Duda

Score9 out of 10

17 Reviews and Ratings

What is Duda?

Duda, the eponymous platform from the company in Palo Alto, is a web design platform for companies that offer web design services to small businesses. The company serves customers from freelance web professionals to digital agencies, all the way up to the large hosting companies, SaaS platforms and online publishers.

Categories & Use Cases

Code quality / cleanliness
Code generated by WYSIWYG editor is clean and validates according to W3C standards.
Category average: 8
Internationalization / multi-language
The software supports multiple languages, countries, currencies, etc.
Category average: 7.8
API
An API (application programming interface) provides a standard programming interface for connecting third-party systems to the software for data creation, access, updating and/or deletion.
Category average: 8

Content taxonomy
Users can create multiple levels and types of content categories including tags.
Category average: 7.9
Availability / breadth of extensions
There is a broad library of extensions, plug-ins, modules or add-ons that allow users to easily customize their websites without building custom code.
Category average: 7.5
Bulk management
Users can change an attribute on a group of documents or sites all at once through features such as global search and replace, making bulk changes easier.
Category average: 7.3

Sarah Hokuf View profile

Owner in Marketing at TruthEra Design Co (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I used Duda to build website for clients. These would be independent soloprenereurs and non profit organizations. They don't have a team to help make software updates, so Duda is the perfect CMS solution for them. I have used many CMS platforms over the last 15 years and I find Duda to be very user-friendly.

Pros

Professional templates to choose from
Great account plans for agencies
Easy CMS
Good pricing
Great customer service

Cons

The CMS is glitchy at times
Need to clear cache in browser to fix glitch issues
Need ability to have global elements
Would like the ability to change templates and keep content

Return on Investment

I can build out sites fast which means more websites in on month
Easy to hand over to the client
Peace of mind for liability of a website being down.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Wix, WordPress and Squarespace

Other Software Used

Dubsado, Adobe Illustrator CC, Adobe PhotoShop, FreshBooks

Nicholas Parker

Project Manager in Marketing at Intern (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Duda to create custom websites for clients. I have also integrated several different things within the Duda platform. I also create custom forms for events and have used many of the editing tools in Duda. It is also a good tool to make custom web apps for clients, I like how the mobile site can be so different from the desktop.

Pros

Easy editing
Easy url custom
Easy hosting

Cons

Some items could be easier to customize
Could be easier to integrate with different paltfroms
Easier client sharing

Return on Investment

Duda has allowed our team to function quicker
Duda has allowed us to have more clients
Our clients are happier with their sites now

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Wix

Other Software Used

Slack, ActiveCampaign

Verified User

Consultant in Professional Services (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are a small digital agency, WSI franchised, and we build websites for S&M businesses. We use Duda since 2018 and have around 30 active websites. It is a feature rich, easy to use, consistent, flexible and very secure platform, which makes our building process and client management quick and efficient. Its customer support is helpful, and of course the resulting websites are modern, beautiful, elegant and very easy and quick to create and maintain. All in all is a great SaaS platform!

Pros

Very easy to learn and master
Builds beautiful, feature rich and easy to maintain cool websites
Provides an efficient management platform for agencies
Has a very good and responsive support team
Is continually expanding features and new add-on partners

Cons

Platform costs have been recently ramping up
It’s native e-commerce option is still lagging
Many new features come at extra costs

Return on Investment

Allows building websites very fast (even in 1 or 2 days!)!
Learning and mastering the platform is quick and easy
Provides a stable revenue source from licensing and maintenance
Allows client investments to focus on new SEO-driving content instead of technical maintenance or platform upgrading

Usability

Alternatives Considered

WordPress, Wix, Square Online and Odoo

Other Software Used

HubSpot CRM, Semrush, HighLevel

Verified User

Employee in Marketing (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are a authorized whitelabeler of Duda. Our agency uses Duda as an easy-to-use offering for clients that don't quite fit the scope of our larger offerings. We use the platform as a way to capture small business clients with smaller budgets and offer them a powerful, intuitive, and developer-free website experience without the cost of a full-on custom WordPress or HubSpot CMS implementation.

Pros

Flexibility in Designs
Intuitive Interface
Customer Support
Third Party Widgets

Cons

Builder Bugs
Some Widgets Aren't Useful

Return on Investment

Duda has helped our agency capture additional personas by allowing us to offer a lower-cost alternative to our core offerings.
We have over 100 Duda websites in our dashboard, many of which are small businesses that would not be clients without this offering.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Wix, GoDaddy and Squarespace

Verified User

C-Level Executive in Marketing (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

we use Duda to design and manage websites for clients.

Pros

Easy to use interface
Really like the client management
Lots of ready made templates and predesigned sections to use.

Cons

Apply design from one element to another.
The personalization feature isn't as easy to use as the rest of the design UI

Return on Investment

Makes it easy for use to update client sites or give them permissions to make updates themselves. Helps lessen support tickets.
So far no downtime issues.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Squarespace, GoDaddy Digital Marketing Suite, WordPress and Wix

WordPress

Wix

Squarespace

Duda

What is Duda?

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Code quality / cleanliness

Internationalization / multi-language

API

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Content taxonomy

Availability / breadth of extensions

Bulk management

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