The best website builder for small businesses

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A website should be high on the list for anyone starting a small business. In fact, it can be your number one marketing tool – a place your potential customers, suppliers, investors and partners can find out all about what your business does and buy your goods and/or services. However, setting up a website can be a tricky process – which is why we’ve put together this guide to the best website builders for small businesses.

We’ve tested all the leading online website builders, and some lesser-known ones, to help you choose the one that’s right for your venture. The key criteria here is that it should save you time and money – otherwise there’s no point. So, each item on our list is relatively inexpensive and no code is required to use any of them.

Tom May

Tom May is an award-winning journalist and editor specialising in design, photography and technology. Author of the Amazon #1 bestseller Great TED Talks: Creativity, published by Pavilion Books, Tom was previously editor of Professional Photography magazine, associate editor at Creative Bloq, and deputy editor at net magazine. Today, he is a regular contributor to Creative Bloq and its sister sites Digital Camera World, T3.com and Tech Radar. He also writes for Creative Boom and works on content marketing projects. 

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