Hey Makerpad!
I am building a website for a yoga instructor and stuck trying deciding the best builder to use:
- Single page website for now but should be flexible to include an About Us, Pricing and Shop pages.
- Currently need an Instagram Feed, Blog and Appointment Booking(calendly)
- Client will maintain the content and be actively blogging
- Yearly hosting price between $50-$80
Considering these:
1) Webflow:
Pro: Very popular, needs some learning, but flexible and can accommodate all these features
Con: Expensive and added cost for the client to pay every year.
2) Wix:
Pro: includes everything I need. Low cost
Con: Not sure of the output code quality, slow.
3) Carrd:
Pro: Easy to build and edit. Low cost
Con: Limited to 1 page and difficult to integrate blogs and other pages for the future
4) Bootstrap Studio:
Pro: Seems easy to build, Low cost
Con: Not sure if it's limited to the bootstrap framework, Not sure if it has CMS
5) WordPress:
Pro: Many themes, cost-effective
Con: Prone to hacks, slow and a bit dated.
Can you help me decide?
Thanks in advance!
Cheers,
Aparajith
I am building a website for a yoga instructor and stuck trying deciding the best builder to use:
- Single page website for now but should be flexible to include an About Us, Pricing and Shop pages.
- Currently need an Instagram Feed, Blog and Appointment Booking(calendly)
- Client will maintain the content and be actively blogging
- Yearly hosting price between $50-$80
Considering these:
1) Webflow:
Pro: Very popular, needs some learning, but flexible and can accommodate all these features
Con: Expensive and added cost for the client to pay every year.
2) Wix:
Pro: includes everything I need. Low cost
Con: Not sure of the output code quality, slow.
3) Carrd:
Pro: Easy to build and edit. Low cost
Con: Limited to 1 page and difficult to integrate blogs and other pages for the future
4) Bootstrap Studio:
Pro: Seems easy to build, Low cost
Con: Not sure if it's limited to the bootstrap framework, Not sure if it has CMS
5) WordPress:
Pro: Many themes, cost-effective
Con: Prone to hacks, slow and a bit dated.
Can you help me decide?
Thanks in advance!
Cheers,
Aparajith
A blog won't be possible with Carrd or Dorik, but those may be the best place to start for a one-page website.
You could consider hosting the blog separately (Notion, Wordpress.com, Medium, etc).
With Carrd or Dorik, check out Ecwid.com to add a shop (demo using Carrd) and Elfsight.com for an Insta feed (example on Carrd).
Wix or Squarespace do include all you need, but they're not my preference and obviously have subscription costs similar to Webflow.
You could consider hosting the blog separately (Notion, Wordpress.com, Medium, etc).
With Carrd or Dorik, check out Ecwid.com to add a shop (demo using Carrd) and Elfsight.com for an Insta feed (example on Carrd).
Wix or Squarespace do include all you need, but they're not my preference and obviously have subscription costs similar to Webflow.
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Used to be a very big WP + elementor builder fan.
But, if I were to pick right now today, I'd say webflow. After you sort out the CMS it should be easy for them to add blogs and they don't need to deal with issues with plugin conflicts etc.
If they won't budge on the budget, then you could setup a staging site for your options and have them go through the process of adding articles to see how they feel.
When you add in the shop as a future option it complicates things. I've personally never had luck with WP+woo commerce so I prefer bigcommerce and shopify. If they are just going to be selling some merch here and there, then I would just push them to a third party site to checkout and just leave the core site for the content. There is an option to go headless FE with bigcommerce, but as a non web designer, it was painful for me.
I've never built any client projects on the other platforms so can't comment.
But, if I were to pick right now today, I'd say webflow. After you sort out the CMS it should be easy for them to add blogs and they don't need to deal with issues with plugin conflicts etc.
If they won't budge on the budget, then you could setup a staging site for your options and have them go through the process of adding articles to see how they feel.
When you add in the shop as a future option it complicates things. I've personally never had luck with WP+woo commerce so I prefer bigcommerce and shopify. If they are just going to be selling some merch here and there, then I would just push them to a third party site to checkout and just leave the core site for the content. There is an option to go headless FE with bigcommerce, but as a non web designer, it was painful for me.
I've never built any client projects on the other platforms so can't comment.
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A portfolio is an amazing way to show your work. But we know that there are problems we face while creating and updating them.
We spoke to a bunch of designers and this is what they said:
We spoke to a bunch of designers and this is what they said:
📰 What template do I choose?
🗂️ What sections do I include?
⭐ How can I choose my best projects?
🖍️ How can I keep it up-to-date?
⏳ There is an opportunity, but editing my website takes so long!
🗂️ What sections do I include?
⭐ How can I choose my best projects?
🖍️ How can I keep it up-to-date?
⏳ There is an opportunity, but editing my website takes so long!
We designed easily editable notion templates and an email course to solve these questions.
🌟 The Notion templates have all the sections needed for an impactful portfolio
🥂 The email course sends weekly reminders and keeps the designers accountable
🥂 The email course sends weekly reminders and keeps the designers accountable
Go check it out at showw.work
If you like the idea, vote for us!
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It will help us validate our idea and keep improving it!
Cheers!
https://www.makerpad.co/p/showwwork
It will help us validate our idea and keep improving it!
Cheers!
We had some setbacks last week when other projects needed our time. But, we are back again and tying up all the loose ends and launch soon!
Update:
Product landing page v1.2 complete using Carrd
First time building a website without code! So, took me some time to understand the concepts.
Product landing page v1.2 complete using Carrd
First time building a website without code! So, took me some time to understand the concepts.
🏷️ Create landing pages in gumroad.com
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I created a really basic mood board in Figma yesterday to start forming ideas for the website brand and style. Did not want to go too far and realise that Caard would not allow me to build all of the stuff I wanted to! 😁
💻 Started building V1.2 of product landing page
💻 Started building V1.2 of product landing page
🔧 Learning how to build in carrd
🧠 Figuring how to use Background, Page and Containers.
⭐ Sign up to keep informed! https://showw.work ⭐
Learning:
Carrd is simple to get started. But, I still need to learn how to make all the functionality work with the existing components.
Cheers!
Started work on the product page https://showw.work in Figma!
📢 Tried variations of the headline
🎨 The colour palette
Today's updates!
🌟 Found a hack to make the thumbnails look better.
📰 Built the first draft of the case study page.
🌟 Found a hack to make the thumbnails look better.
📰 Built the first draft of the case study page.
Well written case studies validate your design skills!
Here's a checklist:
Here's a checklist:
📢 Descriptive headline
📰 Project summary
👤 Users and their challenges
✏️ Your role, project scope and constraints
💫 Your process
⚡ Impact
🗣️ Testimonials
🙌 Lessons learnt
Cheers Makers!
The Notion page can do with some jazz!
👤 Asked 3 more designers about their hurdles
🌟 Started some style explorations for the portfolio page in Figma!
Have a great day makers!
Good progress today:
👤 Understood hurdles from users
💼 Completed the portfolio page v1 based on the checklist:
Learning:
The thumbnail images from Dribbble don't work too well for Notion's card layout. Have to redesign them.
Next steps:
Colour palette and styling for the page.
Learning:
The thumbnail images from Dribbble don't work too well for Notion's card layout. Have to redesign them.
Next steps:
Colour palette and styling for the page.
Refine the structure of the portfolio.
Good luck, everyone!
Juggling priorities like everybody else here. So, no updates for the last couple of days. But, I am happy to share some progress 🙌:
👤 Reached out to more users to understand their hurdles in building portfolios
💼 Created a first draft of the checklist for creating case studies.
🏆 Created the first version of the layout for the portfolio page and the case studies.
Learning:
Notion is super easy to use but I think it lacks in the looks department. After spending a day worrying about it, decided to move on knowing these drawbacks. Will solve the looks over time.
Cheers and Happy Making!