Easiest to Use and Robust for Creating Brochure-ware Sites with a Few Quirks
August 24, 2018
Easiest to Use and Robust for Creating Brochure-ware Sites with a Few Quirks
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Weebly
I use Weebly for my business website. It's one of the easiest to use drag and drop website builders, while still having extensive features. I also use it to create and build many of my clients' websites which I can then pass to them to manage, because of its ease of use. Front end features include adding sections, which is a more recent design development on many sites. Images can also be set to parallax, where sections scroll over an image. Weebly also makes it fairly straightforward to do some of the more backend functions of a website, such as onsite SEO (search engine optimization), connecting to an external domain name, adding a fav icon, setting 301 redirects, etc.
- Drag and drop interface makes it very easy to add all types of content, including images, text, video (and YouTube videos), embeddable applications and more.
- It's very easy to set up navigation features like cascading menus and sticky navigation (where the menu stays put - may depend on the template chosen though).
- A technical backend is fairly straight-forward for setting up a fav icon, 301 redirects, SEO, Google Analytics, etc.
- I wouldn't recommend using Weebly for extensive e-commerce functionality. There are better tools out there.
- If you're seriously considering creating a blog as the core of your business, WordPress does a much better job.
- Templates and overall design of the templates are somewhat limited. If you're looking for more design-appeal, Squarespace is a better option, although you sacrifice some of the ease-of-use (not much though once you get used to it).
- The Designer Platform for agencies haven't you in years, and there's no information from Weebly about when it will be upgraded.
- Helps me to continue to create a good looking and professional website presence.
- I don't need outside coders to do some pretty sophisticated stuff, so it saves time and money.
- I use it to build many of my clients' websites.
Weebly is the easiest to use and most robust platform I've found so far. It has its downsides relative to the other ones, like a limited number of templates, and not being great for e-commerce or blogging. It's really a matter of figuring out what's right for your business in terms of design, functionality, ease of use, special features you're looking for and more. When you need to, you can access the CSS to do more particular upgrades -- for example, Weebly doesn't have an H1 tag built in (important for SEO). However, it can be modified if you know how. I've written extensively about how to choose the right website builder for a business -- it's a free download. I also teach classes about Do It Yourself websites.