking to easily design a sleek and modern website, optimize for engagement, monetize content, or establish a digital authority by growing a loyal base of followers, Verst is the answer.

Say hello to Verst, the first ever intelligent website building platform.

Verst is the world’s first ever “smart” website creation platform. Every site is integrated with machine learning and AI technology that can increasingly help you optimize your site over time. Your Verst site can actively learn from visitors’ behavior and make intelligent recommendations based on their activity. Not sure which image will garner the most clicks, or how to phrase a call to action? Let Verst automatically A/B test this for you and give you the best answer based on what your fans and visitors engage with most.

Because site design was created with publishers and site visitors in mind, Verst ensures that your content will always look its best, no matter the screen size it’s being viewed on. The modular design system treats everything on your website as piece of a responsive larger system, so that any component can seamlessly be swapped for another. Additionally, high quality images are key to compelling content, but they often weigh down sites and significantly slow page load speeds. Verst solves this problem by resizing images automatically based on what screen they’re viewed on, real-time caching, and storing and serving them from a server geographically closest to whoever is visiting your site. Always keeping an eye on site responsivity, all Verst sites are built to just work, keeping loading speeds high and visitors happy.

Never again spend hours researching the best plugin for your needs or paying a premium for a few basic enhancements. Verst comes with all the functionality those plugins offered, conveniently in one place. By pre-loading content, caching all content at multiple points, optimizing site design to be responsive to screen size, automatically publishing in AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) and more, Verst takes care of all your SEO (search engine optimization) needs. By handling the tedious technical site maintenance (they even do all their own hosting) and getting results to empower your decision making, Verst enables publishers to focus on doing what you do best – creating.

Verst comes with all the features top brands like Buzzfeed and the New York Times use, now accessible to publishers worldwide.

• 3 price tiers, including a package for every type of creator, whether you’re just getting started, want to take advantage of all of Verst’s features, or want full white-glove support and site set-up by one of their own team members
• Paid subscriptions – Put premium content behind a paywall with the flip of a switch, set your monthly and annual price, name of the subscription, and Verst will pay you directly for the value you create
• Full content import from your old WordPress or Medium site, ensuring no loss of content or dead links
• Static pages
• Fully customized homepage to impress your visitors right off the bat
• Purchase and instantly connect a custom domain via Google Domains, or connect one you already bought elsewhere
• Embed Instagram, Spotify, Google Maps, and much more via Embed.ly
• Smart calls-to-action
• Built-in A/B Test functionality
• Google Analytics ID and Facebook Pixel integrations
• SSL/HTTPS for maximum site security and SEO performance
• Advertisements through Google’s DoubleClick for classic monetization

Simply stated, it’s never been easier to create content with the sleek aesthetics and sophistication of the web’s top media brands. By enabling creators to spend their time creating rather than figuring out how to optimize their site, sort through analytics, deal with difficult plugins, and keep up with the digital times, Verst is helping to build incredible brands and businesses. It’s not like any website builder you’ve seen or used before – it’s one built just for publishers with serious goals. With Verst’s recent launch of paid subscriptions, custom homepages, and new price tiers, it’s a platform ripe to take the digital publishing world by storm.

Sign up to try Verst free for 14 days and build your new, cutting edge website.