Website tip: which platform should you use?
There are so many website platforms out there that it’s mind-boggling to try to figure out which one to use!
Between Wordpress, Shopify, GoDaddy, Wix, Weebly, Squarespace… and the infinite others it seems like everyone and their grandma is trying to get you to sign up for their website platform.
I’ll start by going through the main ones I don’t recommend.
WordPress is highly customizable, and highly confusing, like a bag of 10,000 legos you got from Goodwill that you’re not sure if they actually go together, but if you’re tech-minded enough you might be able to make something great from those legos.
GoDaddy is primitive and bare bones, like apes using bare bones as tools. That’s all I got for GoDaddy.
Weebly was the first platform I used. It was ok, like a first date where you’re like, “well…it wasn’t horrible, it wasn’t terrific…it was so-so.”
Wix is the favorite of some designers, but left in the hands of business owners themselves it becomes as messy as a 4 year old’s drawing. “I love it honey, wow, my head is 10 times the size of my body. Is that me next to the…llama?…oh it’s a cat, of course it’s a cat!”
Here are the two I actually recommend.
Squarespace is made for service-based businesses and it gives you a balance of template features and customizable features. It’s hard to mess up and it pretty much always looks good.
Shopify is made for product-based businesses and gives you the ability to easily set up your whole store whether you have 20 or 200 products with beautiful template options.
Choose one of them.
