Yola ranks first here because the two things a construction company needs from a website, a gallery of finished builds and a form that brings in project inquiries, are ready-made blocks you drop onto a page rather than a design job. Pricing starts at $9.95/mo, and the free plan lets you build the site and look at your own photos on it before you pay. No design experience is needed at any point, which is the whole reason it suits an owner running the business from a truck.
Yes. You can edit your own page titles, meta descriptions and URLs, so a projects page can name the towns and counties you build in instead of sitting under a generic heading. Sites are mobile optimized and responsive, which matters because search engines look at how a page behaves on a phone. Yola doesn't submit your business to local directories for you, so claiming your Google Business Profile is still a separate job.
Show the photos. A services list tells someone you do additions; a set of photos from an addition you finished last spring shows them what your finish work looks like. Keep the list too, since it's what people search for, but give the photos the room. Ten good shots from three recent jobs, each with a line about the scope, does more than fifty photos with no context.
A projects page with photos of completed builds, a plain services list, your license number and service area, a couple of client quotes, and a contact form set up to ask for project type, address and timeline. The form is the part most sites get wrong: a bare name and email box means every inquiry starts with a phone call to find out what the job even is. You can set up and edit the form fields yourself in Yola, and Yola's help center walks through how the blocks work.
Yes, and that's the point of building it on Yola rather than paying someone. You open the projects page, upload the photos into the gallery block, type a line under each one and republish. There's no request to file and no invoice for a fifteen-minute change, so the last job you finished can be on the site the same week.
Yes. Yola's free plan covers one website with two pages, 100 MB of space and basic AI, with self-service support, which is enough to get a home page and a projects page looking right before you pay. Wix, GoDaddy and Webflow also have free tiers, though each attaches branding, a subdomain or a limit on connecting your own domain. Squarespace is the exception in this lineup: it runs a 14-day trial only, then $19.00/mo.
It decides whether an inquiry gets sent. A homeowner or a site manager is often looking you up on a phone, sometimes standing in the room they want changed, so your gallery has to scroll cleanly and the form has to be fillable with a thumb. Yola sites are responsive, so the layout adjusts to the screen on its own, and it's still worth previewing a page at phone size before you publish. Yola's help center has guidance on checking how your content behaves on smaller screens.
It comes down to what you want to spend your evenings on. Wix gives you more control over where each photo sits and Squarespace gives you a more polished template, and both are honest choices if design is the priority. Yola fits better when the priority is getting completed projects and a working inquiry form online and then keeping them updated yourself, because the gallery, services and contact blocks are already built and the editor doesn't ask for design decisions. Price is part of it too: $9.95/mo against $17.00/mo for Wix and $19.00/mo for Squarespace, which has no free plan to start on.