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  • I use moonfruit whilst the process was reasonably simple for me, i have never done anything like this before, it was time consuming and now 3 years on its been good for us but and its a big but.......
    The site is viewed completely differently on iPads and I phones to a windows computer as they use flash that mobile devices don't.

    I am not really happy about this and now looking to have a new site built from scratch.
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  • erniethemilk
    erniethemilk Posts: 268 Forumite
    edited 20 February 2014 at 3:49PM
    My husband does web design, I know through conversation cheap website builders aren't great. They will not work quite correctly on smart phones and tablets which is how many people view now and sometimes doing yourself can look a bit amateurish, and may not rank on google.

    However, he swears by WordPress and only builds websites on this which are very easy for people to maintain after.
    Just started comping - Wins - January 2011 - £10 sports Direct Voucher, Fru Tea bags, No7 Mascara
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  • Percy1983
    Percy1983 Posts: 5,244 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    My husband does web design, I know through conversation cheap website builders aren't great. They will not work quite correctly on smart phones and tablets which is how many people view now and sometimes doing yourself can look a bit amateurish, and may not rank on google.

    However, he swears by WordPress and only builds websites on this which are very easy for people to maintain after.

    I am a web designer by accident, as in a few people like my website and asked me to build them one, I am by no means an expert but I also stand by this with wordpress.

    The customisation possabilities are endless but basic mainenance and updates are simple.

    As above it will work on mobile devices out of the box, I have found with a few plugins etc there has been some tweaks or swaps needed but my sites all work on mobiles/tablets perfectly.
    Have my first business premises (+4th business) 01/11/2017
    Quit day job to run 3 businesses 08/02/2017
    Started third business 25/06/2016
    Son born 13/09/2015
    Started a second business 03/08/2013
    Officially the owner of my own business since 13/01/2012
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