Creating your own website or blog is very easy these days, WordPress is one of the most popular platforms for building one and very easy to install and setup on your own domain. There are also hundreds of fantastic themes available for as little as $30 and even many free ones that can give your website a slick and professional look with just a few files being uploaded.
However, even though this is all relatively easy to setup it does require some knowledge of FTP file uploading, HTML, CSS and even PHP and there are many entrepreneurs and business owners who simply do not want to have to deal with any of that and would rather focus on building their business and getting their website off the ground as quickly as possible.
If you find yourself in the latter group then you may want to investigate free website builders. These are platforms which offer simplistic, drag-and-drop tools to create a website as well as hosting and analytics tools.
Wix is probably by far the most well known site builder as well as Weebly and a few other big name platforms. The following are 4 you may not have heard of though.
Site
Sitey is a fairly new website builder that launched in 2014 but they offer a very competitive package for the entry level of 50MB storage, 5mb file upload and 1GB of bandwidth, however they do not allow you to use your own domain name and you cannot with of their ads. However at the first paid point at $6.99 a month you get a free hosting and a domain. They also have over 100 templates and easy to integrate social media links.
Webnode
Webnode boasts a very health stat of over 22 million global users and it’s easy to see why as they have an excellent features list including, no ads, 5 minute setup an entry level price of only $5.95 and with that you get an impressive 500MB storage space, 3GB bandwidth, traffic analytics, form builder and premium support. Is this the best option on our list?
Moonfruit
Moon fruit is aimed mostly at the UK market and has an impressive set of templates on offer and their pricing structure is very competitive with the entry level starting at £4 per month and 10GB bandwidth, however this first package limits you to a max of 5 pages and there is no form builder tool included so if you think you are going to need more pages then you may want to look at the £6 per month package which has unlimited pages and more storage and bandwidth available.
Site123
Site123 boasts to be ‘by far’ the easiest platform to use and doesn’t even use drag and drop. You can simply upload your content and then use their builder interface to arrange your site. This demo video probably explains it best:
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These tools are useful for beginners. If you want to turn your blog into attractive and professional look then you need to hire developer or do it by purchasing premium themes. Webnode is one of my favorite tool to create websites.
~Sarah
Hi David,
Thanks for the list. It was actually my first time to meet Sitey and Site123. I’ve been using webnode for the past years, and it’s truly easy to use.
Hi David,
Thanks for sharing the great list. I have used webnode to build my website. It is simple and easy to use.
As a professional I like Webnode platform for blogs. Webnode offers a relatively straightforward platform for getting started and managing a website.
Hey David,
A well researched list of sites. Thanks for sharing. Personally I like Moonfruit to build my websites since it have many in-built templates.
Webnode is one of the larger players in the website creation arena. Next to an easy to use website builder, their core competency is clearly languages – they support more than 20. Surprisingly, they also offer support in all these different languages.
Hey David,
Sitey is definitely a good choice if we need to create a professional looking website. It sounds quite new but it is considered as a very powerful free website builder.
Site 123 is also a considered as the simplest, easiest and fastest website builder. Moonfruit comes with several creative templates to maximize user experience and most important is that it is very easy to handle. Eventually, thanks for sharing your healthy information with us.
With best wishes,
Amar kumar
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