What's up YouTube in this episode we're gonna go really quickly through the top
five website builders for you to use in 2017 alright guys so like I mentioned in
this video we're going to talk about the top 5 website builders that you can use
in 2017 some of these require like absolutely no coding experience
whatsoever one of the ones that I'm going to mention requires some coding
knowledge or experience so just bear with me and we'll get through the top 5
really quickly but before we do that make sure you subscribe to this channel
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to you anyways let's get into the top 5 website builders so really quick we have
them all right here for 2017 okay the first one is gonna be Wix and it's a
easy to use website builder a lot of small businesses use this because they
can go in and easily use their template builder to plug-and-play basically
everything they need for a website to be functioning and working properly the
next one is going to be Weebly Weebly is basically the exact same thing is Wix
they do have minor differences some cater to better to like designers and
artists while some cater better to businesses that are more corporate
oriented so you know there's there's differences between all the sites just
go check each one out look at the templates mainly and look at the
features offered as far as customer service and we're gonna go into a bunch
of the things that you look you should look for in this video next is gonna be
Shopify and Shopify is great for e-commerce stores I honestly don't
suggest looking at any other platform if you're doing a business that's selling
products online just because of the amount of I guess usability or the the
user interface is super awesome to use for anybody who doesn't understand
number one how to code number two how to implement tracking and other types of
features into their website like email marketing and remarketing all of that
comes really easy with Shopify because they have
app suite of people that they partner with to plug those apps directly into
their Shopify templates and it makes it really easy to run an e-commerce store
next we'll go over Squarespace and Squarespace is also more familiar or
more similar to Weebly and Wix the difference in this one is again this one
is actually more for artists and people who are you know do personal pages stuff
like that that are trying to look more appealing visually appealing
Squarespace does the job great they have a ton of great templates and artistic
templates already built out for you to take advantage of last and definitely
not least it's gonna be WordPress now this is the one that I was talking about
that takes a little bit more coding experience to do a good job or to
actually be able to work inside of their platform so you will need to understand
some basic coding knowledge to work inside of there if you've never worked
in a website before it's gonna make it very difficult for you to put together a
good WordPress site so I wouldn't recommend starting here if you've never
done it before but if you're looking for you know to build a client a site if
you're looking to build them you know a really good site that's gonna do really
great for SEO as well as just visually appealing and something that they'll be
able to manage I recommend hiring a wordpress developer if you aren't a
developer yourself most of us aren't I'm not a developer so if you're not a
developer I recommend looking into hiring a wordpress developer so they can
put the site together for you it makes it easy for your customers to be able to
use if they need to go in and make updates or changes and it makes it
really great as far as the structure and architecture of the site they're very
clean to use because you can use straight-up coding and any of the coding
that you don't use you can easily adjust it it's just very easy to customize
things with WordPress whereas using these other builders since you're using
templates it makes it hard to make changes to the custom coding or the
coding that exists for the body or the main structure of the site so keep that
in mind if you're trying to take a site and over the next you know year two
years you plan for it to expand and grow even more you might want to go ahead and
just start with WordPress site otherwise you will have to take these sites and
convert them over and make changes later which can be a hassle it costs money so
you will end up spending some money to do that so those are the top five that
you're going to look at for this year but
you want to look out for when you use these types of website builders because
that's the most important thing these are the top five but what should you be
looking for when you're actually you know trying to pick which platform you
want to start with so we're gonna hop on over screen share screen share basically
what we have put together on what to consider for buying or purchasing
website builders or using a website building service so number one is gonna
be functionality just consider what features and functionality your website
will not only currently need but also need in the future so again like I was
just saying if you plan to expand on your site if you plan to add a whole
online inventory in the future where you sell products online in the future
you're gonna want to take that into consideration because you know making
changes on a basic site builder like Wix or word for weeks or Weebly or
Squarespace it can be very difficult to make those custom changes that you're
looking for later especially if your business becomes more complex or if your
clients business is going to become more complex in the future you'll want to
actually you know take that into consideration in choosing the builder
you don't just want to go with the cheapest option especially because it
will end up costing you more money in the future to make those changes the
next one is gonna be reachable customer service this is super important because
when you have issues when using their website builder you can't find answers
from a community or something like that you want a reachable customer service
back-end side from these website builders so that's a key thing that the
to keep in mind so look for reviews on each one's customer service and make
sure you find the one that's gonna work best for you
fully responsive website templates this is important because you want it to not
only work for mobile screens but you want it to adjust to a desktop or tablet
screen as well so if they're not you know fully
responsive mobile optimized or desktop optimized but the real term is fully
responsive that's what the that's a developer term that you'll you'll become
familiar with but a fully responsive website has to be a key feature for the
website builder because you know people are on their phones and on desktop these
days we can't just limit the sizing to one it makes for a bad user experience
search engine optimization for so the best thing about these is it
allows you to plug in page titles keywords to pages links all kinds of
stuff and it has little sections on each page that you build where you can plug
those keywords and all of that SEO data into so make sure that
whichever one you pick you do pick one of the platforms that allows you to do a
lot of SEO customization for your site ease-of-use is gonna be another one so
you want you want to be able to just go in and plug things where they need to go
on the website and the really with ease-of-use it's referencing more to
designing the website so it needs to be easy to actually go in and place buttons
in places and place images that are gonna fit properly and make sure that
you know carousels are working if you have those on your site you know
anything about using the website builder itself if you place products online you
want to make sure if you're selling products online and you're not gonna go
say the Shopify route you might want to check out the other website builders and
see okay well is this gonna be effective to use or should I just you know suck it
up and learn how to do Shopify just depends right free of banner heads and
this is important because they just don't look it okay if you have a bunch
of banner ads on your website it looks like you're an advertising site but if
you have no banner ads it makes you look more organic more natural more real so
if you've ever been to like a news website you'll notice that they usually
are running banner ads across their website and that's why a lot of people
won't use their sites it you know they'll get their news and information
elsewhere and it's because of the fact that they're running banner ads
constantly across those because that's how they generate revenue or that's one
of the ways that they generate revenue so if you're doing it for say a doctor
you don't want banner ads on this doctors website they're just there
should never be a banner ad on a doctor's website unless he is a doctor
that is a also a thought leader so he has like a million followers on Facebook
or Instagram something like that that would be the only time you want banner
ads and that's because he gets millions of followers or views every single month
so you can monetize off of that but if it's a very small practice you don't
want banner ads okay the capacity to export your website so this means just
to make backups to easily change data or to transfer it over to another
website in the future that's an important factor so if you do want to
start off small make sure that you're able to remove all of your old
information from it you want clean and well-written HTML and CSS code and this
is why I was saying that WordPress is better because of the fact that these
are templates and they're built so like Weebly Wix Squarespace all of these what
they're using a template so that means all of the coding inside of it is
already pre-built and that doesn't necessarily mean that
it's going to be the best quality possible-- for SEO that's why I clean
and well-written HTML and CSS is you know important with regards to building
a website and search engine optimization so if you're not familiar just really
quick I left some links here if you have no idea what I mean when I say HTML or
CSS CSS means the design hTML is the actual logic and coding behind it so you
know you can just briefly look at these there it goes way deeper than that but
you know that's just a general understanding of it for someone who's
never heard of it but you do want it to be clean them over it and that's why
WordPress is better because of the fact that you're able to customize everything
all of the code inside of it makes it to where you can actually clean it up and
get rid of any code that isn't necessary monthly annual cost and refund policy so
obviously that's a factor when you're looking at it you want to make sure that
you're able to spend a cost-effective amount template customization that's
another thing again that's why WordPress is one of the better ones because you're
actually able to customize all everything about the template some of
them don't allow you to get in and change a lot of the things because they
work in what's called a liquid template and a liquid template means that they're
actually taking information from somewhere else and just plugging in a a
back end series that just relays information that's all it does so it's
hard to explain if you've never heard of coding or talked about it before so I
could go it would literally take me an hour to get to have a complete
understanding just talking about that so we'll just leave it at that
just know that you want you want to look and if you're not sure talk to the
customer support ask them what is your customization like look for reviews
online from people who have talked about it before and then additional goodies
and extras find what additional offerings your website
offers to its customers like SEO hell or credits for ads and marketing some of
them will give you like $100 Google Ad or pay-per-click ad certificate
certificate but coupon or something like that if you work with them there's tons
of them Shopify gives you a free 30-day trial or something like that our 21 day
trial if you find some of those you know there's all kinds of different
promotions that you can look for when you know just starting with these sites
also they'll give you promotions like they'll give you a free domain sometimes
if you purchase their web sore use their website builder you know there's all
kinds of stuff that you can check out but that's just for you guys so anyways
that's basically it for this up or for this quick episode again I told you I
would keep this one relatively short it's about the top 5 website builders
out there make sure if you haven't done research on this before and you're about
to start a website or build a website or look into you know doing website
consulting look into these five website builders because your customers will be
using them and you want to know how to talk to them about it you want to act or
at least seem like you've been in the platform before so that way when you go
in it makes you seem more credible if you go into these customers and you're
like hey oh yeah I've never used Wix well then you automatically don't look
like you've been involved in the industry long enough right so get in
there and try all of them out so that way at least if a potential customer
asks you if you've worked in it before you can say yeah done some work in it
before and you're not lying to them you're being very straight up and honest
about it so anyways those are just my quick tips on finding a website builder
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