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[digitally-dominated]

I started a website and was dissapointed that the news module doesn't have the option to receive comments.
Then I wanted to add a forum instead, no option to add it, so I wanted to embed a forum (like nabble), it didn't integrate well (templates which I liked (eclipse for example) were too small), then I wanted to add a contact form... didn't work for free! So I had to use 3rd party tools instead.
I ended up with a website and a seperate forum which was to classic.

Now I added the missing options to a free website from weebly and created a link on the 110mb website, but I would prefer to have it from 110mb instead because their templates are better and I prefer 1 website instead of multiple sites.
If those options get added, 110mb will get the crown and leave Yola and Weebly behind, because now the competition has much more to offer with the exception of nice templates.

Greetings,
Amp

[inp o҉rtb]

Y'know, Wordpress is a great package if you want to publish news and accept comments. It's also quite trivial to install a forum package such as phpBB or SMF. And if you want, you could open up Notepad and make your site from scratch. You have all the essential tools at your fingertips, to use your terminology. Oh yes, and Notepad is free with your purchase of Windows OS.

On the other hand... Yola, Weebly, and the like don't even let you choose your software, let alone design your own. Site builders are neat, but can hardly be considered part of a normal workflow for creating an "interactive website."

I'd recommend Wordpress for news, or Flatpress if you don't want to pay for MySQL; you could install your phpBB/SMF forum alongside it. For sending mail, you could either pay for sendmail/fsockopen or get fsockopen for 30 posts. You could also install any theme you want.