# Glide app as public website **URL:** \ **Category:** Ask for Help\ **Created:** [July 11, 2023, 11:31pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glide-app-as-public-website/63789 "2023-07-11T23:31:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![blairrorani](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/blairrorani/32/43426_2.png) [@blairrorani](https://community.glideapps.com/u/blairrorani)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2023, 11:31pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glide-app-as-public-website/63789/1 "2023-07-11T23:31:21Z")
Has anyone use Glide for a public website (web app but you get what I mean)? As we know a website and an app are potentially the same thing (text, images, video, sound that you can click or tap or type). I saw that [Glide University](https://learn.glideapps.com/dl/d0a5f4) is built using Glide. Of course, this is a specific type of website: an LMS but still you could recreate most/all common website features using Glide, and then have the “members only” content that requires a sign-in. I’m not so much asking if Glide can be used to build a public website, more asking if anyone has done this other than the Glide U example, and if so were there any drawbacks? One I thought of was SEO and I doubt Glide would add SEO features because it’s focus is on internal business apps. Any other drawbacks? ---
**Author:** ![Joe\_Gabriele](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/joe_gabriele/32/57595_2.png) [@Joe\_Gabriele](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Joe_Gabriele)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2023, 11:51pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glide-app-as-public-website/63789/2 "2023-07-11T23:51:22Z")
SEO and minimal design choices, including font styles are the biggest drawbacks I can see. I currently use dorik for my landing page, which is a no code builder that has blog and member only features (i dont personally use that though), along with excellent design and SEO features. Its pretty cheap too ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Murphy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/darren_murphy/32/47326_2.png) [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2023, 1:18am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glide-app-as-public-website/63789/3 "2023-07-12T01:18:01Z")
I found the lack of a Footer component annoying. I ended up using a 4 column container which I copy/pasted to every page. It works, but it looks really amateurish. And of course on mobile it’s a disaster 🤦‍♂️ ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Hager](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jeff_hager/32/43_2.png) [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2026, 3:33pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glide-app-as-public-website/63789/4 "2026-05-19T15:33:44Z")