SITE123 - engine for creating beautiful websites → review
SITE123 is a good WYSIWYG engine for beginners. It is understandable, quite functional, but the main feature is that it gives a lot of disk space already at the initial rate. You can upload a lot of media content directly to the hosting, if necessary. Suitable for developing online stores, blogs, business cards (business sites, portfolios), event sites and landing pages. For all this, there are corresponding categories of responsive templates. For any type of site, you can specify the format: single-page, with all the blocks lined up one after another, or multi-page, in which each semantic section will be placed in a separate menu section / page. It is possible to customize the mobile and desktop versions separately by changing the structure, colors, backgrounds, headings and fonts.
In the visual editor, you can remove/add blocks (gallery, text, contacts, portfolio, team, features, sales, promo, restaurant menu, blog, events, bookings, blog articles, music, reviews), each category of which has several layouts. Each block has a sufficient number of structure, design and content settings. The engine supports the insertion of user code, Webhooks and the installation of plugins (integrations of social networks, statistics, CRM, accepting payments online, etc.). There is an SEO-adviser here, which will greatly help beginners by analyzing the site and issuing recommendations for its optimization. You can also add editors to collaborate on developing and managing the site.
Pros:
Easy to learn, nice, modern interface;
Solid adaptive templates, all versions of the site can be edited separately;
Good potential for website promotion, availability of an SEO advisor;
A high-quality store module - it is not here for show;
Support for creating multilingual sites;
The ability to launch specific types of sites out of the box - for restaurants, organizing events, making an appointment, portfolio and blog, for all this there are corresponding sections with all the necessary settings;
Despite the high starting cost, you can often stumble upon a 50% discount in the system;
Availability of a free plan;
When paying the tariff for the maximum period, the price drops almost 3 times;
24/7, friendly technical support.
Minuses:
Any tariff limits the bandwidth of the site;
Without taking into account the discount, the constructor is very expensive compared to other participants in the rating.
Price:
Basic (810 rubles/month) – 10 GB of hosting, 5 GB of site bandwidth, 100 letters for mailing to customers, a gift level 2 domain subject to payment for a year in advance, removal of system copyright from the site, 24/7 technical support.
Extended (1254 rubles/month) - 30 GB of hosting, 15 GB of site bandwidth, 1000 letters for mailing to customers, 2 mailboxes on the domain and 1 additional language.
Professional (1824 RUB/month) – 90 GB of hosting, 45 GB of site bandwidth, 2500 emails for mailing to customers, 3 additional site languages, 500 store orders per month, payment by cards.
Gold (2204 rubles/month) - 270 GB hosting, 135 GB site bandwidth, 10,000 emails for mailing to customers, 10 mailboxes, 5 additional site languages, all the functionality of the store without restrictions on the number of added products, a domain as a gift.
Platinum (4751 rubles / month) - 1000 GB of hosting, 1000 GB of site bandwidth, 50,000 letters for mailing to customers, 25 mailboxes, an unlimited number of languages, all system features.