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Why and when to use Carrd

Carrd is one of my favorite tools. Only if used for the right reasons. I did a video on this in detail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UN5ff6ey5I

Here are the reasons:

  1. One page (or one page like) websites
  2. Selling digital products
  3. Price: nothing beats the price of Carrd to put up a website with a custom domain
  4. Ease of use: You can just start using it (no how-to videos), it's pretty easy to figure out
  5. Design is clean and sharp: you can get something professional right off the bat

Reasons not to:

  1. A website more than 5 pages (don't do it)
  2. Blog
  3. Selling physical products (use shopify/ website builders with an e-commerce platform)
  4. Picky about design - doesn't support 100% of google fonts, elements cannot be animated and certain elements on responsiveness

Hope this is helpful!
Romy

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on September 16, 2020
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    @romymisra how would you rate the time spend on designing vs content ? Especially if you don't pick a template and start from scratch.

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      Yea it does take time g to get what you want @arturmkrtchyan. Carrd makes sense for me to use with templates, it's not a site I would think of for doing something from scratch - things like a menu etc, it takes a while to get it to work.

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    Hi @romymisra - great summary!

    I'm wondering if you've any ideas how to make a button maximize its width on mobile :)? I saw some Carrd sites did. Would love to improve mine - https://ventureslist.com/

    Cheers!

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      @felix12777 so sorry I forgot to reply to this! Yes it's probably custom code unfortunately. Also I love your site, wish I had see it before would have included it in the video :)

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        You're welcome! @romymisra would be awesome to exchange opinions!

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          Yes that will be great!

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      @felix12777 probably custom code (css or js) ? At Softr we lately added this to all blocks to support it out of the box

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    Do you have some linked examples of good Carrds?

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      @JamieHan - I've included all the good examples in the description of the video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UN5ff6ey5I

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