One of the most important things that I learned this week about site builders and hosting was that you always need to read the fine print before agreeing to any terms or conditions. When I was looking through plans for Weebly and Wix, their cheapest plans looked like a decent deal until I discovered one major caveat. The cheapest plans required you to include Wix’s or Weebly’s ads on your site, so it is something that you don’t have any control over. The plans that don’t require advertisements cost significantly more than the basic plans with ads. Similarly, sites like bluehost and HostGator advertised extremely low prices for hosting, but it turned out that the price only applied to thirty six month long contracts. Shorter plans can potentially more than double the monthly price of hosting through these services. I guess the old adage still rings true. “If it sounds too good to be true, then it probably is.”