What’s the Difference Between Website Builder And CMS

Unless you are a coding genius, most website development projects will be built either using a pretty basic website builder or a more sophisticated content management system.

A website builder should be pretty familiar to anyone in SEO. The most common examples, include Wix, Weebly, and GoDaddy Website Builder.

Website builders incorporate drag and drop UX and UI that makes it easy for anyone to build a site without hiring a developer.

For this reason, website builders are often a great choice for cash-strapped small businesses, although this does come at the cost of scale and sophistication.

While a website builder offers intuitive styling features, developers will be hard-pressed to make any changes to the backend or files that are hosted by the builder.

For this reason, developers often prefer the flexibility and blank slate that a CMS like WordPress provides.

Content management systems are software programs that enable developers to store and structure content on their site.

It’s often a misconception that WordPress is a website developer when it’s really a CMS that can incorporate website builders and other plugins into its API.

Using a CMS, developers are free to:

Add their own HTML.

Manipulate .htaccess files.

Organize content on their website however they choose.

Furthermore, CMS platforms offer themes and templates that can make building pages a lot easier.