Edicy – A Simple but Basic Wesbite Creator
So, you need a website – and a free one at that. Edicy is an option – a good one if you’re not to tech savvy and just need something knocked up quickly with no fuss or bother.
Basically you go to their site and start to make your website by signing up. Pretty straight forward. After just putting in an e-mail address you are brought to the website editor which is as easy as stealing pie from a window sill. Basically, it looks like your site and all you do is insert text, images and other special functions exactly where you want them. Along the menu bar of your site you can ad more pages and there is even a nice introduction article there for you.
However, it is extremely basic. FreeWebs are basic but they still offer you some good features. With Edicy the best you can hope for is a no-frills page to tell people who you are and what you do. You have to use templates provided by them (or risk the peril of trying to use their HTML system). They’re not providing anything worthwhile and are coming into a crowded market. FreeWebs has millions of customers; Edicy have just over 70,000. They won’t be able to compete and should have gone into a more refined niche.
All things considered, it’s a good page if you want to give people directions to you store or just have a small bio. If you’re looking for a website that in anyway stretches beyond the year 1998, go elsewhere. 4/10
2 Comments
“they won’t be able to compete”
Kind of a strange statement. If they can exist, pay staff and provide a service, getting their name to enough people, sure they can compete. They prove that with whatever customer base they have. If they have 70,000 customers, they’ll most likely get more, they will probably stay in business for a while. They just need to figure out how to run it without losing money. simple.
Thanks for the review, Dean!
Just so you know – we’re working hard to get our product out of the “very basic” category. But you’re of course right – it is a very crowded field. However, it is also a huge market and we feel that we have some things that allow us to compete in some niche categories already – support for creating a multi language site and ability to fully customize the design over CSS and HTML.
Kajar
Edicy