It’s quite a lot of work to build and design a functioning and an impressive website irrespective of whether you’re an amateur or specialist.

Today, there’s provision for several tools developed to simplify website creation. As great as they are, it’s unfortunate that a singular tool cannot meet everyone’s demands. In this article, we shall discuss few popular website building tools with their merits and demerits.

Squarespace
This tool is incredibly easy to use and has well-developed default templates that can be personalized to achieve your design. You don’t necessarily have to be knowledgeable in coding to gain an impressive look with this tool. With a little modification, you are on. Expert coders get leverage with their knowledge. The tool is great and keeps your website online irrespective of the traffic increase.

Merits

• Anyone whether expert or novice can make use of it. It is designed to teach you how to use it on your first login.
• Following the selection of a basic design, visual modification tools are provided which also gives immediate feedback.
• Squarespace offers lots of beautiful templates that it may be difficult to make a choice.

WordPress
For a long time now, this has being the choice of many web developers, bloggers and companies. It’s just about nine years old but possesses a versatile and powerful web building platform. With WordPress, a lot can be done with or without coding ability.

Merits

• Word Press is an open source project and possesses lots of user base as well as the developer community. It is very simple to use, and for the things it can’t do, pluggings are made available. There are lots of site templates from which you can choose from. Some are free while you be required to buy some.
• Almost everything has an alternative, and if you can code, you may create personalized plugins as well as themes.

Tumblr
This is a platform for micro-blogging. It was built to host series of short posts as well as to build a website. Although there are limited options but coding is not required. You have the opportunity to join a very big community.

Merits

• With Tumblr, you have the opportunity to put up your post online very fast. After signing up, you simply select a template to post on your website. Your posts simply come online on your site. Other users of Tumblr are also able to re-blog your posts easily.
• Other users who subscribe can see your new posts via new reader application, and as others re-blog, several other people can see your work.
• Tumblr enables the creation of static pages if you desire that more than a mere blog.