Guides & Comparisons

What You'll Find on Our Blog

Our reviews and comparisons answer "which builder should I use," while the blog exists to answer the questions that come before and after that decision: how to actually get a template looking right, whether a specific pricing tier is worth the upgrade, and how the broader website-building landscape is shifting. If a topic needs more than a paragraph to explain properly, it usually ends up here rather than buried inside a review.

Guides vs. Reviews vs. Explainers

We tag articles by type so you can find what you're looking for quickly. Guides walk through a specific task, like setting up a custom domain or configuring basic SEO settings on a particular platform — some of these come with a structured step-by-step format built directly into the page. Reviews on the blog cover individual builders in long-form, often expanding on what fits in the structured review format on a dedicated review page. Explainers cover a broader concept, like what actually determines a site's page speed, without recommending a specific builder at all, aimed at readers who want to understand something rather than sign up for something.

How We Pick What to Write About

Topics come from three places: questions we get repeatedly through our Contact page, gaps we notice while writing reviews where a reader would benefit from more background than fits in a review's word count, and genuinely useful developments in the website-building space worth explaining in plain language. We don't write filler content built around trending keywords with nothing new to say; if a topic has already been covered well elsewhere and we have nothing to add, we skip it.

Editorial Standards on the Blog

The same independence rules from our Disclosure page apply here. A guide comparing a free builder to a paid alternative isn't secretly written to push you toward a specific vendor, and an explainer about page speed isn't an excuse to work in an affiliate link that doesn't genuinely belong there. Where a blog post does recommend a specific builder, that recommendation traces back to the same testing and scoring used everywhere else on the site.

How Often We Publish

We publish when we have something worth reading, not on a fixed weekly schedule padded out with thin content. Expect new guides and explainers most consistently around major platform redesigns or pricing changes, alongside a steady baseline of evergreen guides we revisit and update as the builders they describe change.

How to Suggest a Topic

If there's a question about choosing or using a website builder you haven't found a clear, non-technical answer to anywhere, our Contact page is the right place to send it. We can't promise every suggestion becomes an article, but reader questions are consistently the best source of topics that turn into guides people actually search for and find useful.

Older Articles and Accuracy

Website builders change quickly, so a guide written a year ago about a specific platform's editor or pricing structure may describe something the platform has since changed. We date every article and revisit the ones most likely to go stale, but if you're reading something older and a detail seems off, treat the Contact correction path as open for blog content too, not just reviews.

Guides That Age Well vs. Guides That Don't

We try to write explainers around concepts, like how to evaluate whether a template is genuinely customizable or how to judge a platform's real SEO capability, since those age far better than a guide built entirely around one builder's current editor interface. Where a guide does need to reference specific menus or buttons, we note the date so you know how much to trust the exact steps versus the underlying idea.