Hello everybody and welcome to the
HostGator website builder review. So straight to the point, don't get confused
from the beginning. I'm going to talk about the website builder, not about the website
hosting service that HostGator also provides. Although HostGator's web hosting services meh ...
and it's really not that good, but the website builder truth be told is pretty decent. So
in this HostGator website builder review I'm going to tell you all about its best and
possibly worst features; who is this builder gonna be best for; what are the pros and cons
of it and in the end I'll talk all about the pricing, where I have a special discount link that
will save you a lot of your money, but about that I'll talk a little later, now we have important
stuff to talk about. Let's get straight into it. So starting from the beginning, HostGator doesn't
offer a free trial, so you will need to get one of their paid plans to be able to start your
website building journey, it's not a big deal though, as HostGator offers a 45-day return policy,
as 30-day is actually an industry standard. So I still believe that it's more than enough to
decide whether you want this builder or not. Now after you get your plan, you get to choose from
a bunch of free templates. Yep, you heard right, free templates! I personally don't like when website
builders charge you extra for those templates. Although they're free, but they do seem pretty
plain and don't stand out for being, you know, super attractive and I would say that they're pretty
simplistic, so before choosing the one you like the most, you can preview them first. Okay and once you
find the one, which you found the most attractive, just choose it. However, once you're in the template
you cannot change to a different one as you will need to start the whole building process from
scratch, if you decide to say change it to a different one. And by the way there is an option,
where you can allow the AI to generate your website. Well it basically just helps you building
your website, it doesn't do it for you, but it just helps you out. So you choose a topic that
describes the purpose of your website the best; create a name for it; choose a themed photo for
the website using their stock footage; add your own logo, if you have one; choose the fonts; colors; the
navigation style and finally add your contact info. And that's pretty much it, your website
will appear on your screen in a few moments. So either you want to use this method for the
creation of your website, which I found to be pretty easy or you just choose a template
you prefer and then do the rest of the edits yourself. Okay, so now continuing this HostGator
website builder review, let's go to the builder itself. So, basically, everything here is pretty
much the same as in most other website builders, but there's one big difference, which I have
noticed immediately. There is so much freedom, where you can add tons of features to your website. All
sorts of buttons, contacts, containers, files, images, maps, you can even add SoundCloud players straight
to your website, PayPal, social icons and many more. And the beautiful part is that everything can be
added straight onto your website with a drag and drop feature, which means that it literally takes
seconds to do that because you can just take this, say, this video and drop it anywhere you want. So
every single feature, which you would want for your website is pretty much at your hands reach and you
will have complete control over the entire editing process of your website. Hey guys and if you find
this HostGator website builder review helpful a like the video would be appreciated. So now,
let's talk about the other edits you can do to your website using HostGator. Say you might want
to add extra sections your website, that's pretty easy to do, but once I try to do that using the
drop down menu on the left, well ... it didn't work. Not good HostGator. Not sure though, maybe it
happened due to you know to some sort of a fault with a browser, whatever, but if stuff like this
happens more often, you might be quite irritated though and also, if you would say that I'm gonna
choose a different method for those sections and then you press here and then the same
thing happens. Well I really don't know what to say here, although my connection is stable as
you can see it refreshes the page in just a few seconds, but it still doesn't allow me to add any
sections. Okay, so now moving to the design section. Here you can do a lot. So you can customize
the background by adding an image that you can then align to the position you want, you can
just add a solid colored background, if you want. What i kind of miss is the option to choose
from the whole palette of colors. You know, maybe, for example, you have a specific brand color,
which you might want to add, so that's not going to be possible right here. Then there's
the option to edit the site's color presets; fonts, where you have quite some freedom and
then there are lots you can do in the text style tab. So basically, HostGator allows you to
edit the basic colors of your website, which is quite limited, but gives you complete
freedom over your text, which is quite nice. Next we have a blog section, which might prove its
value to some users, but definitely not everyone. I mean it's going to be useful, if you're a blog
writer and you post them from time to time. So real quick, once you decide to create a blog section on
your website, you'll get to choose a template first. You have an option to preview them and then choose
the one you like the most and then the fun begins. Once you choose your blog's name a box will appear
showing what blogs you already have published and what else you want to add. So say you want to add
a new blog, you just press "add new post" and then a blog writer will appear. Everything is pretty
simple here, I guess. You'll have to write a title, date, author name, write down the tags and then
complete the whole blog. You can also add images, videos, lines and different types of headings to
your blogs, which are also quite nice. And once you're done, click "save post". And here you can see
your published post as well. So all in all, I would say that HostGator's blogging tool is pretty
good as it gives the basic freedom that would be needed for, you know, most blog writers. Continuing
this HostGator website builder review, let's talk about a few more features there are. So HostGator
also allows you to create your own ecommerce page, where you will be able to sell products or
services online. However, I will not put my focus here at the moment as I will make a separate video
about that, but I really want to talk about the settings tab and the feature, which I couldn't
find and I kind of miss. So, firstly, HostGator offers you a function, where you can track your
website statistics, after you publish your website, which is nice, but there are some other options
as well, as the ability to save previous versions of your website, add socials here, manage your
e-commerce accounts, add redirects, play around with Favicon, track metrics with Google Analytics and
a few options more. But what I kind of miss is the option to work on the SEO of your website straight
in the options tab of your website. I'm not saying that your website will not have a good SEO rating
without this setting, but I find it to be really useful for people who never had any experience
with the SEO and they don't know exactly what to do with it. It would be beneficial if
HostGator provided some information for beginners on how to improve their website's SEO ratings. So
now, who is HostGator website builder going to be best for, I would say basically, basically everyone.
I find HostGator to have a pretty decent website builder with tons of features and freedom and
I didn't find it to be very complicated at all. If you want to know what complicated is, check out
our Webflow review, of course Webflow has great functionality, but it just requires quite a bit
of experience in website building, so if you're just a beginner, I would say that you should be
pretty fine with HostGator, but if you would be looking for a more simplistic website builder,
I'll put links for those below, but if you're an experienced or tech savvy person you should be
pretty satisfied with HostGator's website builder. Now before we talk about the price, let's
quickly sum up the pros and cons of this HostGator website builder review. Basically, I want
to highlight again the fact that HostGator offers tons of features that you can add to your
website and that automatically results in a lot of editing freedom. Then there's
quite a lot of templates, which are free and that's a positive thing because otherwise
I would be totally mad if they would charge extra. Finally, I would say that the user
interface is pretty intuitive and easy to use, which is a great feature again and their
fair price is also another pro, which I will talk about in a minute. Now the downsides, I would say
that even though they have quite a lot of free templates, but they're not the best as i found them
to be pretty boring and they would still require some editing to finally look professional. And
also, I didn't like that the website didn't load once I tried to add a new section to my website,
but I hope it will be fixed and won't happen again. So finishing up this review
by talking all about the pricing. So as I mentioned their plan prices are totally
reasonable and you can even get a better price with a deal link that I have down below in the
description, which gives 50 percent off of your purchase. The basic plan comes at 3.84 cents per month,
which is dirt cheap and it's even cheaper with our discount link and you'll get quite a few
perks together with this plan such as a free ssl certificate, but that's not something to
be super excited about because you can get a ssl certificate for free anyway. What plays the
biggest role here is again the price. Take note that if you would like to get a free domain for
a year, then you would have to go for one of their web hosting plans for 12, 24 or 36 months, but I
would still recommend going for Express Site, as it also gives the option to add a mini version
of an online store to your website, if you would like to sell something online, plus you'll get
priority customer support, which is also good if you happen to have some problems, so you'll pretty
much be able to solve them just super quickly. Lastly, the Express Store plan is mostly for people,
who want to sell more products on their website and it will eliminate the transaction fees if
someone purchases something from your website. Again there's a special discount link down below,
so check it out now and check what's the price right now. I am sure that the final price will
surprise you a lot. So that is pretty much it for our HostGator website builder review. Thanks
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for more reviews, comparisons and of course discount codes. I wish you all the best and
a great website building journey. Bye-bye.
