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I'm glad to see that there are good places for the mum & pop shops to get websites without having to go through working with a wed dev agency. When I worked for one I know it would have been better for both sides if there were tools like this so that they could just make something as small as they needed whilst I could get on with larger projects.

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I agree. It's kind of ironic that after all these efforts at making web development easier, it's still difficult for a non-technical person to figure out how to get a simple store online. The learning curve associated with products like Wordpress, Magento, et al is quite high, even for a web dev like myself. Tools like these are very much appreciated.

Disclaimer: I work with http://www.squarespace.com, a competitor for most of the products above.

"without having to go through working with a wed dev agency"

Depends on what you consider a website of course. Do you remember the "download Netscape Now!" days?

http://sillydog.org/netscape/banner.html

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