Best Website Development Tools in 2026

ExpressionEngine

It suits site teams that need a self-hosted CMS with flexible content structures, editorial workflows or multilingual publishing.

Drupal CMS is aimed at marketing teams, content creators, and site builders seeking a ready-to-use starting point.

Duda is designed for agencies and professionals building and managing websites at scale.

MODX suits teams building custom sites or applications that need flexible content types, workflows, multilingual publishing, or access controls.

Ghost

Ghost suits creators, publishers, businesses, and developers who want web-based publishing, newsletters, or paid memberships.

Sanity

Sanity suits teams building web or mobile products and content applications, as well as customer-facing or internal agents.

Tilda

Tilda suits people creating websites, stores, blogs or other listed projects without building a site from scratch.

Jimdo

Jimdo suits solopreneurs and micro-businesses building a web presence with bookings, forms, blogging or basic online sales.

Joomla

Joomla! suits people managing websites with multiple contributors, permissions, and publishing workflows.

Strapi

Strapi suits developers and teams that want a customizable CMS with REST or GraphQL APIs and a choice between self-hosting and Strapi Cloud.

Webflow AI suits businesses and teams that want to launch sites while retaining creative control and scaling collaborative workflows with guardrails.

Content Hub is aimed at marketers creating and managing content across the customer journey.

Storyblok

Storyblok suits teams building localized web content with a visual editing workflow and framework or API integrations.

Squarespace Commerce

It suits businesses selling physical or digital products, services, or subscriptions through online and in-person channels.

WordPress

It suits creators, small businesses, enterprises, first-time bloggers, and professional developers.

Contentful

It suits teams managing localized web content, permissions, previews, assets, and API-based workflows.

Payload CMS

Payload CMS suits developers building websites, applications, headless CMS projects, or internal tools who can manage a Node.js deployment and supported database.

Directus

Directus suits teams managing localized content through web APIs and needing custom permissions, previews, webhooks, or transformed assets.