WYSIWYG, or What You See Is What You Get website builders are fast, template-based options for getting a website up and running. The primary benefit of these types of online builders is the capability to build a professional looking website with no coding experience whatsoever. Content is inputted or added to a template and rearranged to the user’s liking and then published to the live web.

There are a number of free builders available like Wix or Weebly, but oftentimes these free builders come with a limited amount of support, advertisements on your webpage or other limitations. There are also paid versions of these free builders that grant more capability, more pages and/or remove advertisements. Alternatives to these free builders include Go Daddy’s Website Builder, which is a paid drag and drop solution.

There are a few things that need to be considered when looking at which builder to use: Pricing, Features, User Support, Advertisement, Storage, Bandwidth, Mobile Capability