Comments on: Taking a look at Weebly (The thinks Website Hosting Tools Review)

By: Max

Max — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:02:52 +0000

Great review. I was a Wix customer, but the flash was killing me. No one could see my Wix site on their iphones or ipads. I gave Weebly a try and it’s 10 times better – plus no flash! Yay!

Overall, I’d agree with you that it’s a great service and simple. I think it’s great for personal websites, but I don’t think I’d use it for a business website. The designs are limited.

Wix may have better design options and flashier templates, but the flash coding (or whatever it’s called) kills it for me.

123triad or Set My Site are probably better options for business websites in my opinion. I would say Homestead is a good option too because it’s affordable, but you’re still limited to cookie cutter templates them.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 05:27:20 +0000

My wife and I just created a website for our high school equestrian team. I spent a lot of time playing around with Google Sites before trying Weebly and Weebly is SO MUCH easier to use! So far, I am really pleased with the product. We upgraded to the Pro version so we can protect pages. For what we are trying to do, Weebly is a great fit.

I registered a domain name with GoDaddy and was able to use the tools on GoDaddy to redirect my weebly site to GoDaddy. It was a piece of cake.

I do wish Weebly had an Element for creating tables.

Thanks.
Steve

By: Ahmed

Ahmed — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 04:38:18 +0000

Hey

I just made free website with weebly. I also just started my new small business ( retail and whole sale)

still not sure if I should upgrade with weebly or just switch to godaddy.

dont know why godaddy is a bit expensive . probably more secure , more options.

anyways for now I like the features included , however I wished for more themes !

hope you guys give me your comment on my free version website. ( still working on it )

Thanks

By: JayJay

JayJay — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 14:59:31 +0000

I agree that Weebly is easy but I just don’t see how a real graphic artist could use it. It’s probably good for the do-it-yourself that justs wants something up quickly.

Cubender blows all these builders out of the water. I’ve created 8 sites with em. Its completely flexible (no limitations like the ones mentioned above) so you can create a totally unique site.

By: Alfred

Alfred — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:05:53 +0000

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By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 13:40:30 +0000

Thanks Raju for the comment and for reading.

By: Weebly Forums

Weebly Forums — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 22:50:17 +0000

Great review Tim ! The three key aspects that set Weebly ahead of others are 1) Weebly allows third party registered custom domains to be used with weebly FREE sites too 2) Weebly allows the site to be downloaded and hosted elsewhere 3) Collaborated Editing (which probably might have been added by Weebly after your review was posted). As per the ease of use, Yola is a lot more user friendly and keeps editing/settings within the same screen making the editing process quick and smooth.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 20:49:09 +0000

Great information! Thanks for reading and for commenting.

By: JohnsKnife

JohnsKnife — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 07:10:44 +0000

I think Weekly is the perfect place for a personal website. The hosting is a reasonable FREE However, I do not mind paying the $4 per month for the few extra benefits. They have the easiest drag and drop designer I have ever worked with and actually get a nice website in a short time.
**AS FOR ECOMMERCE ** I have been using Weebly for a long time ( I have built Several websites with them)
Weebly DOES allow you to place google adsense and you do receive the $$ you make off of it, you even keep track of it in google.. so, NO SCAM there:) Just expect to lose 50% of your profit to Weebly … even as a paid member… grr…
Weebly also does not have a way to track your shopping cart/conversions which you can do in Google so good enough..
** My biggest fuss is that you cannot (password protect your site) Well, you can have a password for your site, you just have to give the same one to everyone (customers/members cannot create a s/n and p/w)
** Other than that, you can run a FULL business with weebly, and as I said, on the personal website end of it you cannot find a better place….. they are awsome!

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