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What are the best WYSIWYG website builders?

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17 Options Considered

Best WYSIWYG website builders	Price	Store Support	Platforms
-- Webflow	Free / paid	-	-
69 Squarespace	-	Yes	-
-- RocketCake	Free / paid	-	Windows, Mac
-- Wix	$0-$29/MO	Yes	-
-- grapejs	-	-	-

Webflow

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Top Con

Design tool is web-based, not a proper application

The site doesn't state this explicitly. See More

Top Pro

Responsive web design with Bootstrap

Because it's based on Bootstrap, it works across all modern browsers & devices. See More

Top Con

There is a steep learning curve

The interface takes some time to learn. There are so many menus and tools, it can be overwhelming to keep track of where each tool is located. See More

Top Pro

Robust set of tools

The interface provides a lot of control over how your layout looks and functions. See More

Top Con

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. See More

Top Pro

W3C-compliant HTML5/CSS3

Webflow generates W3C-compliant markup and stylesheets. See More

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Collaborative development support

Webflow allows workload to be shared among multiple users. See More

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. See More

Top Pro

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. See More

Specs

Store Support:Yes

Top Pro

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. See More

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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. See More

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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. See More

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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. See More

Top Pro

Lots of good example projects

Squarespace offers a great selection of highly polished templates across a variety of categories and styles. See More

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Great support

Squarespace promises to answer all question within an hour. See More

RocketCake

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Wysiwyg

No need for coding. See More

Top Con

No SVG support

RickZeeland's Experience

Free website editor, no need for coding. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows, Mac

Top Pro

PHP and ASP support

It's possible to use PHP or ASP to create dynamic websites. See More

Top Pro

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. See More

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Templates

15 free templates to choose from. See More

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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. See More

Wix

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Functionality can be extended with community plug-ins

Wix has an add-on store, called the App Market, that includes community developed bits of functionality (such as comments, calendars and integrations with third-party services) that you can add to your site. The store includes both free and paid add-ons. See More

Top Con

Generated html is very bad

A lot of duplicated css, a lot of absolute positioning. See More

Specs

Store Support:Yes

Top Pro

Straightforward drag & drop interface

There's a selection of elements you can choose from in the sidebar that you can drag and drop into the page and edit. There are common elements such as text, images and buttons as well as less common elements such as blog or online store. All elements can be adjusted to some extent to fit your needs. For example, you can change things like the font, weight and style of text and even crop, adjust colors and apply filters to images. See More

Top Con

Hard to migrate away

There isn't an option to self-host the site, but neither should there be a need to. See More

Top Pro

Personalized templates

Wix comes with various kinds of templates based on the users genre and needs, ranging from personal, blog, club, portfolio to commercial. See More

Top Con

Unpleasant sign-up process

Top Pro

Wix Code lets you add custom code and backends to your WYSIWYG site when needed

This means you can add custom interactions and API's to your site when needed, but do most of the editing in a GUI. This helps you avoid the need to redo an entire site if you need custom interactions. Also dead easy to connect a database and have dynamic components based on CMS updates. See More

Top Con

Dated templates

Top Pro

Great support

grapejs

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A lot of options

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Open source

Pixpa

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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. See More

Top Con

Not free

No free option, only free trial period. See More

UnderstandingGwynApNudd's Experience

Amazing tools and themes. See More

Top Pro

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. See More

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Responsive websites for mobile

Works on all mobile devices. See More

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Cost-effective

All plans allow unlimited images and bandwidth. See More

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No coding required

Drag-and-drop interface makes it easy to build a professional website. See More

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Fast and secure

All websites are hosted on secure and scalable cloud infrastructure ensuring up-time and fast delivery. See More

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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. See More

Top Pro

Integrated blogging

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Allows password-protected galleries

Top Pro

Beautiful themes for professional photographers

Pixpa has more than 20 pre-built multipurpose themes for creative pros. See More

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Unlimited storage and bandwidth

Pixpa offers unlimited storage and bandwidth for your photographs on all the plans. See More

Top Pro

12 gallery layouts

Choose from multiple gallery layouts to showcase your work the way you want. See More

Instapage

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Web-based, not a proper application

Top Pro

Mobile-friendly

The auto-mobile feature means that any page you build, will automatically be viewable on any mobile device automatically. See More

Top Con

Limited to landing pages

Instapage focuses on creating simple, static lead generation and click through landing pages. See More

Top Pro

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. See More

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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. See More

Top Pro

Built-in tools for A/B testing

Mobirise

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Weebly

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Webhook

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Language:JavaScript

Landingi

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Reflow

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Yola

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No ads

jimdo.com

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Qards

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webflow

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