To be or not to be: Create an Online Shop With a Free Website Builder or Use a CMS?

Some of them hire talented developers, others try to develop adorable products without help from the expert using the special site builders. What is better? Let’s look one the question from different sides

Nowadays, people can’t imagine life in the absence of the Internet — news, entertainment, online shopping, booking etc. More often experienced businessmen build platforms for satisfying different customers’ requests. Some of them hire talented developers, others try to develop adorable products without help from the expert using the special site builders. What is better? Let’s look one the question from different sides.

How to decide — create a website on your own or hire a specialist?

1. Determine the purpose of your project.

If you want to make a blog, landing page or small online-shop with 10 products, you may do it on your own. Nowadays, there are plenty of different CMS platforms and website builder systems, which give you the opportunity to establish a project without the assistance of professionals. Our team wrote an article about the most popular eCommerce platforms.

If your goal is to build a large marketplace with hundreds of products, help from a developer/team is a great solution. They will direct your ideas, choose the best methods and tools, and take responsibility for all processes on them.

2. Time of work

If web creation is a new challenge for you, you waste a lot of time learning the specifics of this field firstly, and only then start making steps in development. Remember, not everything will go easy.

Ecommerce specialists with experience are able to do the tasks very fast, team members know how to delegate the tasks to each other. So, the client achieves the fully working product in short terms.

3. Additional functionality

If you want to add some special plugins or extensions you should know that it is not an easy and quick process. Every new module, extension, function needs too much time to understand and only then to make them in life. Get ready to face problems with conflicts between extensions — the more extensions you have, the more conflicts you will face. A professional with relevant experience knows about the risks and how to deal with them.

4. Design solutions

There are plenty of online tools which provide free access to the pictures, elements of design, etc. Many of them are simple and don’t have any features.

But if you need something special, don’t hesitate to ask for help from a team of specialists, which includes a designer. A pro is ready to create your own design as soon as possible. That will make your online shop memorable and unique.

5. Access to paid platforms and tools

Good tools with special opportunities cost a lot. If web development is not your constant activity, it seems like a great barrier to some services. For masters of eCommerce development it’s not a big problem. More often they buy subscriptions — pay once and use a service for several projects. So it’s not such a painful investment.

In other words…

The topic of our article may be compared with sickness and visiting doctors. If you want to get good service and don’t harm yourself, you probably better visit the doctor than try to find the best treatment on your own. That is with website building. You can watch 10 videos about creating the magnificent online shop, but to be honest, you couldn’t compete with the professionals.

Only you decide to create a website on your own or hire a specialist. We recommend collaborating with experts in eCommerce web creation and let the magic happen. Moreover, we are pretty good specialists in eCommerce web development. So you are welcome to contact us with any further questions.

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