Jimdo
Jimdo is a full-featured web design app and cost-effective hosting service. Although it lacks polish in some areas, the admin UI is quite responsive and easy to use. The one big drawback is the rather disappointing design template library, but there’s provision for regular HTML/CSS designs.
- Pros
- Paid plans include e-mail service and e-commerce
- Full HTML/CSS access means compatibility with third-party design templates
- No limits on pages and traffic
- Blog feature
- Built-in support for mobile devices
- Your site URL can be used as OpenID
- Option to password-protect pages
- Multilingual support
- Cons
- Lackluster design templates
- Custom domain price is relatively expensive
- No month-to-month payment option
- E-commerce carries sales fee on lower-tier plans
- Signup e-mail contains unprotected password
- Price
- Basic plan is free, ad-supported
- Paid plans start at $5 per month, paid yearly
