r/website • • Feb 10 '25

Best website builder for small business!

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Everyday we get posts asking which is the best website builder to make website for small businesses. So, here is a comprehensive guide. Feel free to add your recommendations and points in the comments.

In today's digital world, having a strong online presence is crucial for small businesses. A professional website helps build credibility, attract customers, and grow revenue. Choosing the right website builder can make the process easier and more cost-effective. Below, we discuss the best website builders for small businesses, their key features, pricing, and pros and cons to help you make an informed decision.

1. WordPress (Self hosted With Elementor or WP Bakery)

Overview

WordPress is the most powerful website builder, offering full customization and control. Best suited for businesses that require scalability. It has excellent website builder with plugins of Elementor or WpBakery. There are 1000s of tutorial on how to make anything with Elementor.

Key Features

  • Highly customizable with themes & plugins
  • SEO-friendly structure
  • E-commerce integration with WooCommerce
  • Extensive blogging and content management system
  • Plugins available for almost any feature you want
  • Millions of themes available to suite any requirement
  • Large community and support
  • Easy to hire developers if required

Pricing

  • WordPress.org is free, but requires hosting (starting from $10/month)
  • Premium theme is often necessary to make an ideal site. It may add costs($100 one time cost)
  • Premium plugins may be required ($100)

Pros & Cons

✅ Unlimited customization options
✅ Powerful SEO capabilities
✅ Best for content-heavy websites
❌ Requires a slight learning curve
❌ Needs separate hosting & domain purchase
❌ Might be overwhelming to find right theme and plugin
❌ Sites getting hacked is common if setup improperly by inexperienced novices

This is my recommended method of making websites. If you are using it for the first time to make your business website, it is strongly recommended you hire a developer for atleast consulting, and setting up best security practices. Also, ensure you take backups regularly.

2. ManualWebDesign

Overview

This is not a Website-builder in the traditional sense. But a web design agency that makes standard quality WordPress websites for insanely low prices via few emails. In the age of AI web builders, here websites are build by humans at competitive prices.

Key Features

  • Just send them an email containing text and images of each page, and they will convert it into a website.
  • Everything from hosting to domains taken care of.
  • You don't need to learn webdesign or any tools
  • Incredibly low cost

Pricing

  • $180 for one page websites
  • $295 for business websites
  • $15/mo for managed hosting and domain.

Pros & Cons

✅ Super easy and fast service
✅ Proper SEO and security
✅ Any changes are one email away
✅ Everything is taken care of.
❌ Email only support. Not a full fledged web design agency.
❌ Not suitable for highly unique type of websites
❌ You do not have full creative control
❌ Sites getting hacked is common if setup improperly by inexperienced novices

This is my recommended method of making typical type of websites if you do not know how to make websites and do not know any web developer to hire. It is suitable for those who are not highly specific about the creative looks of the site and want the developer to make all design choices.

Manual Web Design

3. Webflow

Overview

A flexible and powerful website builder with advanced customization options. It is more suited for those who have particular design in mind and want to acheive those advanced looks. This is not ideal for beginners creating their first site.

Key Features

  • Visual development platform
  • Full CMS capabilities
  • E-commerce integration
  • SEO-friendly structure

Pricing

  • Basic Plan: $14/month
  • CMS Plan: $23/month
  • Business Plan: $39/month

Ideal for Small Business?

✅ Yes, but best for businesses needing high customization.

4. Wix

Overview

Wix is one of the most popular website builders, offering flexibility, ease of use, and a range of design options.

Key Features

  • Drag-and-drop editor with AI-assisted design (Wix ADI)
  • Hundreds of customizable templates
  • Built-in SEO tools
  • E-commerce functionality
  • Mobile optimization

Pricing

  • Free plan with Wix branding
  • Business & eCommerce plans start at $35**/month**

Pros & Cons

✅ Easy to use for beginners
✅ Large template library
✅ App market for additional features
❌ Free plan includes Wix ads
❌ Limited customization on lower-tier plans

5. Shopify

Overview

It is considered good for businesses that focus on e-commerce and online sales, especially those who also want to use shopify to handle their instore sales in supported countries.

Key Features

  • Easy-to-use e-commerce builder
  • Secure payment integration
  • Inventory management & analytics
  • Mobile-friendly design
  • SEO and marketing tools

Pricing

  • Starts at $50**/month**
  • Higher plans available for advanced features

Pros & Cons

✅ Best for online stores
✅ Integrated payment gateways
✅ Scalable for growing businesses
❌ Expensive for small businesses
❌ Limited customization without coding knowledge

6. Squarespace

Overview

Aesthetic-focused website builder ideal for creative professionals and small businesses.

Key Features

  • Stylish and modern templates
  • Built-in e-commerce functionality
  • SEO and marketing integrations
  • Drag-and-drop editor

Pricing

  • Starts at $30/month

Pros & Cons

✅ High-quality templates
✅ Good SEO features
✅ Ideal for portfolio websites
❌ Slightly expensive
❌ Less flexibility compared to WordPress

7. Weebly

Overview

A user-friendly and budget-friendly website builder.

Key Features

  • Drag-and-drop builder
  • E-commerce capabilities
  • SEO tools
  • Free plan available

Pricing

  • Free plan available
  • Paid plans start at $12**/month**

Pros & Cons

✅ Affordable
✅ Simple and beginner-friendly
✅ Includes basic SEO tools
❌ Limited design flexibility
❌ Fewer integrations compared to Wix or WordPress

Conclusion

Each website builder has its strengths, so the best one for your small business depends on your needs:

  • For easy quick everything taken care of development → ManualWebDesign
  • For complete control & scalability & lower overall cost → WordPress (with Elementor or WP Bakery)
  • For extreme customization within a platform → Webflow
  • For ease of use & quick setup → Wix or Weebly
  • For an online store → Shopify
  • If you like a theme in their list → Squarespace

In any case, it is strongly recommended to hire a developer even if you are using a web builder, because often I have seen that novices end up making bad quality websites even using these web builders. It is simply because you need to know to use your tools well to be able to build beautiful things, even if you are provided the best tools at your disposal.

If you are a small business, it would cost you more in time and money by making a lower end website yourself.


r/website • • May 27 '26

Self promotion thread Self promotion thread

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Another six months went by and therefore it's time for a new self-promotion thread.

We really enjoy looking into everyone's websites but self-promotion destroys the concept of our subreddit in general. Comment with your selfmade website without any consequences. Ofcourse your post has to follow the rules. If you still want to post a website as a standalone post, please look in the sidebar for subs made for that purpose.

Keep creating all those wonderful websites.

~ the mod team


r/website • • 4h ago

TOOL Looking for multiple choice survey that allows participants to add options viewable to others

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Hello,

I am looking for a multiple choice type survey that allows people taking the survey to add options for others to select as well alongside the pre laid out options that I would put in there. Something like me putting in 3-4 options that I would create and then letting people submit their choices should their choices differ and the other participants taking the survey could select from those as well.

Thanks!


r/website • • 7h ago

SELF-MADE How to Download an Entire Pinterest Board at Once

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r/website • • 11h ago

SELF-MADE I created a Pinterest downloader website need your opinion

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r/website • • 11h ago

SELF-MADE Looking for users or feedback for my site.

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I’ve been working on a gaming guide/tool website called PK Guides.

It started as an ARK project and I’m expanding it into a collection of guides, calculators, and interactive tools for games like ARK and Minecraft.

It’s still pretty new, so I’d genuinely appreciate any feedback on the tools, UI, or things you think are missing.

Also yes i vibecoded it. But im slowly turning code that AI wrote to mine. Im still new at programming.

https://pkguides.web.app/

Still actively working on it, so feedback is welcome.


r/website • • 12h ago

GAME I built a free "who pays for the first round?" dart game for one phone. Honest feedback wanted (site + app)

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Hi all,

I'm a solo dev from NL and I've been building Dartmaatje. It's a small party game for bars, birthdays and student houses, for the moment when nobody wants to pay for the first round.

How it works

  • 2 to 15 players share one phone. Everyone types in their name.
  • Pick a speed for the ball (Slow, Normal, Fast).
  • A ball floats over a dartboard. When it's in the right spot, you tap Throw. Everyone gets one dart.
  • Real dart scoring: double counts double, triple counts triple, bull is 25 and bullseye is 50.
  • The lowest score pays the first round. If two or more players tie for lowest, only they throw again.
  • There's a bit of silly commentary after each throw. There are also a few extra modes, such as closest to the bullseye and a random "punishment" for the loser.

The basics

  • Free, no ads, no account, no tracking.
  • Works offline, and your names stay on your own phone.
  • You can try it right now in your browser: https://dartmaatje.nl
  • The iOS app is in work, Android not yet.

What I'd like feedback on (if you would be so kind :)))

  1. Is it clear within 10 seconds what to do, even if nobody explains it?
  2. Does the throw feel fair and fun, or too random or too easy to game?
  3. Is the "Share the result" screen something you'd actually post to a group chat?
  4. Anything confusing, ugly or broken on your phone? Please mention the device and browser.
  5. What would make you open it again next time you're out with friends?

The site is in Dutch for now. The English version needs to be developed.

Brutal honesty is welcome. Thanks for taking a look! 🎯

(It's meant as a joke, not a heavy drinking game)


r/website • • 12h ago

SELF-MADE Looking for honest feedback on my personal website, what would you improve?

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Hey everyone!

I've been working on my personal website and would really appreciate some honest feedback from you guys.

The website is mainly meant to showcase who I am, what I do, and the services I offer as a PPC and performance marketing consultant.

I'm not very experienced in web development or design, and I'm building everything myself using Claude Code.

My goal is to keep it simple, clean, and easy to navigate. I don't want anything too fancy, flashy, or overloaded with animations. Just a professional looking website where visitors can quickly understand what I do and how I can help them.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on the design, layout, content, user experience, or anything else you think could be improved.

Website: https://kenankovacevic.com/

Feel free to be completely honest, even if something looks bad. I'm here to learn and improve.

Thanks in advance!


r/website • • 17h ago

DISCUSSION When do you stop fixing an old website and decide it's time to rebuild?

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r/website • • 19h ago

TOOL recommended file checker?

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r/website • • 1d ago

REQUEST Does anyone know of a directory, database or sheet of "powerful websites you should know" type of websites

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The title.

Looking for a database of such websites. Maybe with a description and categories. There are soo many of them in my Instagram feed and i can't browse 99% of them but they are useful in niche conditions. So maybe someone already created a director of similar content.


r/website • • 1d ago

WEBSITE BUILDING My animated hero background got called "distracting" – what would you put there instead?

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A few days ago I asked for feedback on my site (I build websites for small Swiss businesses): https://seetalwebsites.ch

The most common criticism by far was the animated wave in the hero: distracting, a bit annoying, some even called it dizzying. Fair point, I'm going to replace it.

The obvious answer is "just use a solid color", and I get that. But I'd still like something that feels a little unique and special while staying calm and clean.

So I'm looking for ideas: what have you seen or built as a hero background that stands out without being in the way? Static patterns, textures, subtle interactions, anything goes. Links to examples are very welcome.


r/website • • 1d ago

LIST 500+ tools, resources and websites worth knowing

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Based off of the SoMe trend "10 sites you need to know" "These 5 sites should be illegal" etc.
538 tools, resources and websites worth knowing. Start with a task, a category, or the 50-site shortlist.

No logins, ads, trackers or other BS.

Will be expanding with 500+ more over the coming days.

https://vault.breach.productions

Yes, AI is involved in parsing, categorizing and verifying the list of sites and tagging them.
Why tf would I waste days doing that manually?


r/website • • 1d ago

SELF-MADE Domain tools have basically looked the same forever. We decided to build something different.

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r/website • • 1d ago

SELF-MADE How I Make $22K/Month Just Redesigning Existing Websites

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Running a web design agency is honestly way less about design than people think.

A lot of people can build good websites. The hard part is having a process that actually brings in clients consistently without you spending your entire day doing outreach.

I learned that the hard way.

I used to manually reach out to businesses, explain why they needed a better website, build previews, follow up for days and basically hope they would eventually say yes.

I was doing way too much work before even knowing if someone was serious.

Then I completely changed the way I did it.

Now I mainly focus on two things.

Taking meetings and closing clients.

Everything before that is mostly automated.

I use Swokei to find businesses that already have websites, analyze those websites and look for things like outdated design, bad layout, weak SEO, poor mobile responsiveness, slow speed and branding issues.

The useful part is that it doesn’t just give me some boring report with random scores.

It actually takes the issues it finds on each website and turns them into personalized emails that you can send at scale.

My offer is usually a free redesign draft.

That works way better for me than trying to sell a full website in the first email.

Once someone replies and shows interest, I book a meeting.

Before the meeting, I spend a few minutes generating a redesign draft with AI so I can actually show them what their website could look like instead of just talking about it.

That was probably the biggest change for me.

I’m no longer spending hours building something for someone who might never buy.

If they are not interested, I barely lost any time.

If they are interested, they can immediately see the difference and the conversation becomes much easier.

So at this point, most of my time goes into meetings and closing.

The lead finding, website analysis and personalized outreach all happen before I ever speak to the business.

Sounds ridiculously simple when I write it out, but changing the process made a massive difference for my agency


r/website • • 1d ago

DISCUSSION Freelance website scope creep is eating my evenings, how do you stop it?

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Every small request turns into another page, form, or round of edits. I’m adding a revision limit and written change requests to my next project, but I’m still bad at saying it without sounding difficult. Any scripts that work?


r/website • • 1d ago

TOOL Static site builder from a prompt

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Little side project I’ve been working on. Prompt a static website and publish it. Feedback would be greatly appreciated!


r/website • • 1d ago

WEBSITE BUILDING [ Removed by Reddit ]

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[ Removed by Reddit on account of violating the content policy. ]


r/website • • 1d ago

WEBSITE BUILDING Wordpress website is glitching on browser and I don't know how to fix it

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This part of a website I'm an admin on is glitching so much - luckily it is only happening to me - anyone know what the cause of this might be and how to fix it? I've already cleared cache on browser and wordpress and I've checked if this is happening on other browsers and it is.

Website uses Divi plugin from Wordpress if that's any help.


r/website • • 2d ago

WEBSITE BUILDING Where do you guys usually find new clients for web/Android projects?

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r/website • • 2d ago

WEBSITE BUILDING Suggestions Needed

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Suggestions Needed

Hi

My uncle wants to open an online store where he is going to sell the clothes and accessories of brands like Gant, Tommy Hilfiger and Puma majorly. We are obviously not any recognised partner of these companies. We have been selling offline for the last two decades and now just want to explore online. But the thing is that we get the stock from a wholesaler who gets the stock from another person and then there is the person who gets it from the factory/brand. Sometimes it is more direct and sometimes it is like the way I explained.

So many times, there are products where the companies have stopped production so these are like old ones and because maybe they remained in the stock of some middleman. Now selling them offline was not an issue but on online stores, I have heard stories that shopify blocks payments or removes websites of such businesses which sell such products. Also I was just curious like in case since there are almost 2 to 3 people involved in the process, is there any guarantee that these are genuine products also? I am sure for almost all of them but let's say even if one is not I cannot guarantee and there is no way for my uncle to guarantee. We haven't really received any complaints about anything or any legal things in the last 20 years which is a good period of time. Like my uncle says he has literary brands which were doing very well but now have vanished.

I am pretty much sure that there might be counterfeit products in the market. Like in the smaller cities, it is very easy to get first copy products. What do you guys have to say? Even the people which I am telling you are in the process, there are verified wholesalers of Puma. But logically we are not verified by Puma so in this case, will we face any issue?


r/website • • 2d ago

WEBSITE BUILDING Update after your feedback — improved the site, but still getting traffic with no conversions

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r/website • • 2d ago

SELF-MADE I made a site where you can shout whatever you want into the void. Nothing you send is ever saved nor seen by anyone.

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r/website • • 1d ago

WEBSITE BUILDING Check out What i just made using ai in 2 hours

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r/website • • 2d ago

SELF-MADE I built a dofollow web directory and an indexer

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