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There are so many different and varied ways to build a website from coding your own in HTML to using a Content Management Systems (CMS) such as Weebly, Squarespace or WordPress.
In this extract from club webinar #18 I talk through the pros, cons and costs of the top website builders out there.
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Episode Notes
Choosing a website CMS
I wouldn’t necessarily advocate to use any of these if we were building a website but there is nothing wrong with them if you are happy with the way that they work and understand what their limitations are.
Ben Kinnaird
Wix
- Quick to setup with simple questions
- Lots of templates available with a simple setup process which helps you to refine the best template for you
- Simple blocks & prompts to help write content
- Additional apps for blog, appointments and ecommerce
- A cheap way to get up and running with a relatively low skill level
Weebly
- Plenty of themes available
- The designer editor allows too much freedom and if you’re not careful you can break the site
- There are also free accounts available which some of the others don’t have.
- This is the platform I am least familiar with
Squarespace
- Lots if control over design
- Interface can be a little fiddly at first
- Ecommerce quite basic
- Can adjust template code
- Not the easiest to control for SEO purposes
WordPress
- Has an active community of developers
- Can get started for free on WordPress.com
- Completely flexible when self managed
- Lots of plugins such as ecommerce
- Best control over SEO
- The dominant website provider for 2019 was WordPress.
Shopify
- Used by 18% of ecommerce websites
- Simple setup, ecommerce focused
- Customisable templates
- Has point of sale app
