Weebly Reviews

I have 3 websites built with Weebly and I often recommend it to my clients who want to create a robust and an easy to maintain site, while still delivering a high degree of functionality and flexibility. Yes, templates could be better, but you can work around some of that even without understanding CSS. For example, I choose a clean template and use appropriate imagery to enhance it. I don't recommend Weebly for heavy duty blogging though. In that case, Wordpress is the way to go, despite its steeper learning curve. Weebly isn't great for ecommerce either, even though it's pretty simple. It's missing key components, like full ecomm reporting -- very important in my book. It doesn't have any real database functionality either, but it allows any type of embed; so if you can find something suitable -- for pretty much any functionality -- that may fill in the missing blanks for you. As for traffic reporting, not so hot (like many hosting tools), but you can always plug in Google Analytics.

I've also used other website building platforms before and Weebly by far is the purest "drag-and-drop" tool around. Very intuitive to use and you can literally start building a website and have one decent looking one published in hours. Design-wise, I personally think that the standard Weebly templates are pretty "general" and for some people, if they are not familiar with HTML or CSS coding, it could be a bit limiting. I've settled with using DivTag Weebly Design as they have plenty of good compatible Weebly design templates to choose from and offer a great deal of value to those that want a great looking template quickly.

I've been using Weebly for a couple years now for client sites. Their designer platform is very handy allowing me to manage multiple clients who have different skills and abilities. For some clients I am able to give login credentials to manage certain pages like blogs. They continue to innovate and update. Often I have had to use more custom html even though I'm working on a template driven platform but it seems that each quarter the elements I added free form become part of their package. Having my own company branded portal helps too. Their online forms are decent and the entries are stored for each form,however I need forms with more integration like Jotform. Weebly has many more positive features than most platforms that I've used. I've used homestead. Intuit Six, webs and others and nothing really comes close. They are light however on e commerce and I'm hoping some day they will allow more password protected pages. Currently there is only a site wide password, without a login mechanism that may be turned on for any page.

In terms of easiness, I’ll recommend Weebly because its an easy to use drag drop CMS. Weebly provides drag and drop elements to create content of the pages with zero coding experience. It also provides blog and online store functionality as well. But the problem comes when you want to add more features and custom functionality to your Weebly website like for example you want to add “Add to Wishlist” feature in your weebly products then you will have to wait for Weebly to launch this feature so that you can add it in your website.

Weebly is incredibly easy to use with its simple drag and drop interface. No coding experience is needed to make a complete website that looks professional. Plenty of built in add ons from contact forms, photo gallery, blog, online booking, polls, social icons to maps. If you have some code saved you want to add just drag and drop the embed code piece and you can cut and paste it in. I have done that with a custom MailChimp form for my Newsletter. The more advanced you want your site to get is when Weebly becomes limited. However, if you are advanced an HTML & CSS you won't have a problem editing the theme yourself. I like my websites very clean and simple so Weebly has worked for me so far.