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<p><a href="https://www.weebly.com/" target="_blank">Weebly</a>, the website builder, has released some features that befit a marketing automation system.</p>
<p>The website builder recently ran into trouble with some hackers who reportedly <a href="/weebly-hacked-43m-customer-records-stolen/" target="_blank">stole 43 million Weebly customer credentials</a>. Weebly acknowledged the breach and urged their customers to change their passwords.</p>
<p>But that fiasco hasn't stopped them from working on new features in the meantime. Here's what's new with Weebly.</p>
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<h2>Automated Emails</h2>
<p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/emails_orig653x0-is.png" /></p>
<p>First up, Weebly users can now schedule and automate emails that get sent when a user interacts with your website in a specific way.</p>
<p>Here are some examples of how that can help:</p>
<ul>
<li>Send a thank you when someone buys something from your store.</li>
<li>Send a happy birthday message (and discount) on a user's birthday.</li>
<li>Say hello to a customer who hasn't visited your store in a while.</li>
<li>Welcome new customers who sign up for your email list.</li>
<li>Send a survey to ask shoppers about their online experience.</li>
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<h2>Pop-up Lead Capture Forms</h2>
<p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/lead-capture_orig.jpg" /></p>
<p>Next, Weebly have rolled out lead capture forms to help you collect emails and contact information from your website's visitors. Once again, we're very much in marketing automation territory here.</p>
<p>According to Weebly, this new feature syncs with the platform's ‘Promote' list to capture emails and make it easy for visitors to join your mailng list. You can control the design, layout and timing of the promotion that pops up over pages or from the bottom corner when new users visit your website.</p>
<h2>Abandoned Shopping Cart Tracking</h2>
<p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/cart_orig598x0-is.jpg" /></p>
<p>Weebly also unveiled a feature that lets you track the number of abandoned shopping carts on your website. That means every time a visitor leaves your site during the checkout process – but before handing over their cash – you'll know about it.</p>
<p>Also, this new Abandoned Cart feature saves the cart for every registered user and creates a link for you to email them a reminder to complete their purchase. Plus, the email can be automatically sent (thanks, automated emails!).</p>
<p>In fact, after a customer has made it to your checkout flow and entered an email, you can configure the amount of time that elapses before sending the customer an abandoned cart email.</p>
<h2>Weebly: Blurred Lines?</h2>
<p>Just a year ago, I would have been quite shocked to find a website builder like Weebly – which prides itself on simplicity – releasing features like the ones detailed above. .</p>
<p>Lead capture forms and abandoned shopping cart tracking? Those are relatively advanced webmaster tools that are typically reserved for enterprise-grade platforms. Or at least, they used to be.</p>
<p>Perhaps now we're looking at the new face of website building, where marketing automation comes as part of even the most basic package.</p>
<p>For me, it's exciting, but I'm not sure how well this all suits the newbie who just wants to make a simple website for a new business. It feels like the lines are getting blurred over at Weebly.</p>
<p>What's your take on the situation? Let me know in the comments below.</p>
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Weebly Unveils Marketing Automation Features

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<p><a href="https://www.weebly.com/">Weebly</a> is a user-friendly website builder that first launched in 2006 and hit 1 million users by 2008. The platform now hosts over 30 million sites and it's touted as one of the most popular drag-and-drop website builders around.</p>
<p>Weebly has undergone many revamps since its initial launch, and its latest facelift for 2016 offers more features than ever before. The popular site allows individuals to create a website in less than an hour, regardless of their level of expertise, and it’s become popular with both hobbyists and professionals alike.</p>
<p>Seems too good to be true, right? I decided to check it out and see for myself.</p>
<h2>Getting Set-Up</h2>
<p>Getting started with Weebly is simple. Users can log in with Google Plus, Facebook, or by inserting their email address – all you need for this is your name, email, and password.</p>
<p>One thing I’d add here is a ‘sign up with Twitter’ function, as it just seemed a bit odd to have left it out. Maybe that’s just me, though, being the Twitter addict that I am.</p>
<p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/screen_shot_2016-02-12_at_01_48_57494x0-is.png" /></p>
<p>There’s a little box you can tick if you want to sign up for updates and offers which is pretty standard, but what I really liked about this was that it was unticked by default. Many sites leave it ticked automatically, so you have to go and untick it if you’re not actually interested in receiving these emails. It’s one of my pet peeves because you just <em>know</em> they’re trying to catch you out. Sneaky rascals.</p>
<p>Once you’ve registered, the below screen will pop up and you’ll be asked what the focus of your site is, i.e. standard website, blog, or store.</p>
<p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/screen_shot_2016-02-12_at_01_50_06574x0-is.png" /></p>
<p>After this, you can categorize it as business, personal, group/organizational, wedding, education, or portfolio. If you don’t want to or none of these apply, you simply can tell them to stop asking you (they’re cool like that – there’s even a tick box for it).</p>
<p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/screen_shot_2016-02-13_at_17_35_17430x0-is.png" /></p>
<p>Then comes the fun part, choosing a design theme.</p>
<h2>Themes and Design</h2>
<p>Weebly offers over 100 attractive, professional, and well laid-out themes, so it’ll be difficult <em>not </em>to find one you like. Most come with customizable color sets too, so you’re spoilt for choice.</p>
<p>Every single theme is mobile responsive and just one click at the top of the screen allows you see your site as a mobile viewer would. You can’t add elements to the mobile version but you can get a like for like preview that should allow you to see them.</p>
<p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/screen_shot_2016-02-12_at_01_50_19871x0-is.png" /></p>
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<h2>Choosing Your URL</h2>
<p>If you have a free account, you’ll receive a ‘weebly.com’ domain name. If you want your own custom domain then you’ll have to sign up to a $39.95 registration fee. Is it a little high? Maybe, but I think it’s worth it if you want to create a professional site. Weebly make this whole process really easy, but you can also run it through an independent domain registrar such as <a href="http://www.godaddy.com">Godaddy</a>.</p>
<h2>Website Editing</h2>
<p>The website building interface is very easy to use, with a double row of elements/apps on the left hand site and a menu bar at the top. In a lot of sites like Weebly, adding pages can be a bit of a treasure hunt. But Weebly has its Pages section clearly labelled and easily editable, so you can just add pages and rearrange them with your mouse as you see fit.</p>
<p>Designing each page is simple. Want to edit that title? Just click on it and type. Want to make it bold? There’s a familiar toolset to let you edit it on the screen. There are no gimmicks and no multiple click paths – you just edit what you see and it’s done, instantly.</p>
<p>Everything is very clearly labeled and users can design a site by dragging elements onto the various pages. There are a variety of elements available such as a contact form, map, social buttons, slideshows, and more.</p>
<p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/screen_shot_2016-02-12_at_01_56_05798x0-is.png" /></p>
<p>The contact form offers tons of options, such a custom confirmation URL, file uploads, drop-down selects, a phone number field. It definitely gets a thumbs up from me.</p>
<p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/screen_shot_2016-02-13_at_17_38_19920x0-is.png" /></p>
<p>However, the real player here is the App Center which launched in August 2015. The new and improved App Center is a real bonus to the site, and you can now add any number of site boosting elements to your Weebly site with a minimum of fuss.</p>
<p>Everything is drag and drop. They have a number of apps for free and, as you’d expect, a number of premium ones too. All of these add value and are handily categorized into their retrospective uses – Marketing, Site Tools, eCommerce, Communication.</p>
<p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/picture_14608x0-is.png" /></p>
<p>Everything is cleanly laid out and all of the apps are compatible with Weebly, so you won’t encounter any of the plug-in mishaps that can happen with sites like <a href="https://wordpress.com/">WordPress</a>.</p>
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<h2>Pricing</h2>
<p>There are 4 pricing options available on Weebly, ranging from Free, Starter ($4 p/m), Pro ($8 p/m), and Business ($25 p/m). The free account is decent enough and provides unlimited pages, but you’ll also have to deal with Weebly branding and promotions. With the Starter Plan, you can add your own URL and the Weebly branding is removed. You also get to avail of premium support.</p>
<p>If you opt for the Pro account you’ll get additional multimedia features and added password protection. And the next step after this is a Business account, which offers SSL support and fully integrated ecommerce. For more on the specifics of each package, click <a href="https://www.weebly.com/pricing">here</a>. The choice is yours.</p>
<h2>Pros:</h2>
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<li>Extremely user friendly with a drag-and-drop system</li>
<li>Variety of professional, sleek, and mobile responsive designs available that can be further modified with HTML/CSS</li>
<li>Pre-designed layouts</li>
<li>New and improved app centre</li>
<li>Good eCommerce functionality</li>
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<h2>Cons:</h2>
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<li>You need to fork out for the Business package for fully integrated eCommerce</li>
<li>Customization options are limited if you are a coding whiz-kid</li>
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<h2>Should You Use Weebly For Your Website?</h2>
<p>For me, it’s a no-brainer. Weebly is a superb site with an excellent and intuitive design system that makes everything as easy as possible, for even the most novice user.</p>
<p>Weebly’s biggest strength is the intuitiveness of its layout. Everything just ‘makes sense’, and everything that is clickable – is editable.</p>
<p>It really seems to have something for everyone. Want a simple drag and drop? It’s there. Want more sophistication? You can add media, embed code, add Google Analytics – all from the one page and taskbar.</p>
<p>The learning curve is very graduated and it can be scaled to adapt to the skill levels of all users. Personally, I’d rate this as the best site builder out there right now.</p>
<p>The prices are pretty reasonable too, with Weebly’s premium package coming in at a quite reasonable $25 a month. The basic package is maybe a little thin on features like HD video and audio, but they are the little extras worth paying extra for.</p>
<p>The guys behind Weebly seem to really care about their users and continuously strive to meet the needs to those users by improving their service offering. If you’d like to know more about what they provide, check them out over <a href="https://www.weebly.com/">here</a> (their blog is worth a look too).</p>
<p>Have you used Weebly yet? Why not share a link to your Weebly site with us in the comments section below.</p>
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Weebly Review 2016

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<p><a href="https://www.weebly.com/" target="_blank">Weebly</a> is one of the most popular website builders on the market, and they've just unveiled the third generation of their platform.</p>
<p>It's called <a href="https://www.weebly.com/">Weebly</a> Carbon, and it's being honored with a total Weebly re-launch.</p>
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<h2>More Mobile Than Ever</h2>
<p>According to Weebly:</p>
<blockquote><p>“Carbon is a complete relaunch of the Weebly platform that delivers a new line up of services to help both seasoned and budding entrepreneurs create, build and grow their business and eCommerce store from any device, anywhere.”</p></blockquote>
<p>With brand new iPhone, iPad, iWatch, and Android apps, Weebly Carbon puts the total power of Weebly into mobile, enabling users to design websites from the ground up, entirely from a smartphone or tablet.</p>
<p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/dashboard491x0-is.png" /></p>
<p>Updates to Weebly's Dashboard also mean that Weebly users and merchants can get a quick insight into traffic, sales and a number of other useful metrics.</p>
<h2>New Responsive Templates &amp; A New App Center</h2>
<p>A brand new App Center gives entrepreneurs easy access to dynamic apps that integrate directly into the Weebly editor to help them through hurdles like getting found on search engines, international shipping, funding, marketing, text message enabled customer support and social media integration.</p>
<p style="text-align:center"><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/theme_gallery438x0-is.png" /></p>
<p>Further to these apps, Weebly has rolled out new responsive templates, and has also given their users the ability to “try on” any theme for free in order to change the look of their site in seconds – all while preserving their content.</p>
<p>Weebly's CEO and Founder, David Rusenko, made the following comments regarding Weebly Carbon:</p>
<blockquote><p>“Weebly Carbon will give a business of any size, or entrepreneur of any age, a complete platform to build their business like never before and the flexibility to do it from anywhere.</p>
<p>We believe the trifecta of beautiful design, ease of use and unprecedented mobile access is the future of small business.”</p></blockquote>
<p>To find out more, <a href="https://www.weebly.com/" target="_blank">visit Weebly website</a>.</p>
<p>Also, be sure to explore more of <a href="/products/weebly/" target="_blank">Weebly via our CMS Directory</a>.</p>
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Weebly Carbon: Introducing The Third Generation of Weebly

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<p><a href="https://www.weebly.com/">Weebly</a>, a website builder with over 30 million users, has announced Weebly for Hosts, a solution for web hosts and domain registrars that allows them to provide an intuitive, Weebly-powered site creation service and complete ecommerce platform to their customer base.</p>
<p>This news comes just weeks after <a href="/weebly-for-enterprise-announced/" target="_blank">Weebly announced Weebly for Enterprise</a>. Weebly has also been selected for special coverage over at <a href="https://www.websitebuilderscritic.com/website_builders/reviews/weebly/" target="_blank">Website Builders Critic</a> as a recommended product.</p>
<p>Many website hosting companies already offer their own website builders alongside platforms like WordPress when users set up new websites. Weebly are aiming to have their platform offered in the same way.</p>
<p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/weebly700x0.jpg" /></p>
<h2>All Core Packages &amp; Multiple Integration Options</h2>
<p>As well as publishing their customers sites using Weebly, website hosting companies will have the option of providing their customers with Weebly’s core packages, including free, starter, pro and business accounts.</p>
<p>This is cost saving for the customer and creates a new revenue stream for the hosts. Weebly for Hosts is a turnkey solution that requires minimal IT implementation and management on the part of hosting customers, and features a centralized dashboard that allows hosts to add staff and manage permissions, as well as comprehensive customer support provided by Weebly.</p>
<p>Weebly for Hosts features include:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Powerful Site Creation and Editing:</strong> Users can create and edit sites easily, choosing from a variety of responsive themes and incorporate ready-made building blocks such as text, images, buttons, contact forms, maps and videos, and publish them online within minutes.</li>
<li><strong>Multiple Integration Options for Hosts:</strong> Weebly for Hosts comes equipped with full API, CPanel and WHMCS support (coming soon), easing the process of integration with existing host IT structures, meaning hosts can go to market with Weebly’s site creator easily and quickly.</li>
<li><strong>Core Weebly Packages Give Range of Product Options: </strong>Hosts can resell Weebly’s core customer packages, including free, Starter, Pro and Business accounts, allowing them to service a wide variety of customers from individual online blogs to high-volume ecommerce sites. Powerful and flexible cross-selling triggers mean hosts can easily introduce customers to Weebly’s service and upgrade their account level as needs change.</li>
<li><strong>Client-side Hosting:</strong> Weebly for Hosts allows hosting companies to house the static content for customers’ websites on their own servers, so that they can maintain and manage direct relationships and billing with their customers.</li>
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<p>Endurance International Group and Namecheap.com are two current customers of Weebly for Hosts.</p>
<p>David Rusenko the CEO and co-founder of Weebly, made these comments upon the release of Weebly for Hosts:</p>
<blockquote><p>“We’re really excited about opening up the Weebly platform to hosting companies and making easy website creation accessible to a broader audience of millions.Last month we announced Weebly for Enterprise, which lets organizations customize Weebly and leverage our CMS to empower their employees and customers at scale.</p>
<p>Today, we’re following up with Weebly for Hosts, giving web hosts and domain registrars a complete solution to offer Weebly to their customers on their terms.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Weebly for Hosts is available to web hosting providers of all sizes and is built on the same technology as Weebly’s recently-announced Enterprise Platform. Website packages are available in 15 languages, including German, Spanish and French.</p>
<p>If you represent a hosting company which is interested in Weebly for Hosts, <a href="https://www.weebly.com/" target="_blank">check out the Weebly website</a>.</p>
<p>And of course, you can explore more of <a href="/products/weebly/" target="_blank">Weebly via our CMS Directory</a>.</p>
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Introducing Weebly for Hosts

<p><a href="https://www.weebly.com/" target="_blank">Weebly</a>, one of the world's most popular website builders, has released Weebly for Enterprise.</p>
<p>Chosen to be one of our recommended website builders over at <a href="https://www.websitebuilderscritic.com" target="_blank">Website Builders Critic</a>, Weebly offers a simple drag-and-drop interface enabling users to customize sleek templates.</p>
<p>Weebly for Enterprise combines comprehensive content management, robust APIs, and Weebly signature drag-and-drop editing.</p>
<p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/weeblyenterprise700x0.jpg" alt="Weebly for Enterprise" /></p>
<h2>Scalable, Powerful, Professional</h2>
<p>Weebly for Enterprise has been launched to simplify the process of building and managing hundreds of websites, providing a flexible content management system for a wide variety of applications across industries including technology, real estate, healthcare, and education.</p>
<p>Weebly for Enterprise features include:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Powerful Site Creation and Editing:</strong> Weebly for Enterprise extends Weebly’s popular creation and editing experience to large organizations giving employees the freedom to design high-quality websites. Organizations can customize site design to match their brand identity and empower users to create and edit sites on their own with ready-made building blocks such as text, images, buttons, contact forms, maps, and videos. They can then publish those sites online in minutes.</li>
<li><strong>Scalable and Customizable Site Management: </strong>Weebly for Enterprise offers a powerful CMS to administrators and can be easily scaled to the needs of any organization, streamlining the process of managing a large number of websites and setting up user accounts and permissions. It is fully customizable so that customers can define, limit and build on top of Weebly to meet any specific need.</li>
<li><strong>API Support Simplifies IT Implementation:</strong> Weebly for Enterprise comes equipped with full API support, easing the process of integration with existing IT structures and protocols. No need to re-work supporting systems such as billing, CRM software or security protocols.</li>
<li><strong>Central Cloud Hosting: </strong>Weebly for Enterprise provides remote site hosting with exceptional site speed, reliability and redundant data centers on Weebly’s servers, letting users access company sites from anywhere and saving time and money on server setup and maintenance when compared to internally hosted sites.</li>
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<h2>“It Shouldn’t Be So Difficult &amp; Expensive To Build &amp; Manage Hundreds Of Websites.”</h2>
<p>Regarding the release of Weebly for Enterprise, I managed to get some questions answered by Nick Dellis, Weebly's Vice President of Business Development. Here is our full discussion:</p>
<h3><strong>1) What has spurred Weebly into moving into the Enterprise space?</strong></h3>
<p>The idea for Weebly for Enterprise grew out of organic demand. Organizations of all types regularly approach Weebly to leverage our intuitive consumer experience for a wide-variety of applications.</p>
<p>The main requirement they had was for enterprise features like the ability to manage staff and clients, permission control, APIs, automation and things like that. We already have thousands of companies of all sizes using Weebly in this way in a pilot program we kicked off to understand these use cases.</p>
<p>When we dug into the reasons people reached out, the main driver was that the expectations of the average employee are changing, and they want to use enterprise software that’s intuitive, effective and easy to use, just as they can at home. It shouldn’t be so difficult and expensive to build and manage dozens or hundreds of websites, but surprisingly most enterprises are using a costly internal CMS or open source solutions that don’t scale effectively and are extremely resource intensive. We heard horror stories from IT managers who had dozens of requests for simple marketing and content changes to sites that couldn't be done for months. Marketing departments and staff were frustrated because they couldn't just do it themselves.</p>
<p>With Weebly, we can provide the same intuitive site creation and editing experience every customer gets, while also integrating the tools, controls and scalability required in the Enterprise space.</p>
<p>Weebly for Enterprise is the end result, and is a simple, turn-key solution for any organization to build and scale their business on top of the Weebly platform. It’s an off-the-shelf solution that’s fully customizable and has enterprise level controls and robust APIs for easy integration into existing IT structure. We already have customers in over 15 verticals and there is huge opportunity for expansion.</p>
<h3><strong>2) In a nutshell, what are the key differences between “Normal” Weebly and “Enterprise” Weebly? </strong></h3>
<p>The “normal” consumer version of Weebly is a product more intended for a person or a small company who wants to build their own website, blog or eCommerce store — they can choose a theme, drag and drop elements like images or video and enter text quickly and effectively, publishing a site in minutes. It’s perfect for a person or organization who wants to build just one or a handful of sites.</p>
<p>However, for an organization that needs dozens of websites (or hundreds), things get complicated quickly. You need to manage staff members, admins, control branding elements and assets, integrate into your internal workflows and systems, add your own themes, develop your own apps/elements and so on. Weebly for Enterprise is the core Weebly consumer experience with a “layer” on top designed for enterprises to easily do those things.</p>
<h3><strong>3) What does the future hold for Weebly Enterprise, both short term and long term?</strong></h3>
<p>We see expansion into new verticals, where we use Weebly for Enterprise as a base and add components that are specific to certain industries on top.</p>
<p>For example, we are pretty sure that hosting companies who want to sell 100,000 websites to their clients are going to have different needs than a large hospital who is using Weebly for Enterprise to create and lock down 1,500+ physician sites. When you think about digital agencies, universities, franchises and dozens of other use cases, we have a lot of work ahead of us.</p>
<p>To find out more about Weebly Enterprise, check out their official website.</p>
<p>Also, be sure to explore more of <a href="/products/weebly/" target="_blank">Weebly through our CMS Directory</a>.</p>


Weebly For Enterprise Announced

<p>The <a href="/the-cms-awards-what-they-mean/" target="_blank">third annual CMS Awards</a> have come to a close, having attracted more nominations and voters than ever before. Thankfully though, the results are probably my favourite part!</p>
<p>For the 2014 People's Choice CMS Award for Best Website Builder, participants selected the industry's “big three” website builders to battle it out. <a href="http://www.wix.com/" target="_blank">Wix</a>, <a href="https://www.squarespace.com/" target="_blank">Squarespace</a>, and <a href="https://www.weebly.com/">Weebly</a>.</p>
<p>It is with great pleasure that I announce the 2014 People's Choice CMS Award for <strong> Best Website Builder</strong> goes to:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wix.com/" target="_blank"><img style="max-width:220px" src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/wix-.png" alt="Wix" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.wix.com/" target="_blank">Wix</a> was triumphant over two worthy competitors, as <a href="https://www.squarespace.com/" target="_blank">Squarespace</a> came in as runners-up, with <a href="https://www.weebly.com/" target="_blank">Weebly</a> trailing closely behind.</p>
<p><img style="max-width:250px" src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/10733526_801171129939789_151468802_n.jpg" /></p>
<p>Congratulations to everyone at <a href="http://www.wix.com/" target="_blank">Wix</a> on their big win!</p>
<p>If you aren't familiar with Wix and would like to learn more, read our <a href="http://www.websitebuilderscritic.com/website_builders/reviews/wix/" target="_blank">Wix Review</a> on our new site, <a href="http://www.websitebuilderscritic.com/"> Website Builders Critic</a> where you can find <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/websitebuilderscriti" target="_blank">Wix video tutorials</a> and more.</p>


The Winner of the 2014 People's Choice CMS Award for Best Website Builder

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<p><a href="https://www.weebly.com/" target="_blank">Weebly</a>, the world-famous website builder, has just made their iPad users' lives a whole lot easier.</p>
<p>Powering millions of websites worldwide, Weebly has built its reputation by enabling users to build good-looking websites via a drag-and-drop system, for free.</p>
<p>Weebly for iPad was the Weebly community's, “second most requested feature”, and it's not difficult to see why. Weebly's interface is ideal for touchscreens. This also means that Weebly is the first website builder to be completely functional on an iPad. Let's look at what it can do.</p>
<h2>Weebly for iPad</h2>
<p>According to the Weebly announcement:</p>
<blockquote><p>“[We have brought] the drag and drop experience to life in a way you’ve never seen before with the ability to both create and edit a website on the iPad. It’s been a huge technical challenge to make every site ever created with Weebly editable on iPad.”</p></blockquote>
<p>That's right. If you have a Weebly website, you can now edit it on an iPad, just as you can on a desktop, for free.</p>
<p>Here's a video demonstrating what Weebly for iPad is capable of.</p>
<p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cAuKRyuHQcc?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p>
<p>Below are some of the Weebly for iPad features:</p>
<ul>
<li>New interface and design language built specifically for touchscreen. Site Selector, Element Sidebar and Image Editing flows completely overhauled for tablet experience.</li>
<li>Any website created with Weebly is editable from the iPad (stores and blogs coming soon!)</li>
<li>Element Sidebar naturally collapses and expands while you work or with a swipe, maximizing screen real estate.</li>
<li>Powerful new editing capabilities optimized for the iPad, you can now edit images and customize font color with intuitive touchscreen motions.</li>
<li>Save and sync work across devices so you can pick up where you left off on desktop or mobile.</li>
<li>Offline mode captures updates made without an internet connection. Work anywhere!</li>
<li>Manage your website’s SEO right from your iPad</li>
<li>One of the first apps built uniquely for iOS 8, leverages the new operating system to create an experience unlike anything you’ve seen before on the iPad.</li>
</ul>
<p>On top of these features, Weebly have announced that they will also release these functions, in due time:</p>
<ul>
<li>Create and edit blogs and stores</li>
<li>Analytics and stats</li>
<li>Android tablet app</li>
</ul>
<p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/8107663_orig700x0.png" /></p>
<p>To download the Weebly for iPad app for free, <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/weebly/id511158309" target="_blank">visit the iTune store</a>. For more information, check out the <a href="http://blog.weebly.com/post/weebly-for-ipad" target="_blank">official blog announcement</a>.</p>
<p>Plus, explore more of <a href="/products/weebly/" target="_blank">Weebly via our CMS Directory</a>.</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.weebly.com/" target="_blank">Weebly</a> has introduced a brand new Blogging URL Structure, designed to improve your Weebly blog’s SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and user experience.</p>
<p>As one of the world's most popular website builders, Weebly offers a very user-friendly interface, hosting millions upon millions of websites.</p>
<p>In fact, more than 140M unique visitors are now going to over 20M Weebly sites every month. Weebly's integrated ecommerce and blogging features also make it a very solid option.</p>
<p>With this update, all of Weebly's blog post URLs now follow the following format:</p>
<p><em>Sitename/blog-name/post-name. </em></p>
<h2>A Much Needed SEO Boost</h2>
<p>This new blog URL structure gives Weebly users something that many will have been waiting for – an SEO boost for their Weebly blog posts.</p>
<p>This new URL structure is far more friendly to search engines than the previous structure. Here's an example to highlight the differences:</p>
<p><strong>Old URL Structure:</strong>  <a href="http://www.thewhiskeyball.com/1/post/2014/04/the-smoke-slinger.html" target="_blank"> http://www.thewhiskeyball.com/1/post/2014/04/the-smoke-slinger.html </a><br />
<strong>New URL Structure:</strong>  <a href="http://www.thewhiskeyball.com/blog/the-smoke-slinger" target="_blank"> http://www.thewhiskeyball.com/blog/the-smoke-slinger </a></p>
<p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/442857_orig.png" alt="Weebly Blogging URL Structure" /></p>
<p>Old Weebly blog post URLs will now automatically update to the new structure with an SEO-friendly redirect.</p>
<p>If you change the name of your blog in the future, the previous URLs will also update and automatically redirect, preserving your SEO and any linking or social sharing from previous blog visitors.</p>
<p>For more information on Weebly's new blog post URL structure, <a href="http://blog.weebly.com/post/enjoy-better-seo-with-the-new-blogging-url-structure" target="_blank"><br />
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<p>Ecommerce features have only recently been available to <a href="https://www.weebly.com/" target="_blank"> Weebly</a> users, but this week, Weebly have introduced yet more ecommerce improvements, along with an updated Stock Photo library.</p>
<p>Early in 2014, <a href="/weebly-introduces-ecommerce-and-ssl-features/#.UzP8Wvl_vvU" target="_blank"> Weebly released an integrated shopping cart</a> along with a myriad of ecommerce features, enabling its user base to sell physical and digital goods.</p>
<p>Now, after listening to user requests and suggestions, <a href="https://www.weebly.com/">Weebly</a> have added further ecommerce enhancements. So, let's have a look at what's new.</p>
<h2>Order Notes, Quickbooks &amp; CSV Exporting</h2>
<p>Giving customers a voice when they make an order is important, and Weebly have recognized this. Now, all of your customers have the option to leave an optional “Note to Seller” during checkout, letting you know if they want you to handle any other specifics.</p>
<p>This new feature can be configured via the Store tab under Settings &gt; General.</p>
<p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/6273065_orig700x0.png" alt="Weebly Order Note" /></p>
<p>What's also new for Weebly merchants, is the ability to export orders directly from your store dashboard. One-click data conversion and collection makes it easy to sync store order information with your Quickbooks software.</p>
<p>CSV exporting is available for free on all Weebly plans, whilst only Business Plan users can enjoy the Quickbooks exporting feature.</p>
<p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/3892806_orig700x0.png" alt="Weebly Exporting" /></p>
<h2>Google Analytics, Pixel Tracking &amp; Stock Photos</h2>
<p>Knowing how your customers and visitors behave when they visit your store is vital to knowing where to improve.</p>
<p>To help you out with that, you can now add Google Analytics to your store and tracking pixels to your Cart, Payment, or Receipt pages from the advanced settings interface.</p>
<p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/431380_orig700x0.png" alt="Weebly Analytics" /></p>
<p>Finally, Weebly have also made improvements to their Stock Photo library, which offers 12 million professional and free stock photos. The professional photos can even be purchased directly from the Weebly interface.</p>
<p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/6784022_orig700x0.png" alt="Weebly" /></p>
<p>Photos taken from the library can not only be used in pages and blog posts, but also within backgrounds to help give your store a more personalised look and feel.</p>
<p>For more information on Weebly and its newly introduced online store features, check out their <a href="https://www.weebly.com/" target="_blank">official website</a>.</p>
<p>Additionally, you can explore more of  <a href="/products/weebly/" target="_blank"> Weebly via our CMS Directory</a>.</p>
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Weebly Introduce Further Ecommerce & Stock Photo Updates

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<p>With well over 12 million users, <a href="https://www.cmscritic.com/weebly" target="_blank"> Weebly</a> is a hugely popular website builder, bursting with user-friendly features. Just check out our <a href="https://www.cmscritic.com/weebly-review-all-new-weebly/" target="_blank"> Weebly Review</a> if you don't believe me.</p>
<p>Today, <a href="https://www.cmscritic.com/weebly">Weebly</a> announced a couple of brand new features aimed at making ecommerce website easier to build, and all <a href="https://www.cmscritic.com/weebly">Weebly</a> website types safer to navigate for everybody concerned.</p>
<p>So, let's take a look at what's new with Weebly.</p>
<h2>Start Selling with Weebly</h2>
<p>From today onwards, Weebly users can enjoy the ability to build high-quality shopping experiences.</p>
<p>According to Weebly, their developers have studied the most successful online retailers and combined the simplicity of drag &amp; drop site creation with powerful selling features to make it easy and affordable to start selling products online.</p>
<p>So if you're looking to start selling online,  Weebly now gives you everything you need to get going.</p>
<p>Here are just some of the features on offer:</p>
<ul>
<li>Integrated Shopping Cart</li>
<li>Mobile Store and Checkout</li>
<li>Coupon Codes</li>
<li>Digital Goods</li>
<li>Flexible Product Options (for sizes, colors, etc.)</li>
<li>Order Tracking and History</li>
<li>New <a href="https://secure.weebly.com/weebly/eclick.php?u=2522769&amp;c=announcement.2014-01-29.new-commerce-features.no-store&amp;s=418353603&amp;t=420df11430b7155bf31ab0ef8365b249&amp;r=https://www.cmscritic.com/weebly/weebly/mobile/landing.php" target="_blank">iPhone </a>  and <a href="https://secure.weebly.com/weebly/eclick.php?u=2522769&amp;c=announcement.2014-01-29.new-commerce-features.no-store&amp;s=418353603&amp;t=420df11430b7155bf31ab0ef8365b249&amp;r=https://www.cmscritic.com/weebly/weebly/mobile/landing.php?device%3Dandroid" target="_blank">Android </a>  Apps to Manage Your Store</li>
<li>Accept Credit Cards (with Stripe, Authorize.net, or PayPal)</li>
<li>Amazing New Product Search</li>
<li>Inventory Tracking</li>
<li>Shipping &amp; Tax Calculations</li>
<li>Checkout On Your Own Domain (instead of checkout.weebly.com, SSL, PCI Compliant)</li>
</ul>
<p>The full list of features, along with an ecommerce introductory video, <a href="https://www.cmscritic.com/weebly-introduce-further-ecommerce-stock-photo-updates/" target="_blank"> can be seen right here</a>.</p>
<p>For all the powerful ecommerce features, Weebly users will need to be using the <a href="https://www.cmscritic.com/weebly" target="_blank"> Business Plan</a>. Although, Weebly are now offering a smooth 30-day money back guarantee.</p>
<h2>Safety First with Weebly's SSL</h2>
<p>Security conscious Weebly Business Plan users can also benefit from another brand new enhancement, SSL certificates.</p>
<p>SSL certificates ensure that visitors can navigate your website over a secured 128-bit encrypted connection, displaying a universally recognised padlock in the address bar.</p>
<p>If you'll be using Weebly's Ecommerce features, the SSL certificate enables customers to checkout directly on your domain, instead of being re-directed to Weebly's standard payment gateway. Best of all, Weebly takes care of all the setup for you so it's incredibly easy to add an SSL certificate to your site.</p>
<p>For more information on Weebly, check out their <a href="https://www.weebly.com/" target="_blank">official website</a>. Additionally, explore more of <a href="/products/weebly/" target="_blank"> Weebly via our CMS Directory</a>.</p>
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<p>With over 15 million websites built and hosted on its cloud servers, it's safe to say that <a href="https://www.weebly.com/">Weebly</a> has built itself an impressively solid user base since its release in 2007. <a href="https://www.weebly.com/">Weebly</a> is an AJAX-based drag-and-drop web page creator, capable of producing truly beautiful and professional websites with a variety of functionalities. The websites themselves are hosted for free on the Weebly servers, with each user choosing between a Weebly sub-domain, or their own personal domain name.</p>
<p>The simple drag-and-drop system is brilliantly implemented by Weebly, giving its users direct, detailed control over the content of their websites. The process requires no knowledge of coding or web design, as elements can be quickly dragged, dropped, modified and deleted via easy to grasp interfaces.</p>
<p>On May 2 <sup> nd </sup> 2013, Weebly made a number of changes to its admin panel, calling the updated version the  <a href="https://www.weebly.com/"> All New Weebly </a> . The changes included a revamped user interface, a mobile editor and other useful improvements. Here is our Weebly Review.</p>
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<h2><strong> The All New Weebly </strong></h2>
<p>The release of the All New Weebly has brought about a host of changes. Most noticeably, the drag-and-drop admin panel was moved from the top of the browser window, to the left-hand side.</p>
<p>Although the new positioning of the admin panel was received with mixed reviews, the improved, sleek new design was certainly welcomed across Weebly's user base. Options concerning design, functionality and widgets are now elegantly laid out using a more modern, tiled display. Despite the beauty of the new interface, it would have been nice to see Weebly offer users the option to move the admin panel back to the top of the browser screen.</p>
<p>The All New Weebly also brings about a new mobile editor, allowing you to preview and modify the mobile version of your website. Changes made to your website in either browser or mobile view will be automatically synced between both, maintaining a steady appearance to all of your visitors.</p>
<p>Additionally, Weebly now has a built-in Site Planner, which takes users through a step-by-step guide of their powerful new admin panel, setting goals, learning new skills and understanding the basic principals of website growth and success along the way.</p>
<p>Setting user interface updates aside, the All New Weebly update also brings a re-worked pricing plan. A totally free Weebly is still available to users, whilst both a Starter and Pro plan are offered at $4 and $8 per month respectively.</p>
<h2><strong> Initial Thoughts </strong></h2>
<p>Upon entering the Weebly website, you get the immediate impression that you're in for a powerfully simple ride.</p>
<p>It's important for any CMS to ensure its main website is professionally presented, and well polished, and Weebly does just that. A selection of themes, features and website examples are on show, accompanied by a simple sign up form, which includes a Facebook sign up option for extra convenience.</p>
<p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/1.jpg" alt="weebly review" /></p>
<p>Equally, it's essential that the sleek nature of the main website is not compromised or lost completely during the sign up process, leaving you with a dire looking control panel. Thankfully, this is certainly not the case with Weebly, as each menu, page and panel looks modern, clean and easy to understand.</p>
<h2><strong> Getting Started </strong></h2>
<p>Whether you decide to use your email address, or your Facebook account, creating your Weebly account is a quick process. As soon as you enter your details, Weebly presents you with an array of over 200 free, pre-designed themes for you to choose from.</p>
<p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/2700x0.jpg" alt="weebly review" /></p>
<p>For me, the option to choose your theme as your very first step is a statement of intent by Weebly. They would prefer their users to take pride in the appearance of their websites, and would surely hope to avoid a user base who are keen on creating websites full of content, but devoid of aesthetically pleasing pages.</p>
<p>Weebly's elegantly designed templates are inspiring to look over, and selecting your favourite one definitely gets the ball rolling in the right direction.</p>
<h3><strong> The Site Planner </strong></h3>
<p>After selecting your websites theme, it's time to take a glance at Weebly's Site Planner. The planner is divided into three main sections, which are Plan, Build and Grow.</p>
<p>Each section includes an informative, instructional video, which walks you through various useful processes. For example, the first step in the Build section contains a video demonstrating the page creation and organization process.</p>
<p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/18700x0.jpg" alt="weebly review" /></p>
<p>As well as teaching you the basic of Weebly, the planner helps you to set personal goals for your website, and enables you to check out completed websites for inspiration.</p>
<p>Following the Site Planer from start to finish will eventually result in a fully functioning website, complete with images, pages and even a domain name to boot.</p>
<p>The Site Planner is an optional extra for first-time website builders, and can be completely disregarded if you so wish. Essentially, it's a great feature for the large group of Weebly users who need a degree of guidance when it comes to web design, content creation and marketing.</p>
<h3><strong> Your Home Page </strong></h3>
<p>Moving away from the Site Planner, Weebly allows you to dive right into the customization process, by offering up your unpopulated homepage for you to fiddle with.</p>
<p>Your website will be displayed in preview mode on the right, whilst the recently revamped admin panel takes up the left-hand side of the screen.</p>
<p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/5700x0.jpg" alt="weebly review" /><br />
To begin adding to your website, you can simply start dragging and dropping different elements from your side bar. These include titles, images, videos, buttons, dividers and more.</p>
<p>Areas such as the website logo can be edited by hovering and clicking on the available options. For example, I chose to import an image to act as the logo, whereas other options allowed by to type in standard text, or remove the logo entirely.</p>
<p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/6.jpg" alt="weebly review" /></p>
<p>The same hovering rule applies to all other elements on the website, so long as you are in preview mode. Images, blocks of text and so forth can be hovered over, resulting in some options being displayed. Modifying or deleting the element is then a piece of cake.</p>
<p>Generally, the drag-and-drop system adopted by Weebly works a charm. Anybody can understand the process, and adding your own layout and design touches is incredibly easy.</p>
<h3><strong> Themes &amp; Design<br />
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<p>Across the top of the preview page, tabs are displayed. One of which is entitled “Design”. Within this page, you can select a different theme, or modify your existing one.</p>
<p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/11.jpg" alt="weebly review" /></p>
<p>Options such as the base colour of your theme can be changed, along with font styles, social icons and phone number location. Despite a healthy range of options, it would have been nice to see a full colour palette being made available, instead of just the pre-set colours currently on offer.</p>
<p>As well as being able to select a different theme altogether, Weebly also gives you full access to the HTML and CSS coding behind all of its themes, allowing you to tinker with the design and functionality.</p>
<h3><strong> Adding Pages </strong></h3>
<p>A web page doesn't make a website, so it's good news that Weebly allows you to quickly and easily add as many different pages as you want.</p>
<p>Heading over to the “Pages” tab at the top of the preview page, you will be presented with the option to create a new page, and alter the order and settings of your existing pages.</p>
<p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/12700x0.jpg" alt="weebly review" /></p>
<p>Adding a page is simple. You enter the title, followed by the layout you wish to utilise, which largely depends on the theme you are currently using.</p>
<p>Weebly allows you to easily copy and re-order your pages, as well as create sub-pages, which will be displayed as drop down menus.</p>
<h2><strong> Functional Flexibility<br />
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<p>One of Weebly's key strengths is its sheer flexibility. It does a superb job with the basics, allowing elements such as maps, contact forms and slide shows to be seamlessly incorporated. But on top of that, Weebly offers a wide range of other functionalities.</p>
<p>Uploading images for example can be done in a variety of ways. They can be uploaded from your computer, via a URL or even via Weebly's built in image search function.</p>
<p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/9700x0.jpg" alt="weebly review" /></p>
<p>However, you can also create a variety of different website types, by simply dragging and dropping elements.  Adding a product to sell or even an entire discussion board is just as easy as inserting an image. What's more is, you can run such elements side by side, on the very same page.</p>
<h3><strong> Ecommerce </strong></h3>
<p>Selling products on Weebly can be done with relative ease. Dragging and dropping the “product” element from the admin panel will allow you to modify your product image, set a price and add a description.</p>
<p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/13.jpg" alt="weebly review" /><br />
However, it must be said that Weebly does have some limitations in the ecommerce department. Payments can only be taken via PayPal and Google checkout, and it doesn't offer an integrated order management system.</p>
<h3><strong> Forums </strong></h3>
<p>Weebly also offers a fairly comprehensive discussion forum solution, which can be dragged and dropped on to any page. You may then go ahead and customize your forum, adding log in buttons for Facebook, Twitter, Google and other services.</p>
<p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/15-1700x0.jpg" alt="weebly review" /><br />
You can create a total of 5 forums, with a limitation of 200 replies per discussion. Weebly requires you to upgrade your account in order to bypass these limitations.</p>
<h2>Social Features</h2>
<p>Implementing social buttons into your website is absolutely vital for both marketing and engagement purposes. Thankfully, Weebly has yet again made life easy in this regard. Social icons such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn buttons are often built in to certain Weebly themes, with the option to remove them, or add your personal social profile links to them.</p>
<p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/7-1.jpg" alt="weebly review" /></p>
<p>Weebly offers a range of social buttons, including Flickr, Google+, Yahoo and more. Much like other elements, they can be dragged and dropped almost anywhere on your web pages.</p>
<h2>Mobile View</h2>
<p>One of the brand new features that the All New Weebly update introduced, was the ability to view your Weebly website in mobile view, further customizing it to fit the purposes and requirements needed.</p>
<p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/33700x0.jpg" alt="weebly review" /><br />
Using the mobile view, you can customize the colour, header images and social icons, and even select a brand new theme specifically for mobiles. Extra elements can be added from the admin panel, which will automatically sync with the desktop version of your website.</p>
<p>Additionally, Weebly allows you to preview your website via an on-screen iOS and Android device, giving you a realistic impression of what your mobile site will really look like.</p>
<h2><strong> Getting Help </strong></h2>
<p>As with any CMS, being able to find useful help pages and contact details is vital, and Weebly helps you do just that. Across the top of the preview page lies a question mark icon, which leads you to the Weebly Support Centre.</p>
<p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/20700x0.jpg" alt="weebly review" /><br />
The Support Centre is a comprehensive tool to help you get ove rany issues you may be facing. Help concerning images, text, widgets, forums, ecommerce and so on can all be easily accessed. Additionally, Weebly allow users to submit their own questions using the “Ask Us a Question” button.<br />
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<strong> Marketing &amp; Monetizing </strong> </strong></p>
<p>Being able to market and monetize your website is hugely important. Simply publishing content on your homepage willl not help bring in visitors. Instead, Weebly offers a helping hand by being SEO friendly, allowing title, meta and description tags to be customized at page level, along with image ALT tags.</p>
<h3>Blogging</h3>
<p>Maintaining a blog relevant to your website is an extremely efficient way of driving traffic to your website. Good quality blog posts will eventually rank in the search engines, and will also do well on social media networks.</p>
<p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/21700x0.jpg" alt="weebly review" /></p>
<p>Weebly offers a pretty solid blogging solution, allowing you to quick and easily add blog posts. Elements from the admin panel can be dragged and dropped into posts, which means that maps, slide shows, videos and galleries can all be added very quickly, which is something many other blogging applications lack.</p>
<h3><strong> Google Adsense </strong></h3>
<p>Monetizing your website or blog is a great way of earning revenue. Weebly allows you to insert your own Google Adsense codes, and then drag-and-drop the banners anywhere you wish.</p>
<p>However, users who are using the free version of Weebly will be giving up 50% of their Google Adsense revenue until they upgrade their accounts. On top of a handful of other restrictions impose on free Weebly users, some users may find such a large percentage unfair.</p>
<h3><strong> Site Stats </strong></h3>
<p>Along with the traditional option of Google Analytics, Weebly also offers its users a free, in-house Site Stats page, which keeps track of visitors, search terms, referring websites and so forth.</p>
<p>Monitoring your audience is vital when it comes to understanding the strengths and weaknesses of your website, and Weebly's inclusion of a built-in Site Stats page is therefore extremely useful.</p>
<h2>Price Plans</h2>
<p>Along with the release of the All New Weebly, a new price structure was unveiled. Before the update, Weebly offered their Starter plan at $3.29 per month, along with their Pro plan from $6.63 per month. In comparison to their competitors, Wix and Webs, these fees were very reasonable.</p>
<p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/17700x0.jpg" alt="weebly review" /></p>
<p>However, since the update, Weebly have raised their fees slightly, offering the same Starter and Pro plans for $4 and $8 respectively. The price hike is minimal, and can be justifed by the recent classy updates made to the site builder. More importantly, the price rise still keeps Weebly competitive in the face of its rivals.</p>
<p>Webs offer three paid plans, priced from $3.75, to $7.50, up to $16.67 per month. Wix on the other hand, charge $5.73 for their lowest package, climbing up to highs of $19.18 per month for their highest plan.</p>
<h2><strong> Verdict </strong></h2>
<p>Overall, Weebly is a simple, yet powerful site builder which helps you to easily incorporate a wide range of features and widgets. The uncluttered user interface, paired with the extremely easy to use drag-and-drop system, makes Weebly a brilliant choice for a novice web site builders, and for those who know exactly what they're doing.</p>
<p>Weebly's speedy service and cloud-based servers allow you to get your website up and running in minutes, without compromising on the sleek, professional presentation which is manages to capture in all of its themes and widgets.</p>
<h2><strong> Pros </strong></h2>
<ul>
<li>Weebly's drag-and-drop system works wonderfully, enabling almost anybody to try their hand at web design.</li>
<li>The sheer speed and simplicity of Weebly is enough to make you fall in love with the site builder.</li>
<li>Hundreds of free, modifiable themes ensure that your website will be truly unique in terms of design.</li>
<li>The revamped admin panel is a joy to use, and is very easy on the eyes.</li>
<li>The new Site Planner is a welcome addition, which does a great job of walking newcomers through the building and publishing process.</li>
<li>Being able to view and edit your site through Mobile View is an excellent, useful feature.</li>
<li>Ecommerce and Forum options are great examples of the impressive flexibility of Weebly.</li>
<li>Built-in Site Stats and a Blogging feature are a tremendous help in terms of marketing and visitor engagement.</li>
<li>Prices are agreeable in comparison to Weebly's competitors.</li>
</ul>
<h4><strong> Cons </strong></h4>
<ul>
<li>Weebly's ecommerce solution is under-developed, offering just two payment options and no order managing functionality.</li>
<li>Along with a long list of restrictions, including Weebly's logo on their website's footer, users of the free Weebly service are only entitled to half of their Google Adsense earnings, which will understandably disgruntle some users.</li>
</ul>
<h2><strong> Final Remarks </strong></h2>
<p>As mentioned in <a href="/weebly-review/"> our last Weebly review </a> , the quirky web site builder has always been packed full of features, offering an easy, unintimidating solution to those with no coding experience, and perhaps even for those with no web experience at all.</p>
<p>Additionally, to put it simply – which is the Weebly way, the recently introduced updates have injected a new spirit into the service, making it leaner and more flexible than ever before. The core features have remained, but they have now been expertly polished and presented within the elegance of the new admin panel.</p>
<p>Weebly's drag-and-drop site creation system has served it well in the past, and will surely continue to do so, especially now that it works in tandem with a brand new mobile editor, a user-friendly site planner, and a modern user interface. After the All New Weebly release, it would seem that both Wix, Webs and the rest of Weebly's competition have some catching up to do.</p>
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Weebly Review: Hands On With the All New Weebly

<p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.weebly.com/">Weebly</a> is a popular website builder that's often used to create free websites. It's a platform that has continued to gain recognition on the web for its ease of use. For that reason, I decided to take a look at this website builder and write up a <a target="_blank" href="https://www.weebly.com/">Weebly</a> review to investigate whether it's a good option for those looking for something similar. Without further adieu, here is my Weebly Review.</p><p>First let me say this. A lot of people use Weebly. It's an incredibly popular website builder boasting over 12 million people and businesses. A pretty impressive feat which, one would think, means it's got to be an impressive tool right? Let's dig into our Weebly Review.</p><h2>Weebly Review – Let's Get Started</h2><p>When I first chose to review <a target="_blank" href="https://www.weebly.com/">Weebly</a>, I was greeted with a quick and simple sign in box to get you started. Immediately after you fill out these details, you are asked for a site name and category:</p><h3>Weebly Review – Enter a Title for your Site:</h3><p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/recyclebin_cwlhwx.png" alt="Weebly Review" /></p><p>Once you've submitted this form, you get the option to make your own <strong>weebly.com</strong> address, purchase a domain or transfer an existing one to use with the site. Most people will likely start off with a subdomain and purchase a domain from Weebly (or somewhere else) later, but the choice is yours.</p><p>Once you've got a domain, you are immediately put into the Weebly website builder so you can get building.</p><h3>Weebly Review – The Weebly Editor:</h3><p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/weebly3-620x413.jpg" alt="weebly review" /></p><p>What I love about the Weebly website builder is its speed. It's incredibly fast and the modules update immediately unlike some other builders I've used. To add a new module, you simply drag and drop it into your site. Once it's dropped, if configuration is required, you'll get a popup from Weebly that allows you to complete the setup. Here's just a small example of the modules you can add to your site:</p><h3>Weebly Review – The Modules:</h3><p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/weebly11-620x71.jpg" alt="weebly review" /></p><p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/weebly10-620x80.jpg" alt="weebly review" /></p><p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/workspace-820315_1280-1_fuama1.jpg" alt="weebly review" /></p><p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/weebly12.jpg" alt="weebly review" /></p><p>I'd say that's a pretty good collection wouldn't you? You'll notice that you can add a ton of different elements to your Weebly page from basic eCommerce (redirects to PayPal or Google Checkout) to photo galleries, slideshows, flash components, videos, maps and text / images. There's definitely more than enough for the average website. In fact, I'm not sure there's anything missing at all, now that I think about it.</p><p>To add a component, like I mentioned, just drag and drop it onto your new Weebly website. You'll notice that below I dragged the Multiple Columns element into the site and was quickly given the option to choose the number of columns and resize them if necessary.</p><h3>Weebly Review – The Multiple Columns Element:</h3><p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/office-620822_960_720_ptvexi.jpg" alt="weebly review" /></p><p>Once done, I can then drag any of the above elements are shown below into any of the columns as well. If you wanted to change your logo, you simply hover over and you'll be given the option to either turn it off, use text or upload the logo of your choice.</p><h3>Weebly Review – Modifying the Logo:</h3><p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/weebly5.jpg" alt="weebly review" /></p><p>Here, you can see that I've added the <i>Paragraph with Picture</i> element.</p><h3>Weebly Review – The Paragraph with a Picture Element:</h3><p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/weebly6-620x101.jpg" alt="weebly review" /></p><p>What I like about this one is that you can use a resize handle to get the image exactly how you want it, add a link or comment and edit the text easily. It's generally just fun to use this tool given how easy and fast it is. I know I've said that a few times but you really have to try it to get the full feel for the speed of this tool.</p><p>Spicing up your new Weebly website is easy as well and Weebly has plenty of theme and design choices to choose from. You can, of course, also edit the HTML/CSS directly.</p><h3>Weebly Review – Selecting a Theme:</h3><p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/weebly16-620x82.jpg" alt="weebly review" /></p><p>I browsed through the designs they offered and there are some decent choices with more being added daily. It shouldn't be hard to find a good one to use as a basis of your site and then build from there. I like that they have a large collection as some similar tools lack in this department.</p><p>Once you've got your design, perhaps you'll want to add a page to the site or even a blog? You can do that through the Pages tab and it's just as quick and easy as the rest of the stuff I've shown you.</p><h3>Weebly Review – Managing Pages:</h3><p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2021/07/weebly17-620x410_xhvdtm.jpg" alt="weebly review" /></p><p>For fun, I added a blog to my Weebly page, gave it a title and it immediately showed up on the site ready to be populated.</p><h3>Weebly Review – Blogging Functionality:</h3><p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/weebly18-620x505.jpg" alt="weebly review" /></p><p>Clicking on the <i>Blog Settings</i> button, I was presented with a quick set of options for my new Weebly blog page. Surprisingly, they even included share buttons!</p><h3>Weebly Review – Blog Settings:</h3><p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/great_banner_image_option_yusang.jpg" alt="weebly review" />Now it's time to try adding a blog post. I expected that this would bring up a simple text editor where I'd be able to add an image and some content with a post title. I was wrong. Instead, I was given far more!</p><h3>Weebly Review – Adding a Blog Post:</h3><p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/weebly20-620x478.jpg" alt="weebly review" /></p><p>Admittedly, I didn't expect to be able to use elements for my blog post so I was pleasantly surprised to be given such a great selection of ways to add content and media to my post. For those looking to use Weebly for blogging or should you want to incorporate blogging into your Weebly site, this is a great editor and truly fun to use and create with. You won't be lacking in features.</p><p>The next tab, <i>Editors</i>, allows you to add additional people to the site that can contribute content or administer it for you. Once you add them, you can manage them from this screen as well.</p><h3>Weebly Review – Working with Multiple Editors:</h3><p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/coffee-desk-notes-workspace_cdxdsd.jpg" alt="weebly review" />Last but not least, the Settings tab. First on the tab are your site settings where you can change the address, title, favicon, etc.</p><h3>Weebly Review – Site Settings:</h3><p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/weebly8.jpg" alt="weebly review" /></p><p>You are also given some SEO functionality where you can change / add a site description, meta keywords, header and footer code (good for analytics or adsense code) and add 301 redirects.</p><h3>Weebly Review – SEO Functionality:</h3><p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/weebly9.jpg" alt="weebly review" /></p><p>On the eCommerce Settings tab, you can choose between PayPal or Google Checkout as your preferred means of processing payments. On the Mobile Settings, you can tell Weebly to display the mobile-optimized version of this website when someone visits from a mobile device. This is a great option that I was surprised to find and means that your site will be mobile responsive without any effort on your part. Lastly, you can un-publish your site or download a complete zipped version of it.</p><h2>Conclusion</h2><p>Simply put, I love Weebly. This website builder is incredibly fast, feature rich and full of all kinds of great options that allow anyone to make a great website with no coding experience at all.  I was blown away by the speed of the tool (in case you didn't notice) and as I navigated it, was repeatedly surprised by the depth of the options within. This truly is a favorite of the systems I've tried and I won't hesitate recommending it highly. What do you think of Weebly or this Weebly review? Share your thoughts in the comments below or <a target="_blank" href="https://www.weebly.com/">try Weebly</a>, I'm sure you'll be just as impressed as I am.</p><p>Check out our newly updated Weebly Review showcasing all of the new features since this review was written: <a href="/weebly-review-all-new-weebly/">Weebly Review</a></p>

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