When building a website, or commissioning us to build you a website, you might be wondering which is the best tool for the job.
Wix and GoDaddy are different tools, and each has advantages and disadvantages.
Wix
Advantages
- Has built-in forms, templates, e-commerce tools, and more.
- You can switch between editing for desktop and mobile.
- Animations are provided as part of the setup.
- There’s a wide variety of templates for different types of website, and they come with a members-only area.
- You can do a lot of customization on the free version.
- The SEO settings take you through what needs changing item by item.
Disadvantages
- The editing interface jumps around (especially when resizing a section).
- Cannot directly customize the underlying code.
- Options for styling the text and backgrounds are hard to find.
- Changing text styles doesn’t always carry across to other pages.
- The website is hosted in the USA.
GoDaddy
Advantages
- Has built-in e-commerce tools, and more.
- There’s a wide variety of templates for different types of website.
- Easy to use if you are not familiar with web tools.
- It is easy to change the site colours and theme template.
Disadvantages
- You cannot do a lot of customization of the templates.
- Cannot directly edit the underlying code.
- Options for adding alt text to images are hard to find.
- The SEO settings are not intuitive. Activating the SEO “automagically” inserts words and phrases into your web pages, and they don’t fit. It would be better if it took the keywords from your existing content and added them to your meta keywords without interfering with the content on the page.
- The website is hosted in the USA.
Wix, GoDaddy, and WordPress pretty much provide all the same features, so it is really just a matter of which user interface you prefer, whether you want to be able to access the underlying code, and whether you are worried about hosting your website outside Canada.
Check out our portfolio for examples of websites built with WordPress, Wix, and GoDaddy.
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