Online Website builders are around for many years and they try to improve their facilities and performance on a daily basis. This guideline helps you understand when would be the right time to use an online website builder tool to design your business website.
What is an Online Page Builder?
Online Page Builder is a web based application which allows users without coding or HTML knowledge to design a website for themselves. Such web applications normally follow drag & drop concept to place visual object on a web page and publish the result to production.
Integrated to website hosing and domain name service providers (DNS) an online page builder can do more than web page design, it can publish the design to a hosting service and connect it to a domain specified by the user.
What are advantages of online website builder applications?
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- Online website builder applications are available on almost every website hosting service. In some cases an online website builder website provides domain registration and hosting service as well.
- Online website builder applications are easy to use and almost everyone with basic computer and internet knowledge can use them to design a business website. Their content modifications or formatting are easy and there are lots of pre-defined formats, images and graphic designs which a user can apply to a design.
- They have built-in web form templates for standard or advanced users to configure them easily and place them on the pages they have already designed. This can make the lead generation or client communication easier.
- Most of these tools are able to apply basic or advanced search engine optimization settings to the design. This can be used by an advanced user to improve the ranking of a website designed by online tools.
- They are free or their price included in the hosting service package. Some other service providers may charge based on monthly or annual plans.
- They can publish the website immediately. In emergency cases or when you do not have enough time to look for a website designer company, they can be employed to design and publish a website.
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When is the right time to use an Online Page Builder?
A professional website design needs time and preparation. This means that to prepare a website for an exhibition or event, the Website Design Company needs 3-5 working days to have something to present.
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- Attending a last minute meeting? If you have to attend an event and have less time than 3-5 days, it's better to go ahead with an Online Page builder.
- Do you need a place to collect contact or registration information? Such forms are easy to build and work on Online Page Builders, but of course with limited reporting and tracking power.
- Don't have any plan for local search engine optimization or lead generation? Online Page Builders can help you to design a website and keep it live until the moment that you want to move forward with a professional website design.
- No time for content generation? To design a professional website, quality content and information are required. If you do not have enough time for content generation, simple go ahead with Online Page Builders and use their available templates to fill in and make your website live. Whenever your content is ready you can step forward with professional website design.
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Is it cost effective to go ahead with Online Page Builders?
From a credit card perspective, using Online Page Builders is cost effective and reduces 40-70% of your website design cost. Simply because the money you pay to the service provider is less than the amount you have to pay to a website design company.
From a business perspective, it's not always cost effective. losing professional search engine optimization opportunities, limited UI and UX design facilities, Mobile device incompatibilities and finally being chained to a specific service provider are major losses that not every business can afford.
Conclusion:
Online website builders are not the right choice to design business or professional websites. Platform limitations, Limited design templates and limited search engine optimization facilities are some of many weaknesses which mark these applications inappropriate for big and professional website design projects.
Are Online Page Builders Easy To Use?
Yes they are. Any Internet user with the basic computer knowledge can enjoy their user friendly environment to design a website or web page.
They also provide editing facilities such as undo, copy, paste and page versioning which help you to revert your changes or modifications if you were not happy with.
Should I pay to use such page builders?
Normally yes. Online Page Builders need monthly or yearly based subscriptions and an extra fee for some professional or business related facilities included but not limited to Online Payments, Bookings, Registrations, Digital Advertisement and so on.
Can I SEO my website?
Yes, almost every Online Page Builder provides basic level search engine optimization facilities. to improve the website visibility on Internet search engines. They are not addressing all aspects of search engine optimization but are good enough for basic level websites.
Will my website be mobile friendly?
Both Yes and No. As Online Page Builders work based on drag & drop design concept, your may suffer technical difficulties which affect the user experience on mobile devices. To make it mobile friendly, you need special care, consideration and of course testing strategy.
How Can We Help?
As a Website Design company in Richmond Hill Ontario, we can help you to migrate your website from all well-known service providers to an independent stand alone website.
This includes but not limited to Contact forms redesign, information pages redesign, catalog pages or product information redesign and finally gallery redesign.
This is strongly recommend to personal, retail and industrial applications planning to step forward to professional search engine optimization and lead generation techniques.
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