For useful ‘how to’ guides on creating your website using these and other tools go to lynda.com . As the license is covered by the University, staff and students can login through a portal to access all the courses for free: Portal Login: https://www.it.unsw.edu.au/catalogue/lynda.html

Once logged in, they can access courses like this one: WordPress Essential Training  .

Criteria Wix  Weebly  WordPress 
Number of websites powered as of September 2015 69m 30m 74.6m
Ease of use Drag & drop website builder – insert any content anywhere – No coding required Drag & drop website builder – insert any contentanywhere – No coding required More difficult to use than Weebly, need knowledge of coding to manipulate design
Design Flexibility More than 500 site designs available in over 70 categories Custom fonts integrated Weebly is gradually releasing more updated themes. More difficult to use than Weebly, need knowledge of coding to manipulate design
Free templates Specific non-profit, design focused and blogging templates Specific non-profit formats   http://www.weebly.com/?c=mkt_w_nwk:Affiliate_cat:WebsiteBuilderExpert_subid:FreeTemplates#themes Can pick from 9 initial themes
Free custom domain You only get a free domain name if you sign up to their Combo or higher plans. You only get a free domain name if you sign up toa paid plan. You only get a free domain name if you sign up toa paid plan.
Search engine optimization Wix allows page level control, including heading tags from H1 to H6 titles, but you cannot customize your URL. Weebly allows page level control but no H1 title tags (on page level) or custom URL. Yoast SEO plugin can help search engine optimization
Integration with social media Wix has free options to integrate Facebook, pinterest and twitter Weebly allows you to schedule when to publish your post, as a spam blocker, as well as allowing you to choose between Disqus, Facebook or their own commenting system, giving you a bit more flexibility on which platform you’d like to use. Free Social Media PlugIn
Donations/e-Commerce Decent e-commercebuilt in features Getfunding app You can solicit donations by listing them as a “product” on your site, the standard per transaction fees and percentages are still charged by our various cc processors.You can also accept donations through your site, with the most commonly used of these being PayPal’s Donation Button. Donation plugins Our Progress – Display a thermometer to measure non profit fund raising results.  (Does not manage the actual submission of donations, just helps you display and track results somewhat manually).
Simple PayPal Donate – With this one, you still have to get a donate button from PayPal after logging into your non profit account.
Seamless Donations New! – This plugin allows you to receive donations, track donors and send customized thank you messages with Seamless Donations for WordPress.
Custom Post Donations New!– “This WordPress plugin will allow you to create unique customized PayPal donation widgets to insert into your WordPress posts or pages and accept donations. WP Plugin for creating custom PayPal donation widgets. PayPal for WordPress. WordPress ecommerce.”
Smarty Donations New! – “The all in one donation plugin, create different kind of donations, set goals, monitor your results, donation forms, thank you emails”
PayPal Donations – Adds donation shortcode and sidebar Widget to WordPress. The options menu lets you setup your PayPal ID and a few other optional settings. You can choose which donation button you want to use or if you want to use your own button.
Donate Plus – place the shortcode on a WordPress page and accept donations. The form includes the option to be recognized on your website after the donation is received. The Recognition wall can be placed on any WordPress page using the shortcode. You can display your running donation total.
Email signup Wix ShoutOut app has templates for newsletters. You can also automatically insert addresses of people who has contacted you through your contact form. Can build a sign up form with mailchimp Easy Sign Up PlugIn This plugin generates a customizable HTML thank you email that is sent to the visitor, the visitor’s email and name are sent to an email address of your choosing. Possible use is collecting email address for a newsletter, or leads for your sales force before redirecting to a brochure.
Testimonials page Add testimonials app like Innfuse Testimonials that has templates and pulls from Facebook, Twitter and Yelp Baamboo studio offers a testimonial widget Free testimonials widget
Adding a blog Can easily add a blog page to main webiste Can easily add a blog page to main webiste Can easily add a blog page to main webiste
Membership Creator With Wix, you just add on their Member Login app (from their App Market) to your Wix site and you can create unlimited number of memberships. With Weebly, you can have up to 20 members with their Pro Plan, or unlimited members with their Business Plan. Use simple membership plugin