Weebly
Encyclopedia
Weebly is an online, free widget-based Web site creator, funded by micro-seed fund Y Combinator. It uses a widget-style format, allowing users to create pages with only a few clicks by dragging and dropping different page elements (images, text, or interactive content, etc.) onto a page and filling in the content. It competes with Yola
(formerly Synthasite), Lifeyo
, Jimdo
, Webs, uCoz
, Wix
, and other web hosting and creation sites. The site was originally created by David Rusenko, Dan Veltri, and Chris Fanini, all of whom attended Penn State
for an undergraduate degree. It was named by Time Magazine as number four of the fifty best websites of 2007.
In June 2008, Weebly added the Weebly pro accounts feature, allowing users to create password-protected pages and upgrade file size limits, as well as receive additional support services. As recently as October 2008, Weebly editing has become compatible with Safari and Google Chrome in addition to its existing compatibility to Internet Explorer and Firefox.
/HTML
of the web pages. In response, on February 26, 2009 Weebly added the ability to edit the CSS and HTML of any site.
Yola (webhost)
Yola is a website builder and website hosting company headquartered in San Francisco. People without programming skills and a limited knowledge of HTML and graphic design can make web sites using Yola. Its drag and drop system allows users to incorporate widgets without knowing HTML. Yola also...
(formerly Synthasite), Lifeyo
Lifeyo
LIFEYO is a free website builder and website hosting company founded in Newport Beach, CA. Lifeyo allows users to make websites without using HTML or managing a hosting account....
, Jimdo
Jimdo
Jimdo is a WYSIWYG web hosting service. Jimdo offers JimdoFree, a free web hosting service, JimdoPro and JimdoBusiness, both premium services. Jimdo is operated by Jimdo GmbH, a Hamburg, Germany-based company...
, Webs, uCoz
UCoz
uCoz is a free web hosting with built-in content management system. The modules of uCoz CMS can be used together to build a fully featured website, or separately, e.g. as a blog platform, webforum etc. As of July 10, 2010, there are more than one million websites created in uCoz systems...
, Wix
Wix.com
Wix.com is a free online platform that allows users to create Flash websites, Apple-compatible mobile sites and customized Facebook pages through the use of professionally designed templates and simple drag & drop tools...
, and other web hosting and creation sites. The site was originally created by David Rusenko, Dan Veltri, and Chris Fanini, all of whom attended Penn State
Pennsylvania State University
The Pennsylvania State University, commonly referred to as Penn State or PSU, is a public research university with campuses and facilities throughout the state of Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1855, the university has a threefold mission of teaching, research, and public service...
for an undergraduate degree. It was named by Time Magazine as number four of the fifty best websites of 2007.
In June 2008, Weebly added the Weebly pro accounts feature, allowing users to create password-protected pages and upgrade file size limits, as well as receive additional support services. As recently as October 2008, Weebly editing has become compatible with Safari and Google Chrome in addition to its existing compatibility to Internet Explorer and Firefox.
Customer satisfaction
For customer satisfaction, Weebly provides an email form onto which a person can write, requesting one-to-one help. Weebly replies directly to the email address you submit on the support form.History
The objective of Weebly when it was first created was to enable content creation. Weebly staff said:Initial release
When Weebly came close to its initial release, the staff decided on a two-phase launch plan: first, there would be a limited invitation followed by something "more substantial" a few weeks later. The invitational beta release was announced June 2006, followed by the official private-beta launch on September 12, 2006. Later, in February 2007, Weebly staff announced it was working on a new WYSIWYG-like editing interface for Weebly. This interface, along with a few other new features, was released March 2007. By December 2008 Weebly reached 1 million users and it had become profitable.Criticism
Since it is built on its own platform, Weebly cannot take advantage of pre-existing plug-ins from other popular blogging engines. In 2008, it released several new templates but at the same time received criticism for not realizing the biggest feature request from users: the ability to edit or upload the CSSCSS
-Computing:*Cascading Style Sheets, a language used to describe the style of document presentations in web development*Central Structure Store in the PHIGS 3D API*Closed source software, software that is not distributed with source code...
/HTML
HTML
HyperText Markup Language is the predominant markup language for web pages. HTML elements are the basic building-blocks of webpages....
of the web pages. In response, on February 26, 2009 Weebly added the ability to edit the CSS and HTML of any site.
External links
- Official Website weebly.com
- The Weebly Blog blog.weebly.com
- The Weebly beta site (on this site, prior to official release, Weebly tests out features. Beta allows people to sign in onto an unofficial release of Weebly and edit their websites there).
- Weebly support center