SiteW
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| Company type | Private company |
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| Founded | October 20, 2009 |
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| Headquarters | , France[1] |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Fabien Versange (CEO) Cédric Hamel (CTO) |
| Products | Web services |
| Website | www |
SiteW (French pronunciation: [sit dublə ve]) is a French company offering a website building service.
History
[edit]SiteW was created in the spring of 2007, when Fabien Versange and Cédric Hamel, two computer scientists, were approached by several local businesses in the Auvergne region to design their websites.[2] This common demand in the Auvergne region inspired them to form a company to design a platform which offers websites that are faster, easier and more accessible to individuals.[3]
Hailing from Cantal, in the central region of France, the company was registered at the Chamber of Commerce of Aurillac in January 2008, where they opened their offices in nearby Calvinet before relocating to Cassaniouze after three years, launching their website and online web services a month later.[4] Hundreds of users signed up within the first couple of months and the first companies outside of France made use of the service by September of the same year. In 2011 the German version of the website was released. In 2014 the company upgraded all their website building tools.[5] By 2016 the company had launched over 1.5 million websites for a global customer base spread across 216 countries.[6] On average 600 new websites per day are launched by people using the SiteW services.[citation needed]
Functionality
[edit]The company offers a web based service, using the SaaS model, making the platform easy to access without having to download any applications.[7] The tools are easy to understand, using a simple drag-and-drop method for creating a website. The websites that are created are hosted on a secured server using cloud technology that can be accessed from around the world.[8] The company offers three different packages which provide different functionality and amount of storage space.[9] Making use of HTML5 and CSS3, the website and its services are updated frequently to ensure proper integration and performance on all platforms.[10]
Awards
[edit]- 2010 Concours Talents[11]
- Category: Technological innovation (Winners)
- 2016 Pépites d’Auvergne[citation needed]
- For the region of Cantal (Winners)
References
[edit]- ^ "SiteW — Fiche entreprise : chiffres d'affaires, bilan et résultat". Retrieved January 6, 2017.
- ^ "SiteW.com : la start-up cantalienne qui démocratise la création de sites" (in French). L'Union du Cantal. Retrieved January 6, 2017.
- ^ "Mon avis sur SiteW - test et revue complète de Youcef" (in French). Dessine moi un site. Retrieved January 6, 2017.
- ^ "SiteW tisse sa toile depuis le Cantal" (in French). La Montagne. Retrieved January 6, 2017.
- ^ "Des sites à la portée de tous les clics" (in French). La Montagne. Retrieved January 6, 2017.
- ^ "SiteW.com et ses rêves" (in French). Auvergne Nouveau Monde. Retrieved January 6, 2017.
- ^ "Fabien Versange, Les start ups de la French Tech" (in French). Les Pépites Tech. Retrieved January 6, 2017.
- ^ "Internet: Les sites les plus simples pour créer son site" (in French). Capital.fr. Retrieved January 6, 2017.
- ^ "SiteW : pas de fromage mais des sites Internet en Auvergne !" (in French). Gazette du Geek. Retrieved January 6, 2017.
- ^ "Test complet du logiciel SiteW" (in French). La Fabrique du Net. Retrieved January 6, 2017.
- ^ "Concours Talents de la créations d'entreprise". Concours Talents. Auvergne. 2010-01-20. Archived from the original on 2017-01-31. Retrieved 2017-01-06.