Thinking about which Web hosting service is superior Weebly.com or Wix.com. Both are cloud-based web development platform that allows users to create html 5 websites and mobile sites, through the use of online "Drag & Drop" tools. Users can add functionalities such as social plug-ins, eCommerce, contact forms, email marketing, and community forums to their websites.
Wix.com provides 100s of website templates, unfortunately there is no library template as of yet. As you can see in this example below most of the page is already designed. All that is required of the user is to insert writing in to the text place holders and to hyperlink the social media icons to (in this case facebook, twitter and google plus) related websites.
The downside to the prefabricated templates is that they are very difficult to redesign. It is much easier to just build a web site in Weebly.com from scratch. In Weebly.com I can remove an element without it affecting other elements around it. For example, if I choose to delete an image, I won't be left with a hole in the middle of the page. The block of text below will move up as the page realigns itself. This is important because I want to experiment with design as a relative newcomer without the webpage collapsing in on itself. I find with Wix.com that some elements can overlap each other and become quickly messy.
So far I'm happy with Weebly.com and will continue using it for Comp Task 3.
