How to Choose the best Website Builders for building Your Website?

So My Friend.. You have finally decided to bring forth your inner creator & do it yourself and build yourself a brand new website.

But have you given any thoughts on how You Gonna do it?

Well. there are basically only three ways to go around.

• Hire Some Professional (Needs a Lot of Money)
• Learn How to Code Yourself ( Coding is not that Simple)
• Use a Website Builder Tool. (Well, the Easiest of Among these)

Would You Want Learn how to code, practice a lot, build a skill around it and then start coding to build a website with little bit functionality and minimum security. Or just invest upfront thousands of dollars to let someone build you one. You may if you have the necessary skillet or the budget to get started.

Well, I always prefer the Third option though…

As it’s the fastest and one the cheapest way to build a website in no time. And not just get entangled within the technicals of building your website.

It had never being so easy as it has become now. Now creating stunning websites is just as difficult as putting up PowerPoint presentations. If you can do that you can too create stunning websites in no time.

Literally just dragging and dropping stuffs here and here. Okay.. enough with the side talk, let me come to the main point. Today in this article, I will showing you the detailed review of some of the best Website Builder out there.

So that you can choose the Website Builder to the best suit of your Need.

Well, you may ask why am I doing this?

Simply because I don’t want You to spend your precious time in trying all the platform out there and figiure out yourself which one works best for you.

Just use those time in more Productive works such as customizing and optomizing your website content.

Since there are so many and are uniquely different as well as similar to ewc othere, I have devided each of them under 4 seperate categories so that you can understand more easily which will be a best suit for you.

Lets look into the Psychology of How you should choose your Website Builder as its very easy to get overwhelmed if not taken into considerations.

1. What’s the Purpose of your website, and can this particular builder help you build a website that serves your purpose?

2. How Complex or Easy is it to handle and use the Website builder?

3. What added features will You get once you opt in for the Builder Tool?

4. Is it worth the money you will be paying for the Builder tool?

5. How much time and effort will it take to completely build the website?

6. Will there be any added or hidden charges in the backend?

Do Ask Yourself all these questions as you finally decide to opt in for a builder. If you get a ‘Yes’ for all these questions then its a good choice. If it a ‘No’ you know what to do right.

Okay then, these are the most profound builders present out there, and have being categorized a bit. Check them out a bit.

1. Most Customisable and Extremely Easy to Use — Wix

2. Just need to Start with something but still want it beautiful — SqaureSpace

3. Thinking of Starting an Ecomerce Business — Shopify

Now Choosing the Right Website According to Your Needs & Requirements.

Website Builders can do the heavy lifting of coding and other technical stuffs for you so that you can simply focus on Designing and Developing the User Interface. Now building Website have become as simple as assembling PowerPoint presentations, all the credit goes for the website builders out there.

So, Now Let’s Check out each one of them Individually and understand what will be the most suited for you.

1. Wix ( The Most Simplest)

Wix is one the most popular Website Builders out there in the market. There must be some reason why they are.

They have exceptional features that makes building website so much easier and the intuitive drag and drop system have such simple User Interface that it feels like child’s play to build Websites.

Lets look into the components and features now.

Easy of Use.

Wix is a total beginner friendly tool. It uses drag and drop feature so no need for coding.

Value For Money

Wix isnt the cheapest out there though, it does offer great value. Ideal for people who want to scale their business in the long run. It does have a free plan though which you can use for as long as you want.

Flexibility in Design

Over 800+ templates to choose from, and desinged perfectly to align into your Niche. Overall they provide a great collection.

Other Features

Each of the templates comes with built-in features according to the needs of the industry and Niche of your business.

2. SqaureSpace ( More Design Oriented)

If you are into beautiful designs and want visually appealing Website then SqaureSpace should your choice.

It could be your best match though you may need some time to get it Just Right. SqaureSpace has some of the best template collection that catches the eyes and its super userfriendly Interface makes its easy to setup your Website in no time.

Lets look into the components and features now.

Easy to Use

With its super userfriendly Interface it very efficient in creating beautiful websites faster.

Value For Money.

If you have considered to use premium software to build your Website then SqaureSpace is the one you should be considering. You will be addicted once you start using it.

Flexibility in Design

As already mentions its a Design based Website Builder so no questioning about its flexibility. You can just rely on SqaureSpace and keep yourself at ease.

Other Features

Although Design is basically SqaureSpace’s strong suit, it don’t neglects its features as a website builder. Afterall, who wants a Good looking Website that does Nothing?

3. Shopify (For Ecom)

Shopify is one of the platform thats actually builds online stores. So if you are thinking to start an online store to sell stuffs then Shopify is your choice. It has impressive sales features that are on par with top ecomerce platforms.

If you are not into the Design aspect that much but want a powerful ecomerce store, then Shopify is your choice.

Lets look into the components and features now.

Easy to Use

Very easy to Use as its drag and drop feature allows you to freely edit anything that you want it like to be.

Value For Money.

Its an absolute package for what its capable of. You would be running a full ecommerce website and shopify would be backing you up with its all powerful integrations

Flexibility in Design

You actually get limited flexibility as compared to others, though you would be still able to customize a lot.

Other Features

Many powerful features on Marketing, SEO, Pop Up and so on; could be integrated within your website from its store. Much of which are absolute gold even with the free versions.

But Can’t You build a Website for Free?

Offcourse A Big Yes..!! But there’s always a Catch. So what are they?

1. They hold back lot of features in the free account.

2. You can’t use custom domains in many of those.

3. Your free Websites will have their Ads, and that is they will suck in your hard earned traffic for which you get nothing.

But if you are completely new to building website and have never done before than its okay to Use the free versions as they will give u an idea how things works. Once u are well accustomed to the environment, you can always switch to premium versions whenever you want.

Choosing a Good Domain name for your Business.

Domain is one the most important aspect of your online business, as people will be able to find you and your business with this. So having a good Domain nameshould be relevant to your business and brand name.

Wanna see some Good Domain providers, go check this article on best domain providers. Just keep in mind these points while choosing your Domain.

1. Should allign with your business and make it relevant enough.

2. Keep the Domain name short and easily memorable.

3. Avoid using numbers in between.

4. Always check whether there’s an already existing domain name that you have typed in.

If you didn’t have your Domain before, Would You like to have a custom domain for free?

All these builders that I have mentioned above allow you to buy domain through them also. And if you buy a domain from them while signing up they gonna give you the domain free for the first year.

So you can simply register it as part of the signup process with your suitable website Builder. And walla you have your domain name assigned to your Website on the go.

Then just complete modifying and editing your Website and you will be having your own Website with your own Domain name.

Choosing Your Design Template.

So.. now what??

Now that you have chosen your desired domain and registered your domain along with the signup, You are all ready to modify, edit and publish your brand new Website.

And matter what Builder you may have chosen, they all will have enough variety of templates that will suit your business profile. So no need to ever worry over that.

You are now ready to start Designing. Just select any template that suits your business and looks appealing to you. Don’t worry, the builders with support you with all the process rather than you doing it all alone.

So what ever the type your business might be in there will be a well suited template that you can use on. Just for example you may find these categories while starting your website.

1. Online Stores

2. Blogging Site

3. Photograhy Website

You can just simply think the templates as cloths to wear for your website. If you don’t like one there is always an option to modify or change according to your tastes and reqirements. Again no need to overthink or rush into it. Just go slowly exploring and looking for your best suit.

Now Customizing Your Template.

Once you have chosen and selected your template its now time to customize it. And since nowadays a large no of people are using the builders chances are that others may also be using the similar templates. So Customization is a must in order to stand out from the competition.

So what do you customize on your new Website template.

Well there’s a lot of things that you can do but just for the sake of simplicity, just look at these.

1. Adjusting size and color of your fonts and buttons.

2. Adding any new element to your page, like some email submition form or menus for navigation.

3. Editing the background and adding images for your homepage gallery.

4. Embedding and putting up links across your websites to your social handles.

And … Many more simple simple things, once you get hangof it there. Just keep in mind to not over do it. Keep it clean, stylish and congruent to your business. Whats more relieving is that most of these builders have proper walk-throughs/tutorials, so that you don’t get stuck in any place.

The Next Big Thing : Uploading Content

If you are done with playing around with the colors and fonts and fixed what and how to keep, then its time to upload your content.

This is the most crucial phase as this will decide your business. You will be interacting with your audiences via these Content. So make sure to keep them good and engaging.

So what makes up a content great?

Well basically any thing goes as a content be it an image, or just plain text, or it could be also a video. But what makes it a great content is how much it engages your audiences.

I have covered few articles on creating content too, you can always read them later but for now keep these tips in mind while creating them.

1. Keyword Research

2. Competetor’s Research

3. Look for whats already working.

4. Be simple and create as if you are creating for only that person who is sitting right infront of that very screen. (Yes, I also did all that just for You, so should You)

5. Use Headings and seperate your content in chunks so that they can digest each of it.

6. Avoid using fancy jargons that may confuse them.

7. Don’t forget to do Proper SEO with your content and its meta data.

Make sure that you are giving your best while creating your content. This way it would be top notch and people will really like it.