Website Builders VS Hand Coding

Everything is going online. The scope of online businesses is increasing rapidly. The very first thing which need to be set up is "Website". Now the question arise whether to spend less money to buy website builder or more money for developer for our Website. These website builders essentially use WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) HTML editors

Well, it is pretty deep concept. Firstly, let's talk about website builders. There are various website builders like godaddy, wix and many more. These CMS (Content Management System) allow provide with drap and drop option, which makes it quite easy to make our own website. Additionally, these CMS also provide CSS and JavaScript editor for making additional changes to website.

It is better to use CMS for small businesses where only few things need to be done. But, CMS is limited to specific themes, which is customizable. For bigger businesses, it is not good idea to use CMS. There are few aspects which makes hand coding much profitable for bigger businesses.

Advantages of Hand Coding as Developer :

1. Secure : This one is quite obvious. Your own code is always way more secure than Website builder. CMS always use same code for security purposes, which is attractively targeted by hackers.
2. Easy : Making changes to your website is quite easy if you code by yourself. You understand your own coding. Whatever you do might be making sense for your. But, if you want to make changes in CMS coding, it might take way more time.
3. SEO : Ranking of any business on Google make huge difference in grow of such business. So, it is essential that Search Engine Optimization should be properly set up for better ranking of your website. Most of CMS doesn't provide satisfactory result with regards to SEO.

There might be some other reason as well which will make Hand coding more useful as comparison as CMS. However, in some cases CMS works better and cheap as well. It all depends upon situation as well.

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