Wix, Google Sites or a website made for you: which should you choose?

Wix and Google Sites are website builders. You start from a template or a blank page, then put your site together yourself, block by block: text, photos, buttons, pages. You're in control of everything.

If you enjoy building things and have time on your hands, it's a real option, and we won't pretend otherwise.

A website builder supplies the bricks; you're the one who builds the site. Whatever the tool charges, the time spent is yours, and it comes back with every change.

• Choosing a template and adapting it to your business
• Writing the text, then proofreading it
• Choosing, cropping and compressing the photos
• Checking how it looks on a phone
• Connecting your domain name
• Polishing the title and description Google reads

You see your website before you pay: not an empty template, but your own site, in your name, with your opening hours, your services and your photos. The demo costs nothing and commits you to nothing.

You don't have to do anything. Text, layout, domain name, hosting, going live within 48 working hours once the domain is pointed: our team takes care of it.

You change your website in your own words. Opening hours, a price, a photo: you write it in your customer area or to Vivi, and it's live straight away, undone in one tap. A bigger change? It's shown to you before it's published; 2 a month are included, plus 30 small ones.

Go for a do-it-yourself tool if you want to control everything and build at your own pace. Choose Rue Vive if you want a polished website without spending your evenings on it, seen before you pay, and that you change by writing a sentence.

Either way, look at what stays yours if you leave. With us, that's your words, your photos and your domain; the layout and the technology remain ours. The build costs €490, or €290 for the first 5 customers, then €29 a month, with no commitment.