Top 4 website builders for Yoga teachers
Introduction:
In today's digital era, having a captivating and functional website is essential for yoga teachers to promote their classes and attract students. As such, the website can be considered the shop window - where people can explore what a teacher has to offer, the classes they run and whether the student thinks the class is for them.
However, if you are new to creating a website, then where do you start? Whilst of course you can use the services of web designers and agencies, this can be an expensive exercise. The good news there are numerous website builders available that cater to the needs of yoga teachers, offering a plethora of attractive templates. In this blog post, we will explore the top four such builders and, what we consider the benefits of each.
Each of these builders are considered from a reservie perspective. Like most booking systems, to make the most of your website requires you to be able to embed (a techie word meaning insert) widgets into your website. These enable students to do things like book without ever leading your website, leading to SEO benefits and a smoother customer journey.
Wix
Wix is a renowned website builder known for its user-friendly interface and extensive template collection. It offers a diverse range of visually appealing templates specifically designed for wellness and yoga websites. With Wix, yoga teachers can easily customise their websites using a simple to use drag and drop interface.
Reservie’s perspective: Wix allows the embedding JavaScript and HTML code across all versions. This is exactly what is needed to insert widgets. A quirk, which is by no means unique to Wix is the use of an iframe to manage the insertion of widgets. This ensures security of the Wix platform, but can reduce useability if not properly managed.
Squarespace
Squarespace is a popular website builder that combines sleek design with ease of use. It offers an impressive selection of modern and visually captivating templates suitable for yoga teachers.
Squarespace also allows the embedding of JavaScript and HTML, empowering yoga teachers to add custom features, interactive elements, and unique functionalities to their websites. The platform's intuitive interface ensures a seamless website building experience.
Reservie’s perspective: Squarespace allows widgets to be inserted directly into the website without an iframe, leading to a superior user experience. Widgets inherit the look and feel directly from the website thereby fully integrating with the associated website. A negative with this platform is that they only allow widgets of this type with their more expensive (business or higher) platforms.
Weebly
Weebly is a user-friendly website builder that strikes a balance between simplicity and customisation. It offers a range of attractive templates suitable for yoga websites.
With Weebly, yoga teachers can easily insert widgets websites and add interactive elements efficiently. The platform's drag-and-drop interface and built-in tools make it easy to create a professional-looking website without any coding expertise.
Reservie’s perspective: Widgets can be easily entered across all platforms. It supports insertion directly into the website offering a superior user experience. Templates may not suit everyone.
WordPress
Wordpress comes in two flavours: 1) WordPress.com; 2) Self hosted, hosted by the many many hosting companies out there.
Wordpress can be a little trickier for those that are not experienced, but can be very powerful.
If you opt for wordpress.com (hosted by wordpress), it offers versatile website builder widely recognized for its flexibility and extensive customization options. It also offers a vast collection of themes, including those specifically tailored for yoga teachers.
Reservie’s perspective: With WordPress, yoga teachers can leverage the platform's ability to embed widgets. This allows for complete control over the website's appearance and functionality, making it an excellent choice for yoga teachers with specific design requirements. However, if you do not use self hosting (and there are many reasons not to do this), then you will need to pay for higher levels of subscription to enable these features.
Conclusion
Creating a captivating website is crucial for yoga teachers to establish an online presence can help attract students, and showcase your classes.
The top four DIY website builders—Wix, Squarespace, Weebly, and WordPress—offer an abundance of attractive templates and the flexibility insert widgets. These platforms enable you to create visually stunning websites, cost effectively, without the need for coding knowledge.
Of course website designs are inherently subjective, so we recommend exploring the features and templates offered by each website builder and choose the one that best suits your unique style, requirements, and vision.