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website hosting and e-commerce
Posted by on 2024-02-06 at 12:42 PM
Fellow lightworkers, I’m researching information in order to establish a new website and social community presence. I did see however a previous posting that some of you use squarespace and wordpress. Would you say that one is better than the other as far as providing; blog, email automation, calendar scheduling, event hosting and e-commerce.
Also, did any of you pay for those coaching services which provide all the above plus coaching the coach services and do you consider it valuable, worth the investment?
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For webbuilders I think it’s more a matter of personal skill level and amount of time available to manage and launch the site to make that decision.
Every builder will have a learning curve, building a site on wix or squarespace is easier than wordpress (in my opinion) WordPress is more robust, but it’s more maintence. WordPress has a ton more options…but thats a lot to sort through if you’ve never worked with a site builder before.
Are you willing to run a staging or sandbox site to verify plugins work nicely together or that updates dont crash your site like you might need on wordpress? There are managed wordpress options that at take some of the updating workload from you (but if course it’s not free).
Are you needing a WYSIWYG builder or do you intend to do some of the coding yourself? Do you need something you can really scale up with or something more out of the box and ready to go once you add your details?
I would say almost every builder you might want to use has the capabilities you mentioned, but the time you have to learn, setup, and devote to managing the site is how i would make that decision.
Whichever builder you end up feeling will be most friendly for your situation. I would then watch youtube tutorials on basic setup, “how do i start a blog on squarespace” etc, and then just do stuff on that builder. I have set up or helped set up a variety of sites, and the biggest hurdle (again in my opinion) is just getting comfortable with the platform. You’ll know better what kind of help you need on a builder once you’re actually in it bopping around and seeing what’s confusing, what isn’t, and what you can find youtube or udemy tutorials for.
Start with a template, web-design is it’s own skillset, deisgn your site for mobile-first access, and good luck!
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Hey Shameron!
I use a company called Simvoly for my website builder and love it! I’ve been with this company for well over 10 years and it’s my favorite site builder. They offer a drag-n-drop interface, have an online storefront built in, a blog, a membership site, a scheduling app, email with automation, sales funnels and more.
They have a 14-day free trial if you want to test out their system. You can take a look at my website at http://www.quantumhealingwithin.com if you would like to see what a site built on that platform looks like. If you have any questions about Simvoly, feel free to reach out at [email protected].
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I have been building sites from a long time. My advice is to follow the advice by @heather-hink because wordpress is not very secure and difficult to maintain because of many different plugins to update and a quarter of all sites in the world are made with it, so black hat hackers begin by attacking the wordpress login page.
For me Wix does not look very professional.
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