Ultimate Website Builder Comparison 2024 | Find the BEST One for You + Why I Hated Squarespace
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- Опубліковано 3 чер 2024
- There are SO many options to make a website these days. Today, let's take a look at some of the most popular and less known ways of making a website - something that might work for everyone!! I also throw in some free options because saving money is fun :)
I've been designing websites for 8 years now and my personal fav is Webflow! I also spill a lil tea about why I don't like Squarespace lmao
0:00 - 0:46 website builder?!
0:47 - 1:30 pros of Squarespace
1:31 - 1:48 cons of Squarespace
1:49 - 2:13 who Squarespace is for
2:14 - 3:28 my experience using Squarespace (not hatin)
3:29 - 4:34 pros of Wix
4:35 - 4:50 cons of Wix
4:51 - 5:07 who Wix is for
5:08 - 5:44 mobile version + why it's important
5:45 - 6:05 my experience using Wix
6:06 - 7:29 pros of Shopify
7:30 - 7:41 cons of Shopify
7:42 - 8:03 who Shopify is perfect for
8:04 - 8:44 my experience using Shopify
8:45 - 9:25 pros of Webflow
9:26 - 10:05 cons of Webflow
10:06 - 10:29 who Webflow is for
10:30 - 11:17 how to start using Webflow (for newbies)
11:18 - 11:56 my experience using Webflow
11:57 - 12:35 pros of Cargo Collective
12:36 - 12:48 cons of Cargo Collective
12:49 - 13:24 who Cargo is for
13:25 - 14:33 pros of ReadyMag
14:34 - 14:39 cons of ReadyMag
14:40 - 14:58 who ReadyMag is for
14:59 - 15:05 my experience using ReadyMag
15:06 - 15:44 alternate options 1 - Notion
15:45 - 16:35 alternate options 2 - Adobe Portfolio
16:36 - 17:09 tbh about Squarespace
17:10 - 17:34 alternate options 3 - Figma
17:35 - 18:29 alternate options 4 - Heroku
18:30 - 18:51 what i would do
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LINKS ♥️
○ How I made my unique, stunning website with Webflow webflow.grsm.io/so
○ My 2nd brain, best productive tool notion.grsm.io/5bhs06l2niw2
○ Get 3 months free Mint Mobile phone plan fbuy.me/ujHxe
○ Get your free FAANG stock share.public.com/sophiecheung
○ Coffee subscription I drink everyday bit.ly/3AWImo8
○ Only brand of non-toxic, vegan makeup I use: fbuy.io/ilia/fqcf98q6
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WHAT’S ON MY DESK 💻
My computer
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Need this laptop stand for working 24/7
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My editing monitor (best for Macs)
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Cannot live with this TINY harddrive
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Best tool for every designer
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FAQ
📌What do you do?
I'm a designer working in Silicon Valley
📌Why is your accent weird?
I moved a lot! I grew up in England, then moved back to Hong Kong and then moved to America!
📌What ethnicity are you?
I’m Chinese! I speak Cantonese, Mandarin and English
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You obviously put a lot of time and effort into this. Well researched and presented. Your energy made me watch until the end. Thank you.
thanks for watching John! really appreciate your feedback :)
10 years of experience here and you told nothing but truths and facts! Great video!
wow, thank you so much Emmy! hope you found it useful!
Wow. This video was so comprehensive and helpful. Thank you so much!
this was so eloquently put and full of useful information. thank you for putting this together. you have a wonderful vibe as well !
You're so welcome! I hope this helped and please share it with someone who might need this info :)
Amazing content. Thank you so much for sharing! I’ll go and try notion now 😁
This is so detailed and mentions options I haven't heard of elsewhere. Thank you so much!
anytime! :)
That's gotta be the most elaborate video I have seen, very Clear explanation and the pro/cons list is very helpful. Thank you!
thanks for watching! so glad it was helpful to you :)
Congrats on the video! Very helpful, full of information and not afraid to show some opinions. Keep it up!
glad it helped you Eduardo! i'd appreciate it if you could send the video to a friend who might need it! 😊
You're a great presenter. Full of energy and enthusiasm. Pleasant to watch and listen.
thank you brendon! hope it was useful
Your video has been very comprehensive with graphic of pros and cons per builder. Thank you for this!
so happy it helped you!
I have watched so many of these videos now and this is honestly the best one out there, well done! Such a brilliantly comprehensive yet also somehow concise rundown of the options out there and I’m so glad you mentioned the Adobe one as I wasn’t even aware of that! Will be checking that out first, then notion
thanks for watching it all the way through! I hope you find an option that works for you :)
@@SophieCheung Adobe portfolio is actually perfect for me right now just to fling photos together in one place and provide some simple organised restraints for this creative scatter brain 🤪 thanks again Sophie, wouldn’t have even considered this before seeing your video
Just the breakdown I was looking for, thank you! Appreciate your thoughts and perspective on these
Glad it was helpful!
I love your enthusiasm about web design!
Very comprehensive content, complete with tips, suggestions and your own opinion for different situations. Great work!
Glad it was helpful!
As an artist and Studio Art BFA student, this was tremendously helpful, thank you for taking the time to do the research for us! Cargo ended up being the design language I was looking for, thank you so much!
You're very welcome! 😃
Yeah, you deserve over 1 million subscribers. Thank you for comprehensive video and great video editing too. Coming from a production mind, I was engaged for 20 minutes, and that's hard for me. I wish I could just pay you to build a great website for me. Thank you again!
I appreciate this video so much! I'm on my ReadyMag journey now and think its amazing what you can do with that platform! all the best!
You're so welcome!
Thank you so much! I appreciate the detailed explanation of all the different options. I am really just looking for something for a portfolio and I already use adobe so adobe portfolio sounds great for me as a free option! Appreciate you saving me some money on this one!
Glad it was helpful!
This is really useful and in-depth. Thanks so much!
glad you found it useful!!
Wow, thank you so much! Cargo is just what I was searching for, I believe. I can’t stand seeing all those basic Website themes that either try to look like squarespace or ARE squarespace haha
Great video :)
right??? squarespace is so repetitive haha, enjoy playing around with Cargo!
Thank you so much! It is a great overview 🎉
I was reading your FAQ. Just wanted to say that your accent is not weird. It is awesome! Such a musical, mellifluous cadence!
that's so kind of you, i really appreciate that! thank you :)
Great video with valuable insights! Saved me tonnes of time. Thanks!
glad it helped you bakri! good luck with your website!
very informative Ive only been designing websites a few years and ALOT of the builders i didn't ever hear of ..thanks so much !!!
Glad it was helpful! Let me know what else I can help you with!
I’ve heard of most of these but this is still an awesome video to come back to and reference. This was such an awesome video!!!!
thank you so much ♥️♥️
@@SophieCheung yes but thank you!!!!!
Thanks for the insights Sophie!
Thank you! Was not aware of these other options beyond Wix/Squarespace.
Anytime!
Thank you so much for providing more options for websites, this has helped me greatly.
i'm so glad! :)
Very informative! Thank you!
thanks so much for watching :)
Thank you for sharing Sophie. I am looking to make a different site for my photography business and you have helped me with your information and suggestions.
so glad i was able to help!
So I have been searching for weeks trying to find the best website builder and thanks to you, I realize that webflow is the best option for me. I have been learning to build websites for 4 years now and I really love learning how to code and adding my own style as well. Thank you for your honest opinion about all of these website builders! I appreciate it, and I just subscribed to your channel to learn more insightful knowledge on web design!
1000% agree that webflow sounds like a good option for you!!
Which one are you using or if you've used a variety which would you say is the top 5?
this was the best video about comparison between website builders. have watched many of them recently, as i am starting a business. thank you!
Glad it was helpful! good luck with your business! :)
@@SophieCheung thank you! i ended up with readymag bc of your review. we will see how it goes.
This was suuuuper helpful! Thank you so much!
anytime! :)
This was so good to listen to. Been looking for a video just like this for a while
glad it helped!!
Thank you for putting so much effort into this video. It was exactly what I needed.
anytime neg!
thank you so so much for this video! incredibly useful! ❤️
Glad it was helpful!
Love the pace and detail! Subscribed. Webflow vs EditorX comparison please :)
thank you for the sub C!!
Editor X is better by far.
This was really helpful . Thank you ❤
Glad it was helpful! ❤❤❤❤
Very informative video! Thank you
Glad it was helpful!
Excellent. Thanks for your sharing!
Thanks for listening!
i try to learnig webflow it's very hardest but it's incredible, thank you for share your culture :)
Hi Sophie, absolutely love your voice and videos, new subscriber. Really appreciate your thorough and genuine content. You stand out of the crowd that offer little and are time wasting. Much love.
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thank you for your kind words jen ♥️♥️🥹
Fabulous explanations, Sophie. This is really helpful. Thanks.
glad it helped you alexa :)
Hello Sophie, this was very useful and fully informative. Great work. Although I have been building and designing websites for over twenty years, I still learned one or two new things here with you. The only thing I would change about this video is the classical piano background music..... 😆
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you Sophie! this Video helps me alot!
yay! good luck nina!
Great video!! Thank you so much, I am a design student who gets asked to build websites for friends or low budget clients increasingly and I want to learn how to use a website builder for those now. I have never heard of readymag before and now that’s were I think I’m gonna start! You helped me with that, so thank you so much! ❤ Kinda wish you had a tutorial on that one now though! 😅 Just in case you need content inspiration… 😜
Really cool video!
This was amazing! Thank you so so much!!!
Glad it helped!
Very well explained. Great!
thanks for watching!
This is so helpful thank you!!
you're welcome! 🤍
Really useful video! Just one thing to point out, there are Design Professions, like UX Design or Industrial Design where you need a more complex way to interact with the website to fully showcase your work. So it isn`t just to make it look more professional, it is also important to make more tangible.
Such a helpful video, I can't stress this enough
So glad it helped :)
great video! thank you for mentioning us, Sophie
you guys have built a great product :)
Exactly what I needed! Thanks! :)
glad it was helpful :)
This was so thorough and helpful. Any thoughts on Semplice?
I would love to see a similar video more focused on SEO and E-commerce. I am hesitant to do Shopify....
Great job on this! I hope u have more 100k vids here soon!! 😇
thank you! ♥️♥️
Thank you for the meaningful video. Just what I was looking for.
Glad it was helpful! Hana!
your story is very inspirational and i enjoy the work, thanks for the detailed review video
you're so kind :) good luck!
This was SUPER helpful! I'm actually a Squarespace fan and will still use it, but I ALWAYS like looking at counterarguments because of the fees and the lack of flexibility (I'm leaning how to code and have been for a year now...slowly getting better, so I completely understand why someone would not prefer Squarespace). Thanks for being so objective and clear with this info! I learned a lot!!!
really glad it was able to help you! i do think squarespace has improved a lot over the years, and squarespace is perfect for a certain type of user like yourself, natasha :)
Thank you for making this video, such good info and experience here! Really saved me a lot of time and Thank God I don't have to go through a squarespace arc.
thank you for watching! I really appreciate your comment :)
Great job on this video, it was really informative.
thank you :) glad it helped!
Wow and a million thanks. I was going to choose Squarespace, and move from Duda because of the marketing I've heard you mention. All your insights really help to take time and think differently.
Glad it was helpful!
I as well want to go from duda do squarespace, I am not happy with duda at the moment. Squarespace looks so much cleaner and the animations are better
Great video -- thanks! I think I am going to try readymag :)
yay! hope it works out :)
Thank you! It was helpful!
So glad it was helpful!
Sophie you're so underrated! You kill! It's such a good video! Best in that niche I guess (picking a website builder, talking from your hands-on experience). I keep coming back to that video all the time! And that's not because I'm a creep - I'm just too big of a procrastinator :) watch this instead of actually rolling up my sleeves and start with ANY website builder :D Anyways, thanks for r/m recommendation, i guess i wouldn't sign up to it if it wasn't because of you (go straight to them show the comment section and ask for sponsorship lol)
thank you! glad the video helped you :)
Amazing video thank you for doing all the research and saving me so much time!
Happy to help!
this is so insanely helpful thank you!!!!
Glad it was helpful! :)
This is seriously the most helpful video on this topic I've ever watched
i really appreciate your comment Alex! let me know if there's anything else i can help with
Thank you so much for your video, it was immensely useful! I was wondering if you know what website builder is best for building a directory website? (business companies can list on there with automation, sort/ filter by categories etc) Thanks in advance!
Thank you!! I agree with your point of view about Squarespace.
Thank you for watching 😊
Very valuable video! Grazie! :)
anytime!
Thank you. Excellent!
thanks for watching scott!
Great video 👏👏👏
thank you!!
Building a semi-simple real estate website without using any IDX plugins. I'm thinking Wordpress as I've used it before, but Square Space and Wix sound interesting. Will have to watch more vids. Thanks
Great video! Thank you. I'm going to try to build my friend a website for her small business in a salon where she works independently.
thanks for watching Shaneen! you're such a wonderful friend, she's lucky to have you!
Great video!
thanks jessica!
nice nice. thx. that fuji box in bg a bit distracting hehe
Excellent. Thank you.
anytime!!
ur energy makes my soul feel alive omg
Ahahaha ❤️
Hands down best video on website builders. ✌
You rock Sophie!
Vid is original, smart, insightful and fun. 😁
So many of these types of videos are generic.
(Not yours)
appreciate your support! thank you :)
That was great❤ I liked it.
Glad you liked it!!
Thanks for the tip! Curious - do you edit your own videos?
Thanks a lot really great support !
my pleasure :)
I could watch your videos all day ❤
Great breakdown
This is the video I was looking for, I'm currently planning to design my own personal website design for my portfolio as a designer and I was wondering which platform I should choose, so thank you! It was an excellent explanation, nice and fun to watch 🥰.
thanks Marine!
what did you choose then?
Which platform will you choose? Ive dabbled in a few here 😮
Im also here because im planning on putting out my industrial design portfolio works , currently considering FRAMER since its making the motion graphics easier to plug in for me
Great video, would have been even better if the pricing options were included in it :)
thanks for the feedback! :)
Absolutely love this comparison!! Your energy is great! I’m interested to know if you have heard of DUDA for white labeling a web design agency? I am actually curious to compare it with webflow! Ty again for the information!
You really gave a lot of great options. I'm new to all this and am not tech savvy. I'm looking for something that is easy to use and already has appointment and ready payment service included. I do want something that won't have my clients waiting for the page to load and something where I can update easily. What do you recommend? Thank you ahead of time.
FANTASTIC! Thank you
Glad you liked it!
@@SophieCheung Hello Again, Do you have a portfolio? We are looking for a web designer for our new website. Thanks!
@@SophieCheung Hello Again, Do you have a portfolio? We are looking for a web designer for our new website. Thanks!
@@SophieCheung Hello Again, Do you have a portfolio? We are looking for a web designer for our new website. Thanks!
Quality Upload!
i'm just starting an affiliate marketing business and this a great run-down of so many platforms i didn't know about for creating the website
glad this helped you :)
Thank you so much for this !
you're welcome :)
Im a graphic designer and I definitely fell into the squarespace marketing trap. Glad I found your video cuz I hate Squarespace 😂😂
ahahhah i'm so glad it helped you :))
thanks so much!
Well done on content . Well done .
But using classes cal music in the background: hats off. ❤
thanks for watching!
Great content thank you. As an absolute noob I think Wix is where I will start and learn SEO
that sounds like a good idea for you!
So good. Trying to build a photography portfolio website where I can sell photos. So many options.
there's definitely a lot of options!