The commercials are everywhere – “Sign up here and use our website builder to create an amazing website!” But is a website builder really the easiest way to get your own website up and running?

Website builders are great, and you can make a nice looking website using one, but it’s not necessarily as easy as they make it seem. Website builders provide a starting point for getting your own website, but you still have to do all the work yourself.

Websites require some work to be put in. That means you need to do things like find a layout that works for your site, figure out which pages your site needs, write all the content for your pages, collect all the images you want to include, figure out which pages will link where… and then finally put all the pieces together and build your website.