“Wix was fine until I wanted the blog to rank, worst page speed of the four. The blog is the only reason I care about the builder, that's where calls come from now; SupaTraffic posts the articles into Webflow daily and I don't touch the site otherwise.”
“Honestly for a first website something like wix or carrd would save way more time than fighting free tier limits on ai coding tools, you can always rebuild it properly later once you have some cash for the paid plans.”
“Wix or Squarespace feel a bit overkill for what you're describing, they're more for businesses trying to look polished. The free WordPress theme selection is massive too so you can make it look how you want without much effort”
“The three most popular ways are hiring a website designer, using a general third-party website builder like Wix, or using a vacation rental website builder. Many PMS tools have a feature for building a direct booking website.”
“I have a Wix website and my name comes up frequently on ai searches. They have a little section that tells you how many ai searched you get although I don’t know if it’s that accurate”
“It sucks that I had to settle for Carrd rn, but until I stop stressing myself and overthinking on what to add and organize on Wix, all my socials will be on Carrd, including Ko-fi. Eventually I'll be motivated enough to get back into Wix and move my personal website there.”
“On Wix that "someone" is the platform, priced into the plan. For OP that is the thing to decide about before making final decision, and I think it is more a budget question than a platform one.”
“Wix/Squarespace are easiest if you want to edit everything yourself; WordPress gives you more flexibility but requires more maintenance. If the site is mainly there to generate calls and enquiries, I’d prioritize mobile performance, services, reviews, service areas and a very obvious contact/quote CTA over adding lots of features.”
“If you told me 4 years ago that making AfterRiders would force me to learn HTML/CSS/JS from the ground up because I couldn’t be fucking normal and settle for a Wix site, I wouldn’t have believed you”
“I would probably consider Wix or Webflow. Squarespace can be okay but I'm not a big fan of their particular drag and drop builder, but it does get the job done.”
“For your requirements, I’d recommend Squarespace or Wix, depending on how much customization and functionality you need. I can build a clean, professional, mobile-responsive website with:”
“I was using WIX for the last 5 years and recently switched to Claude to build me a react website. It does require a bit of technical expertise to get everything right but the flexibility and speed is insane!”
“Since you’re coming from Wix, that’s the main difference to check: with self-hosted WordPress, someone needs to look after updates, backups and recovery. That can be a service you pay for; it doesn’t have to be you.”
“WordPress is still a better CMS, if later you will also go for SEO of your website than WordPress is surely the best option, Wix is light weight no doubt but has some limitations too.”
“Agreed with the Claude+git+vercel actually (though I prefer railway) because it’s as easy to learn as wix or WP now, and faster to make updates once it’s live. I think if you’re an SMB owner right now the best thing you could be doing is learning how to use AI to build all sorts of stuff and deploying it to use.”
“Wix is the best you can choose. Can be done maintenance by you without connecting with your designer again unless there’s much revision. Let me know if you need help.”
“It comes with a fairly easy to use (compared to Wix and Squarespace) website builder (called BoldGrid and it's a premium license to it) that has everything you need that you described. Plus, if your domain is with [Webnames.ca](http://Webnames.ca) it's free for the duration of your hosting plan.”
“Help! Mobile is a disaster! Items are dancing - Why??? I'm trying to clean up an inherited Wix Harmony site for my employer (I'm not a tech person, I'm just the best we've got), and mobile is killing me.”
“Wix and Squarespace - I don't have much experience with them, but from what I understand, you're locked in to what they offer, and sites can get slow, but don't quote me on that.”
“Wix is quite flexible, though. Once you get the hang of it, everything feels much more straightforward because so many things are already built into the platform.”
“For now any popular stack intended to be supported (I am integrating AI analysis for that) ofc unless websites are built already on shopify, wix etc.”
“Wix and Squarespace are easier if you want everything managed in one place, but you’re tied to their platform and ongoing pricing. Squarespace currently has a 14-day trial but no permanent free plan.”
“squarespace/wix's mid tier covers that fine, the pricing jump only starts mattering once you need real ecommerce or lots of custom logic. wordpress.org self hosted on a cheap vps is the other route if you don't mind a bit more setup, way cheaper long term but more your problem to maintain.”