Friday Website Builder Review

You're in the right place if you're looking for a whistle-stop Friday Website Builder review.

Stick with us as we explore Friday’s Website Builder key features, customer support, and pros and cons.

Hopefully, by the end of this review, you'll have better insight into whether this platform is the right fit for you.

So, with that said, let's dive into the nitty-gritty of this blog post!

My Quick Verdict

If you don't have the time to read my entire Friday Website Builder review, don't worry, I’ve got you covered.

Here are the headlines:

According to their CEO, the Friday Website Builder team comprises a group of web programmers and developers united by a single mission: to make website creation as easy as possible.

They achieve this by equipping you with a selection of customizable website templates and an intuitive drag-and-drop editor.

They believe:

‘Every day should feel like FRIDAY! – Because building your website should be simple.'

That's why they also endeavor to supply everything users need to create and manage a blog, ecommerce store, or website.

That way, you don't have to go to the trouble or expense of researching and purchasing extra plugins.

Lastly, it's also worth noting that Friday prides itself on catering to the needs of the masses, citing several use cases, including ‘entrepreneurs,' ‘agencies,' ‘schools,' ‘artists,' ‘freelancers,' and ‘students'. So, there's a good chance you'll fit in with their clientele!

Friday Website Builder Pricing

Unlike the majority of the website building SaaS on the market, Friday doesn’t offer a range of subscription packages that scale with the user’s needs.

Instead, they offer one pricing plan that costs $50 a month (after a seven-day free trial). This price covers everything needed to build and run a website in one single payment

How to Get Started

Getting started with Friday is pretty easy; just follow the steps below:

Head to the Friday Website Builder home page and click “Get Started” in the top right corner.
Register for free trial account; just provide your name and email address and create a password.
Although Friday Website Builder has a seven-day free trial, you still have to provide your payment details at this point. You won’t be charged for a subscription before you publish your website.
Select your preferred website template, or start with a blank canvas.
Begin creating your website, blog, or ecommerce store using Friday Website Builder’s editor!

Simple, right?

Website Builder

As mentioned above, to create a website for your business, non-profit, personal use, etc., first pick your preferred website template (they’re all mobile-friendly) and then use the drag-and-drop website builder to customize your website’s layout and aesthetics to suit your tastes.

One of the perks of using a SaaS website builder like Friday Website Builder is that they handle software updates for you.

So you don't have to waste time manually updating your software – a tedious job, but one imperative for security and the seamless working of your website.

While we’re on the subject of website security, it’s also worth mentioning that Friday Website Builder provides its users with a free SSL security certificate.

Your website is also securely hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Now we’ve covered the basics, let’s explore the website builder’s key features. We’re happy to say that Friday Website Builder includes lots of built-in features.

I’ll try to cover as many as possible, but unfortunately, I won’t have time to discuss them all here. Instead, I’ll focus on the website builder’s most notable features:

Images

Friday Website Builder offers tons of drag-and-drop widgets to add to your website. One of which is the ‘image’ widget.

I love how many options you have here. First, you have the option of uploading your own image. Or you can use one of Friday Website Builder’s stock images, textures, and Giphy’s.

You can then use the built in image editor to:

Crop the image’s size (with specific prompts on image dimensions to suit Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter).
Flip and rotate the image
Add a filter
Adjust brightness, contrast, saturation, gamma, clarity, shadows, highlights, exposure, etc.
Adjust the image’s focus
Add a frame
Add an overlay
Add text
Add stickers
Use a ‘brush’ to draw directly onto the image.

Once you’re happy with your image, there are a few options available to help you control exactly how the image appears on your website:

Layout: Pick whether your image appears as a sharp square, rounded square, or circle
Border: Opt for no border or full, top, bottom, left, or right borders. You can also control the border’s size.
Corner radius: The same options listed above also apply to the corner radius
Shadow: Choose whether the image has a shadow or not
Hover effect for desktop: options include zoom out, grayscale, blur, and more.
Animation: Pick a trigger and the kind of animation you want for your image, for example, fade in, slide in, bounce in, and more)
Spacing: Change padding on desktop and tablet

Contact Forms

Another widget worth highlighting is Friday Website Builder’s ‘contact forms.’

You get access to an easy-to-use contact form builder to create and publish custom contact forms on all your web pages.

You can add fields like:

Name
Email
Phone
Message

…you can also add your own fields.

On top of that, you can customize the copy of the ‘submit button,’ position the reCAPTCHA where you want, and give the contact form a title.

You can also modify:

How you receive new contact form submission notifications (including which email address the notification is sent to, what the email subject line is, and the ‘from’ name)
Actions after submission (including whether you send a customized thank you message to whoever sent the submission, similarly you can send a custom error message should there be an issue with sending the message, lastly, you can also send an automated custom confirmation message to the person who sent a submission, and more.)

You can also integrate contact forms with Google Sheets, Mailchimp, Constant Contact, and webhooks.

Popups

Friday Website Builder also makes creating popups for all kinds of purposes easy, including:

Welcome
Contact Us
Newsletter Registration
Promotion
Like Us on Facebook
Send Feedback
Visit Us
Online Scheduling
New Store Item
More Info
Follow Us on Instagram

…or you can create your own from scratch!

AI

Across Friday Website Builder’s tools, there are a few instances where you can use AI to streamline your work.

One such example is the ‘text’ widget. Once you’ve provided some background like your business name, tone of voice, and what your business does, you can use the ‘AI assistant’ to write:

Titles for the web page, section, or paragraph
Custom text

Alternatively, you can make ‘Quick edits’ such as:

Improve Writing (if you don’t like the initial suggestion, click ‘suggest another, and the AI will produce another option)
Make Shorter (same as above)
Make Longer (same as above)
Translate
Change Tone
Fix Spelling & Grammar
Custom Edit

Elsewhere, you can use AI to help you optimize your site for SEO. More specifically, to generate meta tags for your pages and image alt text, which moves onto our next section nicely…

SEO

Friday Website Builder has various in-built SEO tools that empower you to optimize your site’s speed, code organization, and more.

For instance, you can:

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Edit page-level SEO – I.e., set each page’s meta tags, index settings, and more.
Oversee site-level SEO – This includes:
- Enabling local business schema (to optimize your site for local SEO)
- Instructing search engines not to crawl your site (so it doesn’t appear in search results)
- Submitting a custom sitemap, robots.txt & other files – By default, Friday Website Builder automatically generates sitemap.xml and robots.txt files for your site. However, you can replace these with your own.
- The lazy loading of images and widgets – This improves page speed by not loading the entire page at once; instead, images and widgets only load when you scroll past them. You can turn this feature on and off.
- Show default fonts while custom fonts are loading – To improve load time, you can opt to show default fonts so visitors can start reading your website copy instantly while your custom site fonts are loading. (Unfortunately, your website may flicker while waiting for the fonts to load).
- Site meta title and description – You can edit your website’s meta title and description to include the keywords you’re trying to rank for.

Bandwidth

Lastly, Friday Website Builder offers its users unlimited bandwidth, so you don’t need to worry about surges in traffic to your website.

Web Analytics

Once your website goes live, you can access Friday Website Builder's web analytics. For instance, you can keep an eye on how many visitors your website attracts and then tweak your strategy accordingly to test what works best for increasing website traffic.

Friday also makes connecting your site to Google Analytics super simple!

Ecommerce Website Builder

As we’ve already hinted, if you need to create an online store, Friday Website Builder also has you covered.

You get access to all the above website-building tools, plus an online checkout and 40+ payment gateways, including Stripe, Square, PayPal, Authorize.net, Payeezy, and 2Checkout.

Let’s take a closer look at some of Friday Website Builder’s ‘Store’ widgets:

Shopping Cart Widget

Yes, you guessed it, with this widget, you can add a shopping cart to any of your web pages and make it your own by:

Choosing your shopping cart icon
Adjusting the icon’s size, color, shadow, and spacing
Adjusting the text’s font, size, color, format, shadow, and spacing

This feature is pretty unique because most website builders don’t make this kind of granular customization easy (or even possible!)

Product Gallery Widget

Displaying a gallery of your products is also doable.

You just choose the products you wish to display and select whether to show the following product info (each of which you can edit the style of):

Title
Price
SKU
Additional image
On-sale label (you can edit this copy if you wish)
Sold out label (like above, you can edit this copy)

Of course, you can also edit the gallery’s design, including its:

Layout- you have the following options:
- Text and button below the image
- Text and button on hover
- Text and button over image
Text and button position
Number of columns
Auto adjust columns (opt to automatically adjust the number of columns to avoid white space)
Visible rows

Remember, you can also edit the style of the product gallery’s images, text, on-sale, and sold-out labels, but we don’t have the space to go into all these different options here.

Product Search Widget

To help customers easily navigate your online store, you can include a product search bar. Just drag and drop the widget wherever you want it to appear on the website.

Customization options include the following:

The text inside the search bar (this shows when a visitor clicks the search box)
The icon’s width and color
The input field’s dimensions, background, and layout
The search results dimensions, background, layout, and hover
The text’s font, size, color, format, alignment, and direction
The spacing

Blog Website Builder

You can add a blog to your website or ecommerce store or just run a blog on its own – the choice is yours.

In either instance, it’s easy to create a new post. Just click the ‘Blog’ icon on the website builder’s left-hand menu and select +New Post.

You’re then prompted to add the main post details (title, author, and main image). Friday Website Builder adds these details to your post to seamlessly match your web design.

You’re then taken to a page where you can write your content using a helpful blog template. This one, pictured in the screenshot, includes space for a subheading, image, and social share buttons.

You can, of course, edit the layout and aesthetic however you wish, using the same widgets available in the main website builder.

Other noteworthy blogging features include:

Post management features
AI Writing assistant
Blog settings
The ability to import posts

Friday Website Builder Pros and Cons

Pros

Friday Website Builder fulfills its promise of being an easy-to-use website builder; it’s incredibly intuitive to use
The vast array of widgets, tools, and granular customization options are impressive.
A developer mode is available, so if you want to dig into your website’s code, you can
The templates are stunning and mobile-friendly

Cons

Although all its Trustpilot reviews are positive, only three are available at the time of writing.
Email tickets are the only in-person support available.

Friday Website Builder Customer Support

Friday Website Builder’s support team is available 24/7 via email ticket.

Or, if you would prefer to consult self-help materials, you can head to Friday Website Builder’s knowledge base. However, you have to be logged into your account to access these documents.

From within the website builder, click the ‘search’ button at the top of the page. Select the ‘Help Articles’ tab, and then search your query. Relevant materials will then populate to (hopefully) answer your question.

In addition to this, Friday Website Builder also has an FAQs section and a blog.

New posts are uploaded every Friday ‘to help your business grow.’ Here, you’ll find articles on a range of helpful articles, like ‘Website Design Timeline: A Step-By-Step Guide For 2024,’ ‘25 Social Entrepreneurship Ideas To Start In 2024′, and more.

Alternatively, suppose you want information about Friday Website Builder’s press coverage or would like to use their brand assets. In that case, there’s a Press and Media page where you can find out more information.

Friday Review: My Final Thoughts

So that brings us to the end of our Friday Website Builder review – we hope you found it helpful!

All in all, I think that Friday is an incredibly easy-to-use platform for building beautiful websites, blogs, and eCommerce stores.

It makes granular web design customization intuitive and provides an impressive array of drag-and-drop widgets, allowing you to bring the vision you have for your website to life.

However, as Friday Website Builder isn’t built explicitly for ecommerce, you may find that if you plan on running a complex online store, you might find a solution like Shopify or BigCommerce that better caters to your needs.

On the flip side, if you wish to run a simple website, you may find that for the fixed price of $50 a month, you can get all the functionality you need for cheaper elsewhere – for instance, Weebly or Wix.

That’s all from me! Over to you; let us know in the comments box below your experience with Friday Website Builder.