If you want information about Webnode online website creation software, you are in the right place. Indeed, this article takes a very close look at this publisher in order to provide you with the most precise opinion possible.
First of all, you should know that the Webnode company was created in 2008, which gives it a certain experience and therefore a certain reliability. The main objective of Webnode is to offer simple solutions to people wishing to create a website, whether they are individuals or professionals.
Thus, Webnode has conquered the world of the web and today has more than 40 million users across the planet. If you want to know more aboutthis online website builder, we will get to the heart of the matter by detailing our test and review on Webnode.
To do this, let's start by looking at the themes offered by this software because they constitute an important aspect of your future site.
The choice of designs
The first thing your visitors will see when arriving on your site will of course be its graphic theme. It is therefore important to be able to choose a template that suits you and that can adapt to your desires.
Likewise, the latter must be clear and pleasing to the eye. To this end, Webnode offers a very wide choice of templates to meet the needs of each user. This editor has no less than a hundred themes listed according to several categories to help you in your search.
Webnode Themes © iPhon
Webnode doesn't stop there. To go further, the designs of this editor are responsive, which means that they are displayed optimally on all types of screens (computer, tablet, smartphone, etc.) in order to guarantee a good user experience, whatever the medium used.
Our opinion about Webnode themes is therefore all the more positive. But if the themes are very satisfactory, what about the content editing itself?
Managing the content of your site
Once you have registered with Webnode and chosen your design, you can start customizing your site. Depending on the type of site you want to create, Webnode will provide you with appropriate templates and you can go straight to adding your content.
The editor of this software is very intuitive and it only takes a few minutes to get to grips with it, even for a beginner user. Indeed, the main advantage of the Webnode editing tool is that it is called “wysiwyg” for “What You See Is What You Get”. In other words, the display of your page in the editor reflects the final display of your page on your website.
Your modifications are therefore visible in real time, which saves time and above all a criterion of simplicity. All you have to do is click on the elements of your choice (images, texts, titles, multimedia content, etc.) to be able to modify, move or delete them. The “+” button located between sections also allows you to add content easily.
Thanks to its very intuitive side, our opinion about the Webnode editor is very positive.
Webnode, for what kind of websites?
Depending on the type of website you want to create, your requirements for the editor you choose will not be the same. So, in this test we tried to find out which sites you can create with Webnode.
Personal website, blog and portfolios
Many people these days are starting to blog on a wide variety of topics. Please note that if you want to do this with Webnode, it is entirely possible. Indeed, this online site creator offers you a wide choice of designs created for blogs.
Webnode blog edition © iPhon
In the same way, you can produce content in the form of articles, layout them in a very simple way and add all kinds of illustrative content (image, music, video, etc.). This is a major asset to interest your readers and bring your blog to life.
Our opinion on this subject is quite positive, to the extent that creating a blog with Webnode benefits from the same advantages as another type of site, while also being very easy to achieve.
Professional site, showcase
Just as you can easily create a blog with Webnode, the editor also allows you to create a very successful professional site. Indeed, you will find among Webnode designs a choice of very professional models, adapted to all sectors of activity.
Whether you want to have a simple theme to promote an official activity or, on the contrary, you want a more fanciful design for a lighter activity, you will inevitably find what you are looking for in the themes offered by Webnode.
Also, you can add tools to your site to serve your business, such as contact forms for example. For your professional site too, Webnode has suitable solutions, which once again earns it a positive opinion from us.
Online store
To continue our opinion on Webnode, let's take a look at what it can offer you forcreate an online store. Webnode therefore has a creation wizard and themes specially designed for e-commerce. You will then be able to create your product sheets, but also enter your payment, delivery or even tax information.
In addition, you will have the possibility of adding tools such as Google Ads or Pixel Facebook. This way, your online business can grow. However, even if Webnode puts a lot of things in place to allow you to do online business, it is not a publisher specializing in this area.
Webnode online store edition © iPhon
If you want to make this a primary activity and have access to more advanced features, this editor may not be the right solution. Our opinion therefore needs to be qualified here and we advise you instead to opt forSite 123, a very intuitive web builder.
Additional information
As we talked about earlier in this review, Webnode allows you to add specific tools to your website. These are called widgets and you will find a multitude of them to meet all your needs. For example, there are modules:
- Appointment making
- Contact forms
- Weather
- Clock or calendar
- QR code, etc.
To add these elements to your website with Webnode, it's very simple. All you have to do is copy the code of your widget (most often found from a third party) then click on “Insert HTML code”, in the “Other content” option in the add content window of your editor.
You can then simply paste it, and the corresponding option will be added to your site. This brings added value to the latter, which we do not fail to note in this Webnode review, already very positive.
The performance offered by Webnode
In order to continue our test on the Webnode editor, we now want to focus on another very important element, namely: the performance it has for your website.
Overall performance
In order to present you with a complete and, above all, objective opinion, we tested the performance offered by Webnode for the sites it allows you to create. The results of this test are quite satisfactory, since the site loads quite quickly. These results include two things:
- Your visitors' user experience will be good, since the site will load quickly and their navigation will be smooth
- Your SEO will be better, because Google takes into account the loading time of your site in its ranking
To go further in this area, let's look at the possibilities that Webnode offers you in terms of SEO.
What about SEO?
If so far our opinion on Webnode is very good, not to say excellent, we would like to check its skills in terms of SEO. Indeed, this is a very important aspect to consider when choosing your publisher, because if your site is poorly referenced, your potential visitors will never find it.
Webnode SEO © iPhon
The first thing we can note is that Webnode offers you the possibility to optimize the SEO of each of your pages, allowing you to modify elements such as:
- The title of the page
- Its meta description
- They are URLs
In the same way, you can add tags, footers and headers, in order to best meet the expectations of your visitors, and therefore of Google. These possibilities are very important for your site, which gives Webnode a very good opinion from us on this subject.
Support client
What would be the test of a website publisher who didn't talk about their customer support? Surely not much, which is why we wanted to present the Webnode one to you. Indeed, in the event of problems, this is the only solution you have to get help, so the customer support provided by your publisher must be efficient and competent.
Therefore, Webnode offers you two ways to contact support:
- An email address
- A contact form
These means of communication are consulted by the Webnode team during the week, but not on weekends, which is a great shame in our opinion and which lowers Webnode slightly in our estimation. However, on weekdays, the response time is generally less than 24 hours, which is generally good.
In addition, the teams are competent and pleasant. Also, the advisors speak in French which is very positive. Note that if your complaint is relatively simple, you can also consult the knowledge base provided by the service provider. The help center is relatively complete and the articles are written in French.
Anyway, to have an overview of the quality of service offered by Webnode, we must now present to you the offers and prices it has. So that’s what we’re going to do in the rest of this review.
Subscriptions and prices
To complete our overview of Webnode's features, we will now explore its pricing proposals. This way, you will be able to see if they fit your budget and your needs.
Choice of Webnode package © iPhon
Free solution
Webnode has an advantage in terms of its pricing offers, and this lies inthe possibility it offers you to create a site for free. However, this offer should be moderated because the functionalities it gives you are quite limited.
Indeed, your site will be a Webnode subdomain, which means that its address will contain the “.webnode.fr” extension as well as the “Optimized by Webnode” advertising on each of its pages. Likewise, your storage space will be limited to 100 GB and your monthly traffic cannot exceed 1 GB.
However, this option is not limited in time like most publishers, which makes us give it a positive opinion despite everything.
Offre Limited
If you want to start a little more efficiently with Webnode, without taking any risks, you can consider the Limited solution, offered at only €3 per month. This offer gives you 100 MB of storage and 1 GB of monthly traffic, but here you have the option of linking a domain name or purchasing one.
Likewise, the Limited plan offers you a form editor containing up to 5 fields and access to your statistics over the last 30 days. These options are basic but they can allow you to familiarize yourself with the tool or to maintain a small website. To go further, you will have to upgrade to more expensive offers.
Mini Formula
The pricing solution called Mini allows you to go a little further with your website. Indeed, this offer has been designed so that you can create a satisfactory personal site, or even a blog. This subscription is priced at €5.50 per month and gives you access to the following features:
- A free domain name for a year
- 500 MB storage space
- A monthly traffic limit of 3 GB
- The possibility of linking a domain name
- Access to premium customer service
- An unlimited form editor
- Access to your visit statistics without limits
- An email address linked to your site
- The ability to insert video backgrounds
You will find that this offer is quite comprehensive and inexpensive, which earns it our most positive review. However, it is not the most successful solution at Webnode, unlike the one below.
Standard Subscription
If you're looking for the hottest deal at Webnode, this is it. In fact, the Standard subscription is the most used, and you will quickly understand why. The latter is priced at €9.90 monthly, which is a very attractive price, and it allows you to boost your website, by adding more features to those already included in previous offers.
Thus, you will be at the head of 2 GB of storage space, 10 GB of monthly traffic limit but also 20 email addresses. In addition, this subscription allows you to create an online store and have access to tools such as Google Analytics or Google AdSense.
Also, Webnode ads will completely disappear from your site, which was not the case with lower offers. This is all the more positive in our opinion as Webnode goes further, by offering you in this subscription a member area (limited to 100 members), but also a multilingual site (limited to 2 languages) and 5 restoration backups.
Webnode prices © iPhon
Plan Pro
Finally, we present to you in this review the most advanced offer from Webnode: the Pro subscription. Priced at €17.90 per month, this offer is dedicated to professionals with fairly significant website needs. Consequently, the performance of this plan will be better, with for example:
- 5 GB of storage space
- Unlimited monthly traffic
- 100 email addresses
- Unlimited member space
- Unlimited multilingual versions
- Limitless backups and restores
As you will have understood, this offer is very qualitative, and in our opinion very affordable in terms of price, when we know what is practiced by the competition. This offer is the latest offered by Webnode, so you are up to date with everything about this online editor.
Conclusion: our opinion on the Webnode site creation software
That's it, you have reached the end of our review and test on the Webnode editor. We have tried to make this as complete as possible in order to answer all your potential questions on this subject.
To conclude, we can emphasize the fact that our opinion on Webnode is quite positive, in particular because of its choice of themes, the ease of use it demonstrates, its accessible prices or even the variety of widgets that you can add to it.
However, don't lose sight of the fact that some points are a little less good, such as customer support only accessible 5 days a week or even e-commerce tools which could be more advanced. That said, Webnode remains a quality editor.
