Site builder for your website hosting advantages and disadvantages

Using a site builder on your own website hosting 

Using a site builder on your own website hosting 

• Advantages: 

1. Low Cost - you only pay for the hosting
2. More flexible than most sites completely free. You can have as many pages as you need.
3. Once you've gotten comfortable with how it works the site builder, it is very easy to update your site on the fly, no additional software is required.

• Disadvantages:

1. It is not free of charge. You pay an annual fee by the hosting service
2. Site builders vary a lot in a flexible and easy to use. Most of them have a significant learning curve.
3. You have to be careful with the loading of images and graphics. Not all the site builders to Convert and resize them correctly.
4. Often look very much like a generator of a website. Generally attractive, but often something impersonal. They usually end with a good-looking site that doesn't really say a lot about you and what you write.

• What you need to do:

1. You can create attractive sites with site builders, but you should make an effort to customize it, and not only with your name on it. Configure your own custom color palette. Find an image or background that says something about your writing. If you write stories set near the coast, find a beach scene. If their stories are set in a city like Atlanta or here in Nashville, get an image of the city. Most of the templates allow you to insert your own image somewhere. I also have instructions on how to create your own header banner using free.