The wireframe for building an online website has become quite easier over the years. A decade ago, it was a time consuming, laborious and sometimes a frustrating job. It required a skilled person to build the site, but today we do not have to have in-depth knowledge of website building. The emergence of online website builders has proved to be a boon to many a novice who wish to have a website of their own.
What is a website builder?
An online website builder popularly known as website builder or web builder is a content management system kitted with specific features to suit the different purposes of the users. They come with their own templates, plugins and are customizable.
The traditional content management system is designed to administer large websites housing numerous elements or higher influx of traffic. The online website builders were designed for smaller websites like personal blogs or small business. The advantage of online web builder is that the user does not require any intensive course in special programming for web building nor do they require any expertise in technical knowledge such as knowledge of installing content management systems, add plugin’s, apply a template and create a database.
However, just like other streams even online web building has pros and cons to it.
The Pros:
The advantage of an online web builder is that it offers you a variety of templates. Some are pre-made and others are dynamic and can be customized. Selecting the template depends on the purpose of the site and the budget you are willing to allocate to it.
The user does not require any certified course to build a site using an online site builders. Adding of extensions, activating of multiple features, images and texts are extremely simple and can be done if the user follows the installation guidelines accurately.
The online web builders are affordable with several different plans and pricing to suit all pockets. The package normally consists of website, web hosting and fixed number of emails.
While these points speak favorably about the advantage of online web builders, one must consider the disadvantages too.
The Cons
Though the templates are customizable, they are not fully flexible. The website might be at the risk of blending in with other sites rather than standing out.
Expansions or addition of extra modules can be costly and risky too.
As the data is stored in an off-site area, you are in danger of losing your website if the builder proves to be unreliable.
Hence it is necessary to do a complete market survey before launching the site that will be showcasing your business.
