I feel compelled to write this post as I am in the process of promoting the WebSite Tonight®, online website builder as one of our premier products. I have used the product myself and gathered input from other blogs on this topic to assist those considering the purchase of a Website or an online website builder.

Product Overview

First a quick overview of the product so everyone knows what we are talking about. WebSite Tonight® uses over 800 templates to assist the user in creating their own web site by using a point and click method. No programming or technical experience is required or needed.

There are three plans available that offer free hosting and email. Users can add flash introductions from a library of more that 60 presentations. Music can be added to the flash introductions, and each account can add a Forum, RSS feeds, a guestbook and video uploads for adding videos or movies to your site.

One interesting feature is the ability to create web pages for mobile devices and combine them with with your podcasts.

Product Issues

For the absolute beginner, or a person with little or no technical knowledge, the product is a wonderful way to get a presence on the Internet. It’s fast , easy and simple to create a web site that looks good.

However, as with every new venture, problems may arise. One such user had used the product from another hosting provider and ran into troubles. So they asked their friendly web guru to help out.

Justin Chelf is a young, successful web entrepreneur that runs his own group of web sites. As a person who is more technical than most of his clients, he found the WebSite Tonight product rather limiting when it came time for him to make some minor modifications. You can read his post here.

It is important to note his comments, and being a concerned reseller, I called GoDaddy and checked this out with my own WebSite Tonight account. The limitations were correct, but not necessarily a bad thing for a beginner in the web site design arena.

After much discussion, they did offer to change my plan to a standard Hosting Plan, meaning that I could then keep the coding I had done already, but I now had to maintain and program the pages on my own computer first and then upload them to my web server. Not a problem at all, but this may be an issue for a beginner.

Buying Options

So, it is clear that before buying a WebSite Tonight account, you should weigh your options carefully. Questions to ask yourself might be:

• Do I want to customize the HTML code?
• Do I need to add Javascript code to my pages?
• Will I need professional assistance after I start?

There is good telephone support for the product if you should have problems, and you can change your plan later. The alternative option to WebSite Tonight is an Economy Hosting plan. Here is the cost options overview of the associated Economy packages:

The Deluxe and Premium Plans offer similar differences. Compare this list of features with what you expect out of a web site. If some of these items do not matter to you, and you really do not want to involve yourself with the technical aspects of web design, the WebSite Tonight option is probably you best choice.

However, if you want to understand how web pages work, and eventually understand more about web technology, the basic web hosting plan is you best option.

We hope this helps you in making the best web hosting choice for you.