If you’re redesigning your current website or creating a new one, then you may want to consider using an Under Construction or Coming Soon page for your site. While I don’t recommend using an Under Construction page for a long period of time for a redesign (I think it’s best to develop the new site on a different URL and launch it when it’s completely finished), it can be a useful tool when your site is down for maintenance. If you’re creating a new site, you may want to use an Under Construction or Coming Soon page that enables visitors to enter their email addresses to receive updates on the new site’s progress.
I’ve found 11 of the best free and premium Under Construction pages for you to choose from, and all of them can be customised to meet the needs of your website!
Coming Soon Under Construction 03 4 Skins
Price: $7
Easy Coming Soon with Pie Chart, 10 colors + Bonus
Price: $7
Launchpad for WordPress
Price: Free!
OUR TUTS Site Under Construction
Price: Free!
Changing Room for WordPress
Price: Free!
Under Construction (With BALLSY progress bar!)
Price: $6
iConstructive
Price: $6
UnderCon for WordPress
Under Construction page with twitter & pie graph!
Circo Under Construction HTML Page
Price: $6
DigitFlip, UnderConstruction with twitter
Price: $7
So, what do you think? Will you be using any of these Under Construction and Coming Soon pages on your website?
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There’s some nice ideas here. A countdown will certainly help to keep the project manager on track! Thanks for sharing them.
I knew a guy who put up a coming soon page on his website for a couple of months – Google punished him by removing the Page Rank and then not visiting his new sites for weeks when the new site went live. Use a coming soon page with caution!
Google wouldn’t remove the pagerank just like that, there must have been a pagerank update while his site was parked. On top of that, I imagine he lost incoming links as well. Google won’t arbitrarily remove pagerank. If he had gotten some strong incoming links after it launched then Google would have come knocking sooner.
From an SEO point of view putting up an “under construction” message can be search engine suicide as the IT guys from Disney found out when they put up a “Disney is down for maintenance” message, Google indexed it and next thing you know the title and description in the rankings became “Disney is unavailable”! (SEOMoz talk about it here).
A better method is to use the 503 status in the .htaccess file which tells Google that the site is temporarily down and to come back later.
The best method is to reconfigure the domain DNS to point to a new location, but that’s a bit advanced
Keep on the good job. Nice article. There’s some nice ideas here. A countdown will certainly help to keep the project manager on track! Thanks for sharing them.
Thanks cat,always helpful,i like the first and the 3rd!
Good article. I’ve just read the SEOMoz article “Web developer” is talking about, regarding the Disney situation, and it’s recommended reading! Very interesting SEO-related stuff. It explains why you shouldn’t use “Under construction” and instead opt for the 503 solution.
But I have to admit: the countdown idea is very neat. I’ll give that a try sometime!
I agree with you about the under construction being “SEO suicide”. I have heard read from several sources. I think it would be better to just get up some kind of content that is SEO friendly and let the site start getting indexed.
Really nice, especially the first and the last one!
These are much better than the plain old boring under construction pages you usually see. Thanks for sharing these ideas.
Very nice to read. I always follow this blog. Good article. I’ve just read the SEOMoz article “Web developer” is talking about, regarding the Disney situation, and it’s recommended reading! Very interesting SEO-related stuff.
Good examples! Some creativity is needed to extract a visitors attention on a coming soon page
Good list, I like the one with the twitter Image the most – looks cute and friendly
Nice and cute designs. Didn’t know there are such nice under construction pages. I’d go for the first one. Thanks for sharing.
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