Strikingly is still the undisputed choice for most small businesses and professionals looking to build websites without the hefty financial investment. Most features are accessible even on free accounts, including e commerce capabilities, making it one of the best free website platforms today. You get a vast collection of mobile-responsive website templates, a good amount of flexibility in customizing your site and seamless social media integration.

Squarespace is a sound website platform suited for bloggers and business websites. It doesn’t have a free account but you do get a 14-day trial period to help you decide. It features pretty much everything you need to get a site up - mobile responsive templates, app integrations and domain registration support. It has a powerful blogging editor and a basic ecommerce platform.

Webflow is a budding creative’s playhouse. If you are looking for an easy to use website platform that softly touches on front-end coding without you having to write the code yourself, Webflow might just be the site builder for you. It gives you the best of both worlds: an opportunity to dabble in code through its Designer tool without actually writing the code yourself. It does get a little bit confusing for beginners because this platform requires some web design background. But if you’re not one to shy away from a little technical website building, Webflow is the platform to try.