Suggestions for a Free Website builder?

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I’m trying to make a free drag and drop website for a organization im apart of.

Im not using neocities cuz i dont want to be the only one that knows enough html to set the site up.

And im not using wix cuz that would cross the BDS picket line.

Anyone have any other suggestions for this?

My current frontrunners are wordpress and weebly.

Wordpress i remember having a bit of drama with its foundation and stuff, but otherwise they’re fine right? I havent had a wordpress in years, but it was fairly easy to use last i remember.

Weebly is so far down on the list, cuz this is a serious undertaking and i dont want our web page to be attached to the word “weebly”.

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Wordpress is having drama yes, but if this is for a professional or semi-professional thing it has the benefit that overtakes everything in tech: support.

Decades of documentation and plugins and stack overflow questions back Wordpress which makes it a very strong choice, IMO. I hate it personally, I find it slow as a CMS, but like. it’s The One, similar to Photoshop, if that makes sense.

You might also check out SquareSpace, but if it’s a site that’s being updated frequently, I’d maybe stay away from it. It’s better for static sites, not sure if it’s on the BDS picket line tho.

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Squarespace is out of the running anyway since it’s not free. We may get a budget for a few more internet bells and whistles later, but for now i assume anything related to this website is shoestring.

This makes perfect sense. Actually funny since im a GIMP user. But I’ll put wordpress at the top of the list.

I’ll probably throw some other stuff like weebly, squarespace, etc. into the rotation, but wordpress will likely be what we go with.

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I agree that WP is unfortunately the standard, but I also want to check in and see what this website needs to do, like is it just info for the org or is anything like ecommerce, donations, scheduling appts involved? bc that can add not only to the clunkiness but also sometimes to the price, depending on what plugins you have to get

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Yeah I hate to chime in with the obvious one but wordpress is probably the path of least resistance.

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Ehhh its mostly just an online billboard. It’ll likely just host updates on what we’re doing and give folks a way to find us online.

We think having a website will give us a hit more legitimacy. We’ll also have business cards to help give us a more official image.

Im a little tight lipped about the express purpose of the group since it’s related to collective organizing,

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Oh then yeah, WP would be fine. Honestly it might even be too robust for what you need, you might be able to get by with Carrd.co’s one-pager or Canva’s free website builder for something more lightweight and (at least in Carrd’s case) less clunky.

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Oh i forgot about carrd. I’m very opposed to canva in general,

why i dont like canva

Not for any major moral reason like a BDS boycott, i just hate their graphic design client.

But maybe I’ll see if i wanna be fair and include it in the lis of possible services. Thanks for the tips

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I expected your reason for disliking Canva to be SO much longer when I clicked on that dropdown

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I mean i couldve gone a bit longer, but i just wanted to use the detail as a footnote.

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shit i completely forgot about carrd, i think that may be a better option if you just need a landing page/online billboard type thing, very easy to make it look Nice + Functional imo

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tbf i also despise Canva and what it’s done to the self-created graphic design space so I totally get it, I was just trying to be fair bc like WordPress it’s also something I dislike but is the only game in the field that a lot of people know :sob: