Best 5 Free Website Builders To Build Professional Websites In 2017

Bhanu Kushwah
Apr 11, 2017
3 min read

Best Free Website Builders of 2017. In this Post we listed the advanced and trusted free website builders software that help you to develop free website. Current time there are a lot of different free website builders and it’s not so easy task to understand this which is best. Each website builder strive to be better than the others – to be more comfortable, more powerful, more functions. In fact not all web builders are equally good. We've done research of free website builders, We found some advantages and disadvantages, and according to this we’ve created the current ratings. For rating of website selection criteria we took into account - ,features, functionality and usability of visual editor, presence of drag&drop editor, number of free web templates and their quality, special options like SEO friendliness, possibility to upload your own layouts and much more. And all selected by us website builders allow to create free sites without any special skills in programming, HTML or web design.

1. Wix

Wix was founded in 2006 by Israelis Avishai Abrahami, Nadav Abrahami and Giora Kaplan. In 2017 Wix has more than 100 million users across the world. Wix is one of the best free website builder and the most popular for free website building.

Key Features -

~ Wix specializes on search engine friendly HTML5 website.

~ It is very easy to use and having advanced drag and drop website editor.

~ Wix SEO wiz tool are very helpful to optimize website.

~ Wix provide so many free tools to create awesome site.

~ Wix provide more collection of professional and stunning templates for free.

~ Wix also provide free web hosting and free domain name with wix

sub - domain, limited to 500MB storage space and 1GB bandwidth.

2. Weebly

David Rusenko, Chris Fanini, and Dan Veltri co-founded Weebly in 2006. Weebly is also a great free website builder. Weebly has more than 50 million users.

Key Features

~ Weebly has fewer templates and their designs are more basic.

~ They do allow you to switch templates and edit HTML/CSS codes (if you know how to).

~ The newer templates are mobile responsive.

~ Weebly also having drag and drop features. ~ Weebly also provide free web hosting and domain names.

~ Weebly provide 500 MB storage for free users.

3. Squarespace

Squarespace was founded in 2003 and launched in January 2004. Squarespace is a SaaS-based content management system-integrated website builder, blogging platform, hosting service and domain name registrar.

Key Features

~ Beautiful, designer - quality templates that will make your website standout and mobile responsive.

~ Great features and style option to customize designs.

~ Just drag and drop features of website are pretty easy and

straightforward.

~ Squarespaces helps through live chat, 1-hour email response and

comprehensive tutorials and video workshops.

~ Squarespace's SEO is slightly better than other drag and drop website

builders.

4. Jimdo

Jimdo was founded in February 2007 by Matthias Henze, Christian Springub, and Fridtjof Detzner. Jimdo is a web hosting service. Jimdo offers JimdoFree, a free web hosting service.

Key Features

~ Jimdo offers free good looking templates. ~ Optimizing your website for search engines is one of Jimdo’s big

strengths. ~ The editor is made for complete beginners. Adding and editing elements

can be done with a few clicks. ~ If you were to encounter any troubles whilst using the service I can safely say that you would be in good hands, built into the editor is an intelligent feature that recognizes when a user gets stuck, which then offers custom tips on how to overcome problems and move forward with the site. ~ Jimdo provide 500 MB storage for free users.

5. Webs

Webs was founded in 2001 as Freewebs just after the dot-com bubble. Webs is good website builder.