The website optimized for mobile web-friendly mobile is the must-have for modern online businesses. If your shiny new site is not adaptable, you will definitely fail the battle for visitors, traffic and success. By the way, Google made this battle even more urgent by adding the website’s mobile optimization algorithms.

Therefore, you may need some interesting tools to modify your website and make it adaptable to any screen size. Modern tools offer a complete amount of services for creating a website from scratch or customizing a template made by professionals. Are they all equally good for making a website adaptable and what are its advantages and disadvantages in this regard? Here I am going to take a look at some trendy and fashionable tools to make the website that promise you the design of adaptable websites.

1. Webflow

Webflow is one of the newest and most powerful tools loaded today. A WYSIWYG editor is used to create the designs and Bootstrap 3.0 to write the code. After registering for the service, you can launch a website from scratch or customize a template from a Webflow market (paid or free).

Webflow’s drag-and-drop administration Panel seems a bit tricky for a beginner, but it’s certainly nice and relatively intuitive. It has two modes: simple and advanced. They differ in the number of features that you can customize. Within this panel you can configure everything you need in your template without diving into the code. In fact, Webflow offers the opportunity to customize CSS, but only for paid accounts.

Webflow websites are already adaptable. You can see how you resize a template to each of three devices: desktop, tablet and smartphone (in both landscape and portrait modes). You can easily customize all the elements (the size of the letters and images, fill, etc.) to fit your website for those three main breakpoints.

Pros:

• Sensitive off-platform
• Allows adaptation to fit any device perfectly
• Three large screen sizes (includes smartphone in landscape and portrait modes)
• The advanced management panel
• Allows CSS customization

Cons:

• The free plan is limited in features (no CSS and HTML editing allowed)
• You can not view Admin Panel before subscription
• It can be too difficult for beginners
• The designs of already made templates are very modest

02. MotoCMS 3

MotoCMS 3 is another relatively new website creation service that offers a variety of customizable templates out of the box. Its administration panel and some functions are similar to those of Webflow. You can use your intuitive drag-and-drop editor to create your own customizable website from the customizable templates.

One of the best features of MotoCMS 3 admin panel is that it is very easy to use and offers a so-called “intuitive support”. Each block has a small icon with a question mark that contains a drop-down window with a brief explanation of the use of blocks. Its unique color selection feature allows you to change the color scheme across the entire design in one click. As well as all the changes made for a given element, they will be applied to all elements of the same class throughout the template.

Like Webflow, MotoCMS templates are customizable to three basic breakpoints, including smartphone in landscape and portrait modes. In any of these modes you can apply the changes to make your design more suitable for certain screen resolutions and your own design concept. One of the best things about MotoCMS 3 is that you can browse, view admin panel and demo on all four screen sizes without prior registration. From the “view administration panel” mode you can even examine all system functionality without saving changes. So, you can be sure that you are not getting cat hare with your purchase.

Pros:

• Already adaptable
• Four screen size modes (desktop, tablet, smartphone landscape and smartphone portrait) The admin panel can be examined without registration
• Allows you to adjust the template for any screen size you need
• The intuitive administration panel with “passive support”
• Professionally Designed Templates

Cons:

• The price of templates
• No CSS settings allowed (but it’s good for beginners as they do not spoil anything in the code)
• The product is not 100% finished yet, some advanced features will appear later.

03. Squarespace

Being a recognized tool used for building websites since 2004, Squarespace has many famous clients who use their templates for their side projects (like Shutterstock Blog or DKNY Somos NYC). The website creation tool is fully customizable which means your website will look elegant on smartphone screens and smaller tablets.

Squarespace offers three size options to view your website design for various resolutions: desktop, smartphone and tablet. It automatically adjusts all images to those sizes. Unfortunately, you do not find there a view of the landscape, so it is difficult to understand how a website will look in that mode. It is not possible to edit the space between the files in Squarespace. You can try adding a custom CSS, but the builder does not recommend it.

There are no icons in the admin panel that help you choose the mode you want to view and edit. To see how the website changes size for different screen resolutions, you must resize your browser. It is not the most comfortable way to edit a web page, especially if you test it on a mobile device. It includes pop-up dialog box that allows you to edit the header with a menu button, and you will hardly evaluate how the navigation menu is viewed in smartphone mode.

Pros:

• Adaptable from scratch
• Three main display devices (but not landscape mode)

Cons:

• Resize browser instead of icons that are used to review all types of views
• No horizontal views
• The control panel is not very intuitive
• No custom edition of the distance, image sizes for different screen resolutions
• Suitable for beginners and therefore, offers very limited administration panel functions

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