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guy like me I've spent too much money on
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websites I'd pull out that credit card
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for web hosting I'd throw Canadian
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dollars at tools and buy too many domain
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names for bad business
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ideas but I'm tired of spending money my
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next website has to be free as in 0 I
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don't want to spend a
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dime the website is for good harvest my
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super popular gardening Channel on
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YouTube I don't need anything special
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just a simple onepage website is fine
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it needs a splashy
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photo a spot for a few videos and I ran
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out of space but this is a contact
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Section could I do it could I translate
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this into a free website like this stick
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around this is the story of how I did
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that to start I did some research and I
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found seven free website tools that seem
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to be recommended most often the first
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one I tried was Wick
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Wix seem to be recommended everywhere
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all right took me about a half hour but
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I've been able to design my site on Wix
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I think it looks pretty good so now
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let's publish it but when I hit publish
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I knew instantly Wix wouldn't work for
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me G so it looks like free websites on
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Wix have this ad that scrolls with the
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website it's kind of a deal breaker and
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on top of that check out the URL they
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gave my free website I wasn't able to
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get rid of this part of the URL which
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kind of sucks I could deal with this but
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this I'm giving Wix one star ugly ad
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ugly URL so that's just to know from me
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and remember I'm just rating wix's free
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plan not Wix as a whole actually like
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Wix as a website builder if you use the
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paid plans seeing how bad wix's free
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plan was got me suspicious because when
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I had Googled best free website builder
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tons of people had been suggesting Wix
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they never even mention mentioned the
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big ugly ad instead they praised Wix for
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super arbitrary things so I was feeling
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skeptical when I tried my next tool
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wordpress.com not WordPress but
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wordpress.com they're two different
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things wordpress.org is the open source
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CMS you can download for free and upload
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to any web host wordpress.com is a
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separate hosted service so don't get
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them mixed up and don't come at me in
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the comments and say you should have
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tried wordpress.org no it's not free I
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mean technically it's free but you'd
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also need a word Press host and I'm
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telling you there are no good free
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WordPress hosts anyways wordpress.com
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was also a disappointment so I'm just
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setting up my free site and they say I
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need a Premium plan to change fonts and
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colors come on I know it's a free
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product but that's that's corny I was
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able to design my website to look how I
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want it but to be honest it took me a
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while I found wordpress.com confusing I
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mean look at how the interface keeps
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switching and Chang changing as I
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navigate through it that's just kind of
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odd and once I published my website I
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noticed that like Wix wordpress.com also
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put a big ad on free websites so
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wordpress.com gets one star two big ad
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hard to use and can't change colors I
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on at this point I started to worry was
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every free website builder going to
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include some dumb little limitation
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designed to annoy and frustrate me
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enough so that I'd go for their paid
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cuz guess what the next two that I tried
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Jim do and youthcraft both had annoying
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ads here's
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jimdo and here's
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ukraft I can't have ads like this I'm a
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big time YouTuber but seriously these
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ads just look amateur and they're even
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mobile Jim do and ukraft you both get
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two stars too
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okay okay I know I'm not blaming these
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companies it's a free website what right
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do I have to complain I just think we
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can do better than this so let's keep
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going fortunately next up was square and
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they were better even if you don't know
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Square you've probably used their
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checkout at like a coffee shop before
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they're a Payment Processing Company
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which means they help businesses take
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payments they offer free websites in
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hopes that you'll sell things on the
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website and then they can process
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payments which means they're especially
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focused on e-commerce websites which
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doesn't really matter to me I got
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nothing to sell overall my Square
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website looked pretty good the ad was
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really small and hidden at the bottom of
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the page I like that unfortunately this
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editor is just oddly limited for example
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I can't seem to get this white to be
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black so Square had these style options
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I could choose from but none of them let
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me have just a black background and
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white button weird weird and I can't
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remove the header I don't need a header
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remember I'm just building a onepage
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website Square clocks in at a solid
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three stars small ad but weird design
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limitations next up was canva canva was
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definitely the runner up typically I
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think of canva as a graphic design tool
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not a website builder but I've been
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pretty impressed I was able to get
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really close to the design I wanted and
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when I finally hit publish I was pleased
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to see the ad was small and hidden on
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footer the only downside I'm not crazy
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about this URL they give free websites
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I'd much prefer it to be like
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this plus they've added a weird white
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bar um that I can't get rid of on mobile
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I could be doing something wrong I
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honestly don't know in any case canva
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gets a solid four
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stars small ad good design kind of lame
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URL so Cano was pretty close to what I
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needed what could possibly be better
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well you probably haven't heard of this
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next tool card and it was my winner it's
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for building onepage websites which is
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exactly what I need okay so card is
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looking like a perfect fit I've been
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able to get the design looking exactly
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want and when it came time to publish
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they let me choose my own URL which was
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great almost every other website Builder
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just automatically assigned me a
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URL plus see if you can spot the ad it's
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really small right here that's the
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smallest ad of any tool I
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tried so I'm really happy with card and
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also look how nice it looks on mobile
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perfect overall card is a perfect five
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stars tiny ad great design and a great
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URL thanks card so here's what surprised
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me I was able to design something pretty
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similar to my original mockup with all
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tools for me the main differentiator was
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the annoying ads they put on free
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websites and the
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URLs example this is just not great I
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much prefer this turns out there are
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lots of free website tools out there but
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it takes some effort to find the right
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one for you I mean I had to make the
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same website seven times before I found
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and even then it doesn't mean card is
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the best free website builder it just
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means card was what worked best for me
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in this particular case for example if I
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had needed a free e-commerce website I'm
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guessing Square would have worked better
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but that's just theoretical all I know
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is that card was what I needed today now
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I have a beautiful free website for my
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little YouTube channel and I can proudly
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say it didn't cost me a
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