Overview
Founded in 1983 and went public in 1993, Intuit is a premier software company that among other things, offers an excellent website builder called Intuit Website Creator. Their services target small businesses and individuals. The website builder is HTML based and their signature intuitive drag and drop interface means using the software doesn’t require any knowledge of HTML programming.
Detailed Review
Intuit’s website builder is a resourceful website creating solution that enables its users without any web designing knowledge or experience to create professional looking websites very quickly. The intuitive design tools of the website builder let work smoothly, helping to get your website up and running in a small amount of time.
With 20,000 website templates and 250,000 stock photos, the website builder has a rich resource of the graphic elements that put life into a website. The website templates are professionally designed and built to give your website a professional look. They are also fully customizable so you can make them work for you in the way that you think is best.
If you still need to add media from outside Intuit’s database, you can do so easily. Even after the website is complete, you can conveniently make changes. The familiar and intuitive tools included in the website builder makes the whole website designing experience very comfortable.
Benefiting from the easy to use interface and a large database of pictures, website templates and pictures, small business owners can quickly add information to create customized 5-page websites.
Your web hosting and publishing needs are also taken care of by Intuit’s website builder. Intuit itself hosts your website and with its 1-click publishing option, gets it online in no time.
As the website builder targets small businesses as well as individuals, it provides features that are important for a successful business model. It provides website tracking and statistics and 100MB of storage & 5GB per month of bandwidth usage. It also fully integrates your website with PayPal as well as other popular credit card processing services.
You can try the website builder for free by using its trial version. The free trial version is good for 30 days. If you are pleased with its performance and decide to continue with the website builder beyond the first month, then you can do so for only $4.99 per month. This price is for the Starter Package.
Intuit’s website builder also features a strong help and support system. Whatever problem you may have, Intuit’s ‘Web Advisors’ are at your service 7 days a week. Support is available both via telephone and the web. Also featured is a set of step by step instructions that guide you as you use the software to build your website. Also part of the support system are valuable resources like an enlightening FAQ section, forums and an online chatting service.
The low subscription charges and the integration of eCommerce services, like PayPal offers busy small business owners to quickly and efficiently setup an attractive website for their business.
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