SITE123 Review (2024)Creating a Website in Only 3 Steps?

It’s not really complicated, although the editor is a little clunky. You pick an element you need, for example, a text section with a picture, and start editing it. You can check the result in a preview mode for desktops, tablets and mobile phones.

Their responsive designs look pretty good, but don’t offer a lot of creative freedom. Every section has a predefined structure. This means you can’t move pictures, headlines or videos around as you want. What you can do is move entire sections. One thing we liked is that there are a ton of prebuilt content sections for any type of purpose (events, testimonials, FAQ’s, timelines, etc.). All designs are mobile responsive.

Depending on your plan, you’ll see a floating banner and/ or footer tag. The Professional plan or higher is required to remove any kind of SITE123 ads.

Definitely a highlight! Up to 5 languages can be added very easily via subfolder, subdomain or individual domain names. For this to work, you’ll need a paid plan, though. Choose the language you want to add from a menu, and the system will automatically create a translation. It can also be edited manually, of course, and t worked also pretty well for the ecommerce checkout. SITE123 itself is available in more than 20 languages.

The paid plan contains a free domain the first year. If you already have a domain, you can connect it with SITE123 in their paid plans. Additionally, you’ll get up to 10 email accounts if you pick a premium plan.

Even though you can decide whether the links in your menu should open in a new page or scroll down on the same page, you can only add one level. Good enough for very small sites, but not suitable for more complex website structures.

Through the App Market you can add more features to your website. There aren’t too many apps, but you can add custom HTML snippets to your sites and integrate external widgets. Keep in mind that this feature is not available on the free plan.

Site123 doesn’t offer a dedicated mobile app, but the editor works reasonably well on mobile devices. You can edit pretty much all the sections on your website in a mobile-optimized view.

The paid plan contains an online store to sell physical and digital goods. Depending on your plan, payment options are credit card, PayPal and offline payment. Also, the higher your plan, the more you can sell (as the number of orders is limited in lower plans). SITE123 doesn’t charge you an additional sales fee. They even feature cart abandonment emails to lure your customers back into your store.

Basic stuff like adding an SEO title and description isn’t a problem. For beginners, there’s the SEO Advisor, which scans the site for potential SEO improvements. The URL structure for multilingual websites could be better. They contain unnecessary characters, such as ../t-en-us/ for United States English. We recommend choosing their subdomain option.

It’s possible to add a blog to your website. There are a few different layouts to choose from and the editor is quite flexible, letting you add elements like custom code and tables easily. You can also enable comments and schedule posts. While you can add headings, unfortunately it’s not possible to add subheadings (H3s, H4s etc.), which is not ideal for SEO.

There is an internal statistics tool, giving you a basic traffic overview including your most popular content. Additionally, you can also connect Google Analytics with your website.

SITE123 offers different contact form layouts. It’s also possible to add new fields if you need more customization.

You can set up a specific password and a members area with personal logins. Pictures or videos aren’t protected if someone has the direct link.

A simple newsletter tool is integrated. You can send up to 10.000 messages per month to your subscribers with the highest plan.

It’s possible to add an external code as long as it doesn’t change the structure of the website.

A premium plan will give you up to 270 GB of storage.

There is an option to restore to the last published version of the website.

If you run into an issue, you can get in touch with SITE123’s support directly via live chat. They answered our questions quickly. Their FAQ contains videos that explain typical functions of the website builder. Amazingly, you can use their support also on the free plan.

The support is available 24/7 in multiple different languages (English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, and more).

If you don’t have a pixel-perfect layout in mind, SITE123 is a website builder that makes putting a website together really easy.