# Homestead Websites Reviews **Vendor:** Homestead Technologies **Category:** [Web Design Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/web-design) **Average Rating:** 3.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 15 ## About Homestead Websites Founded in 1996, Homestead Technologies, Inc. is a leader in web site creation, marketing and hosting business. In addition to offering small business owners a top-notch experience to create their business presence on the web, Homestead partners with technology companies, such as Verizon and Google, to offer their customers similar products and services. Homestead helps small businesses establish their presence on the Web, maintain and promote their site, and sell or market their products and services, all without mastering programming or design. We offer our customers hundreds of design templates to choose from, as well as integrated e-commerce capabilities, inclusion in online Business Directories, and WebListings. From our SiteBuilder software to our e-commerce solutions and world-class support, we help small businesses achieve success online. ## Homestead Websites Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users find the **implementation ease** of Homestead Websites refreshing, allowing for quick and simple setup. (1 reviews) - Users find the **setup ease** of Homestead Websites incredibly beneficial for creating their websites quickly. (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users experience a **confusing interface** for cancellations, leading to frustrating and unresponsive customer service issues. (1 reviews) - Users find Homestead's services to be **expensive** , with rising costs and unresponsive customer service complicating cancellation. (1 reviews) - Users find Homestead's interface **not user-friendly** , facing difficulties with cancellations and poor customer service responses. (1 reviews) - Users report **poor customer support** with Homestead, experiencing unresponsiveness and frustration during cancellation attempts. (1 reviews) ## Homestead Websites Reviews ### 1. (1)+Very hard to cancel autorenewal **Rating:** 0.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consulting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 07, 2024 **What do you like best about Homestead Websites?** It was easy to set up. And I did have a nice website for several years, though the annual price increases eventually mdaeit a poor value. **What do you dislike about Homestead Websites?** Thinking of retiring, I tried to cancel the automatic renewal of my website subscription last year. Homestead was largely unresponsive. They claimed they sent an email reminder, which I never got. I tried to ask if they could at least prorate, keeping the site for six months at a reduced rate. NO RESPONSE. Just silence. So I kept the site another year--although the price had increased > $30 and I no longer felt it was worth the cost. In 2024, I made REPEATED efforts to contact the company to stop the autorenewal in advance. Doing so online was not intuitive, and once I managed to do it, I initially received NO confirmation that it was done, so I also tried to do it via phone (with customer service people difficult to understand) and online chat. Eventually something worked. HOWEVER, Homestead immediately took down my website on Oct. 24 or 25. The contract was set to renew Nov. 8. I explicitly stated in all my communications that I wanted the site to remain active through the end of the contract on Nov. 8—just do not renew the contract after the current one runs out. I called customer service and eventually got a rep (with an accent, who spent more time telling me she would me than actually helping me). She indicated that the website was back up, but Homestead may go ahead and bill me automatically; I would have to call again and cancel again Nov. 8, In other words, they could not leave the site up through Nov. 8 without also billing me for another year, creating a need for me to dispute the charge on my credit card. This is not exactly what happened. Instead, the site did NOT come back up, and I received an email confirming it was cancelled. At least they have not billed me again, but essentially, they took the site down more thantwo weeks before my subscription was set to expire. If you’re thinking about signing up with Homestead , be prepared for significant annual rate hikes, unresponsive customer service, and a frustrating cancellation experience. P.S. They have also made it difficult and tedious to try to submit a review--too many required steps. The process appears to be be designed to discourage reviewing their services. **What problems is Homestead Websites solving and how is that benefiting you?** Actually, the website did not do much for my business except to help confirm that I am a legitmate busienss. And it had the negative effect of drawing some spam. ### 2. Simple, but cheap and extremely easy to use! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andrew L. | M, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 30, 2023 **What do you like best about Homestead Websites?** The best thing about homestead is the simplicity. It's drag and drop and the builder is very similar to Wix, but it's pared down in a way that makes it very beginner friendly. How it looks in the builder is how it will look in real life! **What do you dislike about Homestead Websites?** It's simple on purpose, but obviously having less customization is not always ideal. **What problems is Homestead Websites solving and how is that benefiting you?** I designed a client's website on homestead and what I found was that it made the design process simple and straightforward. It also was easy to hand off to the client who was not the most tech savvy. ### 3. Don't choose Homestead.com for your website! **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mental Health Care | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 27, 2023 **What do you like best about Homestead Websites?** Before I purchased premium services, I had no major problems with Homestead. **What do you dislike about Homestead Websites?** I spent a lot of money for Homestead to design my website. After this, it crashed every time I made edits. The tech support was abysmal. I had to transfer my website off of Homestead and pay for another web designer. **What problems is Homestead Websites solving and how is that benefiting you?** None; the tech support is terrible. ### 4. Been a customer for nearly a decade **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Writing and Editing | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 26, 2019 **What do you like best about Homestead Websites?** Easy to use. Now offer a simple website builder. **What do you dislike about Homestead Websites?** Cost. The price increases once/twice a year, but no known improvement for older accounts. Also, for photos outside the blog, there is no direct link capability. I cannot find an image by entering what should be the image url, which means using the alt text is even more important because adding a description in the url serves no purpose once uploaded. **Recommendations to others considering Homestead Websites:** Now is a good time to join. Building from scratch is no longer a requirement, it's an option. It now offers updated, mobile responsive templates. **What problems is Homestead Websites solving and how is that benefiting you?** For older, from scratch sites, there are no effective options to change to responsive automatically. But, I enjoy a challenge on occasion and coding. It allows me the freedom to add whatever I want. ### 5. Homestead Websites is very intuitive-friendly to use! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dr. Wayne L. | Venture Capitalist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2020 **What do you like best about Homestead Websites?** The templates are easy to understand and fill in. The visual quality of the templates is extremely good! **What do you dislike about Homestead Websites?** Unfortunately, there is not a free pricing plan. **What problems is Homestead Websites solving and how is that benefiting you?** I managed to build multiple websites with Homestead. The benefit of using Homestead is I was able to build a website rapidly. ### 6. Homestead Websites **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hunter V. | Factory Sales Manager & Trade Show Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2019 **What do you like best about Homestead Websites?** How easy homestead website is to use and navigate, the cost is very reasonable, and the dashboard is clear and concise. the how to get started and help tabs make it easy to figure out what the user is trying to accomplish, all of the different color themes to pick from make it very fun to design **What do you dislike about Homestead Websites?** you know I haven't really found anything so far, if I didn't have prior knowledge of a computer then it could possibly be I bit tricky to figure out but with the up loads of graphics design elemints of the page and over all usage of it I truly cant complain **Recommendations to others considering Homestead Websites:** I would absolutely take a look at Homestead I find it very helpful easy to use and extremely efficient in helping take care of my needs **What problems is Homestead Websites solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am able to get my product on the internet, I am able to get it in the eyes of buyers, and gives me the added ability to end up in a decent google search, it also benefits me by legitimizing me my company and my business giving us an upper hand and a professional look that says that SDC is here and ready for business. that we have what it takes and that shows through the services provided by the homestead website and all of its amazing features and benefits. it makes thing easy for you, its quick, and efficient. Like they say in their slogan "Get a site, get found, get customers" pretty straight forward and to the point but it true, and it works ### 7. Used Homestead and Loved it! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Leslie H. | Teacher, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 13, 2018 **What do you like best about Homestead Websites?** What I loved most about Homestead was the ease of use for building a website for my father's church when he first became a priest for that diocese. The church had absolutely no marketing and I was able to easily use Homestead to build a business website for the church with multiple pages. **What do you dislike about Homestead Websites?** The only thing I disliked about Homestead was that I wished I had more choices for templates and backgrounds and such. It worked for the most part but there were some times when I had trouble connecting to the servers. **Recommendations to others considering Homestead Websites:** If you're looking for a great site that is easy to use in order to market your company, church, or any organization, Homestead is the way to go! **What problems is Homestead Websites solving and how is that benefiting you?** So, with Homestead, I was able to show off our church and all of our activities at the time and our congregation grew in size by almost 70%. It was great! ### 8. Do you really need to do it yourself? **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 18, 2018 **What do you like best about Homestead Websites?** Homestead was very simple to use, and a great start if you have absolutely no html experience, but I would question whether the finished result is really what you want your potential customers to see. **What do you dislike about Homestead Websites?** The end results are very "out of the box" and you really have to dig deep into the settings to get to the customization you really need in order to stand out. **Recommendations to others considering Homestead Websites:** You will get a very easy to build website. The downside of this is that this is exactly what your customers will see. **What problems is Homestead Websites solving and how is that benefiting you?** We gave it a full evaluation, but quite honestly we prefer to spend a little longer, and maybe bill the client a little more, in order to give a much more professional, customized website. ### 9. Homestead Hits the High Notes **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 23, 2018 **What do you like best about Homestead Websites?** I really like the pre-built website features that allow me to customize so many aspects of the website along with access to stock images that are exceptionally professional. The ability to access marketing tools also puts homestead above and beyond the rest. **What do you dislike about Homestead Websites?** A small issue that I've encountered using Homestead is that there is limited bandwidth which slows things down a bit. Additionally I haven't felt that there is enough storage. The starter pack also does not come with a domain. **What problems is Homestead Websites solving and how is that benefiting you?** I enjoy the add on services that have helped get my website noticed better, like the search engine optimization service feature with the added reporting which helps me track my data. ### 10. Homestead Websites Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 18, 2018 **What do you like best about Homestead Websites?** The ability and flexibility to pick a design template based on the industry and customize it to suit my business needs. **What do you dislike about Homestead Websites?** Homestead is supposed to work as both an online and offline website builder but you can’t actually do anything unless you’re connected to the internet, which cancels out any advantages to this two-tiered approach. Also, homestead’s web-based tool, Site Builder Light, only provides a fraction of the tool’s functionality. **What problems is Homestead Websites solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps to create customized and personalized web pages specific to my company and provides a low cost benefit in terms of price and ease of use in terms of publishing and maintaining my company's website. ### 11. Look elsewhere **Rating:** 1.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** David L. | Internal Communications Manager, Food Production, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 13, 2018 **What do you like best about Homestead Websites?** Simple for non-website builders to get a simple website up. **What do you dislike about Homestead Websites?** Account management: severing your relationship with the company was much more difficult than it should have been. They continued to bill us long after we tried closing our account. **What problems is Homestead Websites solving and how is that benefiting you?** A simple presence on the web was our goal. But really none - wouldn't recommend. ### 12. Easy Platform to Navigate Through **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Administration | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 05, 2018 **What do you like best about Homestead Websites?** I like the easyness to navigate through the site. You can pretty much go in there from the first time and determine what information you’ll need without much training or having to look back at manuals. Simple, easy and does the work! **What do you dislike about Homestead Websites?** Somewhat behind in terms of technology. Don’t get me wrong, Homestead is a platform that any start up should look into when on a tight budget. But when you have multiple clients with high-end technology and you have to migrate information it’s not the best up to date. **What problems is Homestead Websites solving and how is that benefiting you?** Site builder, professional templates and email domains. Great to start! ### 13. Best Website Builder **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 18, 2018 **What do you like best about Homestead Websites?** One of my friend wanted me to create a website through Homestead website, I was able to build a cool website with very nice User Interface **What do you dislike about Homestead Websites?** I think Homestead can integrate more marketing tools so that customer can help his business grow rapidly. **Recommendations to others considering Homestead Websites:** More marketing tools **What problems is Homestead Websites solving and how is that benefiting you?** Homestead made the business grow with its easy to use interface and various other tools. ### 14. Easy Website Building **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Angela O. | Realtor, Real Estate, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 04, 2018 **What do you like best about Homestead Websites?** This is a great user friendly and easy way to build a professional looking website. **What do you dislike about Homestead Websites?** I love this program but I think they could improve the customization on templates, ie: more color selection & slight changes to arrangement of layout. **What problems is Homestead Websites solving and how is that benefiting you?** This program is great for people who have multiple businesses and don’t want to go the web developer route. It is cost effective and efficient for my second business. ### 15. Homestead website **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 31, 2018 **What do you like best about Homestead Websites?** Easy to use. Several different sites to check out **What do you dislike about Homestead Websites?** Some information to much to read through. Could be shorter **What problems is Homestead Websites solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy to use helps make it easier for customers to navigate through. ## Homestead Websites Discussions - [What is Homestead Websites used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-homestead-websites-used-for) - [View Homestead Websites pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/homestead-websites/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-30+17%3A36%3A00+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=6a8876b2-d1a2-4d4b-9aeb-b7c11c3ccda8&secure%5Btoken%5D=b6d7fd0ae3ad6b52fa8800dddccc7bd5fdc9fe11805464e1b9a46ab4e32b010e&format=llm_user) ## Homestead Websites Features **Customizations** - Templates - Drag and Drop - HTML Input - Domain Name **Growth** - SEO - Site Analytics - Marketing Tools - E-Commerce - Hosting **Content** - Email Integrations - Content Management - Permissions - WordPress Tool **Support** - Customer Support ## Top Homestead Websites Alternatives - [WordPress.com](https://www.g2.com/products/wordpress-com/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (2,675 reviews) - [Google Workspace](https://www.g2.com/products/google-workspace/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (45,558 reviews) - [Squarespace](https://www.g2.com/products/squarespace/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (1,122 reviews)