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Website builders loaded with handy features have been around for years. They have offered a variety of levels of ease of use, helpful tools, and support.

Today, we’re witnessing an introduction of modern, trendy website and page builders. They are not only feature-rich but enable users to avoid coding. You can also forget about theme-imposed design constraints and setup issues.

Professional web designers look to these new-generation tools as time savers. They provide new features that lessen or eliminate the need for developers. Beginners will also profit from using the best tools on the market. They typically don’t know how or where to look.

For beginners and professionals alike, we’ve put together this list. It is the selection of 2019’s top page and website building tools:

Elementor

Elementor is the best a drag-and-drop website builder for WordPress,

Elementor helps you add advanced styling options, layout, and design elements to your WordPress website with zero code.

Elementor effectiveness will blow you away whether it’s recreating an existing page or working from your imagination, with over 2 million active installs worldwide there’s very little Elementor can’t handle.

Elementor has the most powerful features: Theme Builder, WooComerce Builder, Parallax, Pop-ups, Pixel perfect design, animation, and much more yet is very easy to use and master.

Now you can do the design, development, and marketing simultaneously, save production cost and time and design better looking websites.

Mobirise Website Builder

The Mobirise website builder has a host of things going for it including the advantages of using an offline website-building tool and the fact that it’s free for personal and commercial uses. Since you won’t be tied down to a specific platform, you’re free to use Mobirise as you wish, and you’ll have total control over the design and hosting of your site.

Mobirise’s Bootstrap 4 or Google AMP-based technology makes it lightning fast and user-friendly; and your pages and sites will have the same key characteristics.

You needn’t worry about coding since none is required, plus you’ll have a smart and trendy selection of over 1,500 templates and blocks to work with supplemented by a library containing nearly 8,000 icons and Google fonts and an impressive 500,000 free images.

Portfoliobox

Designed with photographers, artists, and other creative professionals in mind, Portfoliobox will be an ideal choice for anyone looking for a tool to help them build attractive websites with stunning portfolios.

Since this is not a theme-based tool it can be used with any theme, it’s easy to use, extremely flexible, and coding is not required.

Portfoliobox offers two plans along with a student plan. The free plan hosting for 10 pages, 10 products, and 30 images. If you select Portfoliobox’s Pro plan, you’ll get hosting for 1,000 images and an unlimited number of pages and products. The Pro plan also provides a personal domain, Google analytics, and custom CSS/JS.

Those with a student account have all the Pro plan features and functions except for a custom domain. All plans provide the complete set of Portfolio design templates.

Webflow

With this all-in-one website-building tool at your disposal, you’ll be able to design, build, and launch a user-friendly, responsive, and totally customized website — without writing a line of code (unless you’re into that sort of thing).

Webflow also offers ecommerce solutions, high-fidelity prototyping tools, and the ability to kickoff a project from a blank canvas, a template, or a community-created UI kit.

WP Page Builder

If you’re stuck in a rut and looking for a new and improved site-building experience, you’ll find the WP Page Builder has much to offer. This 100% drag and drop, user-friendly page builder does not require either coding or design skills to produce high-quality pages.

You’ll also have an excellent selection of trendy design elements to work with and you’ll find WP Page Builder is extremely flexible and compatible with any theme.

8b Website Builder

8b is another futuristically-designed website builder you’ll find fun and easy to use thanks to its super-simple UI, and its collection of 16 starter templates and more than 250 website sections.

Since 8b is Google AMP based, you can count on designing websites that are lightning-fast and 100% mobile friendly. 8b is yours for free if you request your copy during this initial launch period.

Quix – Joomla Page Builder

Quix is a brand new and completely modern visual page builder you can download for free. It’s also the first Joomla page builder to be placed on the market. Quix’s multiple page-building features include a header/footer builder, a comprehensive collection of fonts, icons, building blocks, and templates, real-time SEO analytics, and it’s optimized for fast loading.

3 Key Tips for Building a Successful Website

1 – Be sure to make your site 100% mobile responsive

Mobile responsive used to be a recommendation. But today a majority of shoppers make purchases over their cellphones. 9 out of 10 use their smartphones to compare prices. They check out product reviews when shopping in retail stores.

2 – Be sure to place your contact information above the fold

Should people wish to contact you, make sure to put your contact information above the fold. Like that, it can easily be located. If you’re using social media, putting links at the header or footer will serve the same purpose.

3 – Respect the need for speed

Busy shoppers have little patience with a website page that’s slow to load. Or, a website that’s buggy and misbehaves. 4 out of 5 can’t tolerate slow-loading sites and many of them will simply abandon your site and look elsewhere. In fact, almost 9 in 10 will consider looking elsewhere if your site isn’t behaving as it should be.

Periodically update your site to keep it running smoothly. Optimize videos and images for quicker downloads. Also, make sure you’re using a host capable of handling your site’s bandwidth demands.

Conclusion

Each of these top website/page builders has its own unique selling points. All of them share many things in common. They are state-of-the-art, easy to use, and require no coding. They are either easily affordable, offer free plans, or are completely free.

It’s merely a matter of finding a tool that best fits your needs. You really can’t make a bad choice, even if you were to make the wrong one. Of course, when something is free, you should probably try it out anyway.

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