Website Review

Monday, June 5th

2023 Website Builder Reviews

Website

• Cost: From $0 to $10 per month (per limited time promo, normally $9 to $26/month)

Website is loaded with tools to create any kind of site you need. Plans are divided along the lines of the types of sites people tend to create: Personal, Business, and eCommerce. Each plan upgrade offers a significant number of added features, like A/B testing to try different versions of your design on different audiences, permissions levels for your staff, Google Analytics Event Tracking to analyze button clicks and scrolling, enterprise email accounts, and custom font uploads.

Drag-and-drop Website Builder

The builder is drag-and-drop with designer-made templates and even multilingual features for visitors who speak other languages. For restaurant websites, there's a separate builder that focuses on menus, reservations, and other needs specific to the restaurant industry.

Smart Layout Feature

In the builder for Website, you can adjust the mobile view of your site manually, or use a "Smart Layout" feature to let Website decide what to do with the layout. If a piece of your page doesn't appear on mobile views, you can disable it by dragging it off the page in mobile editing mode. And you can get even more control over whether specific pages have a mobile view by toggling it to "on" or "off" per each individual page.

Simple ECommerce Integration

For eCommerce websites, it's easy to start an online store and checkout as well as secure hosting for accepting payments and sensitive user information. To get more customers, there are various SEO tools, a blog, and email marketing. And to see how well your site is converting new and returning customers, you can add Google Analytics.

Animate Text And Images

With Website, you can add a feature called interactive cards, which animates text and images to draw attention to key areas of your page. If you need functionality that exists in third-party services, Website lets you add integrations for things like OpenTable Reservations, MailChimp, Google Maps, contact forms, online booking, social media apps, and other features.

Positive Customer Reviews

Reviews for Website are quite positive, with the vast majority of users satisfied in using it. There are numerous support options available, from a resources page, web design articles, and a learning center to a full FAQ, phone, support ticketing, live chat, and a contact form.

Invalid Certificate Roadblock

Unfortunately, when we were attempting to test the user interface for the Website builder, we were blocked from doing so by a "Your connection is not private" error. This is due to our new site's SSL certificate being invalid. Even after waiting an hour, the problem was still present. Also, upon further inspection, the certificate is only valid for a term of 5 total days vs. the usual 3 months to a year. That short of a term may be why the Chrome browser showed the error.

Try Something More Stable

The error we encountered stopped our review process in its tracks, and would likely stop you from being able to use Website for building your site. While we could have worked with Support to let them know about the problem, this is such an easy thing for them to fix and, thus, an egregious oversight on the part of Website. So, our recommendation is that you try something more stable among the higher-rated website builders we evaluated.