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Squarespace
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Dependent on a third-party host
This is dependent on a third-party host, instead of creating a site that you can deploy on your own server.
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Easy to customize & update
Squarespace's WYSIWYG tools are intuitive and support drag & drop functionality allowing you to change existing layout or add an article quickly.
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Responsive templates
Squarespace templates offer an optimal viewing experience depending on the width of the browser window so they will work and look great both on desktop and mobile devices.
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Lots of flexibility
Squarspace allows complete creative control over how you want your website to look and function. It can be a complete website.
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Extensive styling options
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Detailed real-time metrics
Squarspace offers detailed metrics, that can also easily be accessed from your phone via an iOS app.
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Attention to detail
Squarespace has a bunch of small nice-to-haves that make it a pleasure to use, like automatically getting a screengrab when adding a video so that the site doesn't load the whole video before the user has clicked on it, or a sign-up process that's sane among other things.
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Lots of good example projects
Squarespace offers a great selection of highly polished templates across a variety of categories and styles.
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Great support
Squarespace promises to answer all question within an hour.
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WordPress
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Complete control if needed
If you set up WP on your own server, you can change every single aspect of it as you see fit.
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A bit of bloat and complexity
WP has grown past being just a blogging platform and as such it's not as lightweight as it used to be. It also considerably more complex due to many more customization options compared to other solutions.
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Widely used
According to some statistics, WP powers a fifth of the Internet. It means there are resources for everything. Community support, tutorials, extensions and a plethora of customization options.
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Dated
The code is a mess, uses dated conventions, and relies on dated technology.
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Self-host & WP-host options
For free WordPress can be hosted by yourself on your own server, or as a subdomain of wordpress.com. You can also pay to use a custom domain with WP hosting.
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Open source
Anyone can view the code of WordPress since it's under a libre/open source license.
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RSS feeds for everything
Including tags and categories.
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Post-level privacy controls
Each post can have a different access level.
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License:
GPLv2
Language:
PHP
Default Template Engine:
PHP
Store Support:
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Webhook
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MIT Open Source
A very flexible license to do whatever you want. Code available on GitHub.
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Requires registration
Even simple command line tools require registration.
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Friendly CMS that clients can use
Webhook has a CMS admin page that can be access on the live site. This lets your clients login and edit the site like a traditional CMS system.
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Works with Firebase
Rather than store the data in flat files, Webhook stores your data in Firebase, where it can be accessed similar to JSON from other applications.
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Flexible Content Creation
Lets you describe your own content types and their own fields easily from the admin interface.
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Multi Language Support:
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RocketCake
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Offline
You can work offline as RocketCake is an installable Windows or Mac application. It's also possible to publish on a local disk first before uploading to a webserver.
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Wysiwyg
No need for coding.
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Mobile support
Support for e.g. iPhone 8, iPhone 7+, iPhone 8+, iPhone X, Samsung Galaxy S8, Galaxy S8+, LG G4, LG G5.
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PHP and ASP support
It's possible to use PHP or ASP to create dynamic websites.
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Templates
15 free templates to choose from.
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Platforms:
Windows, Mac
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Grav CMS
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Not User Friendly
Require some technical knowledge to use
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Fast, easy to use
Very fast, easy to update, - has admin panel for noobies or just edit markdown files for posts.
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Does not use any database, a complete flat Elise CMS
Database being a point of vulnerability is completely removed from the equation with it's flat file approach.
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Worka
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Very flexible
Worka has so many options to choose from that you won't have to sacrifice to get what you want.
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No custom domain
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Easy to use
There is no need to have any knowledge of coding to use Worka. With just a few clicks, you can choose a theme and customize the portfolio however you want.
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Templates with original designs
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Good price-quality ratio
At 8$ a month as the only price plan, you get to use the full experience of Worka. It also has an unlimited trial plan that will allow you to be confident that you want the tool before paying.
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Pixpa
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Unlimited storage and bandwidth
Pixpa offers unlimited storage and bandwidth for your photographs on all the plans.
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The web builder currently supports desktop only
Pixpa websites are responsive and work well on all mobile devices. The website builder though is optimized to work on desktops.
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Beautiful themes for professional photographers
Pixpa has more than 20 pre-built multipurpose themes for creative pros.
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Third-party account required for commerce
Unlike many other solution, there's no built-in commerce solution.
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Allows password-protected galleries
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Inconvenient website building
No drag and drop or WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor is available for building the website. All properties have to be set and saved in the backend before it's possible to view the result that in and of itself has to be viewed in a separate browser window. Getting a site just right takes a lot of back and forth between refreshing the preview window and editing details in the backend.
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Integrated blogging
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Expensive
Pricing starts at $10 per month for the Starter Package up to $20 per month for the Plus Package. Yearly billing offers a discount of 20%.
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DIY pagebuilder for creating custom pages
Pixpa offers drag-and-drop functionality for creating custom pages. There are more than 300 pre-built, ready to use content blocks for building a custom webpage on a site.
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12 gallery layouts
Choose from multiple gallery layouts to showcase your work the way you want.
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Responsive websites for mobile
Works on all mobile devices.
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No coding required
Drag-and-drop interface makes it easy to build a professional website.
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Cost-effective
All plans allow unlimited images and bandwidth.
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Fast and secure
All websites are hosted on secure and scalable cloud infrastructure ensuring up-time and fast delivery.
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Easy WYSIWYG editor
The PageBuilder offered by Pixpa is very easy to use and has custom content blocks which can be incorporated in any custom page you build for your website . The Drag and Drop functionality is helps here as well.
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Client proofing
Pixpa allows you to create private galleries for clients. It gets pretty easy for clients to select images and give feedback. The service allows easy workflows.
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Brilliant SEO capabilities
Supports automatic sitemap.xml generation, automatic robots.txt generation, meta data for each page or sub-page on website, SEO friendly URLs, optimized images with proper alt tags and description.
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Instapage
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Web-based, not a proper application
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Mobile-friendly
The auto-mobile feature means that any page you build, will automatically be viewable on any mobile device automatically.
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Limited to landing pages
Instapage focuses on creating simple, static lead generation and click through landing pages.
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Easy to get started
There are three easy ways to get started. You can use the drag and drop editor to build your own page from scratch or customize a template. You can also import current web pages and edit them in the drag and drop builder.
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100+ templates
There are over 100 ready to go templates for lead generation, webinar registration, mobile apps, and thank you pages. There are new templates constantly added as well.
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Built-in tools for A/B testing
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Wordpress.com
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Huge collection of free and paid themes out of the box
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Post must has category else it will be labeled as uncategorized
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Pretty easy to create and maintain a blog
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Freemium
Plugin cannot be used, custom html/css, Date Permalink cannot changed on free wordpress
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Import from other blogging platforms
Such as blogger.
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Slow Speed
Navigating between action took around 3-5 seconds and longer for bulk action.
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Bulk media options
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You have to pay even for custom css
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Widget management
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Support sort post by name
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Powerful analytics out of the box
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Plugins for every occassion
There are a wealth of plugins that can cater for just about every requirement you may have, and many of these plugins are free.
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Webflow
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Based on Bootstrap
Bootstrap is rather old technology
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Best in it's class
Speed & Quality webdesign done in your browser.
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Design tool is web-based, not a proper application.
The site doesn't state this explicitly.
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Semi-collaborative development support
Webflow allows workload to be shared among multiple users. However, you can't leave comments for them.
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Can't export your site for deployment unless you pay.
Not unreasonable, but something users should know before investing their time.
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W3C-compliant HTML5/CSS3
Webflow generates W3C-compliant markup and stylesheets.
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Uses JavaScript
Webflow uses JavaScript on its websites. Website visitors can have JavaScript disabled and be unwilling to enable it for the website they want to view, which would put a website created with Webflow out of their reach.
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Responsive web design with Bootstrap
Because it's based on Bootstrap, it works across all modern browsers & devices.
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No way to collaborate on designs with comments
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No version control
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Fixed media queries
Webflow has four fixed breakpoints (desktop, laptop, mobile landscape & mobile portrait). The inability to set your own media queries can be limiting. If your layout breaks outside of these four options, you have to export the code and write them yourself.
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WooCommerce
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Based on Wordpress which is very popular
Wordpress is used by 25% of the entire web since it is well known by a lot of people, they won't get lost using WooCommerce. Wordpress is a solid CMS, it's important that the base of WooCommerce is not some amateur CMS. Wordpress evolves often.
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Slow Slow Slow
Self explanatory. Does not scale.
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Easy to use
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Poorly customizable
Woocommerce is great for a quick launch without customization. But as soon as you need to add some new features, it really becomes a pain. WooCommerce is really slow, even if you get only a few products.
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Easy to customize
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Horrible documentation
From a developer's standpoint. Documentation is snake oil. It looks pretty and gives confidence that you are able to work on woocommerce easily to make plugins that you need. Try using it. It is outdated and breaks.
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A lot of extensions
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Runs on Wordpress
Not a dedicated out of the box solution.
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Layers
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Requires WordPress
Requires WordPress which is heavy and too bloated for many simple sites.
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Open source
Layers is an open source website builder. The source code is freely available on GitHub.
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Not a lot of great pre-made themes available
One of the areas that Layers falls behind is the number of good themes that can be found and installed from the marketplace.
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Ability to add custom CSS
While designing a whole website without coding is possible with layers, for more advanced users who want to inject custom CSS to their website, it's possible to do so through a plugin called DevKit.
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Tumblr
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Free
It costs nothing to create a Tumblr account.
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Community-driven
It is built around sharing and discovering new, short-form content.
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Good customization options
Tumblr allow users to customize their website with many built-in themes. In addition to theme selection, user can also further customize their website either through a customization editor wizard or through a HTML and CSS editor for advanced users.
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Supports responsive design & mobile-friendly websites
Tumblr supports responsive design for the website as it will be fitted with the same theme based on which device the user is using to view the website. It can also vary by theme with responsive design availability.
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Great mobile apps
Easy to use Windows Phone, iOS and Android are available.
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Custom domain support
If you want to use your own domain instead of *.tumblr.com, you can.
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Ghost
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Open source
Anyone can view code of Ghost since it's under a libre/open source license.
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Commenting must be added
One needs to edit their post.hbs file and add some code from Disqus in order for commenting to be available.
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Extremely simple
It only does a few things and it does them well. Unlike WordPress, with which you can build a universe, a blog or anything in between, Ghost is simple.
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Expensive
Too expensive for what you actually get. There are other solutions that have more or less the same features at a lower cost.
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Markdown support
Markdown is a plain text formatting syntax designed so that it can be human-readable and easily converted to HTML. Markdown allows HTML code for complete flexibility.
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Poor multilingual support
Its editor does not properly support Asian characters such as Chinese, Japanese and Korean due to a bug in IME. It is difficult to write properly in Asian letters.
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Custom domain support
Setting up a custom domain is effortless - fill the in the form and change DNS entries. Done.
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Finding Ghost host sites can be difficult
If wanting to host elsewhere, some of the other ghost hosting sites are hard to find, and once found they vary in features and functions. There isn't a single standard of service across the board.
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Self-host & paid Ghost(Pro)-host options
You can download the source code and set it up yourself (just make sure your hosting provider supports node.js). Alternatively, you can use their Ghost(Pro) service to let them host it for you. Paid plans start at $10/mo.
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Self-hosted might be hard to setup
Requires NodeJS and NPM which both come with a lot of dependencies. Also requires editting configuration files manually.
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Official Docker image
Very easy setup with an official image from Docker. Just needs a custom config.json and you are pretty much good to go.
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Inappropriate terminology in the UI
Despite some community support of having it removed, Ghost still prominently uses the following phrase in the UI: "Display a sexy logo for your publication." This terminology can be considered exclusionary and even inappropriate in a professional environment.
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Theme marketplace
A built-in way to get and set up themes.
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Real-time preview
You can see markdown on one side of the pane and the result on the other, while writing.
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Customizable
Themes may be uploaded, as can logos and covers.
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Free hosting on Github Pages via Buster
You can host your Ghost blog for free on Github Pages if you are OK with it being turned into a static site. You can use Buster to generate a static site from Ghost that can then be hosted on Github Pages.
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Affordable hosting available
There are lots of affordable hosting plans available for Ghost blogs.
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MIT
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Grapedrop
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Bootstrap components and others
You can mix Bootstrap components with other blocks
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Free API
You can use the API to build/update sites.
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Responsive by design
Don't need to worry about mobile, because all components are mobile-friendly by design.
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Free custom domain
You can build and publish the site instantly to your domain totally for free.
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Nikola
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HTML input
Nikola posts may be written in a variety of formats. You can write posts in HTML, with all the expressive power of HTML and CSS, and still have the benefits of a site-wide theme and navigation structure.
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Host on any web server
Nikloa sites are static files, and thus may be hosted on any web server that allows you to upload your own files. This lets you use simple and inexpensive hosting providers and still have a reliable site.
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Write in reStructuredText and Markdown
You have better choices for markup than raw HTML.
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Free open-source software (MIT license)
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License:
MIT
Price:
free
Multi Language Support:
Yes
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Python 3
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Gatsby JS
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No page reload when navigating
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A bit raw
You'll maybe have to tweak some JSX if you want something that's not covered by available themes.
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Based on React.js
Editing markup is phenomenally easy when you have components.
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Live reload
Every change you make can be almost immediately seen in a browser.
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A lot of plugins
Gatsby offers a lot of plugins to integrate tools like SASS, typescript, styled components, etc.
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Very active development
Gatsby is very actively developed and the maintainers are very helpful.
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Built-in code and data splitting
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Open Source
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Take content from any source
Gatsby can generate the pages with content from any sources like Drupal, Wordpress, Contentful, etc. If the source plugin is not coded for your solution, you can create it.
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A static site and a React app in one
The static pages are generated by Server Site Rendering of the React app. So you have all benefits of a static site, and all benefits of a React app, which is very powerful.
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GraphQL Data Layer
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A lot of examples
Gatsby have a lot of examples sites in his github repository.
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Beautiful out-of-the-box blog starters
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Write.as
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Protects your privacy
Works totally anonymously or you can sign up with a pen name.
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Very simple
The editor only lets you write plain text, select from a few fonts, and use Markdown for formatting. It's difficult to use Write.as for more complicated blogging or creating a full website.
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No sign up required
You can publish without ever signing up or giving out your email address.
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The writing space is very limited
The writing window is limited to only about one-fifth of the page, the rest is just blank. You can only see about three lines of text at a time. Seems like a mismanaging of space.
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Clean writing space
It's made for writing, so there aren't crazy buttons and alerts all over the place to distract you.
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License:
AGPL
Price:
$1-$25 / month
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Language:
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nopCommerce
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Stable and secure
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Multi-store feature
It lets you run more than one store from a single installation.
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Fast software
For mobile, the demo site built on 4.20 scored 99/100 in the Google PageSpeed Insights tool. Meanwhile, it got a perfect 100/100 for desktop devices.
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Active community
The community forum provides free support.
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Payment methods
Supports more than 50 payment methods.
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Absolutely free
You can create your own store absolutely free and not worry about some additional fees.
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Great Marketplace
There are many different plugins and themes, both commercial and free
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Many features and capabilities
Very easy to customize as per client requirement
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Multi-vendor
You can sell products that are not in your inventory with the multi-vendor and drop shipping features
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ProcessWire
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Nice and helpful growing community
You will always find one to respond politely in the forums. Sometimes even the creator Ryan Cramer himself.
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Custom Fields on steroids
ProcessWire is heavily based on custom fields. All objects (Pages) inside ProcessWire are based on extensible templates comprised of fields that can be easily defined. Many useful fields come prebuilt and they can be extended with modules.
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Easy to learn
Processwire is extremely easy to learn. Consider this: echo $pages->get('title=Hello World')->title; // "Hello World" echo $pages->get('title=Hello World')->parent->title; // "Home" echo $pages->find('Template=Category')->count; // 126 echo $pages->find('Template=Category')->each('title'); // ['Audio', 'Video' …] Selectors are so powerful but yet so easy. Check out the cheatsheet.
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Powerful and easy API
The API is jQuery like; // find some pages: $pages->find('template=skyscraper, architect=john, sort=title')->limit(4); // mutate $pages->get('title=Hello You')->set('title', 'HelloWorld')->save(); $pages->get('title=Old')->trash(); // trash page // check user… $user->isLogedin(); echo $user->name; // guest $session->login($name, $pass); $session->logout(); // redirect $session->redirect($url);
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Powerful selector engine
The way you fetch, access and manipulate objects (Pages) in ProcessWire is extremely powerful and easy. You can receive any page and its custom fields, filter, travers, add…
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Template Engine Agnostic
By default, ProcessWire comes with 0 assumption on how you handle the output. You have 100% freedom on how you want to develop the frontend. Want to plain output stuff, go ahead. Want to use any number of Templating Engine, do it. Just use as Headless-CMS, okay!
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Extensible
Either using the modules already available or writing your own module, using the jQuery-like API.
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Open source
Source available on GitHub.
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License:
MPL 2.0 and MIT licenses
Price:
Free
Multi Language Support:
Yes
Language:
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