Weebly creates fast & easy no hassle websites
Updated December 14, 2017

Weebly creates fast & easy no hassle websites

Heather Pellegrini | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Weebly

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.
  • 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.
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.

Square Online Feature Ratings

WYSIWYG editor
9
Code quality / cleanliness
8
Admin section
9
Page templates
9
Library of website themes
10
Mobile optimization / responsive design
8
Publishing workflow
7
Form generator
8
Content taxonomy
7
SEO support
5
Availability / breadth of extensions
8
Community / comment management
Not Rated
API
8
Internationalization / multi-language
Not Rated
Role-based user permissions
9

Using Weebly

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.

Evaluating Weebly and Competitors

  • 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.