Compare Duda и Google Web Designer

Benefits:

I love everything about it, it can be a very simple platform that you can give it to your customers for drag and drop and as complicated as complet... Read more

I love everything about it, it can be a very simple platform that you can give it to your customers for drag and drop and as complicated as completely hard code the website for it to do whatever you want. Saves on time, loads faster, love the load balancing aspect of it. Takes out so many things that I used to worry about building it in a Wordpress, PHP environment.

Drawbacks:

I have not run into it yet. Even though there might be some, the team has been very efficient to handle them .

Summary:

I have enjoyed every part of it and geek out talking about it to clients or friends.

Benefits:

Duda is an incredibly easy platform to work with and produce really solid websites and engaging experiences. I've worked on Wordpress (always hated... Read more

Duda is an incredibly easy platform to work with and produce really solid websites and engaging experiences. I've worked on Wordpress (always hated it), Joomla, Drupal, Kentico, DotNet Nuke, and other platforms, but Duda is the ONLY platform I have found that makes it incredibly easy to go from design to live site with so little friction. The WYSIWYG ease of implementation has increased our profitability and productivity. It's an awesome platform and I highly recommend you check it out. You will be glad you did.

Drawbacks:

The toughest thing about using Duda is that clients and prospective clients these days ask what platform you're going to build in and since so many... Read more

The toughest thing about using Duda is that clients and prospective clients these days ask what platform you're going to build in and since so many have heard of Wordpress it take a lot to get them to feel comfortable with the switch to Duda. Once I walk them through the back end to demonstrate the CMS they usually have an "Aha!" moment and get on board.

Summary:

We're a small branding and marketing company and we don't usually have super large budgets to design, develop and deliver websites. Duda helps us d... Read more

We're a small branding and marketing company and we don't usually have super large budgets to design, develop and deliver websites. Duda helps us do that with very little complexity. It's a streamlined platform that delivers the punch and impact of more complex environments but without all of the junk that no one really needs or wants. The ease of implementation makes it possible for us to be more efficient and cost-effective on website builds.

Benefits:

Simple to bang out a website, the Interface is easy to use and even fun. I really like how the sites come together, you can easily see how they wil... Read more

Simple to bang out a website, the Interface is easy to use and even fun. I really like how the sites come together, you can easily see how they will look on desktop, mobile, and tablet.

Drawbacks:

Some limitations in how you put the sites together, it can be annoying to be stuck to the four column design that is common across the web. They've... Read more

Some limitations in how you put the sites together, it can be annoying to be stuck to the four column design that is common across the web. They've got a new feature rolling out that is supposed to resolve this.

Summary:

As a marketing company, this makes my life SO MUCH EASIER. I used to build in wordpress, which is fine, but this is about half the time, and the we... Read more

As a marketing company, this makes my life SO MUCH EASIER. I used to build in wordpress, which is fine, but this is about half the time, and the websites look the same. Very easy to add the things you want to make the sites really sing.

Benefits:

[Quick note before I start - I've used the platform since February 2015]. There are absolutely some pros to using duda. This isn't going to be a t... Read more

[Quick note before I start - I've used the platform since February 2015]. There are absolutely some pros to using duda. This isn't going to be a totally negative review. But this needs to be a massive eye opener for the team so they can understand in what areas they are failing their customers. First up, as a simple WYSIWYG editor, Duda isn't doing a bad job. Trouble is, in today's market this is more of a minimum expectation, rather than a unique or coveted feature. Back in 2015 when I first subscribed, Duda was aimed more at the end user - fast forward to the present and they have marketed themselves more towards agencies and freelancers. In terms of websites built per annum, they're certainly doing a lot better than in 2015. They do listen to the community, they do ask for feedback and act on it, and they do work on useful updates. They just do it all... really slowly. Duda isn't an open source platform and unlike other platforms they don't have a strong community of developers behind them. They do however have 'duda pro' developers, but their catalogue of work (like custom widgets) is small, uncomprehensive, and unreasonably expensive. Sure, you can absolutely code widgets and write custom code for your website, but we'll cover what a horror show that is in the 'cons' section. Look, I begrudge writing negative feedback, especially when I see the hard work being done by the Duda team, but there's just no point beating around the bush, Duda is just a troubled platform.

Drawbacks:

As mentioned above, I've used Duda for over 4 years, since February 2015, so make no mistake - I know this platform inside and out. First of all..... Read more

As mentioned above, I've used Duda for over 4 years, since February 2015, so make no mistake - I know this platform inside and out. First of all... eCommerce. This is by far and away probably the worst part of the platform. Duda has a longstanding integration with eCommerce platform Ecwid. On the whole, the Ecwid platform is very good - the issue is, is that the integration you get with Duda, is not fully featured Ecwid. It has a limited feature set, and is, quite honestly, terrible. In addition, many eCommerce platforms require 'apps' or 'add-ons' to expand their functionality, whereas, duda's catalogue of apps for their eCommerce integration is pathetically small. Unless your needs (or your client's needs) are very simple, just don't bother with it. Next up, custom code. When I first signed up to Duda, it was marketed to me in such a fashion where you expected adding custom code to be a breeze. And, of course, I'm not naive - I totally get that when adding custom code to a WYSIWYG editor there is going to be multiple cases of conflicting lines of code. But the functionality of Duda is quite basic, and sometimes you do need to augment that functionality with custom code, which is, well... an absolute nightmare. Don't expect support to help either - they'll just suggest you pay a 'duda pro' to fix it for you. Get to grips with not writing clean code - official support advice for CSS was to just bang !important on everything and bang it in the site wide stylesheet.

Summary:

Awful. But I'm honestly just not sure of viable alternatives. After using the platform for the past 4 years as an end user for my own, and for my p... Read more

Awful. But I'm honestly just not sure of viable alternatives. After using the platform for the past 4 years as an end user for my own, and for my partner's businesses, I'd really like to expand and provide a full web and digital agency offering. In terms of websites, this is totally duda's thing. Custom and white-labelled branding for the editor and site stat reports is a very nice touch and makes Duda a very appealing option for fully fledged agencies. Managing user roles is a breeze too. But the thing is, little bells and whistles are fine - but only if the platform is built on a solid foundation. At the moment, it's not. It hasn't been for the past 4 years. Support isn't great either. I currently have an open support ticket for a basic issue, which is still open after 5 days. It's now weekend so I don't expect a reply until next week. The issue should be a simple one to rectify and I have suggested a fix but it is up to their dev team to implement. Luckily this isn't a client's website, but imagine if it was? How rediculous this would look to the client. Over a week to fix a simple issue? Would you really want to build an agency with this level of support? Perhaps they reserve and prioritise their support team to the bigger agencies - I don't know. So if you're a freelancer or small agency maybe stick with the good old reliable CMS that most of the web is built on (you know the one) or fully research your alternatives before you dive into the Duda nightmare.

Benefits:

It's the easiest and most complete tool to design HTML5 banners to be used in display campaigns (both on Google network and on other publishers). T... Read more

It's the easiest and most complete tool to design HTML5 banners to be used in display campaigns (both on Google network and on other publishers). The installation/onboarding takes a very few minutes, everything is very intuitive. The UX is different from other Google products... and this is good! No need of HTML or javascript knowledge (though knowing them helps in getting better, ad-hoc results).

Drawbacks:

I never really used it to create web sites (or simple HTML pages). From what I see, it's probably not the best tool around for such a task, even th... Read more

I never really used it to create web sites (or simple HTML pages). From what I see, it's probably not the best tool around for such a task, even though it has a lot of features that cover most of the basic needs.

Summary:

I use it to generate animated HTML5 banners for display campaigns across the web. Just great!

Benefits:

The Google Web Designer is very better tool in market. There is lot of options are there in tool. Easy to Create and deploy web content.

Drawbacks:

The Google Web Designer may concentrate their UI level design and support area there is single entity of drawback.

Summary:

Overall The Google Web Designer tools better than others.

Benefits:

I like the fact that Google web designer gives me the ability to create stunning HTML5 designs. It is a drag and drop interface that makes thing r... Read more

I like the fact that Google web designer gives me the ability to create stunning HTML5 designs. It is a drag and drop interface that makes thing really simple and easy to understand.

Drawbacks:

At times I have found some design aspects to be somewhat lack luster.

Summary:

Benefits:

GoogleWebDesigner is a great option for digital design, particularly HTML5 banners to be used in display campaigns). Very easy to set up and start ... Read more

GoogleWebDesigner is a great option for digital design, particularly HTML5 banners to be used in display campaigns). Very easy to set up and start working. No knowledge of HTML or javascript is needed. Creating animation is fairly easy and similar to other tools like Adobe After Effects in it's use of timelines and milestones.

Drawbacks:

Never used the software to create websites, and can see this being very difficult and having issues with responsive nature. Exporting from Google W... Read more

Never used the software to create websites, and can see this being very difficult and having issues with responsive nature. Exporting from Google Web Designer can be a bit of an issue - with limited capabilities for exporting meaning that it's difficult to get clients to proof work due to files only exporting as HTML variants, and no option for .mov, gif or .mp4. This caused a lot of time bloat in having to manually record them after the fact. Would also benefit from being able to create 'templates' easier.

Summary:

I used this for ads and banner campaigns and it was a great solution and alternative to creating embedded GIFs which are not idea for large campaig... Read more

I used this for ads and banner campaigns and it was a great solution and alternative to creating embedded GIFs which are not idea for large campaigns and optimisation.