With the rise of popularity, website builder sites like Wix and Weebly are becoming the go to for small business owners, and in some cases that is great but there are a few HUGE downsides to that.
The First big downside is that you do not own the design or the platform. Meaning at any time they can change the rules and you either have to adapt to them or go without your website. Now, that doesn’t seem like a huge problem until you want to add to your current website and realize that you have to either pay more for an additional plan, upgrade your service or go without the addition. The number of people who call me asking about upgrading their website to an ecommerce site only to find out it will cost more each month. This means that you are at their mercy in terms of pricing and reach.
The other thing to think about is that these website builder sites are great at getting you signed up but are they going to assist you in building you the best site for your business? How is their SEO operated? Are they instructing you to make sure your website is set up for things like screen readers and other adaptive technologies? How much time are you are going to take away from your business to set this up and maintain it?
This is where dedicated Website Designers/Developers are handy. We can design your website on a platform that you can own, move to different hosting, make changes as you wish and ensure that your clients are seeing your website any time they want with out advertisements from other businesses.
With that said, if you do have a website set up with one of the website builder sites, and you are finding that you want to make changes, or it is taking too much time away from your business, I am more than willing to assist you. I understand that in some cases, small businesses have alot invested in their current site and do not want to change to a different platform or lose their existing design. I completely understand that and I will never push you to change something that is working for you unless there is a very valid reason that will be better for your business long term.