I founded a nonprofit and am in the process of creating everything. I am at the point that I need some sort of website so I can direct donors and potential contract clients to it. I need something very basic to discuss who we are, have a page with our board listed, a page for donation solicitation, and pages for our offered services.

Some of our services are fee-for-service, so potentially having ability to allow for booking and payments would be useful, but not necessarily required as we can manually complete that process by the interested party calling or emailing.

I have no experience designing a website and am doing this on my own.

With this in mind, is there a better platform to use between Go Daddy or SquareSpace? Or, is there a better alternative to these?

Thank you!

My podcast is pretty young, but I'm now looking at getting a website for the podcast instead of routing people to Anchor which is my current host, as my "website". I've heard people recommend Wordpress, to Squarespace, to Wix. What makes one better than the other? I've seen a few people choose Wordpress which is what, $100 a year? Whereas Squarespace is $5/month=$60 a year. Haven't looked into Wix and these are just off the top of my head numbers.

What are the advantages to using one site over the other? How easy is it to maintain? If the site goes down, how do they tell you? Are there any analytics to traffic? Any advice would be super helpful

Bloggers! What web builder do you use? which are worth the money? which are the most user friendly? I'm doing my own research but I'm curious what reddit thinks?

I've just started my own woodworking business, filed with the state and now onto website ideas. I bought the domain name and need to create a simple web page. I'm not looking thinking of e-commerce or online payments. Would you use godaddy or wix to build the pages and why?

Website will be for a dog grooming and dog day care facility. I will not selling anything online so I don’t need the store function.

Which do you prefer?

I have experience with Squarespace but the current website is on Wix. The website needs redone either way but wondering if I should take the opportunity to switch.

Mostly need to be able to list services, contact information, forms, and blogs.

Starting a service based business and need a website. I am not very tech savvy and both Wix and Squarespace have been suggested to me by people. I’d like to know which one might be better. I’m concerned with having a pro festival looking website so I can be taken seriously, hate bad websites—like restaurants that make you hunt for their address.

I’ll be working with families and doing in-person consultations, virtual consultations, and teaching workshops, both in person and virtually.

My website needs:

1. A calendar so clients can book online (many hairstylists have this)

2. A way to handle payments

3. Workshop listings and a way to accept payments for workshops

4. The usual info like bio, FAQ etc.

Located in the US and business is a sole proprietorship (technically LLC). So which service would you recommend and why? Also open to hear any website pitfalls, tools to avoid, things to do etc. basically any advice for a small business owner is welcome.

I’m looking for recommendations on the following: -website and email domain purchasing -website and email hosting

I’m ok with simple for the website itself, but will need the ability to have people register for a class and make payments securely.

I initially leaned toward godaddy for hosting due to the year 1 pricing being a lot better than wix, but I’ve heard mixed reviews on godaddy.

Any thoughts and insights are appreciated!

So we don't like either of these. We've tried them. They honestly are not user friendly unless you want a very plain and generic looking website. Godaddys email subscriber feature really sucks. So any recommendations for a better website builder/host?

Hi! There are older threads on this but things are developing rapidly (Wix keeps adding things, even in the last few weeks) so I wanted to get people's updated opinions.

I am an artist (printmaker) and make my income through in-person (art festival, etc) and online sales and design/licensing clients. I'm growing more in the online sales direction, and email marketing has become quite important. I have my website and e-commerce currently built out on Wix, and Mailchimp for emails but about to outgrow the free version and have no interest in continuing with Mailchimp. I maybe want to switch to something that integrates everything but feeling a little lost in the weeds trying to figure out the best (and cost-effective!) option as I grow.

Maybe I don't find something fully integrated if you have a third party marketing platform you highly recommend. All advice welcome! Thanks!

Can anyone tell me the real difference between these platforms? Squarespace, WordPress, Wix and Webflow. They are all so similar!

I'm speaking to a class full of fellow students who consider Wordpress to be a mangled blog platform repurposed for websites by people who cannot get with the program.

They also believe "SEO" is a scam propagated to their spambox and can't see why they'd want a self-organizing content management system over "drag and drop convenience." (Personally, I can't be arsed; let the platform deal with it.)

The chief benefit for me is cost - hosting is a whopping $4.95 a month (Veerotech FTW) and no unpleasant surprises - most add-ons are free, and those that are not are a minor one-time payment versus the $325 a year of a premium Wix account.

But what else am I missing? I haven't looked at Wix in five years; Wordpress is cheap and reliable.

I’ve been helping a few local businesses run Meta (FB/IG) ad campaigns this summer—free design and setup, they just cover the ad spend—and I’ve noticed the landing page experience can make or break results.

I try to keep things lean for my clients, so I’m curious:

For small biz owners—which site builder have you found most cost-effective for building clean, conversion-optimized pages on?

I’ve heard Wix struggles with load speed, Squarespace limit layout flexibility, and WordPress has steep learning curves (I'm concerned clients will have trouble making their own edits).

Would love to hear what’s working for others; especially if you’ve run paid traffic before.

Hi All,

I've decided to start (hopefully) monetizing a hobby of mine- reviewing products in a particular niche. I would like to use a website builder that can easily provide a template for me to create posts comparing items. I am not selling anything on the site, but rather discussing the items and providing commissionable links to buy on other websites (Amazon, etc.).

I have looked at both Wix and Squarespace and they seem to have similar functionality and can be connected to a domain that I already own. Does anyone have any experience to share about them and if one may be more easy to use/deliver a more professional result than the other? This will not replace my day job, and I'm not a graphic designer, so I want the platform to be easy to manipulate yet professional.

Thanks!

Though I am a starter to coding and web designing I had designed a website through wid for my uncle. And now an other guy called me and asked a website for him to.. I got to know GoDaddy and WordPress are better that wix. I am afraid to make a website with WordPress as it might be different from wix..

What do you suggest.. Should I carry on with wix or should I try WordPress or godaddy. Are all of them same?

Havn't the time nor desire to learn how to make a website properly. Was thinking to make a site with wix or squarespace or something where a dumb guy can do it. Is either of these worth a hoot? what say you?

For a small business to sell physical and printable products - Shopify vs. Wordpress vs. Squarespace vs. Wix? I also may have a long-term blog so lots of writing.

It's very important to me to have my own website shop, not JUST be on marketplaces such as Etsy, Amazon, etc.

I've looked over lots of conversations and articles on this topic but am still unclear.

Is this correct? What I think what I overall hear people saying is:

• Squarepace and Wix are known as easy for anyone to make a website (which REALLY appeals to me). They're an ongoing cost and nickel-and-dime you for many features. They're more learning curve than some may realize. It's debatable how well SEO can do there. I'm unsure if they're good for ecommerce.

• Shopify is easy for anyone to set up and maintain. It's limited in what it can do but that also makes it easier than Wordpress and maybe way less moving parts that can cause problems or complication. It's I guess more expensive than Wordpress - yet if no website developer person is needed then there is not that cost. So in that sense is it way cheaper than Wordpress? It has some limits such as can't sell restricted products but I doubt any of my product ideas are on restricted list (haven't read that list yet). Shopify has been enjoyed and recommended by some seemingly long-term successful shops and artists.

• Wordpress does more customization than the other options ever can. I don't really know specific examples of when this could matter to me cause that is probably stuff I wouldn't realize I want until I dive into setting up a shop. One example I heard was to be able to design checkout page to look different ways. One concern is I heard Shopify isn't great for products with customization. I definitely want custom options for some of my notebooks. Another concern is it sounds not beginner-friendly or easy (and I spent countless hours years ago trying to learn CSS or code or whatever only to then be told I had done it all wrong and in comparison Squarespace ended up seeming EXTREMELY appealing and easy and fun). I heard mixed things even on Elementor and Astra after thinking maybe those are the ticket to Wordpress fun ease. That makes me think if I pick Wordpress I'd need to hire an expensive builder/maintainer. Startup costs being even higher would make life much harder and slow the whole business down. Other concern is when I've heard Wordpress can be full of need for updates, plug-in problems, so many options some find it overwhelming, etc. I don't know if it's easily mobile-friendly which is one thing I love about Squarespace. But yes, some say Woocommerce is better than Shopify. I guess it depends what details the business needs?

-- PLEASE answer this in a super "layman's terns," simple, understandable way, keeping in mind I am absolutely not experienced at website design and am limited in how much time, energy, learning curve I am open to putting in to learning website design. I love graphic design and copywriting and branding but all those are different topics. The actual tools and structure of websites such as codes and plug-ins is what I mean I am barely knowledgeable in and barely open to directing my energy into learning. (There are only so many houes each day so we all must choose what interests/skill-building to focus on.) I love the idea of DIYing it all and not having to find money for expensive web designer and especially don't want to feel chained to years of needing a designer to update for me (though maybe I should reframe this; like I'd far rather always need a mechanic my whole life than learn to completely fix/maintain my own car).