WebBuilders

In comm. 350 right now, we are discussing some of the different website builders such as Wix or Weebly.  Personally, I have used Weebly in Michael Karlberg’s media literacy class last quarter where my team members and I, found it fairly user friendly. However, this quarter I had a bit of a different experience. 

Firstly, when Jason Lind assigned our group websites, we played around with both website builders. Personally, I toyed around with Wix, and I am still kicking myself for not using this. Wix offers a lot of templates with a very diverse set of options to choose from. I felt that I could do several features in Wix which simply did not exist within the Weebly world. This includes, uploading an html or a table, moving pictures with text, moving images, and many more formatting complications.

My group used Weebly, and definitely learned the hard way that Wix would have been a better decision. I hope that through sharing this information on my blog, the followers will learn from this experience and avoid the tedious process of using weebly. 

These templates were found at Moonfruit.com, this website seems awesome and a lot like Wix with these templates.

I really appreciate how moonfruit.com included a blank page, with few functions which you could edit and format yourself. I feel that this website would be a very good web builder for future experience. 

Moonfruit template example

My final thoughts on using web builders and this emergent communication technology overall is that web builders offer a new context for communication but also require a level of knowledge regarding websites overall which complicate their overall goal. I feel that if you are a beginner, you are fairly limited with what web designers to use. However, there are sites such as moonfruit and wix which break it down for you and allow you to utilize their templates and make the overall process of creating a webpage much more user friendly. 

Bloggers, I highly advise you to play around with these sites before diving into a specific web design. They each offer different tools and formatting options which need to be considered prior to making the web design so be sure to use carefully. 

Good luck bloggers let me know what you find and how these web builders either work or don’t work for you. Thanks again for following me. Til next week bloggers!

 

Embedded to the left is a video intro to Webbuilders, this is also a great website it allows you to do more than edit a template. 
You can create your own website from scratch, domain name and all. It also allows you to import music and videos for free. 
Check it out!
Learn more at: Webbuilders.com

A Moonfruit YouTube video is attached to the left. Moonfruit is a web builder which includes several contemporary features of web design. 
The video outlines Moonfruits' features including many great templates. The site is user friendly and the video is a great introduction to Moonfruit web design. Trust me, its well worth your while to watch this video.
Learn more at Moonfruit.com