Which Platform Is Best for Website Development?

Developing a website is a challenging task so only professionals should be doing it. They lay the groundwork on the suitable development platform, and you get a website in no time.

For this, website builders (frameworks) are a great medium. Especially, these platforms are a blessing for small-scale businesses to have an online presence. Also, no web development service can excel without exhibiting exceptional skills on such frameworks.

You must be thinking that out of so many web development frameworks available in the market, how would you know about the best one for you?

You don’t need to worry about that. In this article, we are comparing different platforms with their pros and cons to help you select the best framework for website development.

What You Need to Do Before Choosing a Platform?

Before choosing the platform, you must know how many things you must be clear about your design and development requirements. Most often, BPO services pen down all your requirements, goals, and features that you want in your website layout.

If you have no idea that what your website should look like or what functionality should be improvised on the website, you can look at your competitor’s website and get some inspiration.

BPO service providers should consider your growth options, for instance, if you want to update your website on regular basis, you can add a blog section. It can help you ensure that the website builder/platform/framework you choose has the capacity of handling your needs as the business moves forward.

Let us go through some of the most popular website development platforms.

WordPress

WordPress is one of the most popular and effective web development platforms around the world.

You must find it intriguing that about 41% of the websites available on the Internet are powered by WordPress.

This platform provides maximum control over the website as WordPress is a free and open-source framework. As compared to other online platforms, no web development platform offers such reliability and comfort.

Pros

WordPress allows you to access every feature that you want in your website. It can be used to develop any sort of website, be it an eCommerce store, community forums, a social network, a membership website, a simple website, a landing page, and whatever.

For developers' assistance, several WordPress themes are available, which are used massively by professional web development companies. Moreover, via WordPress, you get access to 58,000 plugins. These plugins work like an app for WordPress that adds additional value to your website, such as you can add a shopping cart, contact form, photo gallery, social media tools, live chat, CSS customization, etc.

It also comes with powerful SEO Tools that enhance your search engine outcomes, and it makes sure that your website ranks high on Google.

These are the reasons WordPress is said to be the #1 website development framework and CMS (Content Management System) for businesses, vloggers, and web developers.

Cons

Indeed, WordPress is a free website builder, however, you need a domain name and web hosting to get your website live on Google. In general, it costs about $14.99/year and $7.99 per month respectively. For beginners, they can start a website with only $2.75 per month using Bluehost.

Wix

It is another famous cloud-based website development platform. It offers productive and effective features which help to create your website via drag and drop options.

Pros

It is a fully hosted framework, which allows you not to pay for the hosting. Hundred of templates are available online for your potential website, and each template is editable with the drag and drop feature.

Moreover, it offers several free apps or plugins that you can install on your website to add features and functionality to your website for improved worth and customer user-friendliness.

Cons

A major drawback of Wix is Free and Connect Domain plans that they will show Wix branded ads on your website. Web development companies, dealing with Wix need to upgrade to their combo or unlimited plan to remove those ads. If you ever decide to shift to another website builder platform, you will find it complicated to do so.

Look at Its Price Point of View

Wix offers a restricted free form with a Wix marked sub-area. You can access space for $9.16 each month. Their combo plan begins at $14.95/month. However, users can also get a free domain name.

So, if you are thinking to get your website developed or you have any confusion regarding web design and development, IPS BPO can help you in this regard. IPS, being one of the leading BPO services providers in the US for several years, has been delivering satisfaction to clients all over the world.

Conclusion

Many website development frameworks are available out there, upon which WordPress is considered to be #1, especially with the flexibility and reliability it offers.

PHP and Laravel are other platforms that web development services like to use for creating custom websites. Thus, there are lots of website development platforms offering different features, but it is up to the developer and the type of website to select the most suitable one.