Best Free Website Builders

Wix

Wix is one of the best free platforms available for building websites in the fastest way possible. Over 150 million people rely on Wix to make free websites. It offers you different ways to create your website so that you can choose the most suitable one from them.

With its Artificial Design Intelligence or ADI, you can create websites in just 10 minutes having custom text and images by answering only a bunch of simple questions. If you are aiming at full freedom in design while building your website, you can go for the Wix editor and start building your website from scratch.

There are more than 500 designer-made templates for you to choose from. Wix provides you with a drag and drop builder that makes your job a lot easier than you can imagine when it comes to customization. Be it video backgrounds, scroll effects, or animation you can add them to your website effortlessly.

The Wix website gets automatically optimized for small screens. In addition to that, it comes with a mobile editor to customize it as you wish. Along with creating your website for free, you can also have it hosted for free as well with its reliable hosting service. Search engine optimization is another powerful feature that comes with Wix. You can easily get your website optimized for SEO by answering a few questions about your site, location, and keywords.

On the downside, Wix doesn’t let you add your favicon. The favicon of your website will always be the Wix logo which would be a serious drawback as favicon has a lot of importance in the branding of your business. Besides that Wix offers low bandwidth of 500MB and comes with a poor subdomain. Also, you can’t use its free plan Wix to build an eCommerce website.

Weebly

Weebly is another amazing website builder you can completely trust to create your website for free. It comes with a bundle of beautiful designs to choose from to give your website an attractive look. Just like Wix, Weebly also comes with a drag-and-drop interface to help you build your website quickly. Its free plan comes with a basic eCommerce option which not many other free website builders provide.

The custom fonts feature of this website builder makes your website stand out from the rest as you will be able to highlight your brand and style with the unique font of your choice. Besides that, you can easily add animation effects (Parallax & Reveal), video backgrounds, etc., making use of its different features. The image editor is another top feature using which you can create professional photos without leaving your website.

Integrated analytics, free high-speed hosting service, SSL security, etc., provided by this platform are another bunch of advantages of using this website builder. With Weebly, you will not find it hard to drive traffic to your website as it comes packed with social media marketing and SEO tools along with AdWords credit.

Having said all that, it doesn’t provide as much creative freedom as Wix which makes it hard for you to create a unique website. However, for additional features and functionality, you might want to upgrade to their premium plan.

Ucraft

Ucraft is an easy, fast, and free website builder available for building your website. The option to connect to a custom domain name free of cost would be the greatest attraction of this builder since no other free website builders provide you with this feature (except Google sites). But, if you don’t want to pursue this option you can go with the free subdomain provided by Ucraft.

Ucraft offers you an unlimited number of pages for your website which is a great plus while building your website. It comes with a wide selection of templates so that you can choose as per your requirement. You can avail free cloud hosting with this builder and keep the loading speed always up.

WordPress.com

WordPress.com is another best free website builder to create your website with. This description is only about WordPress.com if you know the difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org. WordPress.org is an open-source content management system whereas WordPress.com is a website builder that provides you with hosting service as well.

WordPress is most popular as a blogging platform. Most of the features offered by this website builder favor the blogging environment. Its built-in functionalities such as search feature, comments, analytics, display categories, archiving, etc., highlight it. It comes with a good subdomain, which is not common among free website builders.

However, if you are looking forward to building a non-blogging website using this platform you will find it hard to find suitable customization options for your website. Another major shortcoming of this builder is that it randomly inserts ads into your content. You can’t predict where the ads will appear so you can arrange your design accordingly.

SITE 123

SITE 123 claims to be the easiest website builder ever with its user-friendly interface. You can create a wide variety of websites with the help of this builder. It ranges from eCommerce websites to blogs and technology websites. It isn’t necessary to have any technical knowledge to build a website. It is a step-by-step process that you can complete by answering their questions.

It comes with a plethora of options for ready-made styles and layouts, which come handy when you want to give your website a unique and beautiful look. All in all, SITE 123 is a great choice for those who are looking for a simple and easy website building experience.

Wrapping Up

Free website builders are indeed a great choice to keep your website on a tight budget as premium plans could cause you a large fortune. But as most of the free builders provide you with hosting as well, you need to be careful while making your choice. Depending on the sort of website you are going to build its requirement varies. Thus do a thorough study of your chosen builder before you get started on the big task.