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3 important reasons why you should never use Wix, Weebly or Squarespace to build your business website.

3 important reasons why you should never use Wix, Weebly or Squarespace to build your business website.

By Forward Web 14 January, 2016

 

3 important reasons why you should never use Wix, Weebly or Squarespace to build your business website.

 

This article is geared towards those who are looking to build their website themselves vs hiring a professional to build the website for them (a professional web developer should never use Wix, Weebly or Squarespace to build your website). With that being said, here are the three primary reasons why you should think twice before investing any time or money into the Wix, Weebly or Squarespace platforms (even when advertised as free).

 

Reason #1 (you will not own your website): When using Wix, Weebly or Sqaurespace, you are essentially leasing your website. In other-words, your business will never own your website. This is due to Wix, Weebly and Sqaurespace being proprietary website builders (closed source). This means your website will only exist as long as your service remains active with Wix, Weebly or Sqarespace (not good for your business). Owning your website and content (where you always have control) should always be of the utmost importance, do not lease your website.

 

Reason #2 (you cant move your website): When using Wix, Weebly or Sqaurespace, you have zero control over your web hosting platform. Although this might seem irrelevant to most beginners. Having control over your web hosting platform is crucial as your web hosting platform is how the rest of the world is able to access your web pages. If your web host is slow, encounters significant amounts of downtime or becomes unreliable (or best case scenario, you will need to scale into a more dedicated platform due to high traffic), you will want to change web hosts (or upgrade). With that being said, if you build your website with Wix, Weebly or Squarespace, you are stuck using their web hosting service (which only services the lower tier shared web hosting platform). If anything ever goes wrong (or you need to upgrade to a more dedicate platform), there will be nothing you can do about it (unless you want to lose your website and start over). The main point behind reason#2, plan ahead and do not restrict your web hosting options by building your website with Wix, Weebly or Squarespace. Learning this lesson the hard way can be very detrimental to your business.

 

Reason #3 (Your website is not fully customizable): Although initially this might not pose much of a problem (for most beginners). Once you get farther into the development and marketing of your website, being able to hire a professional web developer/programmer to add features or functions (or even being able to build/add some of these features yourself) is going to be essential. In otherwords, when using a proprietary website builder (closed source) like Wix, Weebly or Sqaurespace. You will be stuck using the tools provided by Wix, Weebly and Squarespace (which is not always ideal for your business). Once again, its always important to think ahead as using a closed source platform like Wix, Weebly or Sqaurespace will limit your ability to expand your website later on down the road (at least not without having to start over with a new platform).

 

In closing, at Forward Web we realize services like Wix, Weebly and Sqarespace can come off as attractive because they are easy to use (especially for the do it yourself-er). However if you are looking to dive into website development or do not want to spend money on hiring a professional, there are simply better (open source) options. Example: We recommend WordPress, the software is free (you own, not lease your website). There are thousands of attractive, mobile ready (responsive) free themes/templates for you to choose from (browse some of them here). You can host your website anywhere (Forward Web for example) and WordPress is fully customizable so you can expand on your websites functionality down the road (everything you need in a website builder).

 

Start building your website today with Forward Web using WordPress for only $79.95 per year! (includes your domain name, enterprise grade web hosting, courtesy email @yourdomain.com and courtesy WordPress support). Once you have installed WordPress (after setting up your web hosting account), your next step is finding a theme/template for your new website (a good starting point is browsing through the 2,000+ free templates WordPress currently has available for you to use). Remember, if you need help installing wordpress or your WordPress theme, simply let Forward Web know and we will help at no additional cost.

 

FORWARD WEB CORE

Meet our core team members.

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Fernando D. Alfaro

FOUNDER / LEAD DEV

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Fernando D. Alfaro

FOUNDER / LEAD DEV

Husband, Brother, Son, Friend, father to our son Amadeus and various fur-babies, oh and business owner/entrepreneur.

What I love most about what we do here at Forward Web is the problem solving component. The internet is always changing and everything can always be improved (which keeps things exciting for me). My goal here at Forward Web is to create the most efficient web platforms possible, empowering the end user to either spend less time on the internet or to solve some form of inefficiencies that exist within the business through the web (think automation, but not necessarily limited to automation).

I have a deep fascination with A.I (Artificial Intelligence) and decentralized platforms. However outside of the internet I enjoy listening to music, working on various side projects and boxing (yes, boxing).

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Julia Alfaro

Creative / Accounts

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Julia Alfaro

Creative / Accounts

Helping people has always been a passion of mine. People are interesting to me. In fact, I believe that everyone is like a book because we all have a story to tell. I gain great satisfaction in knowing that I am able to make someone’s day, life or business a little better, even if it’s just by sharing a smile or a little positivity.

I strive to be a professional woman, I take pride in that. I am very hardworking, kind, intelligent and ambitious. I am a dreamer; I have very high hopes, dreams and goals. I am talented, creative and funny, with a great imagination! I am not perfect, I accept that, but I do tend to be a perfectionist (that can sometimes be a good thing or a bad thing). But in reality, I am a work in progress and I am learning to live life one day at a time.

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Branden Tobin

Customer Relations

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Branden Tobin

Customer Relations

Branden spent 7 years in the gaming industry as a quality assurance specialist and product design consultant. After becoming a
customer at Forward Web in 2013 and experiencing the great services and company values first hand. When the opportunity came up to help improve client experiences at Forward Web, Branden did not hesitate to get involved. “My goal is to help people, and in terms of the web, Forward web is the best place for me to do that”.

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Ankur Kavathiya

Project Manager

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Ankur Kavathiya

Project Manager

With a vast knowledge in IOS/Android app development, as well as various web applications. My experience allows me to ensure projects at Forward Web are on-time, as well as meeting various Quality Assurance checks.

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Ramani Chintan

Back-End Dev

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Ramani Chintan

Back-End Dev

I have over 6 years experience in web development. With Forward Web I primarily work on back-end development which includes the customization of various CMS or Shopping Cart platforms like Magento where I am able to use my experience and knowledge in PHP, JQuery and other relevant languages.

When im not working on projects with Forward Web, I enjoy spending time with my lovely wife Nidhi, married on 3/13/2019

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Nevin Davis

Systems

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Nevin Davis

Systems

I have a degree  in Computer Science and Engineering. I’m a redhat certified engineer with 8 years of experience as a server administrator. I’ve been working with Forward Web for close to 4 years now and I am primarily responsible for the securing and optimization of our network as well as general management of our dedicated servers.

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Franny Kenney

Media Specialist

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Franny Kenney

Media Specialist

California’s Central Valley based photographer; Frances (Franny) Kenney completed her Associate degree in Photography at Modesto Junior College in 2017. She is currently pursuing her bachelor’s degree in photography at California State University Sacramento and is on track to graduate in May of 2021. Franny is a licensed commercial drone operator. She is highly motivated and has a strong work ethic. Over the past three years Franny has been working and volunteering as a lab technician at the photo lab on the Modesto Junior College campus.

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Brandon Miltsch

Advisor

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Brandon Miltsch

Advisor

During my 15+ year marketing and sales career, I have gained unique expertise and achieved significant accomplishments for leadership brands in the technology and communications industries.

With a solid Oracle track record with both the Social and Marketing Cloud – along with over 15 years of digital agency experience and a successful sales record at NTT/Verio – BrandON brings a strong mix of expertise and business development skills to the Oracle team. BrandON has also been thrilled to speak at several engagements monthly internally and externally, further illustrating his passion and desire for Oracle executives to optimize and promote their “personal brands”, teaching Social Media and Networking skills. Outside of work, Brandon enjoys spending time with his wife Christina and their 5-year old son, Riley. He is also excited to announce the release his new book, Networking on üBER Steroids.

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