Board 8 > Best websites for creating... websites?

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I need to start blogging again and I'm curious if the landscape has changed at all when it comes to website builders. I used Squarespace back in the day and while it was a little expensive, it was really easy to use and allowed me to spend more time writing than making sure everything looked good.

Right now I'm looking at Squarespace, Wix and Wordpress and I can't say I'm noticing much of a difference between any of them. They all have decent templates (though very few suitable for the type of blog I have in mind) that look clean and modern so I'm more curious about the inner workings of each. Are they all basically drag and drop now, allowing you to resize and move elements around as you please? Easy integration of SoundCloud widgets, Twitter functionality so you can tweet new posts/updates and all that jazz?

From what I remember of the argument, Squarespace (and from what I've seen, Wix looks similar) offers much less customization with a greater ease-of-use while WordPress lets you do basically anything you want but has a bit of a learning curve. I'll likely register my domain through Hover, but will require hosting with unlimited bandwidth/storage which I think everyone offers in some form...

Basically, I just want to use whatever tools will allow me to spend the least amount possible on maintaining the site, price isn't much of a factor.
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I'm actually curious about this too, albeit for somewhat different reasons.

So here's hoping that someone has a good handle on these things.
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You basically hit the nail on the head.

If you have some experience with web design I would suggest Wordpress but if not then I'd go with Squarespace, personally.

Wordpress really doesn't take that long to learn but if you're doing it for the first time it can be kind of frustrating. Unless you're doing something really unconventional, Squarespace should fit your needs otherwise.

I've never used Wix.

Geocities.

...ok for real, probably WordPress? It's also just a useful skill to learn.
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WordPress is easy enough to learn if you don't want anything too weird.
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Surskit posted...

Geocities.

lol
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Wix has a commercial with two dudes I don't know making a website and it looked SUPER easy.
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This reminds me that I should check out my Angelfire website.
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i have made a bunch of websites on basically all platforms

there are aspects of wordpress that are clunky and archaic, but it is still the most widely-supported platform and has the most customization options and stuff like that, but the other two are more focused on beginners

i launched destination android ( http://www.destinationandroid.com/ ) last year and i'm on wordpress
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MSN Groups
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digiiiiiiiii posted...

i have made a bunch of websites on basically all platforms

there are aspects of wordpress that are clunky and archaic, but it is still the most widely-supported platform and has the most customization options and stuff like that, but the other two are more focused on beginners

i launched destination android ( http://www.destinationandroid.com/ ) last year and i'm on wordpress

Yeah, I'm just curious how long it would take to put something like this together as a first time user. Your theme/layout is pretty similar to something I would consider using, as it's focused on the writing rather than images. I know using SS I could basically change a colour scheme and start typing content right away... was there any extra work you had to do in order to get the site to look like that, or was it just working from a theme that already existed? Also curious if that was a free or premium theme.
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Surskit posted...

Geocities.

Neocities.
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Between Life and Games is on WordPress so I say use Squarespace

idk anything about this stuff
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Solioxrz362 posted...

Between Life and Games is on WordPress so I say use Squarespace

I can't see anyone making a better argument than this.
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thundersheep posted...

digiiiiiiiii posted...

i have made a bunch of websites on basically all platforms

there are aspects of wordpress that are clunky and archaic, but it is still the most widely-supported platform and has the most customization options and stuff like that, but the other two are more focused on beginners

i launched destination android ( http://www.destinationandroid.com/ ) last year and i'm on wordpress

Yeah, I'm just curious how long it would take to put something like this together as a first time user. Your theme/layout is pretty similar to something I would consider using, as it's focused on the writing rather than images. I know using SS I could basically change a colour scheme and start typing content right away... was there any extra work you had to do in order to get the site to look like that, or was it just working from a theme that already existed? Also curious if that was a free or premium theme.

mine is fairly customized, and it is a premium theme. but wordpress has a lot of free stuff.

honestly if you just want to get something quick off the ground, all three are pretty easy and all three should have some manner of importing your site to the other platforms if you're not satisfied.
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angelfire
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Lycos
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