Which platform to choose?

Website development begins with thinking through the concept and structure. But technically, creating a website starts with buying a domain, choosing a hosting and platform (you can often hear words like engine or CMS).

Platforms for creating websites and landing pages

The choice of a platform for creating websites can influence many factors in the future:

• simplicity or possibility in principle of SEO promotion;

• Will it be your site 100%? Or will it belong to someone else?

• Will you be able to implement any of your ideas and tasks or will you always be limited by the capabilities of the platform?

• the cost of a landing or site.

Each platform for creating a website or landing page has its pros and cons. Let’s figure it out.

Website builders: Tilda, Webflow, Wix, Ucoz, etc.

Advantages of creating a site on the constructor:

• participation of programmers is not required;

• can be done on your own;

• it will be faster if you know how to work with these constructors;

• will be cheaper at the development stage;

• creating a site online already in the process of development allows you to see the result and you can correct everything that you don’t like;

• guaranteed clean code, the ability to add functionality, new pages;

• protection against viruses lies with the hosting company.

Cons of designers:

• hosting on the constructor is obligatory and costs more;

• the hoster binds you to itself and you will no longer be able to transfer the site to another platform and hosting;

• if you are thinking of complex functionality, you still need the help of programmers.

Create a website on a free engine (CMS: WordPress, Opencart, MODx, etc.)

Pros

• flexibility of systems allows to realize any tasks;

• the market has a sufficiently large number of qualified performers;

• hosting will not cost much and it is not tied to the CMS itself;

• no annual fee.

Minuses

• most of the improvements and modifications will require the involvement of programmers;

• Virus protection and plugin updates are up to you (the programmers).

Free website building platforms such as WordPress, Opencart, MODx are very popular today, both among freelancers and professional programmers all over the world.

Create a site on a paid Bitrix engine

Pros

• interfacing with 1C is built into the engine itself;

• the system is quite flexible and tuned to solve complex problems;

• There are many ready-made templates that allow you to speed up the development process.

Minuses

• annual payment for the engine itself, depending on the choice of package; quite expensive if you have a simple website or landing;

• the work of bitrix specialists is also not cheap.

Create a site on a self-written engine.

Pros

• you can create such an admin panel that suits you exactly for your tasks;

• You can implement absolutely any idea and task, no matter how difficult it is.

Minuses

• You are tied to one developer who created this site for you. And if he gets tired of working with you, and the site needs to be improved, you will have serious problems.

• you are entirely dependent on the qualifications of this programmer and his mood.

Program for creating websites with templates

In almost all of the above options (except for a self-written site), it is possible to create sites based on templates. On the one hand, this is convenient if you need to make a simple website or landing page in a couple of days and test a hypothesis. On the other hand, in most cases, a site template cannot solve all the problems of the customer and do it without crutches and compromises.

Almost any template requires further development by professional programmers.

Creation of sites on the Webflow platform from IC Invest

IC Invest developers work with many of these platforms. However, we prefer the flexible and professional Webflow platform. As a result of the synergy of the platform and professional programmers, you get a reliable, well-functioning product and a secure business.

One of our main specializations is working with construction companies and developers. We have ready-made, time-tested solutions. In addition to creating selling websites and landing pages, we can also visualize interiors and exteriors.

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