Which Website Builder is Right for You?

In this digital age we find ourselves in, if you’re looking to conduct any kind of business, the first step in establishing your brand needs to be your website. The website is the hub of your brand’s voice and services; it’s the first place potential customers go when they want to check you out, and it’s where they go to find out what you’re all about.

However, not everyone can afford a coder to build their website out of pure HTML and Java code. And not everyone has the time budget to teach themselves how to do that. And although companies like WebOracle do offer web design services using WordPress, perhaps you prefer to design and manage your website yourself to ensure it’s exactly what you like.

Website Builders or Content Management Systems (CMS) are browser-based applications that allow users to construct their own websites with no coding skills at all. Today, we’re going to go through a few of the major website builders out on the internet right now, the good, the bad, and the ugly, so you can see which one might be the best fit for you and your business.

Wix

Renowned for its powerful design options, range of templates, and easy drag-and-drop style editing, Wix is a great CMS platform aimed at the general demographic. 

Wix provides everything you could ever want in a website, containing options for media players, photo slideshows, online store integrations, contact forms, as well as a whole host of menu options and page designs. 

Wix also offers robust website hosting packages and easily accessible domain purchasing. Wix is often at the top of the list of content management systems, due to its streamlined function, huge number of options, and distinctly simple utility. Aimed at the audience that wants to just sign up and get designing, Wix represents a powerful everyman in the world of web design.

Hostinger

Our next option is the best if you’re able to throw a little money at the solution. Hostinger is an incredibly powerful website builder, but they are most well-known for their range of website hosting options.

It’s easy to forget that the internet isn’t just data floating through the air. Every website takes up a certain amount of space on massive hard drives called servers. When a website is “hosted,” that means that it is on a server, stored in a particular amount of space where all of its assets and code are kept, and allows people to access that site online.

As the name suggests, Hostinger is a CMS application that specialises in a range of hosting options, offering incredible security and hosting services for several very popular website builders, including WordPress. This means you can build a site on WordPress, and if you’re not a fan of their hosting options, you can use Hostinger to provide the hosting services for your site. Granted, hosting does cost a little bit, but without it, your website won’t really be able to get off the ground, and if you lose your website’s assets or data, it won’t be backed up anywhere. Whereas hosting ensures that your website’s assets are safe.

SITE123

SITE123 is a website builder aimed at the absolute beginner, the novice businessperson, the graphic design noob, the branding tenderfoot. Aimed at the person for whom this website (and the purpose behind it) is the very first of its venture, SITE123 is a free CMS application, allowing users to build multilingual websites optimized for SEO.

The app also allows users to grant admin privileges to others, making it a streamlined tool for having a website backend team working on it. Additionally, SITE123 provides users with a free domain for 1 year, allowing them to build their business without that expense, while also offering tools for logo design and other website features like an online store, contact forms, or image galleries.

In addition to all this, SITE123 has impressive third-party support and can be integrated with Facebook, X, and PayPal, just to name a few.

Squarespace

This is a fairly recent entry to the CMS market. Squarespace is a website builder application that can create wonderful sites, but is more specifically geared toward the e-commerce sector. Squarespace offers responsive design choices and functions on an intuitive design and editing system similar to Wix. However, Squarespace offers a wide range of e-commerce options and even has the capability to offer digital downloads.

Additionally, Squarespace offers 24/7 customer support (although only through instant messaging) and a blogging tool that allows you to write blogs and schedule when they will be uploaded, allowing you more control over your content stream. Also, for more coding-savvy customers, Squarespace allows users to integrate their own code into their site, granting top-tier customization options.

Although it is a little drawback in that once you’ve selected a template for your site, you can’t switch templates later, and remaking the site in a different template means starting from scratch again. But for everything Squarespace offers, we think that’s a relatively minor concession.