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SnapPages, A simple yet powerful application to create beautiful websites

Austin-based SnapPages got it right. They have built a web-based tool that helps anyone create beautiful websites, without a single line of code. Their service is just what many small businesses need since in many cases, hiring a developer and a designer is just not at their reach.

SnapPages is not only for businesses, they also offer a plan for Web Designers and Developers. If you are a Web Designer or Developer SnapPages can set you up with a Developer Account which lets you build and manage all your client’s websites from one location.

These are the different accounts they offer

Personal: Free
Pro: $8 p/month
Developer: $30 p/month

With each one of the accounts you get a photo gallery, public calendars, contact forms, personal subdomain and customizable themes.

The Personal/Free account is limited to 5 pages and 1GB of storage while the Pro and Developer accounts offer you unlimited pages and up to 10GB of storage. These accounts also offer premium themes, 3D photo galleries, custom branding, analytics integration, SEO settings and JavaScript snippets. The Developer account allows you multiple accounts, full CSS control, one-click logins, volume discounts, project management tools and yes, it also offers you an invoice creator.

It is a great tool for businesses or web designers to create and manage their websites, the interface is very intuitive, you can get a functional and professional looking website in a matter of minutes.

SnapPages has some well-known and well-funded competitors such as Squarespace and Weebly. Both of these competitors have had great exposure and are well-known by a lot of people. Both of those services offer similar features and I have personally use them both. One of SnapPages’ advantage is that it really makes it incredibly easy to create great looking sites.

SnapPages’ founder and CEO Steve Testone founded SnapPages back in 2007 and publicly launched at a TechCrunch50 event in 2008, it currently employs two workers and has about 65,000 users.

What do you think? Have you used their services, or any of the other companies (Weebly/Squarespace)?

5 responses to “SnapPages, A simple yet powerful application to create beautiful websites”

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Dennis P

August 29, 2010 at 8:16 pm

This space is too crowded… There are other strong companies doing the same thing, yola.com, wix.com, webs.com…

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Marco

August 30, 2010 at 1:13 am

Hi Austin Tech Geeks community,

I’m a very happy SnapPages user because as the article mentions, it’s quite easy to create beautiful websites.

Other services offer the user too much or too little, while Steve has gotten it just right with SnapPages.

Best,

Marco

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1. Ricardo
  
  August 30, 2010 at 8:41 am
  
  Marco, you are right about that, I have used some of the other services and while I do like them, SnapPages is one of the best applications because you can do a lot without spending too much time, it is a great tool.
  
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Kim

August 30, 2010 at 8:45 am

I’ve used wix and snappages. I’ve used SnapPages to build sites for clients. Personally I like SnapPages because it is easy to create, easy for myself or my clients to update and most of all creates a professional looking website. Some of the other solutions are either more complex or in essence too free with regards to design. Not helping my clients maintain good design principles for their is not a good fit. The average person I create a site for doesn’t realize that they lose site visitors and potential sales because people get so distracted by all of the competing elements on a page… Or because they put too much content in a page. For these reasons and more SnapPages hits a great target for me.

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