Homestead

Homestead can handle domain registration for you from its clear main settings page.

You can choose a template for your site from a large number of website designs, but they don't automatically reformat for mobile viewing the way Squarespace, Weebly, and Wix sites do.

After you choose a template, you add pages to your site.

The design interface is also very clear; here you can click on any of a good selection of page elements to add to your page.

The site builder helpfully lets you do basic photo adjustments, something surprisingly lacking in some of the competitors.

You get less control over photo galleries than in some competing site builders.

Here's where you customize page fonts, colors, and width.

A basic blogging tool offers images and reader comments.

Homestead lets you save and preview your site before taking it live, a help that's surprisingly missing from some site builders. After publication, you're presented with buttons for sharing the site on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

Homestead offers a rich selection of site activity statistics.