What is the best website to make a website?

[Reese Pratt]

My mom makes jewelry and wants to make a website to sell her products on. I told her I would look into it. I don't know html, but I know that there are websites that allow you to make a website then purchase it. What is the best one for what I need? I need to be able to set up a checkout service via pay pal on it. An easy to design template based creator would be great.

[Pramod Acharya]

http://www.blogger.com
http://www.tumblr.com
http://www.wix.com/blog/website
http://www.weebly.com
http://www.webnode.com

[Marwan]

http://www.jux.com/
Jux is a website builder designed from the ground up for sharing. With simple drag-and-drop tools, website creators can copy,mix and modify components or whole sites shared by others.

http://kafafa.com/
Kafafa enables the user to create professional-looking websites with no programming knowledge.

http://www.lifeyo.com/
Lifeyo lets people make websites. It is a simple and free website creation tool that lets anyone have a great looking website.

http://www.yola.com/
Learn how to make a free website. Yola will allow you to build a website quickly and will provide you with free hosting for your website.

http://www.webon.com/
Make the site you've always wanted now, instantly build, publish & share. Create interactive, stylish ad-free pages, with Webon's powerful site creation platform.

http://comfypage.com/
ComfyPage is the tool you need to create simple, smart and super quick websites without the worry of hiring expensive web developers and designers. You get everything you need to build a website and have it live to the world.

http://infogami.com/
infogami lets anyone build good-looking, easily-editable web sites. One-click editing lets you fix typos instantly. With customizable templates your site looks just the way you want it to. Detailed graphs let you see how many people are visiting your site and many more.

http://www.devhub.com/
By playing the DevHub game, you can easily build vertically-focused, media-rich destination sites that have the potential to generate revenue and promote user-engagement.

http://www.stribe.com/
Create, publish and manage easily your community on your website. Get your own social network in a very short time.

http://www.socialgo.com/
SocialGO lets you easily create and run a feature-filled social networking website. You choose who can join, what they can do and how it looks. The best part is it's free to get going.

http://www.tumblr.com/
Tumblr is your friendly, free, and terrifically easy tool for creating tumblelogs.
Tumblelogs are the refreshingly simple new way to share anything you find, love, hate.

http://wordpress.com/
WordPress.com is an easy and powerful way to start blogging.

http://www.typepad.com/
TypePad’s ease of use enables you to create a blog in minutes.

http://www.livejournal.com/
LiveJournal is an online journal service with an emphasis on user interaction. A basic, fully-functional account is free, while paid accounts receive access to premium features. You can use LiveJournal in many ways: a private journal, a blog, a discussion forum or a social network.

http://www.soup.io/
Soup is a tumblelog, a super-easy blog that can do more than just text: post links, quotes, videos, audio, files, reviews and events.
Make your personal remix of the web: When you see something cool online, just click a button to add it to your Soup.
Soup can aggregate everything you create online into one place, in your own style, at your own address.

http://www.vox.com/
Vox is a new personal blogging service. It’s all about ease of use, privacy control, playing well with other web services, and staying connected to the people you care about.
Control exactly who gets to see each of your posts and photos.
See all the posts from your friends and family on one page.
Bring in content from other web services you already use (Amazon, YouTube, more).

[narbdance]

There are many websites that make it easy to create websites. (Webs.com, SquareSpace, etc.) however they charge a HIGH monthly fee to run them and even higher to have eccomerce. Basically they nickel and dime you. What I would instead recommend is getting your own domain and hosting, CMS (the thing that makes websites easy to edit) and theme (what's gonna make it look pretty).

http://ThisIsHowYouMakeAWebsite.com explains how to do the first two steps (domain & host).

Then you need to consider how you're going to sell your products. One solution in OpenCart, which is a simple free and open source eccomerce solution. It's really great, however, it is complex. You could also use WordPress with plugins for a lighter weight solution if you don't want to get in really deep to the complexities of selling things online.
If you do use WordPress use this plugin: http://sixrevisions.com/wordpress/top-5-...wordpress/

Finally you should theme it nicely. http://ThisIsHowYouMakeAWebsite.com has tips on how to do that as well. Basically, there are a lot of cheap ($40) themes out there that can make websites look great.

Another option you could try is Etsy and then you wouldn't even need a website (although I would still recommend it). Good luck!

[Smith Bill]

weebly is best website for making a website.

Best of Luck