Wix is by far the best overall free website builder on the market today. Wix was easy to use, but still gave us all the creative freedom we needed to make our site look exactly how we wanted it to.
We especially like the fact that our template came with the Wix Restaurant app already built-in! Wix had the highest customer score of any builder we put through user testing, meaning it was the platform people were most likely to recommend. With its selection of more than templates — most of which are free — and a huge choice of tools and elements , like galleries, buttons, and social media icons, Wix makes creating a website easier than ever. Wix guides you through the setup process.
You choose the type of site you want to create, your industry, and your template before starting to build. We chose the Ice Cream Parlor template. Our chosen template came with the Wix Restaurant feature pre-installed, which made editing the example menu quick and easy.
So instead of lucyscupcakes. With the free plan, storage and bandwidth are both capped at just MB. This will prevent you from using too many images or videos on your site, as well as potentially limiting how many visitors you can get. Although this may sound pricey, Wix is the best value website builder with a value for money score of 4.
GoDaddy is a solid all-round choice for website building. With its user-friendly design formats and SEO Wiz feature, GoDaddy is ideal for getting any small business off the ground. From the last time we tested out the builder, GoDaddy has made some impressive changes to its design process with new and improved templates and customization tools — which is why it smoothly climbed its way to number two on our list! When we created our demo website with GoDaddy, it was clear that the builder is nice and simple to use.
By just answering up to three questions, GoDaddy got to work producing a sleek site that came with customization tools at the bottom to add a personal touch. You get to play around with themes, fonts, colour schemes and CTA buttons. In short, GoDaddy is quite easy to navigate through. The ADI functionality means anyone can create a quick, sleek site without needing any coding skills. You get 22 different templates to choose from when building your free website with GoDaddy.
This is pretty limited compared to Wix, which offers more than templates most of which are free , but the selection range is pretty broad in terms of overall design. Essentially, you get what you pay for! You get access to a custom domain, removal of GoDaddy ads, and the ability to send emails per month for your business. You get everything in the Basic plan plus advanced SEO functionality and up to email sends per month. For businesses that are looking to expand, the Premium plan will work in your favor.
It has everything you need from selling on Facebook and Instagram, to connecting to marketplaces like Amazon and Etsy. Weebly is one of the easiest to use free website makers around, with a great plan for small businesses. Combine this ease of use with its great SEO tools , semi-professional free domain, plus lots of room for growth to scale your website, and Weebly stands out as the best free website builder for small businesses.
We put this down to its poor server response time and mobile formatting! When we created our demo site with Weebly, it felt very beginner friendly — setting up the site was easy. It felt a lot more limited than Wix though, with fewer templates to choose from and more dated looking editing tools. To put it briefly, Weebly is very easy to use. It uses drag-and-drop building tools like Wix, meaning anyone can create a site using Weebly without needing any coding skills.
Weebly has seen quite a big reduction in our design scores when looking at aspects like templates, flexibility, UX design and mobile editor. When testing out the platform with everyday people, we found a a commonality in the frustration users felt. The templates stood out to be pretty bland and lacking style. The blocks can be sticky and tough to play around with, which is a pain point for anyone trying to let their creativity flow!
Weebly comes with the usual free plan limitations — on-site adverts, no custom domain, and limited storage at MB. Its main attraction is that it lets you connect your own custom domain. Jimdo is a good choice of free website builder if you want to set up an online store and sell through your site at a later date. Jimdo values simplicity, and this is obvious as you build. There are question mark tool-tips scattered throughout the editor to help you along, and uploading images, changing text, and replacing backgrounds is all effortless.
Jimdo offers an impressive ADI editor product, Jimdo Dolphin, which essentially creates your website for you. Ease of Use: 3. We enjoyed its simplicity, while simultaneously growing frustrated at its limitations. The template selection is also much more limited. For example, we chose our industry during setup, and were then provided with a selection of templates. The prompts at the beginning do mean you can get a website set up really quickly, and avoid the problem of being overwhelmed with choice.
The domain name format is fairly standard: your-site. For this site, for example, ours was lucyscupcakes. Jimdo has two sets of plans — one for its ADI builder, and one for its Creator editor. We used the Creator editor when testing and building with Jimdo. Upgrading guarantees you faster support response times, a free custom domain, more storage and bandwidth, the removal of adverts, and more features, such as adding email accounts.
A random mix of numbers and letters, ending in site The main thing we noticed about SITE was how much it tries to help you while you build. From creating your basic site for you, to providing font pairings and complimentary color suggestions, it feels like someone holding your hand from start to finish.
One thing that makes SITE so easy to use is its design-assisted technology. All you have to do is choose your industry from the 16 options provided, enter your website name, and SITE does the rest.
It creates a basic site for you, which you can then customize. While this certainly makes it quicker and easier to set up, it also gives you less control over the look and feel of your website. You pick the type of website you want from 16 different categories including portfolio, blog, music and CV , before being presented with a default website design.
Although you can amend the default design to some extent, SITE scored poorly for design flexibility overall 2. The result is an unprofessional, impossible to remember domain that looks like this: 5ffe3. One of the first things we noticed about creating a website with Strikingly was how friendly it feels. It has a fun, friendly feel to it, along with a simple and uncomplicated editor. Anyone could build a site with Strikingly, and quickly too! Strikingly would have scored higher in our ease of use testing if it offered more control — our users wished for a more intuitive editor with more creative freedom.
Strikingly creates one-page websites with a pre-formed design of your choice. The first thing you do is choose your template. Unlike many other free website builders, you can change your template as many times as you wish once your site is live. Customization is pretty limited — when building our test site, we would have liked a little more control over our page layout. You can also only build one-page websites on the free plan.
Read our Strikingly Review for an in-depth look at this top free website maker! Webflow is by far an ideal choice for web designers and those who can handle large amounts of customization.
This website builder definitely has web designers in mind. Instead of the usual drag and drop functionality that Wix and Squarespace offer, Webflow works with padding and section block areas. This will be a pretty familiar format for users who are used to large amounts of customization but, to a beginner, this may be quite an overwhelming design process. The building process did take a couple of hours because of how different it is to the popular drag and drop editor that Wix offers.
Thankfully, Webflow has a virtual design assistant which gives you an in-depth demo into how everything works before it leaves you to it! Ability to drag elements — although Webflow is designed with web designers in mind, it would be useful to include drag and drop editor functionality so that it is more beginner-friendly! Webflow relies pretty heavily on the use of short keys and right-clicking to remove or add elements, which makes the design process a lot more streamlined. You do get thrown into navigating the dashboard which can be slightly daunting at first.
With both free and premium templates, Webflow does a good job of identifying which templates are going to be better for your individual requirements.
Although, there is no actual search functionality which limits the amount of templates on view and whether it accomodates for a certain industry. Usually website builders have a set of templates for the blogging industry, for example, which provides a good indication as to what works for you. This is something Webflow could definitely include to make the overall user experience much more enjoyable. Your domain name will look something like this lucyscupcakes.
Site has an ecommerce plan that is much better suits for growing traffic and marketing tools. Account Plan offers two choices of either Individual or Team plans. You can kind of figure out which features these both entail!
With Teams, you can collaborate with other team members with a shared dashboard, and is a lot more customizable. Webnode is a popular choice of free website maker with more than 30 million users around the world. You can move elements around, but they will conform to predetermined designs. For example, if you move an image from the middle of the page to the right, the page design will change to accommodate this, rather than simply letting you drop the image where you want it.
It lends itself really well to building simple, minimalist sites — we recommend it for events websites rather than, say, business websites. One of the big drawbacks to Webnode is the limited storage you get on the free plan. You only receive MB storage, which is five times less than most of the other builders on our list.
The domain we got for our cupcake website looked like this: lucy-s-cupcakes0. Most of its templates have visuals taking up most of the page — This means its ideal for ecommerce websites that really want to show off their products! A Ucraft watermark is attached to all free websites — you can remove this when upgrading to Pro plan!
The image-driven platform lets you showcase your products or services in a bold fashion from large visuals, to flashy fonts. The main focus on aesthetics really makes this builder enjoyable for the user! The onboarding process for Ucraft is pretty straightforward.
When signing up, you get asked to choose your template and to type in your business name — Ucraft then gets to work creating your site. Without a drag and drop editor, it was little more difficult to move elements around the page!
The design process was, overall, super fun to play around with and you can achieve a lot of page character when using Ucraft. With Ucraft being a very image-driven builder, its templates are really focused on large images covering the page, rather than text. Ucraft templates are pretty slick and clear with minimal content — the visuals are clearly doing all the talking! Although this may sound pricey, Ucraft does have a pretty good value for money with the array of features you get in return.
You can select either the Pro Website plan which is its most popular plan , Pro Shop, or Unlimited plan. SimpleSite lets you easily edit your site from your mobile. Its mobile editor in particular is a great feature for those on the go. If you want a builder that walks you through setting up the different parts of your website step by step, then you might enjoy using SimpleSite. Its onboarding process uses an animated beaver character to guide you through setting up each page, before you get to enter the main editor.
SimpleSite has a very thorough onboarding process, where it walks you through each step of setting up your website before you even reach the editor. SimpleSite is a mobile delight. It has a really impressive specialism — it gives you the ability to create a website to the same extent as on a desktop, but from your mobile device. As part of the setup process, you have to choose your website layout.
There were only two options to choose from, which felt extremely limiting — especially compared to builders like Wix and Weebly! Showing the mobile preview alongside the desktop view is a nice touch, but more template choice would be even better! You can sell up to five products on the free plan, and your site will be mobile optimized, too. Click around and try things out and in no time you will have a great looking website that looks professionally designed. Apply now to get your free license!
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