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Building a Site: Chat with AI or Choose Your Own OptionsDo You Want to Pick a Style, or a Template?Would You Rather Add Elements in Groups, or Individually?Dolphin Has Clean Page Management – Creator Lets You BlogSelling Products: Sleek and Simple vs. Robust and UglyDolphin Is Typically a Bit More Expensive than CreatorWhich Jimdo Builder is Better for You?
Building a Site: Chat with AI or Choose Your Own Options
No matter which editor you pick, you start from the same point. When you create a new website in Jimdo, you’ll be asked to choose which type of site you’re making:
Creating a Site with Dolphin
Dolphin is powered by artificial intelligence (AI), which does most of the work for you. You answer a few questions, and Dolphin uses those answers to create a site that it thinks you’ll like.
- The name of your website
- Its primary goal (e.g., to promote business, to get bookings, etc.)
- What style you like (e.g., minimal, modern, etc.)
- What color you like

Creating a Site with Creator
It’s possible to get a website up and running with Creator even faster than with Dolphin, depending on how long you take to pick a template. There are only three main steps. First, you pick the type of site you’d like to build (e.g., blog, store, personal):

And the Winner Is…
It’s a tie! When it comes to creating the first version of your website, both editors are very easy to use and take a few minutes at most.Do You Want to Pick a Style, or a Template?
For either site builder, you can use the site editor to modify the original design or template you chose. You can change a few other style settings as well.Styling Options in Dolphin
Dolphin has three main menu options, one of which is “Design.”
- Color theme
- Font set (size + font)
- Animations (e.g., slide in vs. fade in)

Styling Options in Creator
Creator has a few more menu options. Let’s look at the options you get in the “Design” tab.

And the Winner Is…
Dolphin. The templates in Creator have unique layouts and styles, so changing them can mess up all of your customizations. You can change Dolphin’s styles without negatively affecting your website, and the premade layouts will save you lots of time, as you won’t have to change the design of individual sections on a page.Would You Rather Add Elements in Groups, or Individually?
Regardless of which site editor you choose, you’ll need to customize your pages. So, let’s look at how you add elements to a page, and what options you have.Customizing Pages in Dolphin
Whenever you hover over an edge between two sections, Dolphin shows you a circle with a “+” sign in it. Clicking this will bring up a left-hand sidebar that lets you add elements.
- Slideshows
- Columns
- Music (to embed audio files)
- Contact forms
Customizing Pages in Creator
The Creator site editor isn’t quite as pretty, but it’s simple to use and quite powerful. As you hover over your page, you’ll notice pop-ups that say “+ Add Element.” Clicking one of these will expand a small panel in that space:
And the Winner Is…
Dolphin, by a small margin. Adding page elements in Dolphin is cleaner, and being able to choose from multiple layout styles will save you lots of time doing it yourself. Creator can be better if you need any of the extra elements it offers.Dolphin Has Clean Page Management – Creator Lets You Blog
In most cases, you’ll have more than one page on your site. The process of adding or selecting pages to edit is similar in both editors, but there are a few crucial differences.Page Management with Dolphin
One of the three menu options at the top of the Dolphin editor is “Pages,” which is an intuitive panel that displays all your pages and lets you create new ones:

- A privacy policy page
- A cookie policy page
- A 404 page
Page Management with Creator
The process of creating pages with Creator isn’t always obvious at first, but it’s simple once you know how. Hovering over your site’s navigation menu will bring up an “Edit Navigation” button that you can click to open a panel of your pages.

And the Winner Is…
Creator. Most sites can benefit from having a blog, and Dolphin is missing that crucial functionality. Dolphin’s page management is cleaner and easier to get to, but Creator’s page management is still relatively similar.Selling Products: Sleek and Simple vs. Robust and Ugly
Okay, “ugly” might be a tad harsh, but like many parts of the Creator site editor, the store works well — but isn’t too pretty.Store Management in Dolphin
Dolphin has a simple store interface you can access from the main menu. It has all the basics for selling online. You can connect PayPal or Stripe, and choose shipping and tax options.


Store Management in Creator
Compare Creator’s store manager with Dolphin’s, and you’ll see that Creator has a few extra sections, including inventory management:

And the Winner Is…
Dolphin. Dolphin has the cleaner layout, and is more intuitive. However, if you’re selling many products and need inventory management features, you’ll need to stick with Creator.Dolphin Is Typically a Bit More Expensive than Creator
The final aspect to consider is cost. Dolphin and Creator both offer fairly decent free plans, but if you want to remove Jimdo ads from your website, you’ll need to upgrade to a paid plan with a monthly fee. The right paid plan for you depends on how big of a site you’d like to make, and whether or not you’d like to sell products. The pricing on Jimdo’s pricing page is for the Dolphin editor. There are four paid plans to choose from:- Start
- Grow
- Ecommerce
- Unlimited
And the Winner Is…
Creator. While there’s not a huge difference, Creator is generally cheaper. If you compare the most similar plans, the Business (Creator) and the Ecommerce (Dolphin) plans for example, you’ll see that the Creator plans are a few dollars cheaper per month.Which Jimdo Builder is Better for You?
We’ve seen some fairly significant differences between the two site builders. Overall, I’d say that Dolphin is the best choice for most situations. But if you need a blog, or an ecommerce site that can handle a decent number of products, Creator is the better choice. The summary table below recaps why I believe Dolphin is better:Dolphin | Creator | Winner | |
Creating a site | AI-driven process that involves answering a few questions about your preferences. | More hands-on process that involves choosing your site type and selecting a template. | It’s a tie. Both allow you to easily create a basic website within minutes. |
Design | You can change design styles without affecting page elements, and pick from premade layouts for each section. | You can change the template and basic site settings like font. | Dolphin. It’s easier and faster to change the style of your site as a whole, and change individual sections of it. |
Site editor | Clean editor that lets you choose from multiple variations for each element. | Inline editor that gives you more options than Dolphin does and lets you add individual elements. | Dolphin. Being able to pick from pre-made formats will save you a lot of time. |
Adding pages | Nice page panel to add and select pages, but no option to create a blog. | Page management panel that’s a bit inconvenient to access, but you can create a blog. | Creator, if you need to create a blog. |
Selling products | Nice store management panel, and it’s easy to add products. Missing a few features, most notably inventory management. | Ugly, but feature-complete store management panel. Product pages are fairly attractive. | Dolphin. Its store interface is more intuitive. However, if you need inventory management, Creator is better for you. |
Price | Four paid plans to choose from. “Ecommerce” or higher to sell products. | Four paid plans to choose from. At least “Business” to sell products. | Creator. The prices for comparable plans are slightly cheaper. |