What website builder do you recommend?

peter • August 12, 2021

What is the best website builder to use. I know you mentioned Wix and Squarespace. Do you have one that you send people to, especially if they're just getting started?

If you're just getting started, Squarespace is super easy to use. That's one out there. Actually, recently, I used to not like it at all, was the GoDaddy website builder. They've actually made a lot of improvements to it. It's actually not that bad. It's pretty good. So if you just need to get something up for now, I think either one of those are totally fine. WordPress is a whole different beast. A lot of people say, "Oh, WordPress is so easy." It's not. There's a lot of complications that can happen. I'm working with a client's website right now that got infected, and so we're trying to clean it up and you get malware and things like that. Where these platforms like Squarespace and GoDaddy, you're not going to have those kinds of problems and issues with it.

You've got to look at stages of where you're at. What can I afford to spend right now? Can I do that myself? Fine. That's all I can afford. Once you have some money and you can spend some money on your website, again, you own it. It's worth investing in. Then start looking at other options, start talking to possible folks that can help you with it because there is a lot of technical aspects that go into making sure that it even works for the search engines and for Google and all that.

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