Hosted Sitebuilders by Liesl Barrell - Montreal Girl Geeks 28042011

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Montreal Girl Geeks – April 2011

Hosted Sitebuilders

IntroCMS Delivery ModelsChoosing a SolutionQuick Tours

Flavours.meWeeblySquarespaceDrupal Gardens

Conclusion

CMS Delivery Models

PLATFORMS

DESKTOP PUBLISHER

S

HOSTED SITEBUILDERS

(SaaS)DrupalJoomlaWordPress.orgeZ Publish

…+100s

WeeblySquarespaceDrupal GardensWordPress.com

…+12s

InDesignFrontPageSitebuilder

How to Choose a Solution

Strategy Features Budget

Barrier of EntryLearning Curve

Maintenance InvestmentInterface Bias

Quick ToursFlavours.me Aggregator• Learning Curve: None• Free or $20/year for own domain & more features• Simple feed aggregation & style-editing• 98% Dynamic content• Easy interim solution

Quick ToursWeebly - 2006• Learning Curve: Low• Free or Pro (different subscriptions, same features)• Custom domain starts at: $2.99/month • Password Protection (global)• HTML & CSS editing • Easy e-commerce integration (Paypal or Google

Checkout)• Global Publishing• Mobile site version• Archive download & Style export• Solid in-line previews• Proprietary

Quick ToursSquarespace - 2003• Learning Curve: Med• Cost: No free option (trial only) 3 plan levels• Discount for multiple sites (15-25% off)• Up to 6 audiences with granular permissions • Granular & scheduled publishing (default is disabled)• Great previews & bulk ZIP photo upload to galleries• Sophisticated theme editing, page-specific

themes/headers• Mobile app for editing & stats• Strong customer support• Proprietary, export options only for journal & CSS

Quick ToursDrupal Gardens - 2010• Learning Curve: High• Cost: free or 4 paid options for more features &

own domain• Export entire site, including users, content & style• Easy multi-site management with duplicate

function ($)• Based on OSS with strong development

community• More internationalization (but not perfect)• Sophisticated theme editing• Dynamic content previews limited• Publish/unpublish options but no auto-publish at

future date

Want Options?17M Wordpress6M Webs.com4M Wix.com 3M Weebly.com1M Squarespace.com450k Webstarts.com350k Yola.com300k Moonfruit.com130k Webnode.com40k Drupalgardens.com30k Snappages.com30k Virb.com

30k Doodlekit.com20k Sitekreator.com? Sites.google.com? Homestead.com? Jimdo.com ? Virb.com? Bandzoogle.com ? Edicy.com ? Webnode.com ...and many more!

Coming Up…

• More Facebookification (Like, FB Comments)• More design/styling options• More widgets, plug-ins, apps & customization

• App stores

• Better e-commerce solutions• More mobile & tablet support

• Site management on-the-go• Front-end mobile versions

• More sophisticated internationalization• Watch out for Drupal Gardens & Edicy

Thanks!