Webs, a great website builder

In today’s society of technology, most technologically savvy people find themselves either needing or wanting their own personal website. Some need it for business or group reasons and some want it for their own personal entertainment. For whatever the need, computer scientists have designed many varieties of website builders to fill this need.

Many people have probably heard of Dreamweaver, which costs quite a bit and should have some training to use, or a large selection of free but not nearly as customizable sites, for example Wetpaint. Other website builders are free but require a credit card number in case you wish to get the paid version later. All of them have pros and cons for balancing price over convenience and customizability. Webs has an efficient balance of it all.

Webs is a free website builder that you do not need to download. This is a huge plus because you do not need to take up space on your personal computer and you can also use it to change your website from any computer you log onto. Free software is of course wonderful, especially for college students and anyone else looking for a website just for fun.

Sign up page of Webs

Signing up is easy because it asks only for an email address, password, and information for the site creation. During this process there are helpful text boxes that guide you through in a timely manner and do most of the thinking for you. I particularly like that this makes it almost effortless to create the account, showing a great user friendly design.

After signing up and verifying the email address, Webs begins to show the new user how to create the pages they want on their website, add content, and make it look just right. There are a multitude of background templates to choose depending on style and color preferred. Pages for text, photos, videos, blogging, forums, calendar, contact, news, and members are offered to make the set up of these specific types easier.

Webs offers around thirty different applications and many more fun add-ons for the pages such as games and Facebook “like” buttons.  The applications do require a download but it is up to the user whether they wish to use this feature or not. Slightly more advanced users can add HTML code to the pages to create their own add-ons or specific looks not offered in the original customizations.

Gaining more followers to ones website in today’s world of mobile phones usually means it makes sense to have a mobile friendly version of the website. Not to worry, Webs has an option to create a mobile friendly version as well. That way users can log on to see a Webs created site from wherever they are.

Though Webs has all of these great features, it is still a free website. Nothing that is free is perfect, and Webs is not as perfectly customizable as some more advanced users would prefer.  The add on widgets are of course preset and layouts have many choices but limit the user from being truly unique. A Webs user cannot create their website completely from scratch as a Dreamweaver user can, but that suits many users who would prefer to use presets rather than designing all the minute details.

Overall Webs is an extremely user friendly and well made website builder. The creators of Webs can give themselves a pat on the back. It works well for any need in the range from fun to light business use and from beginning creators to moderately skilled creators. I would recommend anyone looking for free and easy website creation to use Webs. However, highly skilled users may be more interested in the more precisely customizable website builders such as Dreamweaver.

So, if Webs sounds like a fit for the website you need to build, go ahead and give it a try at Webs.com.