5 Website Platforms You Can Use to Create a Website for Your Roofing Business
When you have never created a roofing website on your own before, it can be tough to determine what platform to use.
Not all website building platforms are created equally. Some are more geared towards e-commerce, blogging, video, or photography, and place less emphasis on other features.
However, there are some that are perfect for creating your roofing company’s website easily.
To give you an idea of what website platform you can get started with, we have compiled a list of the top website platforms to create your roofing website ranked by ease of use.
1. GoDaddy
Level of website skills needed: beginner.
Cost:
Basic: $9.99/month
Premium: $14.99/month
Commerce: $16.99/month
Commerce Plus: $29.99/month
The plan you choose will all depend on your specific needs. For instance, some roofing companies may want a website subscription that allows them to offer an online payment option for their customers, while others may not need that feature right away. Check out more information about their plans on GoDaddy’s website builder pricing page.
Description: GoDaddy provides you with templates to help you get started. They even have Roofing Company Website Templates, designed with your customers in mind. GoDaddy’s website editor is set up to allow you to easily drag and drop elements, change colors, add text, and add images to customize your website.
Features: Roofing specific templates, email marketing tools, mobile optimized designs, blog posting tool.
2. Wix
Level of website skills needed: beginner.
Cost:
Business basic: $27/month
Business unlimited: $32/month
Business VIP: $59/month
The Business Basic plan offers you access to Wix’s app “Wix Bookings,” which allows you to schedule appointments straight through the Wix platform. However, if you are looking for more storage capabilities (you plan on having large galleries of images or videos), you may want to get Business Unlimited or Business VIP.
Description: Wix allows you to either design your website yourself, or hire someone to design it for you. Since Wix is easy to use, if you have someone else design your website on Wix, you should be able to easily edit and add pages after they create the design for each type of page you want on your site.
Features: Home service company templates, blogging functionality, email marketing, and mobile optimization.
3. SquareSpace
Level of website skills needed: intermediate beginner.
Cost:
Personal: $16/month
Business: $23/month
Basic Commerce: $27/month
Advanced Commerce: $49/month
For a roofing company website, you most likely will not need all of the features of the commerce plans and would probably be able to use the Business plan for all of your purposes. The Business plan provides a few more key capabilities than the Personal plan, like access to analytics, integrations, and more customization options.
Description: They have a few contractor/ roofing company oriented templates (“Oranssi” being one of them). It can be hard to search through their templates to find the roofing website template you are looking for because they name their templates creatively rather than literally. All in all, once you get the hang of using SquareSpace, it can be an easy to use tool with solid design capabilities.
Features: Roofing company template, marketing tools, analytics dashboard, blogging capability, and mobile optimization.
4. Weebly
Level of website skills needed: intermediate.
Cost:
Personal: $6/month
Professional: $12/month
Performance: $26/month
The performance plan is primarily geared towards e-commerce, which you will most likely not need to use for your roofing company website. The Professional plan offers useful features that the Personal plan does not, like unlimited storage, a free domain, and advanced site analytics.
Description: Weebly is a fairly easy platform to use, but it has limited themes (templates) for roofing companies, so you will need to pick a template that you like or create your site from scratch. Fortunately, Weebly has a nice drag and drop interface with many functionalities that allow you to make your site your own through its customized features.
Features: SEO tools, blog functionality, drag and drop editor, site analytics, and mobile optimization.
5. HubSpot
Level of website skills needed: intermediate.
Cost:
Free: $0/month
Starter: $23/month
Professional: $360/month
HubSpot’s plans can get pretty pricey, but fortunately, a roofing company website does not usually require more than a Starter plan. However, a free plan will not usually be enough since it won’t offer you the ability to make unlimited pages and unlimited blogs like the Starter plan does.
Description: HubSpot may seem like an intimidating platform both in price and set up, but if you look into the pricing, you find that it is a very similar cost to the website builders above. If you do not have a desire to create contact attribution reports, perform A/B testing of content, and receive advanced SEO recommendations, you won’t really need to get the Professional plan. Although, if you plan on expanding your company to multiple states, you may eventually need to upgrade to the Professional level.
Features: Drag and drop editor, SEO recommendations, traffic analytics, a CRM (customer relationship management) database, and blogging capabilities.
Easily Create Your Roofing Company Website With a Good Website Builder
Although most roofing companies will need the similar features from a website builder, the website builder you choose will be unique to your needs.
To choose the best one, you should consider what features you absolutely need, what level of plan from each website builder offers those, and if the plans fit within your budget.
To learn more about creating your roofing company website, read “What to Include on Your Roofing Company Website.” If you have any questions about choosing a website builder for your roofing company, feel free to reach out to us.
