Website Builder Reviews

Overview Squarespace was launched by Anthony Casalena in January of 2004. Using a $30,000 investment from his father, Casalena initially ran the company out of his university dorm. Squarespace has achieved enormous success since that time and now has offices in New York, Portland, and Dublin. Despite its humble origins, Squarespace has reached powerhouse status in […]

Overview Wix, a unique, free website builder, was founded in 2006 by Avishai Abrahami, Giora Kaplan, and Nadav Abrahami. Fed up with the complexity involved in designing a new website for their start-up, it dawned on the three men to create a piece of software that would allow them to easily design a custom website […]

Overview Weebly is one of the largest and most popular DIY drag-and-drop website builders on the market today. After the company’s founding in 2006, it experienced exponential growth, quickly hitting the one million user mark in 2008. This growth has continued to this day. Weebly now hosts over 40 million sites around the globe. The […]

Overview Since its creation in 2007, Jimdo has become one of the most prominent drag-and-drop website builders on the market. This Hamburg-based company was founded by Matthias Henze, Fridtjof Detzner, and Christian Springub, who ran the business out of an old farmhouse that belonged to Detzner’s parents. Eventually, the three collaborators won a business model contest […]

Overview DoodleKit is a small, fairly overlooked WYSIWYG drag-and-drop website editor, launched in 2006 by Heath Huffman and Ben Kittrell. This software had a promising beginning and was released to the public around the same time as Wix and Jimdo (two of the industry’s primary leaders) in the early days of do-it-yourself web builders. However, DoodleKit […]

Overview Moonfruit was created by a “team of developers, creatives, and entrepreneurs who are passionate about great design, great products and supporting startups, small businesses, and design communities.” The first version of this flash-based, website editing software was released in January 2000, just prior to the bursting of the original dot com bubble. Early iterations […]

Overview Disclaimer: Should you ever come across services called SiteBuilder.com, Sitey.com or Sitelio.com, be advised that they are the exact same products as WebsiteBuilder.com. For reasons known only to them, the company behind WebsiteBuilder is hosting the same website builder on multiple domains. The only differences are in the specifics of the paid plans. As its name would suggest, WebsiteBuilder.com […]

Overview Simbla is a clean, no-frills, drag-and-drop DIY website builder with the singular aim of making website creation simple, quick, and fun. Founded in 2013 in Tel Aviv by Ilan Zrien and Shlomi Stein Zrien, Simbla has sought to distinguish itself by being exceptionally accessible and user-friendly. Simbla’s primary selling point is that through their platform, anybody can […]

Overview Disclaimer: Should you come across services called WebsiteBuilder.com, Sitey.com or Sitelio.com, be advised that they are the exact same products as SiteBuilder.com. For reasons known only to them, the company behind SiteBuilder is hosting the same website builder on multiple domains. The only differences are in the specifics of the paid plans. The enigmatically-named SiteBuilder.com is a do-it-yourself website builder […]

Overview Disclaimer: Should you come across services called WebsiteBuilder.com, SiteBuilder.com or Sitelio.com, be advised that they are the exact same products as Sitey.com. For reasons known only to them, the company behind Sitey is hosting the same website builder on multiple domains. The only differences are in the specifics of the paid plans. Sitey is a do-it-yourself website builder whose […]