Website Sitebuilders: Easy to use Website builders Come
with a Price
Website Sitebuilders: Easy to use Website builders Come
with a Price
Professional web designers don't come cheap. A good web
designer can easily charge you $1000 or more for a five
page website. This high cost leads many people to tackle
web design for themselves. How hard can it be? Get yourself
an HTML editor, throw up a website and voila! Your website
is live right? Wrong! There is a lot of knowledge you need
to develop before you can get your self made website onto
the internet.
What is a Sitebuilder?
More and more web hosting companies today offer Sitebuilder
software that takes care of all the technical details to
getting your website up and live on the internet. They allow
a novice to choose a built in template, select some colors,
throw in some pictures, and add some text. Once these steps
are done, all the novice has to do is publish their website
to the internet. All the hard stuff is taken care of by
the Sitebuilder software. So what's the catch?
Next to Impossible to Move your Website to Another Company.
Most Sitebuilders in use by web hosting companies today
are designed to make it as difficult as possible for their
users to transfer their website away. Most, if not all the
fancy features like counters, navigation, templates, etc...
are built into the Sitebuilder and won't work unless you
have an active account with that particular company. If
you want to take your website elsewhere, you will have to
build your website again from scratch.
Cookie cutter approach tends to look amateurish
Sitebuilders in generally lack the flexibility to allow
the website creator to create a website any way they like.
Most Sitebuilders out there will lock you into doing things
in one way - their way. This leads to websites that can
look like they were just thrown together and therefore look
unprofessional.
Little ability to handle traffic growth.
Most Sitebuilders come with enough storage space and monthly
data transfer to meet the average website's needs. If your
website traffic truly takes off though, chances are, your
Sitebuilder company will cut you off. Most hosting companies
bank on the fact that 99% of it's clients will use relatively
little resources. If your website starts to use too many
server resources, most companies will pull the plug on your
website. If your website is built with their Sitebuilder,
you'll be out of luck and in the unenviable position of
needing to rebuild your website right when a ton of traffic
is hitting a dead page. Not pretty
Sitebuilder or traditional web hosting account - which
is for you?
If you have never put together a website before, and you
have no desire to dive into the technical details of putting
your website online, a Sitebuilder is probably your best
fit. For maximum long term flexibility and growth potential,
learning how to get your website live on a traditional web
hosting account is well worth the effort. You will end up
paying less, you won't be locked into one company, and you
will be able to grow your website as traffic demands it.
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