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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Wix has an addon 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 addons.
You can't just export the site as an HTML file or folder of files to be hosted elsewhere, you are required to sign up for their services. The same is true with a custom domain name.
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.
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.
Websites built with CargoCollective can use the custom built-in video player. This means that there's no need to upload your videos on Youtube or Vimeo if you want to put them on your portfolio.
You can also configure templates to make your website look the way you want it to. For this, it's only required that you know a little HTML and CSS, nothing too advanced.
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.
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.
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.
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.
WebWave is perfect of beginners who don't know and don't need to know how to code. On the other hand, there is a feature that allows more advanced webmasters to add elements made of their own HTML, CSS, JavaScript code.