After strolling out of my Computer Science I final during my freshman year of college, I knew I’d never code anything in my life again. My computer science class was incredibly interesting when we learned about the theory of programming languages. But when we had to put theory into practice, the only programing I was doing was texting my friend to email me the code of whatever project I was working on (sorry Professor Harms!).
If you have the same sentiment toward programming as me, but you need to build a website for your business or your personal portfolio, don’t fret. There are affordable, intuitive website builders that can help you develop a robust website without any coding knowledge. And we’ve rounded up the seven of the best ones for 2019 below.
Best Website Builders
- WordPress
- Wix
- Squarespace
- Weebly
- Google Sites
- Shopify
- HubSpot's Content Management System
1. WordPress
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G2Crowd Rating: 4.3/5.0 (1,670 reviews)
Pricing:
Personal - $5 per month
Premium - $8 per month
Business - $25 per month
eCommerce - $45 per month
Powering over 30% of the websites on the internet, WordPress is arguably the most popular website builder out there. Whether you want to develop a website for your business or your own personal projects, you can use WordPress’ intuitive editor to build an entire website and blog.
With WordPress, you can also easily add images to your website with their drag-and-drop editor and embed audio, video, and documents in your website. If you want visibility into your website’s analytics and SEO data, WordPress has these features built into their platform.
Additionally, WordPress offers hundreds of themes that you can leverage to build a beautiful website without much coding knowledge, as well as an online store builder.
2. Wix
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G2Crowd Rating: 4.2/5.0 (947 reviews)
Pricing:
Combo - $11 per month
Unlimited - $14 per month
Pro - $19 per month
VIP - $29 per month
Wix is one of the most versatile website builders on the market. The website builder offers the ability to build a website specifically for stores, musicians, events, and restaurants.
If your business doesn’t operate under one of the previously mentioned categories, don’t worry, Wix is still a viable option. Their code-free editor is robust and intuitive, providing over 500 website templates, over 100 fonts, scroll effects, an app market, and a drag-and-drop functionality, letting you build a website for nearly any type of organization.
If you’d rather have full control over your website’s functionality, you can build custom web applications on your website with Wix’s Code APIs and JavaScript. Wix also offers Artificial Design Intelligence (ADI), which uses a questionnaire you fill out and artificial intelligence to design a personalized professional website for you.
3. Squarespace
G2Crowd Rating: 4.4/5.0 (753 reviews)
Pricing:
Personal Website - $12 per month
Business Website - $18 per month
Basic Online Store - $26 per month
Advanced Online Store - $40 per month
With award-winning, fully customizable website templates designed by their own team of web designers, Squarespace gives you the ability to craft some of the most visually aesthetic websites that a website builder can possibly develop.
Squarespace also offers some robust marketing tools, like email campaigns, SEO features, blogging, social integration, analytics, lead capture features, a map of your store location, calendars, and an online store builder.
Additionally, Squarespace offers dozens of integrations to amplify your design and marketing efforts, like Getty Images, Unsplash, Eventbrite, Disqus, PayPal, OpenTable, Google Maps, Google AMP, and more.
4. Weebly
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G2Crowd Rating: 4.2/5.0 (374 reviews)
Pricing:
Free - $0 per month
Connect - $5 per month
Pro - $12 per month
Business - $25 per month
Performance - $38 per month
Weebly is an intuitive website builder that offers over 50 website themes and a drag-and-drop editor. With custom fonts, an image editor, video backgrounds, and animation effects like parallax and reveal, you can truly build a visually pleasing website. If you’d rather customize your entire website, Wix gives you the option to employ your own custom HTML/CSS & JavaScript.
Wix also lets you store your contacts in a contact database, write blog posts, create and send emails, share content on your social profiles, analyze your SEO, and examine your website analytics. If you have an online store, you can even create Facebook ads inside of their platform.
Additionally, Weebly will host your website on their servers for free, transfer your domain from another website builder, keep your website safe by offering SSL security and DDoS protection, and provides 24/7 email & chat support.
5. Google Sites
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G2Crowd Rating: 4.4/5.0 (247 reviews)
Pricing: Free
in June 2017, Google gave every business with a Google My Business account access to a free, intuitive single-page website builder. The tool is fully customizable, automatically updates with the account user's GMB listing information, and works with AdWords Express.
Tailored for small businesses, Google Sites can automatically generate your company’s information on your website with information from your Google My Business profile. You can also customize your website’s text, photos, and design themes. Additionally, Google Sites are mobile responsive, can use custom domains, and can display your Google Maps location.
6. Shopify
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G2Crowd Rating: 4.3/5.0 (2,386 reviews)
Pricing:
Basic Shopify - $29 per month
Shopify - $79 per month
Advanced Shopify - $299 per month
Powering over 500,000 businesses that have generated more than $40 billion in sales, Shopify is the leading online store builder for retailers. And for good reason, too. Shopify’s eCommerce functionality is second-to-none, offering advanced inventory management, store management, and selling and shipping solutions.
Shopify also provides over 70 website themes, customizable templates, a blogging platform, and access to your website’s HTML and CSS, which allows you to intuitively build a robust website for your online store. Additionally, Shopify enables you to build your brand by offering SEO tools, social media integration, the ability to sell your products on Facebook, analytics reports, and an integration with Google Analytics.
If you need help building your store, Shopify can connect you with a retail expert to photograph your inventory, market your store, set up your website, and even help you create 3D models of your products.
7. HubSpot's Content Management System
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G2Crowd Rating: 4.5/5.0 (1,503 reviews)
Pricing: Contact Sales
WIth HubSpot's content management system, or CMS, you can create blog posts, landing pages, website pages, and emails in one platform, and then manage, optimize, and track your content’s performance in the same exact place.
HubSpot's CMS also automatically optimizes your content for mobile and search engines by leveraging responsive design and a built-in SSL. Additionally, you can personalize your content for each website visitor based on location, source, device, language, or any other detail stored in your HubSpot CRM, from demographic information to your contacts’ interactions with your brand.
You can either buy HubSpot’s CMS as a standalone product, or as an add-on to HubSpot's all-in-one marketing software.
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