Not only people who can't program and can't read the code with which websites are written but also those who can do it may need to open a site on the fly, effortlessly and quickly . Those who make professional sites probably already have predefined schemes and just fill them with new information but otherwise you have to resort to tools that allow you to create sites for free, quickly and easily .
Interfaces with WYSIWYG editors are those made available by some websites that present web apps capable of reproducing a visual editor where you just need to add, move, modify and eliminate the only elements that make up the web page .
So, those who have no idea how to make a website, can create it from scratch with guided and assisted procedures while those who know how to do them find a way to save time.
The reasons and purposes for which a person wants to create a website can be the most diverse; the main uses are the creation of a site to launch a promotional or marketing campaign, create a page with your online curriculum, present your work and professional activity with texts and photographs, create a commemorative page for a loved one who came to miss, create a page for a social event or a competition or a party or to write protests towards the government and the state!
It must be said that if you choose to use one of the following free services that will be the subject of this list, there is often the inconvenience of having some limitations which, sometimes it is the presence of external advertising that does not bring any gain, other times it is the impossibility of giving a proper domain name, other times there is still the difficulty of going out among the search results with Google and, finally, the risk of creating terrible graphics as if it were one of those pages MySpace, all colored where nothing is understood.
Having said this, we continue the list of the best websites to create 2.0 websites by citing 7 other online applications that are thus added to the previous 14 already seen in the past post.
1) DevHub is a web application to create sites for free without programming a single line of code.
First, you must register by pressing the big button in plain sight.
Basic information such as name, surname and a valid e-mail address must also be entered.
At this point you can choose the sub-domain of the pomhey.devhub.com type or, and this is important, to say that you want to use your own domain already purchased (read to know more about domain names)
The site that can be created is well structured, without too many design artifices but can be easily realized with a guided interface that works smoothly.
In the creation procedure you can choose the modules to be added, that is the single pieces that, together, can logically compose the whole site.
The particularity of DevHub is that of being able to insert advertising catalogs of both its products (in Ebay style) and other products and earn money on their actual sale.
In fact, among the modules there is the insertion of PPC banners (Pay per click) and affiliate programs.
This possibility I have no idea what yield it has and I don't think it works in an Italian market so for now I would take it only as a news report.
Beyond hypothetical earnings, however, you can draw the web page by dragging the modules and arranging them with the mouse on the layout .
Then you can choose the color scheme, insert logos, buttons, backgrounds and icons.
The part that really matters, is the feature of being able to add or edit the content of modules or widgets, without knowing anything about HTML or any other programming language.
In fact, each module can be modified as if you were making a presentation with Powerpoint.
2) BlueVoda is a program for creating sites, so easy to use that anyone with sufficient computer skills to create a FaceBook page and use MS Paint, can easily and quickly design their website for free.
The program is presented as an image editor that can be used only with the mouse where you just need to know how to resize the modules, how to enter written text, choose colors and add images, icons, logos or buttons. The download of the software is free, upon registration on the site with a valid email address.
Once this program is started, you are asked if you want to open an existing site or if you want to create a new web page.
On the editor, at first it seems to be wrapped in thousands of buttons but I can assure you that everything is very intuitive.
At the top there are all the basic web editing tools such as: text entry, the image to insert, the modification of the writing character, to create buttons and links to receive payments on PayPal. All of these are resizable and can be placed anywhere on the page.
So, for example, by clicking on the text insertion icon a small window appears on the page that you can move and make big with the mouse.
This technique can be applied to all the features to be included on the page, whether it be a photo, a game, a button, a video or a banner.
Going down the left side of the menu you can see more flashy and special functions, such as Windows Media Player, Quicktime, the Flash Player, the RSS feed button and the advertising banners.
To get a real idea of how things are, you can preview the new site in the internet browser and watch the preview.
When you have to link multiple pages together, you can open multiple editing tabs and put the links, via buttons or drop-down menus, to link the pages.
You can also create a basic look common to all pages, with only the title and menu bar.
To change the basic properties of the page, you can right-click on the background.
You can change colors, add an image as a background and scroll or scroll bars with customizable graphics and page transitions.
When the website creation work is finished, you can go to your already purchased web hosting to upload and publish all the pages, images, videos and other files used online without ever changing the name of the file (this is important otherwise the site is not known how to find them).
By clicking on the menu item 'View' in BlueVoda, select 'HTML page' and copy it all in the hosting's html editor by repeating this step for all the pages created.
If you do not have a web hosting, you can use a free one such as the free web hosting listed on another page, buy one on the VodaHost site which is the owner of BlueVoda and ensures maximum compatibility or use the advanced Webs editor. com which is the third free application presented on this list.
I remember that the best program to create sites from scratch is the Kompozer visual editor, easy to use, more powerful but more complex than BLueVoda.
3) Webs is an online service to create websites quickly and easily, from scratch, for free, without programming and without any need for computer skills or webmaster experience.
Here too there is a graphic editor that guides the user in building the site by drawing it as if it were a powerpoint slide.
The background is then chosen from over 300 models made available for the layout and divided into different categories, each distinct from another for the purpose of the site.
You can thus have serious and professional graphics, a videogame style, templates for educational, sporting, cooking and recipes sites, technical informatics, commercial presentation and so on.
The Page Editor allows you to add new pages and insert text, images, photos, videos, and custom widgets with copy and paste of html code taken from other sites.
The advanced editor also allows you to upload your own project on Free Webs already created with programs such as BlueVoda or NVU.
4) Webnode is a web apps that offers a free tool for making websites and helping novice web designers get a modern website online in minutes .
Once registered to a Webnode account, you are asked to choose the title and slogan for the new site, then select a graphic model and you can start adding content made of text, images, videos and buttons.
Webnode uses a module system that allows you to drag individual areas of content to draw the layout.
Among the modules there are also surveys, the creation of forums and photo galleries, the tool to receive offers or payments from PayPal and to integrate the site with Flickr, YouTube and Google Maps.
Among the best qualities is the absence of external advertising, the ability to put your own domain name and the availability of traffic statistics.
5) Squidoo is one of the most popular instant creation web services because it allows you to earn real money from the use of your website.
The platform is similar to that for creating a blog and each page is an article on which, however, you can also add new modules including those for proposing the sale of items on Ebay or Amazon.
The potential for creating modern content and graphics with Squidoo is very good and the editor is very easy to use.
It is important to note a couple of things on the Squidoo web page: first, it is not even a subdomain, you only get a subdirectory on Squidoo.com (like squiddo.com/pomhey) and then each page takes the title of the article with the word Squidoo in front.
I don't like it and in my opinion you don't earn much at least in Italy.
To summarize now, given the many alternatives, one might ask which is the best solution since, if everyone wanted to try, it would take a lot of time.
I have not had the opportunity to deepen the knowledge of all the 20 tested web applications but I can point out that, in my view, the best platforms are : BlueVoda seen above, Weebly, Yola and Jimdo seen in the other list of sites, Wix to have sites with flash animation.
So much depends on the use you intend to make and the purpose you propose.
If you have questions, absolute freedom, in return I ask you if you have already used one of these web apps, which one do you think you will use for a future as a site designer and which one do you prefer or have found better.
