Founded back in 2007, German-based Jimdo has grown to be a hugely popular website builder with more than 200 employees worldwide.
The service is targeted largely at the novice user, marketing itself on simplicity rather than features. For example, the Jimdo website describes the site building process as: “Choose a website. Upload photos. Edit text. Done!”
There’s certainly nothing intimidating sounding there.
The Jimdo range starts with its free account. This has some notable limits, including 500MB storage, 2GB bandwidth, Jimdo branding, ads, and no support for using your own domain.
But it’s not all bad news. You also get HTTPS access, a simple blogging platform, contact forms, support for a password-protected website area, and even a very basic web store for selling up to five items. Okay, that’s very, very, very basic, but most services don’t give you any e-commerce functionality at all unless you subscribe to a high-end account.
The JimdoPro account drops the ads and branding, and lifts your storage allowance to 5GB and bandwidth to 10GB. There’s a free domain, more SEO and site management tools, faster customer support, extra e-commerce features and up to 15 items allowed in the store. It’s …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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