How accessible are website builder templates, really
Contrast, focus order, headings and forms tested on stock templates. Which platforms start you close to compliant and which start you behind.
Topic
Reviews
10 articles.
Ghost review: a publishing tool that pretends to be a website builder
Ghost is very good at posts, newsletters and paid subscriptions, and mediocre at everything a marketing site needs. Where that split matters.
Notion Sites review: publishing a workspace is not the same as having a website
Notion can put a page on the internet. What it still cannot do about design, speed and search, and the projects that survive the compromise.
Page speed across seven builders, same page, same connection
What each builder adds before you write a word, why one Lighthouse score never holds still, and how much of that weight you can remove.
Free website builders: what the free tier is really for
Every free plan is a demo with a specific thing withheld. Which restriction each platform picks, and the two cases where free is genuinely enough.
Framer review: fast to build, opinionated about what a website is
Framer is the quickest route to a good-looking marketing site, with a CMS that is deliberately shallow. Where that trade lands well.
Carrd review: one page, almost no opinions, very little money
Carrd is the cheapest serious way to put one page online. What the low price costs you in structure, support and everything after launch.
Webflow review: a design tool that happens to publish websites
Webflow gives you real CSS control and a real CMS, and charges for both in time. Who should learn it and who will never finish the first project.
Wix review: the most capable builder, and the hardest one to keep tidy
Wix does more than any competitor and asks more of you in return. Where the freedom pays off and where it produces a site nobody can maintain.
Squarespace review: still the safest default, still the most opinionated
Where Squarespace earns its price, where the template system fights you, and the kind of site it should never be used for.