Reduce headaches and save time when creating landing pages by using Weebly
October 26, 2016
Reduce headaches and save time when creating landing pages by using Weebly
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Weebly
We use Weebly to quickly create landing pages that we can use to test new ideas. The whole organization right now is involved in generating new product ideas, so we're currently using it across the board. The main problem that it solves for us is that it saves us time in creating landing pages. There's no separate hosting to worry about and the built in designs and templates are good enough to provide for a variety of things we can test quickly.
- Quick start: You can have a website set up within 15 minutes of thinking of the idea. Weebly is really good at providing templates and starter sites that you can edit quickly. At the same time, you can put in custom HTML blocks into the page so even advanced code can be deployed or tested very quickly.
- Mobile editing of websites: Weebly provides an iPad app that lets you edit websites on the go or while you're in a team meeting in a conference room.
- E-commerce features: Weebly allows you to build an online store with drag and drop and not have to worry about coding the payment system or shopping cart. This feature alone saves several days of programming time.
- The platform has grown to so many different features right now that it can be complicated or overwhelming when you first start using it.
- Their app store is extremely sparse right now. It would be great if they had a thriving developer ecosystem, like Shopify or Force.com
- It has saved us time in testing new ideas. On average, we save about 30 hours per prototype just by being deployed on Weebly.
- We have not had to train our non-technical team members in HTML coding and the like because with Weebly they can build websites using drag and drop. That's significant money saved.
WordPress takes time to set up properly, needs hosting and always has security issues. Drupal is getting more and more complicated every year. Again, hosting a Drupal installation is a security headache. Weebly, being a hosted solution, completed does away with the need to worry about installation or keep updating the server side code because of security issues. They automatically take care of this. With Unbounce, you get a hosted solution which is pretty good at A/B testing but you don't get the range of templates and widgets that come with Weebly.