Website Builder Tools: Finding the Right One and Using it to Full Potential

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            Website building tools have been around for quite a few years. During that time most have become more powerful, flexible, and efficient. The past year has witnessed some dramatic improvements in website-building technology.

These improvements have been in response to technological advances in general. We talk feature advances in real-time front-end design and faster page loading. Also, search engine optimization analytics, mobile-friendly sites, and more.

Most of the top builders, like those described here, are easy to work with. They are far more capable of allowing web designers to transform their ideas into realities – 100%.

We’re certain that at least one of the 7 top page/website builders presented here will meet your needs.

1. Elementor

          Don’t have time to find the best website builder on the market? Skip Google search and go straight to Elementor, easily the #1 WordPress page builder out there today.

With more than 2 million worldwide installs, Elementor’s popularity rapidly rose in the brief time it has been around. Elementor may well be the most efficient website building tool available.

It has successfully turned page building into an intuitive visual drag and drop, i.e., WYSIWYG. Every one of its design elements is customizable, and code-free – though you can extend its use with coding if you wish.

What’s more, it’s not subject to those pesky theme constraints and limitations that slow down the design process. If you can visualize it, you can build it by working your magic with the power of the design panel. Build your own headers & footers, create dynamic content, integrate WordPress custom fields, design a blog piece by piece, add popups, parallax, much more.

It’s a web designers’ playground. Whatchawaitinfor?

2. Mobirise Website Builder

          Mobirise is a drag and drop tool that’s easy to learn and simple to operate. The fact that it’s an offline tool provides some additional advantages. You have complete control over how you use it, you’re not tied to any platform, and you can host your site anywhere.

A host of attractive and modern-looking website blocks and templates (more than 1,500 in all) together with Mobirise’s huge library of Google fonts, icons, and 500,000 free images guarantees you can build virtually any website you can visualize without any need for coding.

Since this builder is based on the latest Google AMP/Bootstrap 4 framework, the sites you create will be sneaky-fast and 100% mobile friendly; just like the more than 1.5 million sites that have already be build using Mobirise.

More good news: Mobirise is free for both personal and commercial use.

3. Portfoliobox

           Portfoliobox is not theme-based, which makes it extremely flexible and very easy to use. This website builder was designed with creative types in mind; especially those who want to design a website that will show off their art or products in the best possible light.

Portfoliobox users have demonstrated they can easily design and build an attractive portfolio website in a few short hours.

Portfoliobox’s Free plan is ideal for building a small website or to better familiarize yourself with this product and what it can do for you. It includes hosting of 30 images, 10 pages, and 10 products.

As you would expect, the Pro plan offers significantly more, and includes hosting of 1,000 images, unlimited hosting of products, blog posts, and pages, custom CSS/IS, Google Analytics integration, and a personalized domain.

Both plans include all Portfoliobox design templates.

4. 8b Website Builder

          This brand new website builder features a modern, easy to work with UI. With this recently launched (January 2019) website builder you can do your design and build activities on both a desktop and a mobile device. Since the 8b website builder resides on a Google AMP framework, you can expect your site to be crazy-fast and 100% mobile friendly.

Take advantage of 8b’s special launch period offer: you can download it free of charge!

5. WP Page Builder

          The WP page builder offers a futuristic and friendly UI, it gives you total control over your website design activities, and everything is drag and drop and on the frontend. No developer or design skills are necessary thanks to 8b’s comprehensive selection of state of the art design elements, ready-to-use design blocks, and excellent layout design flexibility.

You can save your own design blocks in the WP page builder library for future use.

6. Quix – Joomla Page Builder

          If you are looking for a Joomla page builder that would fulfill all your page building needs, then Quix might be your choice. Quix comes with more than 30+ elements, 100+ readymade blocks and templates, header-footer builder, form builder, and theme builder.

This is the first page builder that provides real-time SEO analysis for faster ranking and image optimization for rapid page loading. There is no other page builder like Quix available in the Joomla market.

3 Key Tips for Building a Successful Website

1 – Make your site mobile responsive

Once upon a time, it was an option. Then, it became a highly-recommended option. Now, for all practical purposes, it’s mandatory. The reason: more than 62% of today’s shoppers make purchases from their cellphones. 9 in 10 use smartphones to read product reviews and compare prices.

2 – Be sure to place your contact information where it’s easy to locate

Placing your contact information above the fold is always a good idea. If you use social media to promote your business, place links at the header or footer to serve the same purpose.

3 – Don’t ignore the need for speed

Busy shoppers can become extremely irritated when a website page is slow to load. Or, when a website doesn’t behave as it’s expected to. 8 in 10 shoppers simply won’t tolerate slow-loading sites and a third of them are likely to bail out. Nearly 9 in 10 will think about looking elsewhere if a site is buggy and misbehaves.

Keep your site updated and running smoothly. optimize videos and images for fast downloads. Also, make sure to use a host that will reliably manage your site’s bandwidth demands.

Conclusion

It’s not always easy to find a website or page builder that will exactly fit your needs. It can be especially challenging for beginners who don’t always know exactly what to look for.

We’ve tried to narrow your search down to a select few items. We believe we’ve succeeded in our attempt to present you with the top page and website building tools.

Author
Julian Dorobantu
Julian is a talented writer and digital media professional with BawMedia. We are proud to have Julian as one of our contributing writers to help our readers get the most value in web and graphic design resources.

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