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If you are thinking of starting a website, you could be considering using Canva to create your website. Canva is an easy-to-use graphic design platform. I love using Canva to create graphics such as Pinterest pins, Facebook graphics, and YouTube thumbnails. I have also used Canva to edit videos.
But Canva is also an option to create websites. But it is a good option? Today, I want to go over some advantages and disadvantages of creating a website using Canva.
Advantages
- You can do it for free: You can create a website using Canva for free. Obviously, that is a huge positive because…who doesn’t like free? Of course, like with most free versions there are limitations – which we will get to later
- No coding experience needed: You don’t need to know how to code to create a website with Canva. If you don’t have experience with coding, this is obviously a huge advantage to you.
- Canva is easy to use: Canva has easy-to-use drag-and-drop features that make it easier to create a website rather than say doing it from scratch.
- You may be familiar with Canva: If you already use Canva to create images or videos, then you are already familiar with Canva. So the learning curve will be less for you.
Disadvantages
- Free version has Canva branding: If you create your website with Canva for free, it will have Canva branding on it. That may not bother you, especially if you are just creating a website for fun. But it could look less professional. Of course, you could use a paid version of Canva. But now this is getting more expensive, and it takes away from the main positive of Canva which is that you can do it for free.
- Not very flexible when creating complex websites: Let’s say the website you want to create is complex. For example, let’s say you want to create a membership website where paying members can get access to some parts of the website that non-members can’t. This would be very hard to create with Canva. You might need something like WordPress to do this.
- Limited e-commerce functionality: Let’s say you want to sell something on your website. That would be very hard to do with Canva. It would be much easier to achieve this with Shopify.
