Each person, and each company, will want to create a website that is entirely their own. It's important to me to work with clients on deciding exactly what they want, and the eaxct styling and coloration of each — to make every site as individual as can be made.
I worked directly for Google for a time, in the Ann Arbor office. I was trained rigorously for a full month of full-time training before starting the job, and got the highest score on the proficiency test. I worked with thousands of accounts, some of them multi-billion dollar international companies, and some of them small and local stores. Though I obviously cannot discuss the details of any of the accounts I dealt with, but from working with that many different accounts of all sorts, I know what works and what doesn't - no matter your scale. I currently freelance Adwords work, and have had clients around the Ann Arbor area.
I've made many sites (including this one!) using HTML5, PHP, CSS, JavaScript, and MySQL. For said creation, I use a mix of Bootstrap Studio, Pinegrow, Pingendo, Dreamweaver, Muse, Wordpress, Squarespace, and Wix. The stylization (and, more importantly, professionalism) of your site is incredibly important in how people react to you; and if they choose to shop with you, donate to you, write grants for you, hire you — or any number of interactions that you seek. Crafting a website that carefully reflects who you are (and what you do) will almost always be a necessary cornerstone of your business, and bring in thousands (or millions) of dollars more than you otherwise would have.
If you want a website that has a pre-built backend system and hundreds of themes without any login systems, WYSIWYG editors like Wix or Squarespace are perfect. Both allow for rich HTML5 pages, with cart systems, purchases, and diverse gallery pages. A strong suit is mobile scaling; both of these systems will automatically scale your site for mobile ot tablet viewers, so there's no need to design the page twice.
The system that most people find themselves using for a plug-and-play system or blog, WordPress is a very extensible and modular solution that will work for most people making simple sites. Not only used for blogs, it is one of the largest sites in the world, and used for creating everything from portfolio pages to e-commerce sites. Its popularity largely comes from the plug-ins that are made for it, and the modularity of the whole system.
The stylization (and, more importantly, professionalism) of your site is incredibly important in how people react to your organization; and if they choose to shop with you, donate to you, write grants for you, hire you — or any number of interactions that you seek. Crafting a website that carefully reflects who you are (and what you do) will almost always be a necessary cornerstone of your business, and bring in thousands (or millions) of dollars more than you otherwise would have.
In building a website from scratch, I use many languages and programs to create a site that is built aesthetically, responsively, and reliably.
The use of Dreamweaver, Muse, Pinegrow, Pigendo, Bootstrap Studio, Photoshop, Experience Design (and others) allows for this, and allows me to build quickly/visually. HTML5, JavaScript, CSS, and Bootstrap are used for this.
In the case of using pre-built systems, I can have a Wordpress, Wix, or Squarespace site to you in a matter of days. Theming, font choices, color choices, and templates are all also available for these.