Website Builders

Thanks for your reply!

I am a software developer so I have created my own sites and apps. But as an Internet Marketer I prefer WordPress for its speed and ease. When I want to throw together another niche site I can do it in less than half an hour. For my own products I design a site from scratch using my own coding.

There are a number of content management systems all with their own pros and cons.

I use three different content management systems in my job and my agency is pushing to learn a fourth.

Here's what I use and what I use them for.

• Wordpress
• DotNetNuke
• Magento

Wordpress I use to create small to medium sized websites and blogs, it is absolutely fantastic out of the box for seo and has the largest marketshare which is why you hear so much about it.

What I like about it is how easy it is to learn and manipulate it to your designs.
The cost of hosting a wordpress website is relatively cheap.

Because of the way wordpress works in the way of its sidebars and widgets it falls apart in terms of absolute flexibility which is why I use the next choice as my main cms for building websites.

DotNetNuke is used mainly for building websites for medium to larger corporations and has a range of security features, modules and tools designed specifically to benefit much larger businesses.

Just like Wordpress it has a large community of custom developers and offers a range of skins and plugins through it DNN Store marketplace.

It takes a bit more work to get a DNN site moving u the ranks in Google but it can perform SEO wise just as well, particularly since the latest release.

Where it shines its it modular way of planning pages where you can literally drag and drop panes and content onto each page exactly where you want without having to go into the admin panel to configure widgets.

Magento is used by thouands to buld fully fledges ecommerce stores. If you are building a sho of any type, then I wouldnt even look at Wordpress or DNN (or any other CMS for that matter) before yo have had a good look at Magento.

Although many CMS offer plugins and addons to allow the CMS to work like a store, nothing beats the real thing!

Joomla, Drupal and many others are also good choices and it really comes down to what you are comfortable with. My own agency works with DotNetNuke because they have years of experience behind them using the system but the same can be achieved using others.

I am not a fanboy of any system. I like to learn what I can because it makes me more employable and I make more money. You will have clients tied to a CMS before you start a project that refuse to move, in those cases its best to buckle your seatbelts and carry on learning!

Sorry for my spelling I was typing way too quickly!

I know that Content Management Systems have a lot of benefits, but I'm the same I just much prefer to hand code.

WordPress is pretty limited in some ways - some of the SEO plug ins are terrible and the people behind the plug ins don't seem to understand some basics like the canonical markup.

Wix used to be terrible - no SEO and a site that looked like it had been made by a child - has it changed much?

One that I definately wouldn't recommend is Modx - it's an absolutely terrible system.

Luckily, there are several good choices to pick from. In case you have several basic knowledge of eCommerce web design, you can create a internet site your self. Try your alternative. It can be liberal to test. You need to administrate your internet site. To hold back on along with spend the webmaster to produce alterations for your internet site isn't a extended needed. Prefer to spend time and effort on Search Engine Optimization or maybe retain the services of a specialist to complete it for you personally. If you don't finish up on the proper search for your current goods and services, an individual might not have a very web site, due to the fact no one might find it.