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What do you think, should you use a website builder or WordPress?
There isn’t a right answer, it all depends on your skills, on what you want to achieve with your website, your budget, and much more.
We will take a look at this question from very different points of view so you can decide to yourself what path to choose.
The pluses and minuses when using a website builder
As the industry says, website builders are being used by millions of people.
Probably most of these people are beginners that need a super basic website.
Among them are also professionals that use website builders like Webflow which is a totally different builder.
Webflow is probably the most difficult-to-use website builder, and probably the best you can use if you know web design, and you have great web development skills.
Anyway, let’s see which are the pluses and minuses of website builders.
Pluses
– Easy to use
– Plenty of themes available
– All-in-one package
– Extremely easy to set up, with just a few clicks you can create and have a live website.
– Free to use if you are ok with a subdomain.
– Affordable
– Secure
– Fast
Minuses
– If you will use a template, the biggest minus is that your website will look extremely similar to many others.
– To use all website builder features, you have to pay extra.
– The monthly fee can go up to tens of dollars.
– The design process is very limited.
– Follow the design process of the website builder and you will have a website immediately, but your website will not look and feel as you might expect.
– Website builders are great most times for creating general websites.
– Limited fonts
– Usually, it is hard to install new fonts.
– Hard to migrate the website to another platform.
There are many more good things than bad things, but before you decide if website builders are the right solution for you, you have to try them.
Try at least 3-4 website builders and see how they work, and how much they cost.
A $30 fee per month maybe is not so much but when you calculate the annual cost, for 2 years, for example, you will find out that the total cost is $720.
If you use WordPress, your cost in 2 years might be just the hosting, around $100 or even less.
Now let’s discuss WordPress
WordPress is the most popular CMS platform in the world for good reasons.
The platform has lots of advantages.
Pluses
– Free to use.
– Very simple to use, even for beginners, and first-time users.
– Fast
– Secure
– SEO-friendly
– Great for any kind of website and landing page.
– Page builders are free to install.
– Tons of free and paid plugins will add many features to your website.
– Lots of knowhows, you will easily find someone to help you with something on your website.
– Free and highly affordable templates.
– Simple to install new fonts.
– Cheap hosting
– Easily to find designers for your custom website.
– Huge potential for upgrading and growing your website.
Minuses
– I find WordPress websites quite slow when compared with websites created with website builders.
– Hackers and bad guys are constantly attacking WordPress websites, so you always have to update your WordPress CMS and plugins.
– Custom WordPress designs can cost you tons of money.
Conclusions
Both website builders and WordPress will work just fine for your business, I don’t think that you can go wrong with any of these 2.
But have in mind the associated costs, especially on the long run, and the support that is available for each solution.
