Hey, Jeff.

Thanks for sharing this. A very good write up of the issues with Wesbite Builders.

My take on this is that website builders are just a first stepping stone in the process of developing a good looking website. At first, you pick up bits from this and that website and create a Frankenstein's monster of a sort. As you spend more time with the tool and learn to pay attention to specific details on other sites, your website quality will improve too.

Most probably with time you'll have a design that's completely different from the one you had in mind originally, but that's ok. And this does not mean that you can't get help from designers at some point, for some bits like logo at least. In my experience at least, done is better than perfect.