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Square Online
Formerly Weebly

Overview

What is Square Online?

Square Online (formerly Weebly) is a basic content management system with blogging and eCommerce features. It can be utilized for building standard websites or specialized webpages for online stores.

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Popular Features

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  • Mobile optimization / responsive design (39)
    9.0
    90%
  • Code quality / cleanliness (36)
    9.0
    90%
  • Page templates (40)
    2.0
    20%
  • Library of website themes (40)
    2.0
    20%

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Pricing

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Personal

$9.00

Cloud
per month

Professional

$16.00

Cloud
per month

Performance

$29.00

Cloud
per month

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.weebly.com/pricing

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $6 per month
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Features

Security

This component helps a company minimize the security risks by controlling access to the software and its data, and encouraging best practices among users.

7
Avg 8.0

Platform & Infrastructure

Features related to platform-wide settings and structure, such as permissions, languages, integrations, customizations, etc.

7.9
Avg 7.7

Web Content Creation

Features that support the creation of website content.

7.1
Avg 7.6

Web Content Management

Features for managing website content

6.6
Avg 7.3
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Product Details

What is Square Online?

Square Online (formerly Weebly) is a basic content management system with blogging and eCommerce features. It is inexpensive, and aims to allow all users to easily create high quality sites, regardless of technical skill.

Pricing ranges from free to $25/month. All offerings include email and chat support; Pro and Business include phone support, as well as a site search, video & audio, and password protected pages. Paid subscriptions include a domain name (free for one year), and remove the Weebly link from the website.

Square Online is available in 11 languages (English, French, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Turkish, Dutch, and German).

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Square Online Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

Square Online (formerly Weebly) is a basic content management system with blogging and eCommerce features. It can be utilized for building standard websites or specialized webpages for online stores.

Square Online starts at $6.

Reviewers rate Internationalization / multi-language highest, with a score of 9.9.

The most common users of Square Online are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Comparisons

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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

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Weebly is a versatile website builder that has been used by various individuals and organizations to create professional-looking websites without the need for coding skills. Users have praised Weebly for its effectiveness, usability, and capability in creating customizable and visually appealing websites. It has been utilized by small businesses, educational programs, non-profit organizations, and marketing teams to build and maintain their websites to reach a wider audience and provide information online. Weebly's drag-and-drop interface and extensive features make it suitable for novice users as well as those with different levels of web design knowledge. It has also been used for social marketing purposes, allowing users to communicate and share reviews easily. Weebly's intuitive platform enables quick website updates, making it a time-saving solution for organizations and individuals alike. Additionally, Weebly offers an e-commerce platform that allows businesses to sell products online effortlessly. With its user-friendly interface and customizable templates, Weebly offers a flexible solution for creating websites for various purposes, from personal portfolios to small business websites.

User-Friendly Navigation: Many users have found Weebly to have a user-friendly navigation, making it easy for them to find what they were looking for. The intuitive interface and well-organized layout with buttons on the left-hand side allow for quick and convenient navigation between pages.

Drag and Drop Website Builder: Reviewers greatly appreciated the drag and drop website builder feature of Weebly. This powerful tool allows users to easily create web pages and blog posts by simply dragging elements onto the page without any coding or technical knowledge required. Users can spend more time on writing and gathering information rather than learning how to put a website together.

Professional Look and Feel: Users praised Weebly's professional look and feel, which helps their sites stand out from the competition. With the option to upload custom background or banner images, users can quickly create a polished and professional appearance in just minutes. The availability of a wide variety of beautiful templates further enhances the overall aesthetic appeal of websites created with Weebly.

Limited template options: Users have expressed disappointment with the limited selection of templates available on Weebly. Some reviewers feel that the templates are not up to date with today's website trends and do not offer visually appealing designs.

Lack of advanced SEO features: Several users have mentioned that they find the SEO functionality on Weebly to be elementary and lacking in custom options. They advise those who focus on SEO to avoid using Weebly as a platform.

Difficulty in migrating content: Users have found it complicated and challenging to migrate their websites from Weebly to another content management system. This can pose a problem for those who want to switch platforms or expand their website capabilities beyond what Weebly offers.

Attribute Ratings

Reviews

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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We decided to create a website for our youth programs that was separate from our main website, Weebly fit what we needed exactly! We are able to have multiple users with different levels of web design knowledge access and update the site from anywhere. We can even restrict which pages each editor can access.
  • Extremely large selection of well-designed templates make getting started creating a website easy.
  • Allowing multiple editors with different permissions to access from anywhere.
  • Allowing customization of templates i.e.: adding company colors and rearranging headers by page.
  • I would like to be able to preview changes on the web and mobile before publishing them. The widget in the editor is nice, but not always as realistic as I would like. I like to view it in different browsers before publishing.
  • I would like to see better information for novices on SEO.
  • When embedding a document I find Scribd to take away from the design of the page and users have difficulty navigating and downloading. I usually also end up placing the file in a downloadable format above the embedded file from Scribd.
Weebly is easy to navigate and create for even a first-time web designer! They provide all the options in a drag and drop format to easily create an an amazing array of themes that will fit anyone's needs! The analytics provided with a pro subscription are very helpful in seeing where the traffic on the site came from, what pages they viewed and search terms used. Weebly makes consistent updates adding and/or tweaking features that make creating a site easy and giving you the tools you need to make your site unique.
Web Content Creation (8)
85%
8.5
WYSIWYG editor
90%
9.0
Code quality / cleanliness
80%
8.0
Admin section
90%
9.0
Page templates
90%
9.0
Library of website themes
100%
10.0
Mobile optimization / responsive design
80%
8.0
Publishing workflow
70%
7.0
Form generator
80%
8.0
Web Content Management (4)
50%
5.0
Content taxonomy
70%
7.0
SEO support
50%
5.0
Availability / breadth of extensions
80%
8.0
Community / comment management
N/A
N/A
Platform & Infrastructure (2)
40%
4.0
API
80%
8.0
Internationalization / multi-language
N/A
N/A
Security (1)
90%
9.0
Role-based user permissions
90%
9.0
CMS programming language or framework
N/A
N/A
  • As a non-profit, Weebly had options to make having a secondary site financially feasible.
We looked at a variety of other site builders that were available at the time we decided to create our secondary site and Weebly had more options that suited our needs at the time and the ease of use was far above the other options. Over the years we have been utilizing Weebly, they have proven themselves over and over again by providing updates that are timely and relevant.
5
Our Weebly users include Administrative Assistants, Educators, and teen lay-leaders. We use our site to communicate to the teens within our programs and their parents. We include information for prospective members about our programs, calendars & registration forms for current participants. We have found our site built on Weebly has more visits than our main site using another program.
2
Weebly is so easy to use, even a novice can take to it quickly. We need very little in-house support. Most of the in-house support is setting up a new user with access and deciding which pages they need access too as well as a quick overview on how to use it.
  • Communicate information about the programs we offer
  • Communicate the schedule of our programs
  • Registration for our programs
  • Communicate information about programs offered by other groups that are related to our offerings
  • Add live stream of programs while they are happening
  • Slideshow of art projects
  • interactive blog
  • Teacher to student interaction
  • posting of homework
Weebly is consistently adding features that line up with our needs. The ease of use makes it the perfect program for us since we have users of multiple age brackets and knowledge of web design. We love that we can give users access to only the pages they are affiliated with.
No
  • Price
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
The product needed to be easy to use for all levels of website building expertise as well as fit into our non-profit budget.
We would have created a few simple test sites and let both back-end and front-end users evaluate the features & ease of use.
Robert Allen | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Many clients with limited needs and limited budgets require a simple, professional-looking website they can easily manage themselves. Weebly is the best solution for this. We are able to create a professional website in a fraction of the time with Weebly, which can grow in a few specific ways to fit client needs. Weebly is not our only tool, and certainly not our most common platform, but it is the most effective, usable, and capable drag-and-drop website builder we have tried.
  • The greatest strength of Weebly is the split design interface. The primary design method is graphical, drag-and-drop. The secondary design method is direct hands-on management of the CSS. This combination means we can get to launch far faster, without sacrificing customization.
  • One feature Weebly had which no competitors could match was enabling SSL for ecommerce sites. Where most competitors give a 'shared' SSL which exposes the platform's URL during the checkout stage, Weebly enables site-specific SSL, so your customers never leave your site.
  • Weebly's ease of management is less unique, but should be mentioned. Every object is managed in context, so the learning curve for clients who wish to self-manage is incredibly short. We are able to hand off the site confidently with just one or two brief training sessions.
  • Weebly's pricing structure leaves plenty of room for improvement. Their Pro and Business tiers should be combined, as the overlap is significant and often confuses clients.
  • The inability to expand my account to handle all 18 client sites under one account is frustrating. We are forced to have two separate logins and set both accounts as editors for all sites on each account, instead of just paying double the annual fee and getting all the sites together.
  • The inability to shift a client's site from 'white label' to group management is terribly irritating.
  • The default themes are fairly limited in style and do not always directly follow modern design trends, making matching client desires more difficult.
Weebly is great if a client needs a simple site very quickly and doesn't want any hassle. I have previously prototyped a client website in just 20 minutes using Weebly, which won us the contract.

For future extensibility, advanced functionality, or complex site builds, I do not use Weebly.
Web Content Creation (8)
92.5%
9.3
WYSIWYG editor
100%
10.0
Code quality / cleanliness
100%
10.0
Admin section
100%
10.0
Page templates
90%
9.0
Library of website themes
80%
8.0
Mobile optimization / responsive design
100%
10.0
Publishing workflow
100%
10.0
Form generator
70%
7.0
Web Content Management (4)
20%
2.0
SEO support
50%
5.0
Bulk management
30%
3.0
Availability / breadth of extensions
N/A
N/A
Community / comment management
N/A
N/A
Platform & Infrastructure (2)
N/A
N/A
API
N/A
N/A
Internationalization / multi-language
N/A
N/A
Security
N/A
N/A
CMS programming language or framework
N/A
N/A
  • I can build two nearly identical sites, one on Weebly and one on the market leader CMS, and the difference in build time is staggering. Weebly takes approximately 5% as long to build.
  • As far as I know, Weebly servers have not gone down once in five years. Surely they must have, but it has never been reported. The uptime and security are magnificent, which means I never get angry calls from clients. That counts for a lot.
  • Servicing Weebly sites is much easier, faster, and less labor-intensive than the industry leading CMS, which means we can manage sites for lower-budget clients and still make a profit.
Squarespace is an underpowered and less-intuitive version of Weebly, which requires your customers go to site.Squarespace.com to finish the checkout process. This is absolutely unacceptable and I would never recommend anyone use them because of this alone, so no other comparisons matter.
WordPress is incredible because of the community around it. Tens of thousands of actively supported plugins and themes with breathtaking complexity are available for very small sums, and WordPress is the platform which keeps these extensions playing well together. That said, WordPress is too powerful for some clients or would exceed some client budgets.
Drupal is monstrous to implement, terrible to use, frustrating to modify mid-build, and is far outside the realm of self-management by clients, requiring an on-call development house handles even minor changes. There is nearly no situation I would recommend using Drupal.
No
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
I wanted a highly capable product which would get a simple site online quickly and easily, which would be mobile responsive and easily managed. Weebly was the best-looking option around.
My feelings toward Weebly have improved in the years since becoming a customer. This platform has met all of my expectations and even in my recent reviews of competing products I've concluded that Weebly is still the best of the bunch.
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