If you’re looking for an excellent site building tool or platform, you may want to look into three sites: WordPress, Weebly, Wix, and Squarespace. All three of these platforms have much to offer when it comes to website tools. But it just depends on what you want to do with your site and online presence.
Building a website that will serve as a home-base is the number one reason you should start a site. Plus, it gives you the best digital asset you could possibly need to make your mark in the eCommerce world.
Choosing a Web Host
One of the most difficult tasks in building a website is not in building the website itself but in choosing a platform that will work for what you wish to achieve. You also need to evaluate and think about whether you will be using raw code to build your site or using the tools available to create your site.
To help you decide, we are previewing three sites in this post shown below.
WordPress
WordPress is an increasingly growing platform that offers a way to publish quickly and easily on a user-friendly platform. WordPress.org is the site to go to if you want to publish on their online platform without downloading the program. If you want the downloadable program, you will want to go to WordPress.com. There you can download the full version along with any plugins you want to use with the program.
WordPress has a lot of advantages over the other platforms. First, it is one of the most popular platforms out there so that means it already has its own traffic. People who use this platform have access to their own internal search engine and you may get more traffic due to being on this popular platform, as well. Secondly, WordPress has a user-friendly interface that can be expanded upon by adding plugins. You can get plugins from the site itself or from third-party developers.
WordPress functions like a blog so you can easily include a blog on your site or incorporate it into your website so that people can follow your posts. They also have several different formats and templates so you can decide how you want your website to work and what features you prefer. There are many benefits to using WordPress to power your site, and if you are looking for, even more, you can read up on five of the best reasons here.
If you want a platform that offers a variety of pre-made templates and tools, you may prefer the ease-of-use of the WordPress platform. Their pricing ranges from free to $24.92 per month, billed annually.
Weebly
Weebly is another platform that is popular with many website owners and builders. It is easy enough to create your own website on the Weebly platform or you can outsource it and have someone else do it. You can create your own eCommerce store on Weebly and sell your products in a variety of ways, according to their website. They combine the best of eCommerce, marketing, and inventory management all in one place.
You can start a basic Weebly website for free but you need to pay up to $25 per month for a business package if you want to expand and grow your business. The business version also has unlimited storage for your files. There are many advanced features and benefits to hosting and building a site through Weebly, which you can read on here.
Wix
Wix is yet another popular website building platform that offers a variety of features. They brag about their ads that you can easily and quickly create your own website in one afternoon.
Their best feature is probably the easy drag-n-drop interface that allows you to drag and drop files to your page and put together an impressive page on your own. Their site takes a “minimalist” approach to website building, and you can create a modern-looking eCommerce site without a fuss. You can learn more about Wix and the many premium services they offer through this review on blogging.org.
The pricing for the Wix platform ranges from $5 per month to $25 per month, depending on the features you want and how much bang for your buck you are after.
SquareSpace
Squarespace.com is the fourth platform we are evaluating today. Squarespace has a minimalist look to their own website and they feature a number of things you may like when considering what you want to include like:
- Professional Templates
- Easy interface
- Custom domains
- Mobile apps
- Free typekit fonts
- Built-in mobile websites
- Image manager
- Audio and media collection
- Social media connection capability
- Blogging an commenting section
These are just a few of their many, many features on Squarespace.com. Check out their site to learn more and check out their features.
And the winner is…
This is always the section we dread talking about because the sites we review all have their value points. However, there were some specific features and things that we thought stood out with some of these platforms. For example, Squarespace wins in terms of the sheer number of features. With all of the plethora of functions that they allow website designers to do, there is no need to go elsewhere to get your site to do what you need it to do. There are some great advantages to the idea of “colocation of services” which includes a central dashboard like they have on Squarespace that allows you to do whatever you want with your design.
When it comes to simplicity, however, we think that WordPress is probably the best bet due to its easy interface and features that allow anyone to create a nice-looking website for their organization or business.
Many people like Wix and Weebly due to its modern appeal and the ability to drag-and-drop items with a template and other tools that take the guesswork out.
But sometimes it’s best to find a hybrid type of system that allows both drag-and-drop technology and coding within the system.
The Need for Creative Freedom
The best idea when you are planning a website for your business is to write down what is important to you. How much space do you need? What types of things do you plan to include on your page? Do you want to implement a blog? What about social media and multimedia sharing and mobile app connectivity?
All of these are important questions to ask when planning your website. Ideally, you should find a platform that allows you to use their platform to easily put up the site, while also allow HTML coding and other creative tools to add to what you already have.
One idea is to hire a professional web design team. By doing this, you will be getting a dedicated group of people who know how to implement the platform you are using into your website while allowing you to expand by using raw coding and other tools.
If you are looking for a professional web design team, try us. We are webdesignteam.com and we offer a way to have the best of both worlds when it comes to utilizing integrated technologies while allowing creative freedom.
Visit our website and check out our portfolio to learn more. Then get a free quote to learn about what we can do for you.
Your website is too important to leave it to chance. So get started today with a free estimate and put your site out there. No matter which platform you choose, remember that the appearance and functionality of your site is imperative to succeed in the online world.
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