Free Website Builder

Free Website Builder

YouDoCMS is a native application for Mac and Windows and alternative to the most popular website builders such as WordPress.com, Wix, Squarespace, Weebly and 1&1 ionos. All of the most popular website builders are hosted solutions where you build your website in the browser online. However, all hosted solutions incur running costs and a typical basic plan for a personal site is around £100 per year. YouDoCMS runs on your local computer therefore we do not incur any running costs and the features of our free version are comparable to a hosted basic plan. 

YouDoCMS integrates with Azure, Cloudflare, AWS, GitHub and Google Firebase. Each of these cloud providers offer a generous free tier for hosting a static site. Our static site builder generates pages locally for preview and then builds for your hosted domain for a single click deployment to the cloud in seconds. 

01

Templates

Choose from one of our predefined bootstrap templates or if you are migrating from an existing content management system you can use your existing theme.

02

Navigation

YouDoCMS supports multiple menus and tags with a choice of URL WordPress or Joomla! style navigation.

03

Content

Articles, pages, posts and categories are all supported together with productivity features such as duplicating content and editing with TinyMCE HTML editor.

04

Deploy

Save your credentials and deploy with a single click to the cloud provider of your choice. The free version includes free deployment to GitHub pages.

Create a website fast!

YouDoCMS includes a database, the TinyMCE HTML editor, static site generator and webserver plus bootstrap templates in a single application.

YouDoCMS is headless CMS which means you can develop a site offline and test on your local machine before publishing to the cloud. With the example templates you can have site up and running in minutes.

Details of the free hosting plans with the 5 cloud platforms can be here.

  • Free Bootstrap themes including widgets.
  • Free hosting with AWS, Cloudflare, Google, GitHub Pages and Azure. 
  • Single click build and deploy to cloud.
  • Custom Domain CNAME setup.
How Headless Works

Here are 3 working steps to create your website fast.

01

Create a domain and choose a theme

You can create as many as you like with no extra charge. Choose a theme or roll your own.

02

Create menus and update content

Creating menus is easy with a native application. SEO friendly URLs are created when you update content. Choose from WordPress or Joomla or routing and use the local preview to optimise your navigation.

03

Build site and deploy to cloud

Setup you cloud target of your choice. Build with the static site generator for local preview or live to deploy to the cloud of your choice.

How It Works?

YouDoCMS is a native application for building websites. It is similar to WordPress/Joomla CMS and includes the popular TInyMCE html editor. In common with hosted website builders such as Wix and Squarespace YouDoCMS uses themes for layout however that is where the similarity ends.

Sites built with YouDoCMS load twice as fast as a hosted CMS. Analysis of CMS performance for the 2022 edition the Web Almanac show WordPress, Wix and Joomla barely achieving a 40% core web vitals score. Static sites developed with YouDoCMS can achieve 100% and on mobile speed matters.

If you are going to invest time and money designing a website, why would you want to pollute the user experience with adverts over which you have no control? Our free plan does exactly what it says on the tin. It is free to use, free to deploy and does not include adverts.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Choosing a CMS can be confusing please read the guide to headless vs WordPress.

Static sites are suitable for the most common website types which is blogs corporate portfolio landing pages and directories. YouDoCMS static sites include search but if you require forms or e-commerce then a hosted solution is currently the best option.

YouDoCMS integrates with the Algolia search engine. Algolia has a free plan so site search can be incorporated into any static site.

Yes it is. All of the cloud hosting providers offer a free tier which is suitable for the majority of low traffic websites. See our guide to static site web hosting to compare the features and benefits of five major cloud platforms.

YouDoCMS is a desktop application which pre-renders your pages before uploading to the cloud. Therefore the static sites built with YouDoCMS are 100% secure and cannot be hacked.