Building your own website can be an intimidating prospect if you’ve never done it before. Luckily, with the right tools, it doesn’t have to be difficult or expensive.
A website builder provides all the features you need to create your own website without having to learn how to code. If you’re new to building websites, here are some of the most popular site builders that can help you get started with building your own site.
Why We Chose Friday
For small businesses, Friday is arguably one of the best options. Friday is an online drag-and-drop website builder. Using their services is easy and comes with lots of nice features like
- Analytics
- SEO optimization
- No ads
- Responsive and attractive Templates
- Mobile friendly store experience
- Coupons & gift cards
- Abandoned cart emails
- Delivery & pickup scheduler
- Form builder and many more.
Setting up e-commerce is easy, thanks to its 40+ payment gateways integration with top payment processors. If you want to start a blog, it has a blog builder that will help you do so. Customize your blog to reflect your personal style!
The cost can't be beaten, either—Friday offers all of its features at $25/month (for the first month) then $50/month. Most other website builders can be confused with so many plans and limitations with a high price tag (and usually require signing a long-term contract).
It has a plethora of additional features that make it an ideal platform for developing your website.
Why We Chose Squarespace
Another great option for website building is Squarespace. Squarespace's user interface (UI) is very intuitive and easy to learn. After only a few minutes, we were able to create a basic page and fill it with text, images, and links.
The tool also gives you access to your Google Analytics account so you can see how many people are viewing your site and where they're coming from (the ability to track things like web traffic and keywords is one of Squarespace's best features).
Though Squarespace does come with a large price tag, websites start from $12 per month and $18 per month. Their online stores start from $26 and $40 per month.
Why We Chose Wix
The main reason we chose Wix is because of how easy it is to use. Anyone can start a website with Wix. If you want to set up a basic website for your business, Wix is hard to beat. It’s also one of our favorite tools because there are so many options available, whether you’re looking for hosting, an email address, or a phone number.
A lot of website builders make getting new business-related features difficult, but not Wix—you can easily register your domain name here as well as purchase new domains as needed. Lastly, we love that they have 24/7 support available via live chat and a help desk ticketing system.
Wix provides a limited free version that includes a Wix-branded subdomain. A domain can be connected for $9.16 per month. Their combo plan begins at $14.95 per month and includes a free domain name. The monthly fee for the e-commerce plan for online stores is $26.25.
Why We Chose Weebly
The drag and drop site builder makes building your site simple and easy. To top it off, they have excellent customer service if you ever need any help with your site or just have questions about how to use certain features on your website. It's also free to use which makes it even better!
Why We Chose WordPress
WordPress.org is one of the most popular website builders today. But there are many other options to choose from. While each builder has its own strengths and weaknesses, WordPress offers a solution that best serves beginners and experts alike.
WordPress is free with an open-source platform that is easy to customize and comes with thousands of plug-ins that let you add custom features like e-commerce functionality or membership sites with ease. On top of all that, it’s compatible with most major hosting providers so setting up your site will be simple.
No matter if you need help creating a new site or want to grow an existing business, you can count on WordPress to get things done easily.
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