CityMax - No option to add logo to pre-designed templates - No built-in image re-sizing - Overly salesy homepage - You’ll have to pay extra for certain add-ons - 50MB disk storage.
irun - Sub-standard support documentation and promotional tools - Still has a number of bugs and error messages - Must open a separate window to view your site - Hard to customize the templates, which they have few of compared to other builders - You get 10 email addresses free (extra ones cost $2.95 each with 4 MB disk space) - Monthly bandwidth limits. Extra disk space is $3.65/ 5 MB.
Homestead - Three different editors to learn (if you’re doing e-commerce) - Communications tools not well designed for business applications - Time-consuming when setting up more complicated pages - Homestead has many flashy editing tools for making fun personal sites, but lacks the professional features businesses seek. It allows a high level of design customization, but is hard to learn because it uses several editors - you can put up a simple calendar icon displaying a date, but there is no event calendar that allows you to show a business’s upcoming events - They also have a visitor chat room but no message board, which would have greater value for business websites - Monthly bandwidth limits - Integrated Shopping Cart is very basic and only uses PayPal.
GoDaddy - Go Daddy's builder is hard to use because it combines several kinds of software, each of which has a different way of doing things. It has a nice shopping cart though, and solid phone support (you'll need it!) - Online support documentation incomplete - Hard to customize to your businesses needs - Hard to get around the site while editing and adding text - You have to pay extra for the shopping cart - Monthly bandwidth limits.
ProStores - Look and feel of builder inconsistent and confusing - Just a storefront, limited customer-focused features - Additional transaction fees charged on items sold - Templates are outdated - Monthly bandwidth limits.
Moonfruit - No pre-designed templates or headers - Support documentation is limited - Not for full e-commerce sites - Moonfruit is the only builder that uses Flash technology. It's great for making fun sites with lots of animation, but has no business tools and no fully integrated shopping cart - Monthly bandwidth limits.
Vista.com - Click here for the reasons why we choose Vista's website builder.
Yahoo - Hard to learn – not user-friendly - No useful communication tools for businesses - Poor design (unless you know HTML) - Monthly bandwidth limits - Transaction fees are applied to each transaction processed through your online store.
