Best Website Builder Tools and Hosting for Small Businesses 2018

Here are the best website building and hosting tools for small businesses.

Wix

With tutorials galore available online for Wix, it is one of the easiest to use, and the easiest to advance your knowledge in. Wix is very user friendly, and with such a large user base, there are endless online communities who can help you to develop your skills and answer any questions you might have.

While there are other platforms that cater better to websites looking to sell products, Wix does include a range of ecommerce tools.

Squarespace

While it can't quite match Wix in terms of sheer usability and ease-of-use, Squarespace has emerged as the next best thing. Both of these tools use drag and drop interfaces in order to allow website designers to quickly and easily design and build a website with no prior coding knowledge.

Some people find Squarespace easier to use, or they prefer the aesthetic of the resultant websites. It is worth having a play with Squarespace though as it is probably the best tool for producing a professional aesthetic.

Weebly

Weebly is probably the fastest route from having no website at all to getting online and being available to visitors. In the site's editing mode, which uses a drag and drop interface like the others, you see your site exactly how it will appear live.

This is the best choice for those who don't need more advanced features, it is also excellent for showcase websites. A showcase website is like an online portfolio, it is the kind of website that a photographer or a filmmaker would have. Recently, the developers added a suite of business-focused features.

Of course, the above three website builders are just a small selection of the endless variety available, but they make for excellent starting points. As you gain knowledge and experience, you might find that there is another builder that is the best business website builder for you personally.

SiteGround

SiteGround deliver on the most important metric for a web host, reliability. They are more expensive than some other hosts, but you will get what you pay for. If you manage to sign up during one of their deals (69% off at the time of writing), you will definitely be getting one of the best value hosting services out there.

On the rare occasions that things do go wrong, their customer service team is helpful and responsive. In fact, they have been singled out more than once for setting the standard to which the rest of the industry should aspire to in this regard.

BlueHost

If you are looking to host a website you have built using WordPress, BlueHost is the host for you. They have earned their reputation as the best WordPress host out there. Given WordPress' versatility, it has found use as the foundation for business websites across a range of different industries and sectors. BlueHost's services are among the most feature packed and well supported out there, and at an easily affordable price.

Any small business looking to develop a website and get it online now has more options than ever before for every part of the process. You should experiment, try different tools, and work out which is the best for you.