E-monsite review: what is this web creation platform worth?

If you clicked on this article, it is probably because you are planning to create a website and want to obtain information on the different online site editors who can help you do so. Then you are in the right place, because we are devoting this article to our complete test and review on the French e-monsite platform.

This site creation software launched its first editing tool in 2004 to make creation easier for novices. Indeed, the Internet has not always been as accessible as it is today. Thus, e-monsite has evolved to offer you an effective tool that allows you to create any type of site.

So in order to find out if this publisher is as qualitative as its official page suggests, we are going to carry out a complete test of e-monsite in this article. In this way, we will be able to give you our informed opinion on the subject, and you will also be able to form your own opinion on this software.

Available themes

To begin our test of the e-monsite editor, we find it essential to take an interest in the choice of designs offered by the latter. It is true that the appearance of your website is very important, whatever its purpose.

Therefore, the first thing that will be asked of you when creating your website with e-monsite will be to choose a theme. The choice is quite large, and we can also note a positive point: the display of the designs adapts to the different types of screens that you can use (computer, smartphone, tablet, etc.).

In addition, for faster sorting, e-monsite offers you the possibility of displaying the designs according to the criteria you wish to find. For example, you can sort the templates according to your field of activity, the dominant color of the theme, the display of the latter, the level of customization offered or the functionalities included (image galleries , forms, etc.).

However, we have one criticism to make of the themes available on e-monsite. Indeed, the latter do not have a very modern appearance, and may seem slightly obsolete. This does not prevent them from being functional, of course. However, their main role being to convey a positive image of your site, their sometimes outdated appearance can be displeasing.

Our opinion about e-monsite themes is therefore slightly nuanced.

The editing tool

If the possibilities of themes are important when choosing an editor, there is another parameter which in our opinion is also crucial: its ease of use. Indeed, if the creation software is too difficult to use or too unintuitive, your creation will not be pleasant and above all, you will probably not achieve your goals.

Getting started with the e-monsite editing tool

During our e-monsite test, we were of course interested in the ease of handling the editing interface of this site creator. At first glance, the dashboard display is quite clear and it seems quite fun.

However, once we wanted to get to the heart of the matter and start creating and editing content on our test site, we quickly realized that this tool is not intuitive and even less so for novice people. Although the service provider makes certain efforts by providing you with assistance such as tutorials, its use still remains quite complicated so that the design process takes time.

Indeed, to personalize your website, you must juggle between the different tabs located at the top of your editor. Once on the page of your choice, the editing tool offers you to make modifications via different content blocks, the latter of which do not display the final result of your page.

So you have to keep going back and forth with the preview page, reopening it with each change. When we think of the Jimdo editor which displays the final rendering of your page directly in your editor and offers you to make your modifications by simply clicking on the areas concerned, we realize that e-monsite is not up to the task. at that level.

You will therefore easily understand our rather poor opinion on this point of our test.

The tools offered by the publisher

In order to slightly improve our opinion on the e-monsite site editor, we would like to talk to you about a slightly more positive aspect than its editing tool strictly speaking: the options that it allows you to add to your website.

Indeed, if e-monsite is clearly not at the top in terms of creation assistance, it makes up for it a little by providing you with a certain choice of widgets. The most used widgets are:

• The weather of a specific location
• Upcoming events
• A carousel of images
• A search engine (Google type or specific to your site)
• A newsletter subscription button
• Connection to a members area
• A Google Maps to transmit the geographical position of your business

This variety of tools significantly improves our opinion on e-monsite. However, the French publisher is not the only one to offer this type of service. Our overall opinion on its editing tool is therefore quite mixed.

The types of sites that can be created with e-monsite

There are several types of websites available, each adapted to a type of use. Depending on the site you want to create, your editor will have to adapt to its requirements in order to meet your needs and so that you can achieve your objectives.

So let's see in the rest of our opinion what you will be able to do with e-monsite depending on the type of site you want to create.

Site personnel

If you want to create a personal site, commonly called a “blog”, e-monsite has a specialized module to offer you, which is a good point. Indeed, this module allows you to create a blog composed of several articles displayed according to your convenience. This way, you can add all kinds of content (text, images, multimedia content, etc.).

However, we can make the same criticism that we have already made during our test of the e-monsite editing tool, that is to say that the interface for creating blog articles the French editor is quite difficult to use.

Indeed, adding content is quite unintuitive, especially for a novice user and the final rendering is only visible by opening a preview page, which really wastes a lot of time. So, although creating a blog is completely possible with e-monsite due to the modules it makes available to you to do so, this action remains relatively difficult to carry out. Our opinion therefore remains quite average.

Professional website

You may want to create a professional website to promote your activity and/or business. In the same way that you can create a blog with e-monsite, you can also consider a showcase site.

To this end, you can choose a theme adapted to your professional field, and which contains the tools you need to serve your activity, in particular thanks to the widgets that we talked about above.

However, we also stipulated in the part of this review dedicated to e-monsite themes that they were quite outdated. So, our main criticism regarding the use of e-monsite to create your professional site will be to say that the choice of design may not allow you to offer your website as modern a look as you would like. This is quite disappointing for your brand image.

Online store

Against all odds, know that it is also possible for you to create an e-commerce site with e-monsite. Thus, you can benefit from a tool specialized increation of an online store. To use it, simply connect to your interface, then go to the “Modules” menu. You can then select the “Shop” option.

From that point on, you can start creating your store by adding your products. Given that the creation of your e-store will be done via the same editing tool as the other types of sites previously mentioned, we can therefore formulate the same criticisms, namely: a lack of simplicity and sometimes outdated designs.

Now that you know everything about creating sites with e-monsite, it is time to look at the performance offered by this editor. Indeed, even if not everyone thinks about it, this aspect is very important for your future website.

The technical performance of a site under e-monsite

In the rest of our review and complete test of thesite creatorFrench e-monsite, we are going to talk about the performance of the latter. This way, you will know what this publisher has in store for you if you opt for them.

Performance offered to your site

The main feature to consider when it comes to the performance offered by a site builder is the loading time it will offer your site. Indeed, a site that is too slow to load will not only be unpleasant to navigate for your visitors, but will also be poorly ranked overall in search engine results.

At this level, it's a nice surprise that e-monsite gave us. Indeed, the loading times of websites created with e-monsite are quite good overall, as is the number of requests which is quite low. All this contributes to raising our previously rather negative opinion on the French site creation tool.

So let's now see what's going on with the SEO aspects of your potential e-monsite website.

SEO and SEO aspects

As you will have understood, another very important aspect of your publisher's performance lies in its SEO functionalities and in the results it provides at this level. The least we can say is that on the SEO side, e-monsite shows some effort.

Indeed, each page can be optimized via the following parameters that you manage yourself:

• A meta description
• Keywords
• A title
• Tags
• A personalized URL

In addition, e-monsite gives you the benefit of explanations and advice at each of these stages, which is a very positive point, especially for the most novice people. Thus, the referencing of your website with e-monsite can be quite satisfactory if you meet all the publisher's conditions on this subject.

In the same way as the more general performance, this aspect of creating sites with e-monsite gives the publisher a fairly positive opinion from us.

Support client

The last point we want to address regarding the performance offered by e-monsite lies in the quality of its customer support. At first glance, this support seems quite complete, especially since there is no language barrier to hinder your approach, since e-monsite is entirely French.

In fact, you can get help using four different communication methods:

• A large database on the e-monsite site, with FAQ, video tutorials, tips and tricks
• A contact form
• Live chat from your customer area
• A telephone line

Although these ways of contacting customer service seem completely satisfactory, we can nevertheless criticize them for a few small things. First, live chat puts you in touch with an automaton, which can be inconvenient for troubleshooting issues not programmed by e-monsite.

Then, the telephone line is quite expensive, which can hold back a certain number of users. Finally, you cannot add attachments to your emails for e-monsite, which may make your explanations of your problem difficult to understand.

As you will have understood, our opinion about e-monsite customer support is quite mixed. This editor takes care to respond to your requests, but certain small shortcomings alter the experience.

Subscriptions and prices at e-monsite

The only thing that remains for us to see in order to present you with a complete opinion of the e-monsite site creator is of course its price list. It is normal that you want to know the prices charged by the publisher before making a choice, and these are divided into five subscriptions.

Free

We can already raise a positive point in the subscriptions offered by e-monsite, and this lies in the fact that the publisher offers a free offer unlimited over time. In addition, this subscription grants you an unlimited number of pages, which is quite rare among the competition to point out.

However, your storage will be limited and you will only have support available within 48 hours, which may cause certain problems. In the same way, your domain will be marked “.e-monsite.com”.

Clearly, this offer may be perfectly suited to someone wishing to discover e-monsite before getting started, or even to someone wishing to create a small-scale personal site.

Perso

To benefit from more features than with the free offer that we have just presented to you, you will necessarily have to go with a paid plan. The least expensive one you will find at e-monsite is called “Perso” and offers you more options.

Indeed, for a price of €1.50 per month, you will no longer have e-monsite advertisements on your website, and your storage space will be 0.5 GB. Also, you will have the possibility of creating a members area, the latter being however limited to 25 members. If you want to go further in your creation, other e-monsite offers will be better suited to your project.

Pro

If you aim to create a site for your professional activity, this e-monsite subscription may interest you. Indeed, it has all the necessary features, for a price of €5 per month. At this price, three things differ from the previous subscription, in order to adapt to your greater needs as a professional.

• You will have access to 2.5 GB of storage
• Support will be available to you within 24 hours
• You can accommodate up to 1,500 members in your members area

As you will have understood, this subscription should be taken into consideration if you wish to create a so-called “showcase” site to promote your professional activity.

Business

If your activity is more important and therefore your needs in terms of a website are also greater, you can look into the “Business” offer offered by e-moniste at a monthly rate of €12. So, at this price, what will you be entitled to to make your business prosper? It's very simple, your storage will be 5 GB and your members area will be able to accommodate up to 20,000.

Also, you will be entitled to an SSL certificate to ensure your security and that of your visitors and HTTPS will appear in your URL in order to inform your visitors of the secure connection they have when browsing your site. In addition, the servers allocated to your website will be more powerful than if you opt for previous offers.

E-commerce

Finally, e-monsite offers you the possibility of subscribing to a subscription specially designed for online commerce. Priced at €24 per month, this solution goes further than previous subscriptions. You can therefore launch yourself into e-commerce with the latter, taking advantage of, for example:

• An unlimited members area
• A store without limits
• Integration of online payment methods
• Some e-commerce tools

In this way, you will be able to do business online in a fairly simple way, taking advantage of the basic functionalities that you will need.

Conclusion: our general opinion on e-monsite

This article dedicated to our test and opinion on the French site editor e-monsite is now finished. To summarize our overall feeling, we can say that it is overall quite negative, due to several shortcomings noted throughout our experience with e-monsite.

First of all, we were disappointed by the style of the themes offered by e-monsite, which seem rather outdated. Likewise, the user experience did not convince us: getting to grips with the creation software is quite difficult and editing content is not intuitive.

Then, we also noted the absence of live preview, which is a big obstacle to creation. Finally, we were generally disappointed by e-monsite's customer service, which is relatively inefficient due to its communication conditions.

However, we should not blame e-monsite for this, in fact, it still has positive aspects such as its fairly reasonable prices, its relatively large choice of theme or its good technical and SEO performance.

As you will have understood, the decision is up to you, based on your needs and desires. In any case, we hope that this article has been useful to you and that, thanks to it, you can begin creating your website without any unpleasant surprises.