Website builders are computer software, online platforms, or programming tools that allow you to build and create your own websites from A to Z, without requiring any knowledge, skills or experience about coding. A website builder is designed and equipped with tons of plugins, features, and supporting tools that enable users to freely design and build their own websites with just drag and drop actions on an existing hosting platform.

There are two types of website builders, online and offline. Offline web builders are application software that can be downloaded and run on a personal computer for offline use. Online web builders are platforms that enable internet users to login and directly create, edit, adjust, and publish their websites all by themselves.

In today’s era, when everything is launched online, online website builders services are more preferred and trusted because of the convenience in creating, editing and publishing stunning websites in real time. You can also hire freelance website builder services to take care of creating your own website for you. Freelancers are experienced, skilled, flexible, and will give you the best price based on what you demand.

WordPress is the most popular website builder right now in the world with more than 43% of the content management system belonging to it. It is an online web builder that provides internet users a hosting website and a platform equipped with features, plugins, drag-and-drop tools, and tons of elements for building the most stunning and custom website as you wish.

Most people consider WordPress as the best website builder in the world for its huge number of users. However, there are online platforms with more convenient, more secure, more beautiful, and more useful features that every business owner should look at for the most stunning website in the future. Those website builders are, for example, Wix, SquareSpace, Shopify, GoDaddy, Weebly, etc.

Besides helping users build their own beautiful websites in no time, these platforms above also provide website builder services to help their partners in promoting their businesses, supporting technical issues, managing their businesses, and more. Those are very useful features in the digital era in general, and in the ecommerce world in particular.

Professional website builders, or another term to describe web developers, will rely on programming languages such as C++, HTML, JAVA, CSS, etc, and their coding skill to create a website from scratch.

Although there are many online content management systems (CMS) and online website builders on the internet today, with tons of helpful features for people who have no experience in coding to build their own websites, those platforms still have some limits in terms of editing and managing. Therefore, professional web developers with their expertise in programming languages are still in great need in the market for their flexibility and high-class quality in building a full-stack website that is closest to businesses’ needs and demands.

CMS (Content Management System) is a system or computer software that is installed into a website builder or a web server to help create, manage, store the content. In other words, a CMS is just an added-in feature for a website where content is one of the key factors in its growing strategy.

That said, while most websites need content to grow, some can absolutely develop well without it such as catalogs websites, ecommerce websites, landing pages, etc. And they definitely don;t need a CMS to build or run a website.

A CMS website cost depends on several factors, such as the number of CMS features it has, how big is the scale of the business, the type of the website it is, its launching period, etc.

For example, with WordPress, the cost of a CMS website goes around $50 for the cheapest package, and can go up to more than $500 for the premium one. The basic CMS website version of everybody’s favorite website builder at the moment - Wix, is at about $200 a year, while CMS Hub Professional is at approximately $4,320 per year.

While a website builder is a hosting platform that enables us to build and host a website all on our own, a CMS (Content Management System) is a system or computer software that is installed into a website builder or a web server to help create, manage, store the content. 

With a website builder, besides the content management, you can also take care of other aspects of your website such as the maintenance, security, backups, building and improving the structure, promoting the website for ecommerce business purposes, having technical support from experts from the platform, etc. While with a CMS, you will need to handle all the mentioned matters on your own.