However, sending a newsletter with Weebly is fairly easy. Its own newsletter tool is called Weebly Promote. The cool thing here is that it knows your entire product inventory. With one click, you choose the article and it’s added to the newsletter. Click send and done! So should you use Weebly for an online store? Weebly is the best builder for small business sites and portfolios. It’s easy to use and comes packed with apps and features to help grow your site, from SEO to ecommerce. You can build a simple, stylish site with Weebly’s drag-and-drop editor, and it’s a great choice for portfolios, blogs, online stores, and business sites.

Weebly Review

Reviewed by:Timothy Shim

If you ever need help with your website, you can contact the friendly Weebly support representatives via telephone, email, or chat. Weebly help is based in North America and is available every day of the week, with office hours from 5am to 5pm PT Monday through Friday, and from 7am to 4pm on weekends.
Weebly expands beyond easy-to-build websites, adds easy-to-build marketing emails. So Promote allows them to build those emails using the same drag-and-drop tools they use to build their websites.

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Review Last Updated: January 05, 2021

Weebly lets users build websites easily and quickly as a service and includes web hosting into the deal. If you just want a simple site it's even available for free.

Founded 2002 in San Francisco by college buddies David, Dan and Chris, Weebly is a site builder that has helped over 40 million websites.

With a combined annual traffic of more than 325 million unique visitors, the company is now backed by funding from major players such as Sequoia Capital and Tencent Holdings (April 2014).

Overview: What is Weebly?

How does Weebly work?

Weebly powers more than 40 million websites. It is equivalent to 2% of all websites that are currently live. It looks great when you compare it with the vast availability of website builders. It was founded on the belief that “anyone should have the tools to take their business from idea to launch to growth”.

Weebly works by offering users a very visual interface which they can use to build their websites and requires no knowledge of coding at all. All you need is to drag and drop stuff, resize things with a mouse and add or edit text and images.

Examples of Websites built with Weebly

Some great sites built with Weebly-

To see more, check out this roundup of beautiful Weebly websites.

Weebly Features

Right off the bat, Weebly gets down to business and the first thing you’ll be asked is if you’ll be selling stuff online or not (more on this later). Next, fill in your website information such as name, products and other descriptions and you’ll be shown the template selector.

Weebly features many beautiful templates and once selected, you’ll be asked if you’d prefer a Weebly domain, to purchase your own, or use a domain you already own. Having looked at the templates, I’m left wondering if there is a need for much of Weebly’s drag and drop features.

Despite the massive amount of options that you can drag and drop onto the existing templates, they are already so comprehensive and editable that most people who are seeking simple, static websites would need not much further modifications. One good point to note though is that Weebly automatically helps you create a mobile version of your site.

The catch comes in when you want to sell stuff online. While the setup for this is fairly simple, Weebly charges sites that sells products on top of monthly fees. Unless you’re a business user that pays top dollar of $25 a month, Weebly will charge you a 3% fee per transaction.

See all Weebly themes: www.weebly.com/themes

Pros: What I like about Weebly

1. Good mix of templates

Once upon a time, Weebly followed the road traveled by most website builders and that was to offer users a ton of templates to choose from. Today they have somehow managed to optimize this even though the number has been cut to a couple of dozen templates.

I feel as if this is a two-edged sword because some people just might like to spend the time browsing through templates of various designs but also configurations. However, on a more personal basis I feel as if it is in-line with Weebly’s core mission – to help in easy, rapid site development.

As I browsed their template database (Weebly calls them Themes), I noticed that they offer a spread that while spartan, covers most of the categories that people would need for basic sites. This means that, it’s all there but has been streamlined to prevent users from wasting time and searching through hundreds of templates to find that ‘perfect one’.

Many moons ago, Weebly has a ton of templates to choose from but for some reason they cut it down to a more manageable 50-odd. I’ll be honest here and say that I’m a little on the fence about the whole ‘number of templates’ thing.

It also encourages users to get a little more creative in their own designs, so overall, I count this as a win for them.

2. Easy to use site editor

The drag-and-drop builder is the core of the Weebly system and is what helps users build websites quickly. Through the manipulation of some visual elements, users can piece together their website in a ‘what you see is what you get’ interface.

The core of this is twofold. One – it requires zero coding knowledge. Yes, completely zero. Even if you can’t tell HTML from PHP you can build a complete and functional website that has the potential to be as powerful as any other (almost).

The second part is that the system allows for rapid site development. Think of it as like modern construction where contractors use prefabricated parts instead of having to build everything in place. It cuts down development speed by a ton!

Using their builder and templates I have personally built a functional website with customizations in less than a couple of hours! Of course, this only applies if you don’t let yourself get distracted by everything that Weebly has.

3. Weebly App Centre

For those who are looking past the basic website building experience, that is where the Weebly App Center comes in. The drag and drop interface allows the use of basic website elements, but the app centre is where you go for more powerful tools.

Weebly has a total of more than 270 apps here which are a mixture of free-to-use and paid. Here you can easily add and enable things such as eCommerce, marketing, or social media features. Again, they require no coding knowledge, although some may require an understanding of basic concepts such as email marketing and the like.

4- Analytics help you monitor your site

Once a site is up and running, site owners can then monitor how their site is performing to track and understand visitor behaviour. Weebly lets you view some basic metrics like what pages your visitors are going to, how many hits you are getting, what people search for on your site or even what external sources are referring visitors to your site.

Exactly what level of access to the analytics you get depends on your Weebly account. Free accounts only can view Page Views and the Unique Visitors so you might need to ‘pay to play’ as some might say. Still, it is great to know the feature exists.

5. Built-in SEO tool

Search Engine Optimization is an extremely large chapter in the book of website development and management. While some might scoff at the very basic functionalities Weebly has where SEO is concerned, I again urge you to consider what Weebly is meant for – quick and easy site development.

As such, in this Weebly review, I find that more limited SEO options are better for basic sites and what Weebly has already covers that. They allow for the entry of page titles and descriptions, header and footer code, search engine indexing control and redirects.

6. Great for eCommerce

One category of websites which is popular given the popularity of online shopping is eCommerce sites. Weebly is simply great for this and has everything you need to start setting up an online shop all on your own.

There is even a system to add and maintain a product database, complete with images and categories. Their eCommerce segment comes in templated form as well, affecting how you display products. There are eve

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