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**alanc** · 06-13-2007, 11:01 AM

Help - What would you want in a website builder? Hello everyone,

This is my second post to the board (first was an introduction) and I'd first like to say hello and comment on what a great resource this board is. I'm hoping some of you may be help me out here which would be very much appreciated.

I'd like to pick some peoples brains if possible please. I'm researching website builder systems and am trying to identify what aspects are important to a business user. Obviously as I am from a technical background my perspective on it is different to business owner.

For any business owners, even those with existing custom developed websites I'd be interested and very grateful if you could help me with what your top 5 items would be that you would consider important from a website builder.

For example:
1) Ease of use
2) Feature Set
3) Price
4) Support
5) Turnaround time
6) Reporting on Sales conversions
7) Anything else?

Also from a feature set angle what features would you look for in a website builder?
1) Shopping cart
2) Good reporting on Traffic and site activity and Sales information
3) Blog
4) Forum
5) Good at Search Engine Optimisation
6) Calendars
7) Mailing Lists
8) Newsletter
9) Anything else?

I'd really appricate any help or comments anyone could give. Also if anyone feel this post would be better places in a different area please let me know.

Thanks in Advance.
Alan

**alanc** · 06-15-2007, 07:34 AM

Anyone?

**alanc** · 06-19-2007, 04:49 AM

Bump!

**Zonthar** · 06-19-2007, 05:11 AM

well...
first off, you didn't tell us what your website actually does. the order of the points you mentioned may shift and change according to what you're trying to do with your website

**alanc** · 06-20-2007, 07:49 AM

hi,

I'm not trying to do anything with the website. I'm trying to understand preferences and whats important to busioness people. Obviously different people will have different requirements but you can get a pattern over time.

I'm not building a website. I'm researching attidues to websites.

-Alan

**alanc** · 06-20-2007, 07:51 AM

Another quick question

What are people thoughs on the ability to deactivate pages from their website rather than deleting them.

I'm not sure if there are many instances where users need to deactivate pages temporarily so maybe just the ability to delete is fine?

Any thoughts on that?

Thanks
Alan

**Learning Newbie** · 06-20-2007, 04:21 PM

Really depends on what kind of site it is. My blog lets me save each "page" aka post as either a draft ( hidden or temporarily disabled from public view ) or as a published page. So there's some reason in some cases. Most of them, probably not.

I make ad revenue through my site, but I don't actually sell anything. So a shopping cart wouldn't help me in the least.