How To Create A Complex Membership Website For Free

Do you belong to any membership websites? Of course you do. Can you create a membership website yourself? Of course you can. If you use the right tool. Anyone with the right software can set up a complete, full-featured membership website without writing a single line of code. No fancy web design skills required.

Since DIY site builders aren’t shrinking in numbers (there are more than two dozens and growing!), finding the most effective one can be a challenge. So let me help you. Meet uCoz, a Do-It-Yourself website builder that lets you quickly create complex websites right in your browser. Nothing to download and install. Just sign up and follow the wizard.

How It Works

uCoz is an all-in-one website builder that provides users with everything they might need under the same roof: web hosting, website building software, domain names, templates, widgets and more. It is a system of 22 modules which work like construction blocks: you take the appropriate ones and put up your site. These are: Forum, Ad Board, FAQ, Tests, Blog, E-mail Forms, Web Polls, Users etc. You can enable any combination of modules: E-shop+Forum+Blog, Blog+Users+Web Polls+Online Chat, Site Catalog+Ad Board+Photo Albums and so on. Each module is highly customizable, both in terms of functionality and design.

Disadvantages

1. uCoz has a more complicated interface than its competitors. However, those who have some website building experience or anyone who likes exploring find the system quite intuitive.

2. In case you opt for a free version of uCoz, you’ll have to display adverts on your website.

3. There’s no way to move your uCoz-driven website to any other web hosting. uCoz sites can only work on the company servers.

Advantages

1. It’s free to sign up and remains free as long you need.

2. Included user management functionality.

3. With uCoz you can attach your own domain name free of charge (the one you already own) without having to upgrade your account.

4. As opposed to its competitors, uCoz allows users to tweak CSS/HTML. This means you can configure your uCoz site extensively.

5. Dozens of ready widgets. With uCoz there’s no need to shop around for plugins in order to extend your site functionality - the system comes equipped with numerous widgets that can be installed with a few clicks. No compatibility issues - all widgets are native uCoz extensions developed specially for this website builder.

6. Cost. Ad-free uCoz websites start at $3.49 per month. This means you can set up and maintain a full-featured Forum or Blog or whatever at the price of the average web hosting plan.

7. Growth. As your business grows, you can extend and improve your uCoz website in any way - because the system lets you make edits directly to the site’s code, you can create a website of any complexity.

8. Responsive templates. Since February 2014, uCoz has been adding responsive templates to its collection of free designs. The new themes ensure your website looks and performs impeccably across various devices.

Provided that you have everything at your fingertips (logotype, content, domain name etc.), you can create a website with uCoz in one sitting! What’s more - if you’re a professional webmaster, you can use uCoz as your main site building tool.

Howard Steele earns a living testing popular online website builders for newbies and running his website http://superbwebsitebuilders.com/. He believes that blogging is a great profession.