Weebly is the easiest website builder I’ve ever used – by far. It’s very user-friendly and intuitive, and it’s powerful enough to let you build a great-looking site without knowing any HTML at all. But if you are handy with HTML or CSS, Weebly gives you the option to use them. Unlike its rival website builder, Weebly has a built-in code editor that lets you customize your site more extensively. Weebly’s ease of use, versatility and value for money have earned it some excellent feedback from users, including small business owners and entrepreneurs. – you may find them quite inspirational. Weebly currently powers more than 40 million websites, which works out at roughly 2% (and growing) of all websites on the internet.

Read on to discover why it’s so popular, and to find out if it’s the right website builder for you. TOP 3 WEEBLY PROS #1 Easiest website builder to use. Weebly offers all the basic tools you need to build a functional website, with no bells and whistles to confuse you. You can build a great site in hours, even if you’ve never done it before.

Online payment facility Other Payment Options Home >Businesses, Agents and Trade Professionals >Cargo support, trade and goods >Paying invoices to the. Browse more than 8,000 free form templates to find the one that best suits your needs. Search by industry or by form type.

#2 Cool customizable templates. (‘themes’) now includes a great choice of on-trend, mobile-responsive designs. Unlike, Weebly lets you switch between themes, customize using HTML and CSS, and download your site’s code.

#3 Pre-designed page layouts. Weebly has more than 40 pre-designed page layouts to help get you started.

There are layouts for all sorts of page types including contact pages, portfolios, landing pages, and site maps. TOP 3 WEEBLY CONS #1 Drag-and-drop customization is limited. You may find Weebly’s drag-and-drop customization options too limited to deliver the site of your dreams. Unless you’re confident enough with code to use the built-in HTML/CSS editor, you can’t change things like column width or background design.

Other website builders, notably and, offer more powerful drag-and-drop customization. #2 Needs more innovative features.

In the past, Weebly has tended to roll out new features no more than a couple of times a year. That rate has increased in recent months, but its innovations still focus on improving user-friendliness rather than pushing the boundaries of cutting-edge tech. It’s certainly no tech trailblazer like. #3 Blogging features need improving. Weebly’s blogging tools have also improved, but there’s still a way to go.

You get all the basics, such as social sharing buttons, drag-and-drop content, and scheduled publishing. But you can’t highlight your latest and most popular posts – and we think these are basic features every blog should have. “Weebly is really easy to use, making it a great choice for personal sites, online portfolios and small online stores.” Weebly is a great choice of website builder if you’ve never created a site before.

Whether you want to build a personal website, online photo gallery, event site or even a basic online store, Weebly will get you up and running faster than its rivals. There are more sophisticated website builders out there, but Weebly is catching up by introducing advanced features and updated designs. That said, when Weebly introduces new features they tend to be aimed at making the user interface even more intuitive and user-friendly. It doesn’t innovate for the sake of innovating. Everything it does is intended to help users of all skill levels build good-looking and functional websites, quickly and painlessly.

Weebly is the easiest website builder on the market, and it’s designed with non-technical users in mind. One of our favorite things about Weebly is it gives you room to grow and learn. You can edit your site’s code once you feel confident enough – making it the ideal tool if you fancy learning HTML. This all gives Weebly a much broader appeal than its simple drag-and-drop nature may at first suggest. As mentioned, you can even use it to build an online store (). But if you have big ambitions for your store, you’ll be better off with an ecommerce specialist such as. See your site take shape before your eyes using Weebly’s WYSIWYG editor With WYSIWYG tools, what you see in the template editor is what your visitor will see after you publish your website.

There’s no WordPress-style flipping back and forth between editing mode and preview mode to check how your site will actually look. Weebly is one of the most intuitive and easy-to-use. Even its newest features are carefully designed and chosen to stay true to Weebly’s core purpose: making website building as easy as possible.

Weebly also lets you access your site’s code with one click using an HTML/CSS editor. So you have the option to extensively modify your website’s design (or hire someone to help you). It’s great to have this choice if you really want a customized design. You could also consider buying a Weebly theme created by an independent designer. Take a look at, for example. We still think, has more versatile templates, but Weebly seems keen to catch up.

We’ll let you know about new design options from Weebly – so stay tuned! “Not everybody instinctively knows how to make a page look beautiful.

Weebly gives you a head start with more than 40 pre-built layouts to choose from.” Weebly has put together dozens of page layout designs to get you started. You can’t browse layouts until you’ve created an account and started building a site, but you can check out to get an idea of how the layouts work.

When you add a new page to your Weebly website, the page is initially blank – ready for you to drag and drop content into it. But what if you don’t know how to arrange the content to create a layout that looks good? This is where their page layouts come in really handy. Choose from a selection of preset layouts for homepage designs, About Us pages, Services Offered pages, Contact pages, portfolio pages and even restaurant menu layouts. Weebly Customer Support Judging by our experience and users’ feedback, is responsive and helpful. The support team has been over the past year to help service the growing number of users.

It’s good to see this is a priority for Weebly. You can reach the support team three different ways: 1) support tickets (see screenshot below), 2) live chat, and 3) phone. Support tickets are answered 24/7.

If you want a more personal experience, live chat is available from Monday to Friday, 6am-6pm Pacific Standard Time (PST), and Saturday to Sunday 8am-5pm PST. Phone support is available for paying subscribers (Pro plan or higher). Call 1-844-493-3259 from 6am-6pm PST. The support team is based almost entirely in the US. Alternatively, try posting a question on. Add advanced site tools with one click from the Weebly App Center Apps fall into numerous categories such as marketing, communications, ecommerce and social, plus the more generic ‘tools’ (such as pricing table, accordion tabs, team charts, and so on – utilities that go above and beyond the basics that Weebly provides).

The App Center gets around the need to use code or codecs to add extra functions to your site. With the App Center, all tools are automatically fully integrated with Weebly’s platform. To add an app to your site, just click the Add button. Apps are built by independent developers whose entire businesses are focused on improving and servicing their tools.

Some of the apps are free and some are paid-for. Most paid-for apps have free trial periods, so you can give them a test drive without having to commit any cash. “Weebly lets you create your own membership club, where you have full control over who gets to see what pages.” Weebly’s membership gateway is a neat optional function. If you enable it, only your registered members can access certain restricted pages, and you have full control over who sees what. This is especially helpful to you if you want to create courses for students; share private information with certain visitors only; create a private club of some sort, or just block certain content from the general public.

To use Weebly’s membership creation tool, you will have to be at least a (we’ll have more on the pricing plans below). Make your site a members-only club using Weebly’s membership creation tool Under the Pro plan, you can accept up to 100 members, but you’ll have to – they can’t simply click a button on your site to become members. But once you upgrade to Weebly’s Business plan, members can sign up with, so it’s much easier for them. What’s more, under this plan you can have unlimited members.

By default the registration button appears on your site’s menu bar. If you prefer, you can create a pop-up box containing a button or link for visitors to click, or display a form for them to fill in. Every time a new member signs up, you’ll receive a notification email from Weebly. The membership function also lets you, and then control access to certain pages. You’re also given a dedicated members’ login page with functions such as password reset. Natively, Weebly doesn’t let you charge users to become members – but there is a third-party app that does.

Costs from $9.97 per month and lets you instantly and securely accept payment via PayPal for members who want to pay for, say, online course access on your Weebly site. “Weebly automatically takes your website, creates a mobile version of it, and gives you a preview.” As mentioned above,.

This means your design will adjust by itself to fit your viewers’ mobile touchscreens. You don’t have to do anything more, but you can preview how your site will look on phones and tablets.

Weebly does still host hundreds of older themes that aren’t mobile-responsive, but that doesn’t mean they won’t work on touchscreens. If you’ve decided to use an older theme that isn’t automatically optimized for mobile, you can switch between the web and mobile views in the editor to check how your site looks and works on different devices. For more detail, see our. Here we dig deep into the tool’s functions and compare it with mobile editors offers by other website builders. “Weebly covers all the basic SEO settings – right on par with other website builders.” We’ve seen arguments that website builders perform very poorly in search engine rankings. However we’ve also seen many Weebly websites rank very well in Google, achieving first-page positions you’d expect better-established websites to get – and we’ve built Weebly websites that have ranked high in search results.

So don’t let others discourage you. Just because they can’t do it, doesn’t mean you can’t! SEO (search engine optimization) is about planning, technique, and persistence, but that’s beyond the scope of this review., such as descriptions, titles, keywords for each web page, and it also lets you create customized webpage addresses for each of your pages. Also, be aware that even if your website is indexed by search engines, this doesn’t guarantee it’ll rank high in search results. We have more about this in (look under the SEO question).

You can also enable Google Analytics for your site, to start tracking your visitor statistics. That tracks page views and unique visitors from the past 30 days. “Weebly takes care of all your hosting and technical needs – so you can focus on building your site.” Weebly hosts all your websites for you, even if you’re on the free plan, so. It manages the entire process for you, so you can concentrate on building your website and focusing on other more important things (such as life!) Weebly also takes care of all technical maintenance and security upgrades, to ensure your website runs smoothly and doesn’t fall prey to hackers. One of Weebly’s biggest advantages over other website builders is that it lets you download your entire website as a ZIP archive file. You can then import it to another host or website builder, or give it to a web designer to work on. “Weebly makes it easy to build all kinds of websites without using any code – so it potentially saves you thousands on hiring a designer.

And its cheapest plan is completely free.” It doesn’t cost a penny to build a website using Weebly. The free plan lets you create and publish as many sites as you want, and provides many of the basic tools you need at no extra cost. There are no deadlines or expiry dates to worry about – your free sites will be up and running for as long as Weebly is around.

So is it worth paying for an upgrade to a premium plan? A subscription of $8 or more per month gets you a paid plan (, Business or Performance) buys you access to Weebly’s full suite of website building tools and premium support. Weebly’s Starter, Pro, Business and Performance plans cost $8, $12, $25 and $38 per month respectively, if you.

Here’s what you get under each plan. Click the image to see Weebly’s pricing plans in detail (opens in a new window) As mentioned, those are the prices you pay if you sign up for a full year. If you’d rather pay month by month, the price goes up slightly. Weebly also offers six-month and two-year options as well. You could save anywhere between 11% to 44%, depending on which plan you subscribe to and the length of your subscription.

The longer you commit, the steeper the discount: Weebly Pricing Plans 1 Month ($/month) 1-Year ($/month) Savings (%) 2-Years ($/month) Savings (%) Starter $14 $8 43% $5 64% Pro $18 $12 33% $9 50% Business $35 $25 29% $21 40% Performance $46 $38 17% $35 24% If you do commit to two years, the Starter plan drops to just $5 per month; Pro plan to $9, Business plan to $21, and Performance to $35 per month. Opting for the two-year plan compared with the one-year default plan, you save up to $1.15 per day (Performance plan). Not bad, considering most people probably spend way more than that on a cup of coffee or chocolate bar every day. After giving it a thorough test, we can confidently say Weebly is the easiest-to-use website builder on the market right now.

Its user interface is uncluttered, easy to understand and easy to navigate, so you won’t feel overwhelmed. Weebly’s difficulty rating is low, making it suitable for users of all technical skill levels – even if you’re an absolute beginner. But it offers the option to fine-tune your site using HTML and CSS, and even export it for editing elsewhere, so Weebly isn’t only for beginners. It also offers numerous subscription levels, including ecommerce plans. To get the best out of Weebly, we recommend that you start with a free website. This is your chance to get to know the theme editor, and judge for yourself how easy and difficult its various features are. You may find there’s enough in the free plan to deliver the website of your dreams, although you’ll have Weebly branding on the pages and in the URL.

You can use the free plan for as long as you want, and create as many sites as you want. Once you’ve got used to using Weebly, you’ll then have a better idea of which subscription plan is right for you. Before you go: See our expert analysis of the. Found our Weebly review helpful? The website builder is easy to use, but their support is incredibly bad. To get a rep on the phone it took 1 hour, but the wait time said 30 mins. Then when trying to get basic help for a friend who purchased a domain, they tried to get me to upgrade a test site because the support line is only for paying customers.

Additionally I wouldn’t have even called in if the email option worked. I tried twice to submit a ticket, and each time I got a message saying they received the inquiry, but no follow up message other than one to survey how they did. Really falls short. Hello Gary, Thank you for sharing your experiences with the community. I’m sorry to hear you’ve had such a frustrating time with Weebly and I understand it can be frustrating not to have access to a phone support line without subscribing to a paid plan.

How did you get on with the live chat option? One would hope it’s more responsive than the tickets you submitted?

If you think that you would be interested in another platform with more in-depth support, it might be worth considering, who have a huge array of guides and support documents that should cover any issue you run into. I’ve linked to our review, so that should give you some food for thought. Thanks again for contributing to the discussion – our readers feedback and experiences are invaluable.

Hello Sushinori, Thanks for joining the discussion. Considering multi-lingual capacity would certainly be an interesting thing to consider for future reviews. In the meantime, if you are having issues with languages on Weebly, it might be worth looking in the to see if there are any apps that can help you out. I believe Weebly recommend two third party apps: ‘Multilanguage’ and ‘LocalizeInternet’ – so it could be worth looking in to them to see if they would solve your issue. If you’d like to read more about multi-lingual websites, we’ve prepared, which could prove handy. Hope that helps, – Tom.

Hey Brayden, Glad you found the article useful. Don’t worry, you’ll still be able to open up your website by entering its URL into the address bar in your browser.

The non-indexing simply means that if people were using keywords to search for your site on Google then they wouldn’t be able to find it. However if they knew the website address then they could still access it. It’s also worth pointing out that to have a unique domain name for your site, you will need to upgrade to a premium plan. Hope that clears things up, – Tom.

Hi AJ, We had to ask a lot of questions to build up the on-site knowledge we have today, so no worries, there are no ‘duh’ questions – If we don’t ask then we don’t learn. Anyhow, with Weebly you’ll have to pay in either 6-month, 1-year or 2-year blocks. You can’t pay month-on-month with Weebly anymore unfortunately. The prices quoted on the Weebly site are the cheapest possible prices for their plans, which works out as the average monthly cost when you sign up to a 2-year plan. You’ll probably need to a pay a small amount extra for shorter contracts. For more info take a look at our breakdown of.

Hope that helps, Tom. Hi Letha It’s great to hear you’re enjoying using Weebly, it really is a fun platform to build websites with. Your issue with deleting a category is actually a pretty common one! You just need to edit the posts that are filed in that category and remove the category from each post. It will then disappear from the sidebar and you can republish your site.

There’s more info available in this. If that doesn’t solve your problem, I’d recommend reaching out to the dedicated Weebly support team who are available 24/7. They’re really responsive so should have your problem solved ASAP!

Hello Pieter, I haven’t seen any specific examples, but Weebly does list out some here. Perhaps you can find some inspirations there?

If you want to create pages to share pictures, videos, and other details for your tours, accommodations and destinations, Weebly can definitely handle that. You can connect these specific services to product pages where your visitors can purchase. We have more discussions about Weebly’s here.

However, if you’re looking for more advanced hotel / accommodation booking tools, take a look. They have a dedicated hotel booking function that you might find interesting. Judkins, If you want to connect a custom domain to your website built with Weebly, you have to upgrade to one of their premium plans. So if you renew your domain name at $19.95, you will still need to remain subscribed to a premium plan.

Take a look at their pricing table on to see this. There are alternatives to getting a better deal in terms of domain names. Check out our to see the pros and cons of getting a domain name through a website builder. Hope this clarifies things for you.

Hello David, It is true that Weebly’s restore or undo function is not the best amongst the drag and drop website builder world. They do allow you to undo certain changes, but not all changes. Further, major changes that you’d like to restore (such as a deleted page), you can restore them but you’d have to email support directly. If you look at our, we’ve highlighted restore / undo capabilities of Weebly and benchmarked it against a few other website builders. See footnote 13.

If being able to restore a version of your website is important, I’d suggest taking a look. Hope this helps!

Hi Michelle, I think what some people do is sell licenses online. So if someone wants to be able to use your artwork (presumably digital images) on their websites, then they will have to purchase some sort of license from you. What some people do is watermark their images on their website, and once the buyer purchases a license (basically pays you), then you send them the images without the watermark. Weebly can help you set up the payment and email delivery system.

Use their digital products option under their ecommerce option. The way it works is that once the shopper pays you, then Weebly can help you automatically send out a download link to the buyer who can then download the images without the watermark. You can also see our here. At the end of the day, it’s really hard to monitor who is using your digital images without consent. And even if you find someone using them without consent, it’s really hard to stop them. That’s one of the drawbacks of the internet, unfortunately.

But don’t let that stop you from growing as an artist and selling your work to those who appreciate them! Hi, this was really interesting to read. I’ve been using Weebly for just over a year now – as a paid client – and right up until December 2016, I was extremely happy with Weebly, but then I began getting an ‘Oops Error’ message every time I went to try and post /edit/ load anything onto my website and blog. I have had numerous ‘live chats’ and emails back and forth with Weebly to have the problem rectified by with no success, again today! I have done everything they suggest – used Chrome, Internet Explorer, Safari, I’ve tried it at various different locations – in cafes and other public places as well as at my office and home, I’ve contacted my server – had the modem replaced and all to no avail. The problem continues and I’ve even used a different computer all together.

Weebly tell me that they can’t find the problem so can’t fix it, it must be me, but a search of their support community board shows I’m not the only one having this problem – there are a number of complaints on there about the exact same issue. Along with the exact same reply I’ve gotten from Weebly. I haven’t got a clue how to fix this and am very disappointed with Weebly for not being able to fix it. Really don’t know where I go from here. I don’t want to have to rebuild a whole new website and blog again. Hi Kerry, Thanks for sharing your story with us.

Is this problem still troubling you? I’ve used Weebly extensively in my past projects and there are some hiccups from time to time (such as the “Oops Error” you’ve described) but it usually goes away shortly after. Weebly is a platform that powers millions of websites and sometimes when they make updates to their builder, it unintentionally affects some websites. Understandably that’s frustrating and sometimes their support team can’t fix it directly as it is a temporary engineering problem.

In any case, I’m hopeful that this issue is resolved, as they did for me. Thanks for your comment again. Andrew, Squarespace and Weebly both integrate with G Suite (formerly known as Google Business App) where you can create a custom domain email address that’s powered by the same platform as Gmail.

It costs a few dollars a month which we feel is well worth it as you get the reliability and user interface of Gmail, which we like (we also use G Suite to power our email addresses). So it doesn’t matter where you live as domain names and email addresses can be managed globally. So yes, you can get a custom email address with either Squarespace or Weebly, even if you live in the UK. Hi Jeremy, Thanks for all of your reviews on the different kind of e-commerce ready-to-build websites.

They are really helpful in understanding the different features – their pros & cons. However, I am quite in a dilemma: I am torn between Weebly and Shopify since both are quite good website builders. What I like about both of them is that I can always switch to another platform without losing the entire website and also the domain name. But what I really can’t decide which one is better when starting an online store – integrating i.a. A drop shipping platform: either the Weebly Business plan or the Shopify Basic Pricing Plan. I would need to have a multi-language e-commerce website and at least two logins, a variety of products, a mobile version, a support service that is also available in Europe and a good SEO with fast response time. My thoughts were to start with Weebly Business and then upgrade to Shopify – do you think this is possible and easily to be done?

Or what else could you recommend me? It would be great if you could enlighten me to or help me make a decision. Thank you for all your support and help you are offering to everybody! Hello Katia, If you have a vision of a more advanced ecommerce store, I’d suggest getting started with Shopify right off the bat. Shopify is a “pure” ecommerce builder and so their platform has much more advanced tools and flexibility than Weebly’s ecommerce platform. Weebly is a great website builder and their ecommerce features have advanced tremendously over the past year or two (), but when it comes to scalability and feature comprehensiveness, Shopify is still very much the leader.

Further, Shopify offers you if you need further help to customizing your store. Don’t get me wrong. Weebly is an awesome website builder and their ecommerce platform is improving. They can help you build a functional and effective online store to sell products.

But if you need flexibility and customization, I’d definitely check out Shopify. Your reviews are extremely helpful. I am currently a Wix customer — and like it for the most part. I’m about to embark on a new project (photography and blog related) and looking at other website builder options in the marketplace. The added ability to export/archive the site may be the deciding factor for me in the end.

I’m leaning now towards Weebly. On the other hand, I feel Squarespace is ultimately the ideal web-builder for it’s sophistication on a number of fronts — beautiful templates, plus the ability to have Video as a background page. The cover page option with a few more advanced items ie page transition effects and other slick design features. Tough choices.

You mention Squarespace can export the Blog portion (this is important), but do you know if it can export / archive the whole site? Is it compatible with WordPress (a platform I know well). I believe Weebly is compatible with WordPress. Can you clarify?

Thanks so much. Again, amazing work you’ve done here. Hey Alex, Glad you’re finding our reviews helpful! To answer your questions, I think Squarespace is a good website builder for you to consider for your photography / blog project. It would be one of my recommendations to you too! In terms of exporting your content from Squarespace to WordPress, you can export more than just your blog. You can also export your basic pages, gallery pages, images, etc.

You’ll find the exact details in this here. Do note that there are certain items you won’t be able to export. As for Weebly, you can certainly export your website, but it won’t be in a format that can be readily imported into WordPress. Weebly can export your site in “raw codes”, but that’s about it.

If you visit our “Hosting & Export” section above, we have a link to a video that will show you exactly what you get. So at the moment, there isn’t a way to directly take your Weebly site into WordPress. I’m sure there are service providers out there that can manage this, but I haven’t seen a clean way of accomplishing this (versus Squarespace) Hope this helps! Hi Jeremy, I just wanted to ask a question. I am creating an online course and want to develop a website to sell this online course (it will be a pdf document).

What would you recommend would be the best website builder for this. I don’t know anything about coding and want the page to look very attractive as I only have one product to sell so the information on the website and the look needs to draw people in. I have read your reviews on Weebly, Wix and Shopify and I am a bit confused, sorry!

I also want my customers to be able to pay for the digital document using Pay Pal and credit card which I believe Wix doesnt let you pay with credit card? Thanks for your help!

Hello Alyssa, It sounds like what you have in mind is relatively simple (as compared to someone trying to hundreds of products!) Weebly can get the job done just fine. You can process credit cards and PayPal payments, and Weebly allows you to sell digital products (you can see our here). The way it works is that once your customer purchases, your PDF document will be automatically emailed to the customer. As for Wix, you can certainly accept credit cards through PayPal.

PayPal offers your customers the option of paying with their own PayPal account, or with credit cards. You should also check out and here.They also enable you to sell digital products as well.

However, you will have to use Stripe to handle your payments. Stripe is a reputable payment processor, and can directly deposit your money into your bank account.

Hope this helps! Hi Jeremy.I currently have two websites one is for a church and other is for a Seminary. The Church website is on Wix, and over the past four years we have not had much traffic from it. I have heard that they have increased their SEO and I need to go ahead and work on improving that. I probably wouldn’t need the most help with learning about SEO. But anyway, the Seminary website is through Go Daddy, and I know I need to switch it over to something else and do not have the time to learn WordPress. I was considering Weebly only because there are some outside templates you can buy and put in Weebly that just seeme very stylish.

But after going over many of your blogs I’m still very confused as to which website builder is the best. I also looked at Squaresace but you had some comparison charts and there was a couple of features that I thought just kinda made me take them off the table, need a member protected page and maby some small e-commerce to by notes, class payments etc A lot of people tell me that Wix Is Not great, although all your blogs keep putting them as number 1.

So I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m still really confused as to which one is going to give me the best 4 what I’m looking to do. Your blogs make it seem like Weebly has great SEO and then another post you say it’s missing a couple of good features compared to Wix and Squarespace.

And I guess at the end of the day that’s probably the most important thing because everybody wants to get ranked higher. I’m pretty proficient at Wix by the way. Thanks Frank. Hello Franks.

I do appreciate your comment, as we were quite confused when we were testing out various website builders many years ago. If receiving high search engine ranking is a priority to you, take a look at this discussion here. I think you’ll find it insightful. Wix, while we love using them, is not perfect. Neither are other website builders such as Weebly, Squarespace, or even WordPress.

There will always be pros and cons, and we feel, in our experience, Wix is the best “all around” website builder for drag & drop, code free website builders. Again, that doesn’t mean they will work well for everybody. That’s why investing some time to testing a few website builders is just part of the due diligence process – sort of like test driving cars. I’m not entirely sure what you mean by “didn’t do anything at all.” Do you mean the re-direct didn’t work? Or that the re-direct didn’t preserve your search engine ranking? Changing domain name for your website is always tricky when it comes to SEO ranking. It’s a bit of a black box and Google does have suggestions of best practices on what to do.

But that doesn’t necessarily guarantee that everything will still remain the same. Make sure you 301 re-direct your previous page URLs to your new page URLs, so Google knows that the previous page addresses are permanently re-directed to the new addresses.

Hi Babsido, Thanks for your comment. You will need to upgrade to one of their premium / paid plans if you want to use your own custom domain name. It’s highlighted in their pricing page, as well as in our discussion about pricing above. You can definitely connect your domain name from Name Cheap to your Weebly website. You don’t necessarily have to purchase the domain name from Weebly.

Their support portal will have tutorials on how you can connect your domain name from Name Cheap (or other domain name vendors) to your website. We have a here as well, just for more background info. Hey, I want to build a website for our new company and everything Weebly offers seems pretty good for what we´re looking for except for one thing: We want to post all our new job vacancies and we want (preferably) that the applicants submit their resumes and cover letters online. So we want the page to look/work similar to this one: ‘and then when you click on one of those boxes it will display the job description and the button to apply. Does weekly offers something similar to this? I´ve been looking for info on this but haven´t been able to find anything related.

Hope you can help me out. Hi Jessy, I just checked out the Amazon page and it looks like once you click into a box, it just brings you to another webpage with more details. You can definitely set that up with Weebly. Insert multiple text boxes into your page, and link them to dedicated job description pages. On the job description pages, you can then provide them with details on how to send you their resumes and cover letters.

You might be able to replicate the exact same functions as what Amazon has (given that they have massive teams of custom coders to build these things for them), but you can use Weebly’s basic tools to mimic the functions. Hey Anastasia, Weebly doesn’t have a built in scheduling / booking tool. However, they do have a few within. Just note that these Apps are not built by Weebly, so they are not “native” to Weebly – just be aware of that.

If an App doesn’t work or runs into issues, Weebly’s support team won’t be able to help you and you will have to request support from the App creator. If you want a booking tool that is built directly by a website builder,.

They have a booking tool that works quite well and you can find out. You do know that Weebly have now introduced a new plan (rip off). Read all their guides about submitting your site to Google Webmaster Tools and spend time doing that plus making sure the keyword is in the title, text link etc. Ensure great content so low bounce rate. But its all in vain because Weebly now block your sites from entering the search engines unless you upgrade to a paid plan. Bordering on illegal I would say as that particular new “service” is not on any of their SEO literature as far as I can see.

And I’ve screenshotted them all. Hi Kris, I’ve already highlighted above that you’d have to upgrade to one of their paid plans before your site can be properly indexed by Google. But I’m not entirely sure why that would be illegal, since you’re not paying Weebly anything? Further, that restriction on the free plan is clearly highlighted on their pricing page as well. On the other hand, if they charged you money and still won’t allow search engines to index the website, then that would be problematic (though I’m not sure if that constitutes an illegal act). The only way it could potentially be illegal (I’m not even sure if that is the proper technical term) is if Weebly represented that your site can be fully indexed by a search engine if you pay, and that ended up to be not the case.

In any case, if you feel that this is a severe limitation to you, while you’re using their services for free, there are you can consider as well. Hope this clarify things a bit! Thanks for your review of Weebly. I have been doing website development for years – started with a text editor writing HTML code in the 1990s.

I’ve progressed through ASP and writing my own CMS to Joomla! I’m considering Weebly because it’s been my experience that a lot of hosting companies are having difficulties with hackers, and most of the time they leave that problem up to the end user. How is Weebly in this regard? Do they actively work to protect their customers’ data from being hacked? And second – what do you know about the Weebly Developer plan options? Hi Kat, I think they do a pretty good job in terms of security, but of course I can’t give you a definitive answer as anything is “hackable” if a hacker is really focused and determined. My own personal take is that a strong alpha-numeric password, which is changed once ina while, is still the best defense.

Try to mix up upper and lower cases, and also incorporate some symbols into your password (such as! As for the developer plan, it’s for people who want to create Apps / tools for other users. So if you’re just looking to build an average website, you don’t need to dive into creating Apps. It’s just for developers who want to create tools and offer them to other Weebly users for a fee. Currently, you get to keep 70% of the revenue and Weebly keeps the remaining 30% (in return for you to be able to offer your App to Weebly users).

Hi Jeremy, I already read a couple of reviews about the different webbuilders. I am not yet decided but one question I did not found answered so far is this one: Is it a must to use the integrated webshop, in Weebly, or Wix or, meaning of course also the need of some superior price plan or fee, the 3% in Weebly for example? Can’t I simply paste my HTML code with my Paypal shopping button into the page? Without using a cart.

I do not have the need for a cart to confirm any quantity or colour or whatever. For the story, I am right now having a website, still using a free template I took 6 years ago and managed until today to tweak and twist to something I like, including selling two books, single or as a bundle, only with integrated Paypal buttons. There may be the need to refresh my site, but my coding knowledge to make it modern looking is not enough. Hence the potential use of a website builder. Income from the books was very good, but looking forward it is certainly going to be slower, hence the need to keep costs at the absolute minimum.

Thank in advance for the answer Claude. Hi Claude, Yes you can do that. The ecommerce features from Weebly just makes it a smoother experience and keeps your shoppers on your website without having to leave and go to PayPal’s website to finish the transaction.

A lot of online store owners prefer to keep their shoppers on their websites throughout the entire checkout process. Also, Weebly’s ecommerce tools gives you good looking product pages, with the ability to add product variants (such as selling t-shirts with various different colors).

Have a look at our here. So I think there is a lot of value in using Weebly’s ecommerce features, but of course you’ll have to pay a bit extra for that. If you are cost conscious, you can definitely use the HTML embed tool to insert a PayPal payment button. But the presentation will not be as nice, in my own opinion.

But it will be functional. Hi Susan, You can actually set up store functions with any one of Weebly’s premium plans (Starter, Pro or Business plans). The difference is that you get access to more tools, and less transaction fees as you upgrade to higher plans.

Also, the higher then plan, the more product items you can sell with your Weebly store. Your domain name can be renewed at $19.95 per year, after the initial free year. A lot of domain names can actually be renewed at around $10 – $12 per year from large domain name registrars such as. So you’re definitely not obligated to use Weebly’s domain services. The positive side of using Weebly to help manage your domain name is that they do all the heavy lifting for you to quickly connect your domain name to your Weebly website.

If you want to go through other registrars, you’ll have to connect your domain name to your website in a less streamlined way. Hope this helps! Jeremy [UPDATE: see our for more discussions on commonly asked questions about domain names]. HI, have read your page with much interest. Am posting this problem just in case you have a suggestion or better yet a solution. I purchased an upgraded weebly site plan 6 months. All was going well until 4 weeks ago, when the site dashboard became inaccessible; meaning I cannot edit or move the site to a different host.

I want to keep my domain name. I can access all site statistics. I have copied the site – OK. I have created a few demo sites for other people – none of these load either.

According to Weebly help there is no problem as the main site works fine at their end. In hope, Jennie. Hello can you help. I am thinking of using Weebly, I currently use Wix and have done for the past year but notice its limitations now. With Weebly I want to advertise and sell my wood work – and I want to have ‘Multiple Options’ for each product. So for an example lets say I have a 3″ thick piece of wood by 5″deep (3″ X5″) and say I want my 3″ X5″ wooden product to have additional ‘options’ for the customer to pick from.

I want to know is there a limit to the amount of ‘Multiple Options’ for a product in the store? Because I want each product to have a dropdown for the ‘Size’ and the ‘Colour Stain’ and I have X20 sizes and 20 Stains to pick from. Can Weebly accommodate each of my products having this many choices on the dropdown for each product. To Clarify: 3×5″ wooden product and then an option for both ‘Size’ and ‘Colour Stain’ so on the drop down of Size for that product I want to offer the customer x20 different sizes and x20 Colour Stains to pick from. Can Weebly do this?? Is there a limit to the amount of Sizes and Colour Stains I can offer? You would make my day if you can reply back to me today All the best Steven S.

Hello Steven, With Weebly, you can add as many product variants as you want to. So if I understand your example properly, you should be able to do that. To list another example, I can sell T-shirts with Weebly. On the product page, I can configure the product to have multiple variants so my customers can choose, the size, color, material, etc. So I can insert drop down bars so my shoppers can to a certain extent, customize their order.

Best way is to sign up for a free account and play around with the product feature! You’ll find out in a few minutes what’s achievable or not.

Hope this helps! Hello Jeremy, First, sorry for my English is 2nd language Second, I have a silly question i like to ask you, hope you can help. – I have thousands of PDF files i like to upload into a page in Weebly side (i like when it uploads in Weebly it appears as a link so visitors click on that it pops up as a file then they have a look at it, print, save), i don’t know if i can upload a group of pdf or a folder or only can only upload one by one pdf file at a time, please show me how to do, also where does Weebly store those files, is there a library? Thank you for your time Toa.

Hi Toa, Thanks for your comment. Unfortunately there isn’t a way to upload all your PDF files by batch.

So you will have to upload them one at a time. One thing you can consider doing, is which gives you 2 GB worth of free storage. Upload all your PDF documents into a Dropbox folder (you can just drag all your PDF files and insert them into Dropbox, which will save you a lot of time), then share your Dropbox link on your webpage. This way, people can click on your Dropbox link, and pick and choose which PDF files to download. This should save you a lot of time!

Hi Terry, You can’t import website content into Weebly’s drag and drop platform at the moment. One of the challenges is that most other websites are powered by their specific web building platform.

So the codes may not be compatible, simplistically speaking. But you can definitely connect your domain name to a new Weebly website. Their help page will have more details on how to do this. You can also connect your PayPal account to your Weebly ecommerce tools.

That’s just a matter of inserting your PayPal email address into Weebly’s settings. Hannah, You can, as long as you keep your email account / service active with your current email service provider. If you terminate that service, then you may lose all your email history. So you can sign up with Weebly or Wix to build your website, but just make sure you keep your email service active with inmotionhosting. It sounds like your domain name is also registered with the same hosting company. You can just connect your domain name there, to your new Weebly (or Wix) website.

In summary, you can keep your domain name and email service separate from the website builder. Thanks for this review, Jeremy. I have been looking around at something that’s a balance between ease of use, solid templates and being mobile friendly and this may be the choice for me. I have not finished my research so I will go ahead and ask: does Weebly allow for drop-down menus? That’s a big deal for me.

I’m currently using Homestead’s Sitebuilder. I started years ago when they were advertising a lot and it’s worked well up until recently. There is no drop-down option so my sites look cluttered.

And there is no mobile version so I have to work to resize my sites so they look somewhat okay regardless of whether they’re viewed on a computer or phone. Provided I can use drop downs, this may be the way for me to go. I understand basic SEO but I don’t know coding so I need something code free but with a nice polished look. I was tempted by Squarespace but it just seems a little complicated for someone like me who does web design on the side for nonprofit purposes and doesn’t have time to overcome the learning curve. Hi, Jeremy– I have an existing site built with MS ExpressionWeb and need to make some major changes to itI have 18 months left on my contract with my current host, & don’t want to leave and lose all that money. Am considering using a website builder and templates for my redesign, but keep running into the problem of not being able to export it to my current host. I could do it with Weebly, but they don’t accommodate Firefox in the design phase (grrrr!), and I really hate Chrome.

Any thoughts/suggestions? Hello Joan, I think you should consider whether you want to continue using your current web hosting service after your contract expires in 18 months. If you don’t, then in a way, it might be a better idea to move on to another website builder (such as Weebly) now.

You’ll have to make the same decision in 18 months anyway! Yes you will be forfeiting your payments, but in a way that’s a “sunk cost” anyway since you can’t recover it. For sure you’ll have to fork over some money to use Weebly (if you have to upgrade to one of their premium plans), but if you have the intent to use Weebly (or ) in 1.5 years, it might be a good idea to migrate sooner rather than later.

As your current website grows larger, it might be more work down the road to migrate over to Weebly. Just something to consider! I really like Weebly but am about to recreate one of my sites with WordPress because of two issues.

Alt text: They do not allow for alt text in images that are inside a gallery. You can only add alt text on single images.

This seems like a small thing but visual-based businesses whose images might be pinned to Pinterest need to be able to control the text that goes along with the image. The only way around this is to not use the gallery function and instead, place separate images in columns. Blog: They don’t have an option for adding a “recent posts” module to the home page, which is a standard feature that home pages really benefit from. And there is no “subscribe to new posts via emai.” Not everyone uses or even know what RSS feeds are. Hi Jane, Thanks for your comment and sharing your plans with us. I do agree that the ability to not be able to add Alt Text for gallery images is a drawback.

So if your website includes a lot of images, and you have the intention to use Pinterest to actively promote your website, then you’re probably doing the right thing in seeking out a platform that allows you to have a bit more control over the Alt Text function. As for the blogging function of “recent posts” or “most popular posts”, I know it’s a heavily demanded feature from Weebly users, especially those who are focused on blogging. One workaround, though a bit manual, is to manually create a section on the sidebar, or footer, and insert titles of your most recent posts, then hyperlinking them to your posts.

Not my favorite approach, but is a workaround that you’ve probably thought of as well. At the end of the day, as easy as it is to use Weebly to build a website, they can definitely keep improving on some of these features. Have you considered. They actually have all the features you mentioned in your comment: 1) You can insert summary / recent blog posts 2) You can insert Alt Text even for image galleries 3) It can connect to your Pinterest account, integrating both your website and your Pinterest account.

Definitely check them out! Hey Jeremy, Thanks for doing a writeup showing the pros, cons, and comparisons of each website builder. It’s VERY helpful. I’m currently searching for a website builder that will allow me to act as an affiliate to companies (such as Amazon or Best Buy). I will be sharing videos, writing product descriptions, and adding pictures on my website to promote products for said companies with the goal of running an online business by acting as an affiliate.

That being said, I was leaning toward Weebly or Wix because they seem to be the most functional. However, I am trying to do this on a very tight budget and would like to keep it as minimal as possible (even using the free versions or the bare basic starter versions).

You seem to know enough information regarding these site builders to kind of point me in the right direction in choosing a builder that would suit my needs with what I want to accomplish. Thanks in advance for any advice!

I think each of Wix and Weebly has it’s own pros and cons. If you haven’t seen it yet, take a look at our discussion here. I think both of these website builders will give you the basic tools to do what you want to, at least get started. In terms of budget, if you really want to keep your monthly commitment low, then obviously you can use the free versions of the website builders. But if you do decide to upgrade, in order to be able to connect your own custom domain to your website, then Weebly will give you a better deal.

Weebly’s Starter plan is $4 per month. With Wix, the “Connect Domain” plan allows you to use your own domain name, but it will still display Wix advertisement. So if you want to remove that, you’ll need to upgrade to their Combo plan, which is close to $10 per month. Having said that, I think it’s only a handful of dollars per month, and so in my own view, you should pick the website builder that you feel most comfortable with using. If you haven’t seen our review about Wix yet,.

Hope this helps! Hi John, Unfortunately Weebly doesn’t have the ability for you to import external website codes (at the moment anyway). The challenge is that the website you build with the other platform, is coded up differently based on their other platform’s proprietary system. So they are not freely transferable due to compatibility issues. Unless you have a website with hundreds of pages, it hopefully won’t be a massive undertaking to replicate your site with Weebly.

You will have to re-upload the images again, and copying and pasting text shouldn’t be too challenging. If you give Weebly a test run and feel that they are the most suitable website builder for you, it’ll be well worth the time investment! This site helped me the most before I started making my own website. Thank you for that. I just started making a website thru Weebly and everything is running smoothly and then I hit “publish”. All along I thought that this is free and I know I might upgrade in the future but Weebly is prompting me to get the Starter Plan for $3.29/mo.

I bought my domain at goDaddy and pointed it to Weebly. Where do you I screwed up here? I just want to publish it for free and eventually upgrade once I know it’s ready. Hey JP, With Weebly, if you want to connect your own custom domain name to the website, you will need to be using at least their Starter plan. With the free version of Weebly, you can build a functional website, but you will have to use heir subdomain name structure (meaning when people see your website, they will know it’s built with Weebly). In a way, it’s a fair trade-off as you are using their services for free.

So if you want to be able to display your own custom domain, and not display any signs of using Weebly, then you’ll have to upgrade to at least their Starter plan. Hope this clarifies things. Hello – I just stumbled upon your website and have already spent a few hours reading through you articles and watching your videos. I am a psychologist looking to create my own website. I am deciding between Square Space and Weebly b/c I absolutely want a mobile responsive website. I do not need a separate mobile editor. I have a few questions: 1) I would also like people to be able to call from their mobile devices.

Do either offer this option? (I saw in your review that Wix does. 2) I can’t seem to find in any of your reviews what the Square Space advertisements look like? 3) Is one better than the other in terms of SEO? I understand I have a lot to learn here, but could you offer some basic info on what data they each provide?

Thanks in advance! Hi NZ, 1) Wix is the only website builder we’ve discussed that allows its users to click on the phone icon and directly call a phone number. So Squarespace and Weebly don’t have this feature (yet). 2) Squarespace won’t have any advertisements on your website as they actually don’t have a free plan. So you get a 14 day free trial period and if you want to keep building your website on their website builder, you’ll have to upgrade to at least their lowest plan. Weebly on the other hand allows you to keep using their builder for free, but they’ll insert an advertisement on your webpages, and you can’t use your own custom domain name either.

3) Have a look at our here and you’ll find some discussion notes on SEO. Lastly, if mobile responsive design is really critical for you, I’d suggest taking a look at Squarespace as all. Weebly does have some responsive designs, but their collection is very limited at the moment. Hope this helps!

Glad we can be helpful here. I would say that Weebly is most definitely easier to use than Squarespace. So from a user interface perspective, Weebly is more intuitive than Squarespace. Having said that, once you spend a little bit of time to familiarize yourself with Squarespace, you’ll find that the type of websites they are able to help you create are really gorgeous. But they do have a bit of a learning curve (though not that steep compared to some other website builders).

We do have a that you might find helpful. Best way to explore this is to sign up for free accounts to see which one you prefer!

Hi Jeremy, First things first: Congratulation on being able to convince this 70 year old to finally put up her own website. I have had a shop on Etsy since 2008 and have been trying to get up my nerve for years.

I came across your websitebuilderexpert.com site about 2 weeks ago and must say I’m delighted. Thank you for writing in such a clear and not too concise style. I’ve tried before to “read” my way up to launching but every time I’ve stumbled over something “techie” and given up.

Your writing style has allowed me to leap over those stumbling blocks and learn more and gain the confidence I’ve needed. Now, a question.

My Etsy shop has more than 2000 items (and still growing). Can Weebly support this much product with their business plan? They look like they can but I just want an outside opinion. If in your opinion there is a different builder that may be more geared to lots of “product” please let me know. Valley Cougar Sm Dartboard Manual. Another question is; can I select more than 1 way for my customers to pay? Like PayPal and Square or is it one or the other?

Again, I appreciate your attention to detail as you write your helpful reviews. Keep up the great work! Hi Maggie, Thanks for your comment and I’m really inspired by your story and courage!

I think you can technically set up 2000 product items in Weebly, but managing them will be quite challenging to be honest. While Weebly is easy to use, their ecommerce tools aren’t geared towards handling that many items. You should take a look at Shopify, which is a pure ecommerce website builder and can handle a lot of products, yet enable you to manage them..

They have a 14 day trial so you can sign up to test out their platform. But if you prefer to stick with Weebly, You can add lot of product items, but managing them and displaying all of them on your site can be challenging. Hope this guides you in the right direction! I have been a Weebly user for years and I agree that it is possible to take a weebly site to the first page of Google because I have done it.

But I have a question for youwhat platform is this website? I am sure that it’s not Weebly. One of the reasons why I am seriously considering wordpress is because I can get an opt-in popup (just like the ones you have here!) and there is no way to add that to a weebly site. Their social media sharing buttons are also tiny in most templates and not very shareable if you know what I mean: ). Hi Yamil, This site is built on WordPress, because we think WordPress’ blogging features are more suitable for our needs.

We don’t have any slideshows or any other content, and we just want a strong blogging platform and WordPress suited what we required. When we first started building sites 5 years ago, using WordPress would have been very very challenging as we didn’t know any codes whatsoever, and making changes in a lot of cases would require some knowledge of codes. It’s only after we’ve been learning codes for a couple of years that we became proficient with using WordPress. WordPress does have a much steeper learning curve compared to Weebly..

With Weebly, you can use to create a pop up opt-in box to have people sign up to your newsletter. Aweber has a tool to help you create that, so you can integrate it with your Weebly site! Hi Jeremy, I am thinking about moving my online store to Weebly Business Plan however I am confused about the reference to: Integrated Shopping Cart – On your domain I have my domains through GoDaddy. Does it mean I have to purchase a shopping cart? I do not need to have a credit card processor hooked up. Currently when we receive an order we log into the backend of our website and then manually process the order through QuickBooks and NPC.

I would like to keep that capability. Can you clear up my confusion on this shopping cart stuff? Thank you in advance, Diana.

Hi Diana, I can’t quite find the part you are referencing on this page here. But in general, if you are using Weebly to build your sites, you don’t have to “purchase” a separate shopping cart, as Weebly provides you with ecommerce functions and. But their ecommerce shopping cart available include PayPal, Square, Stripe and Authorize.net.

If you want to process payments manually, I don’ think Weebly has a system to allow you to take a shopper through the shopping cart process, but not charge anything, then manually process the order. Hi Jeremy, I’m considering Weebly for a site to sell my wife’s artisan jewelry. We would use PayPal (and square if Weebly supports it now), so we don’t really need a full ecommerce plan. However, I noticed that Weebly’s Pro plan shows a limit of 25 products.

Do you know how they administer that? In our case we might have a 5 category pages, such as Rings, Necklaces, Bracelets, and a number of items to choose from on each category page. Does the 25 product limit mean that we could only have essentially 5 products on each of the five category pages if we chose the Pro plan?

Thanks so much for all of the helpful information and comparative advice you provide. Hi Ken, Yes, Weebly does offer Square as an integrated payment processor now (we discussed this in ).

As for the product limit for the Weebly Pro plan, what it means is that you can only sell 25 products. So your example is correct. If you want more products, you will need to upgrade to their Business Plan. However, for each product, you can have different variations for each, and that won’t count towards your 25 product limit under the Pro plan. For instance, if you were to sell a T-Shirt, that is one single product. But you can sell a green, red, yellow, T-shirt. That’s 3 product variations, but counts as one product.

Hope this makes sense! Your site is absolutely impressive, informative, educational, clean and enlightening. I was about to jump on the “Popular Band Wagon” and go with GoDaddy, but I’m so glad I kept researching.

So far I really like Weebly. It really fits better with my business. One thing that I noticed with GoDaddy is the SEO feature. I hear so much about the importance of SEO, does Weebly offer some type of SEO feature like GoDaddy? I believe, if my memory serves me right, that the SEO feature is with the higher plan with GoDaddy.

Thanks, Cedric. Hi Cedric, Thanks for your feedback and glad you’re finding our discussions helpful! Regarding SEO, Weebly does not have a plan that helps you get better search rankings, but I’m always a bit leery when it comes to those sort of services. Some work well, but some won’t work at all.

I’ve discussed this in various other pages on our website. When it comes to SEO, a massive part is persistence in creating valuable content that your target audience will find helpful, and promoting your content. Google has a couple hundred ranking factors and some of the more important ones (according to most industry experts) is engagement – meaning if your content is helpful or not. Google measures this with various metrics, such as how often are your pages shared on social networks, how long your readers stay on your page, how often they return to your site, do they link to your site to endorse your content, etc. All these are indicators that people are finding your content helpful.

So there’s no shortcuts to this! Hope this short overview points you in the right direction. But in general, SEO is quite mysterious and I think is a long term game. So keep producing helpful stuff, promote them, and good things are more likely to happen to your website! Hi, Jeremy, Thank you SO much for putting together this detailed comparison of website builders–it’s very clear and useful. Several years ago, I built a very small website with Weebly to advertise our home for sale.

It sold in a day–a least in part due to Weebly’s ease of use for me, a total newbie. Now, however, our nonprofit organization wants to build a more complex website that will provide information for health care professionals as well as members of the public. We anticipate lots of Q&A, FAQs, and downloadable PDFs; active links to other sites; maybe some interactive space for asking questions; and later an on-line learning area (with additional software added). I know Weebly is easy to use, but I wonder if Squarespace or Wix might be better for our current purposes. We don’t need flashy appearance, but we do need easy navigation! Which would you recommend?

Hi David, I think all of those website builders will be able to handle more content and downloadable PDFs. The only wrinkle is Q&A, but you can always set up commenting systems (like how we’re interacting here!) so people can ask questions and get answers. There is a free commenting widget called Disqus that you can just plug into your website and start using it. The only drawback with these drag and drop web builders is that if you want to integrate a website with another software, then it may or may not work well. Hope this points you in the right direction! Hey Jason, I’m not entirely sure if Cloudflare works with Weebly or not, but I suppose it doesn’t hurt to try. Cloudflare is quite popular as it provides free CDN to websites to help speed up its loading speed.

I think it should work most of the time, but best to benchmark the before and after impact on load time. Before trying it, I would suggest you optimize all your images on your website. So resize all your images to the dimension that you want it to be displayed on your pages (so don’t insert a massive image then use Weebly’s drag & drop tools to shrink it down to a smaller size, as Weebly will still load the massive image, even when displaying a smaller size). Also run the images through an image compressor such as Kraken (free) to reduce the file size so your pages will load faster. I currently have a website provided by lawyers.com that uses Weebly templates that are 5 years old. I want access to all the new responsive templates that Weebly has for only $8 per month. I can export my domain to GoDaddy (do you recommend them) or wherever, but I have to re-do the site from scratch.

I am told by Weebly that their zip backup function does not let you reload into a new Weebly site. Any way around this? Seems crazy you export your site, but can’t use it on their service. Other question I have is- should I let lawyers.com simply redirect my site to weebly and let them keep my webmail or just switch everything to goDaddy and use Weebly gmail for 5 bucks a month.

Final question- is Weebly hosting fast enough or not? Hi Jason, You can transfer your domain name to for about $15 or so, which includes 1 year of annual fee, so it’s a good way to allow you to manage your domain name there. Yes – I think you’ll have to build your site from scratch again if you want to use Weebly as currently there isn’t a way to import a website into Weebly. Hopefully they’ll have this added to their platform sooner rather than later! I’d recommend you migrate everything out of your existing platform if you want to start fresh. You probably don’t want to have all sorts of different pieces lying around so to speak.

Weebly’s recommends that you use Google Business Apps to power your email, which is basically the gmail interface. We use Google Business App to power our email and we like it quite a bit. It’s easy to use and very stable. Hope this helps!

Thanks for the great review of Weebly! I have my current website with Homestead. (UGH) I’ve been with them for years. The site is about 150 pages. If and when I switch to Weebly, I know that its going to be very difficult. And I’m not really referring to the 150 pages.

I know that I’ll have to set up each page one at a time. I can handle that. But mostly what I am referring to is the “transfer” process.

Is it really that difficult? I’ve read a lot where Homestead gives people a lot of trouble and headaches when you try to leave them. I have my domain there too! I would like to switch everything over to Weebly. Is there any advice you can give me in dealing with Homestead. Also, I really wouldn’t use any of the pre-formed templates. I always start from a “blank page.” Can I start with a blank page on Weebly?

Thanks again! Hi Ramon, I haven’t really used or have extensive experience with Homestead, so I can’t quite comment on how challenging it is to leave them. But you can definitely transfer your domain name to another domain name registrar, and connect your domain name to your Weebly site. The transfer process should only take a couple of days and is a one time fee (around $12 or so and it also includes 1 year’s worth of registration fee). Regarding “blank” templates, Weebly doesn’t have any of that. So you might have to pick the most bland / basic template and start from there. But you do have full access to their template’s codes so if you know some code you can really have a ton of design control there.

If you really prefer to start with a blank template, as they do offer you this option (no design whatsoever, and you can start from scratch). It might be worth your time to sign up for a test / free account to see if you prefer that.

Hi Chris, Weebly is definitely one of the easiest drag and drop builders to help you build your website. You don’t need to know any code and can drag in text, images, slideshows, etc. And Weebly helps you host your website so you don’t have to worry about all that technical stuff. One thing to consider is that if you are selling products, you may want to link up your online store with your Facebook page. But Weebly doesn’t have a feature for this yet and you’ll have to keep both your Facebook store and your website store separate. But there are a few other website builders that can link up your Facebook store with your online web store so it’s easier to manage.

Here is if you’re interested. Hello I’ve just stumbled across Weebly by chance today, and have a couple of questions. Firstly, with regards to the security option which appears to be available only to those opting for the pro or business package, what risk may this pose for those opting initially for the starter option, without security? Secondly, is it suitable for UK customers? – due to time difference, is the helpline chat service accessible 24/7 or would he have to access the service during the night, UK local time? Hi Mark, The security feature (SSL certificate) is only applicable when visitors are in the shopping cart page where they are inserting private / sensitive information when making purchases.

So in a sense that is only available and applicable if you are running an online store. So this feature is available across the Starter, Pro and Business plans – As long as your visitors are in the shopping cart area. When your visitors are in other pages of your site, the security feature won’t be necessary as no confidential information will be passed.

As for support, I think Weebly’s main method of support is via email and so you can reach them around the clock. Obviously during busier times (most likely weekdays) it will take them a bit of time to get back to you (usually within a day I believe, unless the issue is quite technical and they need to escalate it to another dedicated department).

Hi Cassidy, Thanks for sharing and I’m really sorry to hear about the loss of your sister. My deepest condolences to you and your family, and it’s great how you’re keeping your sister’s legacy alive, despite your health issues. I think Weebly is a good choice to build your website as I think they’re the most user friendly drag and drop website builder in the market right now.

You can quickly create pages, and in my experience the most frequently used tools to build a decent website is simply images, titles and text. You should check out some examples of what other Weebly users are able to create. Just by looking through some examples may give you some inspirations on how your website can potentially look. I think that will be a good starting point to get some design ideas.

Hello, I created my website through Weebly back in September I believe. My younger sister had Cystic Fibrosis a terminal lung disease and was able to Make-A-Wish. She received a concession trailer that she could take to fairs and festivals to make money. Unfortunately, she passed away before she was able to take it anywhere but my mother and I decided to keep it and start an LLC to keep KK’s legacy alive. I’m paralyzed from chest down so I handle all the business, marketing, accounting and so on.

I’m not very experienced with creating websites and such my sister was and I just don’t know what to do with the website. We need it so events can see what we offer and the story behind our operation but I don’t think it’s the best it can be. Hey Bill, It’s hard to say. I think it’s best if you sign up for both Squarespace and Weebly and to play with their website building features to see which one you prefer. I think you should place more emphasis on the actual website building platform first, before deciding if the design templates are suitable for you. Because even if Squarespace’s design templates are really good looking, if you really don’t think their platform is suitable for your needs, then there’s no reason why you should stick with them even if their templates look awesome. Hi John, There isn’t a way to link up Weebly’s contact form with a newsletter service.

But what you can do is sign up with a newsletter service provider (), and Aweber allows you to create a sign up form and you can embed that form into your Weebly site. Once you design the form in Aweber, they will provide you with a code. Just paste that code into the Embed Code element from Weebly and place that into your webpage, and the sign up form will appear where your visitors can sign up to your newsletter. As far as I know, there are no limits to how many times your visitors can use your contact form on your website. The problem with the rates on the Compare Plans page for Weebly is that they do not tell the entire story. You only get the $19.54 / month rate if you commit to a two-year term, and pay all of it UP FRONT. NO WHERE on their Compare Plans page do they have an (*) asterisk pointing to the terms and conditions of their $19.54 / month rate.

It’s the same for the other prices too: you have to commit to one or two years to get the rate. While “buy in bulk pricing” is a fairly common practice, what’s misleading is that you don’t know what the actual rates are until you get to the checkout page. They Compare Plans page ONLY shows you the discounted rate without any disclaimers or terms and conditions. While this may be an oversight, it feels misleading. Weebly needs to correct this. Hi James, I understand what you’re saying. But right on TOP of the Compare Plans button, is a button labelled “Upgrade Your Site”.

Once you click on that button, Weebly shows you all the pricing options, including 6 month plan, 1 year plan and 2 year plan. They also show you the total amount you need to pay, depending on which plan you select. So from my perspective, it’s pretty transparent. All the prices are clearly laid out before you insert your credit card information, so there aren’t any hidden fees at all. So from my own perspective, there isn’t any misleading activities here. Just my own opinion: ) Jeremy.

Hi izyCoder, Currently Weebly doesn’t give you a free domain name when you upgrade to any of their plans. So if you want to use Weebly (they’re really easy to use to build websites), you’ll need to purchase our own domain name from. Or else there are other website builders (such as Squarespace or Wix) that will give you a free domain name for 1 year, if you upgrade to their annual plans. You can see more discussions about, and about.

And yes, you can sell digital products using Weebly’s ecommerce functions. We have a bit more here. Hi Tom, Weebly recently updated their free and subscription plans. So what we’re showing above is the latest for people who newly sign up for an Weebly account.

You get 5 pages under the free plan, 10 pages with the Starter plan, and unlimited pages for Pro and Business plans. But if you’ve signed up for a Weebly account BEFORE they updated their plans, then you’re probably “grandfathered” into the older plan, where you get unlimited pages for all plans. So make sure you don’t cancel your account! Hiya, We were signed up to GoDaddy website builder but it didn’t have the membership option that Weebly appears to have.

We were looking to be hosted by HostGator and on their control panel you have the Weebly builder option. I am getting confused as to who I need to pay what to!

I need SSL certificate, our choice of merchant, membership log ins and databases to back this up, info on website useage etc, webmail, and also it would be useful to be able to show members basic details on our website. I was going to use Joomla but I am not a techy and a click and drop would be easier! Do I split the hosting and the webbuilder or do can I get everything I want from Weebly? Hi Susie, It sounds like you need more features than what most drag and drop web builders will be able to offer you.

Weebly does offer membership gateway, but you won’t have access to databases, webmail, usage data for each member, etc. I think you’ll need a much more powerful software to be able to do that. With Weebly, you can create a functional / simple membership login, but there is no access for you to modify / edit the database, nor do they allow you to track what each member has done on what page. Also, I’m not sure if Hostgator’s version of Weebly has membership functions yet. “Non-Weebly” hosts tend to be a bit behind in features, so that’s why is always a suggested option as you get all the latest features. Here is an article we have that talks about the.

Hi, Thanks for all this great information. Basically I just like to take pictures as a hobby and want some where for my family/friends to be able to go look.

I much prefer to pay for a year in advance than have to deal with the monthly payment coming out each month, so does Weebly offer that? And can people save the images off the website to their computers (like right click save image as)? Last question, it offers the create your domain, but does that have weebly name in it or is it your own personal one?

Thanks, Kate. Hey Kate, Yes will can help you build a site where you can share your pictures / content with others! If you want to upgrade to one of their paid plans (which allows you to connect your own personal domain name to the website), you can either pay in 6 months, 1 year or 2 years increments. Revue Technique Pdf Opel Corsa Utility there.

The longer the plan you sign up with, the steeper the discount that they will offer you. So the 2 year plan is the cheapest on a per month basis.

And yes, others can save images off your website if they want to. But if you don’t want your images to be saved, there is a short snippet of code that you can save on to your pages so that others can’t save your images (if you don’t want to share them). For your last question, as mentioned in my comment above, you can connect your own domain name to your Weebly site (provided that you upgrade to at least their Starter plan). So there won’t be any Weebly advertisements / text on your website or domain name! Thank you for this review. I’ve been thinking about creating two Weebly websites. One would be a re-make of our current website that is verrry difficult for non-tech people to use.

I need something very user friendly so my colleagues can post and change their pages quickly and regularly. Here’s my question. What would be the fastest way for me to transfer the information from my existing website to a new Weebly website? I don’t want to spend countless hours re-typing everything.

Thanks again ~ Jodie. This is an excellent place to create a website. I had no idea what I was doing but Dave P, Jonathan C. Jayme, and Kacey C where SO HELPFUL and amazing!

They took there time with me and answered my 8 million questions I had for them. They never rushed me and they take pride in giving you excellent customer service. They sent me great information that was also very helpful.

I loved setting up the website and I love my website! I have already told so many friends about this great service and their incredible customer service. Thank you Weebly friends for your help and taking time with me!

You have my 5 stars! Hi Jeremy, thank you so much for making a difficult decision in choosing a website builder easier with your fantastic breakdown. I am very happy with my choice in Weebly, but I am also frustrated in that when I click on the mobile device view, it looks nothing like the desktop view.

It doesn’t look like they are synching up at all, other than the copy is the same. Whenever I try to edit anything in the mobile view (Changing images and fonts), I get kicked back to the desktop view. Also, when I click on the”Image Header” button on the right, it doesn’t “slide” to the on position. I have checked all their articles for troubleshooting and have emailed their support team and am still waiting for an answer.

Just wondering if there is a solution to this, and if anyone else has experienced this glitch. Or maybe I’ve overlooked something. Thanks again for all your time. Hey Darryl, Weebly’s mobile editor hasn’t been the biggest hit to be quite honest (at least based on a lot of feedback from Weebly users that we’ve seen). The biggest complaint is that there is really no difference between the desktop editor and the mobile editor – I suspect it’s similar to what’s frustrating you? I think this is why Weebly started introducing mobile responsive templates which is what the web design industry has been heavily endorsing. In fact, Weebly just released 2 more new responsive templates today!

Mobile responsive templates is a “smart” way for templates to configure itself to display optimally on mobile devices of different sizes. Plus you don’t have to mess around and worry about how your website is designed. The responsive nature of the template should automatically figure out how t place your content on a mobile device. Hi Jeremy, Thanks for responding. The problem really is that the image and fonts that I chose for the home page on the desktop view change into a completely different image and font when I click on the mobile view. It doesn’t match at all from one to the other.

I understand the layout will be altered to fit the screens of mobile devices, that fine. The frustrating thing is that I am not able to change either the image or font while in the mobile view, and when I have tried it sends me back to the desktop view, where the image and font is fine and doesn’t need to be changed. You can see my confusion. Maybe I should try and publish it and see what happens?

Thanks for your time ~ Darryl. I found your blog accident. Its great!I was almost about to go with square space. Then I read your blog.

I was bummed when I found out square space only offers on payment option. A fee questions for you 1 Which site builder offers the most flexible payment options (Paypal Ect) 2 Which builder offers the option for customer to create an account to track their orders view order history ect 3 Which site builder offers the inventory management tool such as automatically send email once orders are received and marked as shipped 4 Apart from square which builder offers good full page templates Thanks again your blog is great! Hello Jeremy, After paying a monthly fee for a generic site that looked like thousands of others, three years ago I took the plunge and decided Weebly was my best option for building my own site. If you want to look at it you can go to ‘www.DoctorSchierling.com and check it out. Make sure to check out the blog as well. Weebly is easy to use and while their Customer Service is not necessarily Johnny-on-the-spot with answering your questions, they always get back to you within 24 hours.

I have absolutely no beef with them whatsoever. My only question is about their SEO. I always wonder if they could be doing more for my SEO (or for that matter, if I could be doing more to boost my own SEO).

I would love to see them offer an advanced tutorial on this subject (maybe you could put in a good word). My numbers are excellent and improving month by month, but because some of aspects of SEO are somewhat confusing and ‘mysterious’, I always wonder how much better they could be. Russ, So good to hear that Weebly has been working out so well for you. Regarding SEO, I guess the general thought is that if you’re not ranked at the top of search queries on search engines, you can always do better!

I’d agree that SEO is a very complex matter and Google is always updating its search algorithm. And it’s an ongoing process, similar to spending money on marketing advertisements. It’s never a “set it and forget it” type of approach. One of my favorite approaches is to keep inserting interesting and valuable content in your blog to further your reach on the search results. People are always searching for a lot of different content online and so you can really expand your reach there. Not to mention the social sharing aspect of things.

Hi Jeremy, I am trying to help a friend with is charity. It is an animal rescue and while he currently has a website, the man who built is no longer working and so we don’t have anyone to finish the site or maintain it.

I think we are at the point of building our own. We need something pretty simple that we can post pictures and stories of the animals. He also has a paypal account with it for donations. Is Weebly something we can use for this? He has very limited computer abilities and I know how to navigate my own site–which was built for me by someone in our industry–but I am not sure about building one for this job. It sounds good with drag and drop. Does this mean we can use Word docs as a base and copy them in and use pictures and video from our cameras and phones to post to the website?

Hey JeremyI’m really new at build’g a website but I seem to be managing ok with Weebly, just upgraded to their Business Plan (start’g an Ecommerce Business). I Published it to see how it looks on the Web and it still has the.weebly.com (ending) after the name I gave it. Been reading your post below & a few said that you have “to connect your own custom domain name”. How do you do that? Not sure what that means because in the begin’g, I gave the Site a “NAME”, worked on the Site, Upgraded then Published itI read in the comparison price list (rolled over custom domain name) and saw that I would get a yourname.com (no weebly.com) in the Business Package.

So Just to be clear, even though I upgraded to Business, I still don’t get my own yourname.com. I did find on Weebly that you can purchase a domain for $70.00. I thought I had a Domain Name when I 1st named the Site in Weebly? So to get rid of yourname.weebly.comI have to pay MORE MONEY or can I connect a custom domain name??? Please help meHope I didn’t confuse you. Hi Jeremy, Thank you for your great and nice review. It’s helpful.

I saw other reviews and comparison that you posted. I learned a lot from you.: ) I have a question as a beginner.

According to what I understood, there are two types of website builders: 1. Builder+web hosting integrated (Wix, Weebly) and 2. Builder of web hosting companies (goDaddy, Bluehost). You need to pay monthly fee for both of them. The website builders of web hosting companies like goDaddy or Bluehost are the same type of builders as Wix and Weebly?

Why on the Internet people only compare among builders of Wix, Weebly, Squarespace and so on which doesn’t require you to have a hosting already? Is it because those builders of goDaddy or Bluehost are very different types from Wix or Weebly? Or they are much poorer and so don’t interest people than Wix or Weebly? Hey DK, Our website mainly discusses the pros and cons of hosted website builders (such as Weebly, Squarespace, Wix, etc), as those are the software that we used when we first built our websites a few years ago! We were also looking for good reviews but weren’t able to find any – this is what inspired us to create this website so others can benefit from our experiences and discussion as well!

There is not right or wrong website builders (including the hosted ones or the ones where you have to get your own hosting such as WordPress.org). It’s really a matter of personal preference, and whether the website builder suits your needs! Hi Waleed, For that you will have to clarify if what you’re promoting is in violation with Weebly’s terms of services or not. Very generally speaking, if you are just advertising “normal” products in an ethical way that is not in violation of any laws or Weebly’s terms, then you should be okay. If you are promoting or creating content that are in violation, such as adult content, hate content, etc, you may want to review the terms of services carefully. I’m not a legal professional so what I suggested is my own view and doesn’t represent, imply or describe what Weebly’s terms of services say.

So best to review their terms, consult with them if necessary, and exercise good judgement! HI there, I have now built my whole website on Weebly, having spent a while researching all the different options, and definitely found weekly to be by far the easiest one to use!

(Wix is pretty easy too, but they still have a fair way to go with different functions, esp related to commerce) SO, I am just clarifying, if I want to use e-commerce, can I use the free site? Or is it that I can use the free one but I need to have ‘mysitename.weebly.com’ rather than just my site name? And the free one does not allow for freight charges to be added, correct? For this I must go to a business package? And free site, Credit card payments can be made but not PayPal?

Thanks for your guidance, some bits about e-commerce aren’t that clear, you have to go through the steps to find if you can or can’t do something Your reviews are very helpful!! Hi Melanie, I believe you can still use the ecommerce tools even if you are using the free version of Weebly, but you are limited to only selling 10 product items, and there is a 3% transaction fee for time you sell something. And you won’t be able to connect your own custom domain name to the website (you will need to at least sign up for the Weebly Starter Plan to connect your own domain name). Digital goods, inventory management and shipping & tax are only available to Business Plan users. You can checkout our discussion on here.

Also we have a here as well. Hope this can help!

Thanks Jeremy, Ideally I guess I’d want the business package but it seems quite pricey for hosting (my last website hosting was only $80/year and that included credit cards and Paypal) but I guess the weekly hosting is where you end up paying for the website building platformas oppose to a non-CMS site. The last thing-SORRY so many questions -is that when I go right through to the payment sign up to accept credit cards (through STRIPE) it wants me to sign off on allowing them to access my bank and do direct debits without notification if they deem necessaryI get that more than likely they won’t just take money out but Im not that comfortable with them having full access to my bank account I would rather be billed for the amounts I owe them and pay them myself It’s enough for me to go to another hosting company. Anyway, not sure what you think of this or if anyone else has similar issue/had any problems with this?? Thanks for your feedback: ) melanie. Hey Melanie, That’s right – Weebly’s fees include the fact that you get to use their drag and drop platform, that you can get your website built fairly quickly and painlessly.

As for Stripe, I think they just need access to make deposits directly into your account. I haven’t heard of any bad stories, as if they abused the privilege they would be out of business pretty quickly! Stripe was recently announced as one of the top 50 disruptors of the industry by CNBC (meaning that they are one of the top 50 businesses that are changing the industry landscape), and are giving PayPal some competition. So they’re definitely a legit company. Alternatively, you can always use PayPal to manage your payments. Hi Jeremy, Thanks for the thorough review. I am looking to build a website where I will post stories and articles daily, with a comment section available for each article.

I am not very tech-savvy, so the ease of use is why I originally thought Weebly was the best site for this to be built on, but I would like to hear your thoughts. You mentioned that there is no feature available on Weebly to sort articles by “Most Popular” or “Most Relevant,” are those features available on other website builders? Thanks for your time! Hi Mark, Unfortunately I don’t think Weebly has a way to “automatically” generate a most popular / relevant list of blog posts. What you can do is and the category will show up on the right column of your Weebly blog. So you can manually categorize some blog posts as popular / relevant. It’s not the best, automated solution but it is somewhat of a workaround (though not a perfect one).

Also has a similar function (categorizing or tagging blog posts) but again, it’s not an automated function that you see offered by very strong blogging platforms such as WordPress. Hi Jeremy, It was great reading your reviews on the best website builders out there. I run a small advertising company in the Middle East and am planning to expand our business into the web world.

My current requirement, requires me to build the sites in bilingual format. Arabic and English, Question: Does Weebly and SquareSpace support Arabic fonts and typing methods? Who else is there that I can rely on for this? The CMS option from Weebly looks really great with the ability to customize it and make it your own. I was trying out the forms feature for weebly and found that I cant change the email address to which a form is being send to, in respone to a change in selection on a drop down list.

If I run a restaurant and I want to provide my customers with an online order system based on forms and emails. It would be great if they could choose the branch from the dropdown list and the email will be send to the brach email address that was selected from the drop-downlist. Weebly does not have this feature. Is it possible to do this by editing and adding the codes ourselves. What kind of services do you provide in the weebly platform and otherwise? Thanks in advance.

Hi John, When you are in Weebly Editor and click into the contact form element, look on the left hand side and you should see more contact form dedicated elements that you can drag and drop into the contact form (such as drop down boxes, check boxes, option buttons, etc). So you do have a bit of flexibility here.

In terms of Arabic fonts, I’ve seen some users manage to do this before, so I’m sure it’s possible. Might need a bit of tweaking in the template codes though. As for contact email,. Hope this helps! Hey Kelly, Glad you liked the review! We always feel that Weebly is a great place to start building websites due to it’s simple user interface (drag and drop) where one can quickly build a website and get projects going (instead of getting stuck with technology).

That was definitely our own experience a few years ago. Having said that, you’re right, Weebly isn’t perfect (no web builders are) and eventually if you want more advanced functions and more customizability, more powerful CMS such as WordPress is definitely an option. By then, presumably some users will feel more comfortable with online technology to dive into a steeper learning curve! We’ve always advocated finding the right technology for the right purpose.

So if Weebly’s tools are sufficient, and that ease of use and getting projects off the ground quickly are important points, Weebly can be very fantastic in those regards! – Jeremy PS: LOL We’re definitely supportive of Weebly. They’ve been extremely helpful in launching our online businesses and projects! Hi there, If you are learning to use Weebly, they have where you can learn how to get started. But in general, Weebly is one of the easiest website builders we’ve seen and used – their ease of use is one of their strongest competitive advantage. So you just have to invest a little bit of time and I’m sure you can get the hang of it pretty quickly. Just drag and drop elements to your page and start inserting your own content.

You should be able to use Weebly in China just fine. You can change the language on their website to Chinese. But I don’t think Weebly has any support team based in China. If you are looking for a website builder that has a Chinese support team,, as they have a team based in Shanghai, which we’ve met before when we passed through Shanghai. They’re really nice! Hi Jeremy, Thank you very much for this wonderful review and for all of the information you provide on your site.

I am having difficulty and wonder if you might assist.? I have an online fabric boutique and have been struggling to find a suitable ecommerce solution. So far in my research I find that I can have either a beautiful site with limited functionality or a mediocre looking site with all of the necessary functionality. I am looking for the following: beautiful templates, email, newsletter, easy set-up/maintenance and the ability to offer free swatches via an “Options” button (I say it this way, as that is what my last provider offered and it was very handy). I have tried two solutions and I ended up being displeased with bothfor the above mentioned reasons. Do you have any suggestions? Kind regards, Suzanne.

Hi Jeremy & Connie, Thank you so much for your review. It’s really useful.

There are several matters I need to ask since my knowledge about website builder is zero (below zero actually. I have plan to build a writer’s website using weebly.

My questions are: 1. Is it possible to connect my own domain (from godaddy) to free plan?

Or I have to choose at least starter plan? How about the blog feature on free plan or starter plan?

Is it good enough writer’s web? As this blog feature is important for writer. For a writer’s web, which one is more suitable, starter plan or higher? Thank you so much in advance. I am waiting for your reply.

Hi Melinda, No worries – everybody once started with zero knowledge at some point! 1) You will have to upgrade to at least Weebly’s Starter plan in order to connect your own domain name to the website. 2) The core blogging functions for the free and Starter plan version of Weebly is essentially the same.

But if you upgrade to their Starter / Pro / Business plans, you get more general website building tools in which some of them can be used in your blog posts. But they are not specifically created / focused on blogging functions. If that makes any sense! 3) I think Starter plan is a good starting point and you can always upgrade later if you need more features from Pro. You do get some pretty good functions from Pro that you might find helpful such as HD video (if you will be using video), password protecting pages, search bar so your visitors can find your content.

Here is a that you might find helpful. Hi Jeremy, I have checked out your recommended free email by Microsoft as suggested in your earlier comment to Michelle.

This is currently what is written on its site, “Changes to custom domains with Outlook.com Outlook.com no longer offers support for new custom domain sign ups. New customers looking to manage custom domains are encouraged to use Office 365, Microsoft’s premium online service, which also includes enterprise-class mail, collaboration and communication tools. ” It seens that now is no longer free as under the Office 365 small business plan, its lowest plan now cost $5/mth. However it has other features besides email. Thought just to update you the changes. You all are SUPER helpful — thank you! I am wanting to re-create my photog website.

Last year, I took a break from photography and thus shutdown my (squarespace) site. Now that I’m returning to photography, I am seeking a new site-builder as I (sadly) never fully “got” squarespace.” When I first saw Wix, I thought, “Man, this is the builder for me. It’s beyond easy! I just edit the current elements, plug-in my stuff and go!

” But then I quickly learned that they’d pretty much own my stuff as there are no export website options. So the next on my list is Weebly, namely because of this and a few other reviews. I am wanting to insert fun banners and tabs, whether they are included as options in the builder or whether I can insert my own custom elements.

For example: ‘Can I do either in Weebly? Or is that why I might need to buy plug-ins on a third party site? Singed, Confused. Hey there, You can certainly mimic the look of Pinterest by inserting images that look like rectangular banners into Weebly just by using their image element. However, you won’t get all the pinning or sharing capabilities just through these images. But you can certainly hyperlink the images to whatever webpage you want to.

So it’s a work around, but a pretty manual one as you will have to insert each picture one at a time and you will have to play with a lot of spacing to achieve a similar effect. Hope this gets you started! Thanks for replying. I wasn’t very clear — sorry about that.

I am not shooting for a pinterest look or wanting to hyperlink. I just like the design elements. I will play with Weebly’s image element.

I am a bit confused about DigTag. Can you tell me please: –Are inserting design elements easier with DigTag? –Isi Digag a place to buy ad-ons for weebly AND IS ALSO a separate website builder?

I am just seeking the easiest site (besides Wix) to design a site and am confused as to Weebly or DigTag serves this purpose. Please advise. I have just started to build a blog on the free version of Weebly (not yet published) and I am wanting to get some profit out of it. I am a student and British, so don’t have any pounds let alone dollars and do not want to pay towards this. However I was wondering if my blog went big, would Weebly take all the profit from advertising or would I earn it, and is the only way I can make a profit from Weebly to pay?

Finally do you have any mindboggling, life changing tips that will make my blog really, really good? Thanks so much, this review was really good by the way! I have been building sites for kids and such for a long time and Weebly is, hands down, the best site builder I have ever used. Its so easy to build fabulous pages that I dont understand the negative views.

It makes adding html and code SO easy I can’t even fathom using another site builder again. It puts wordpress to shame, to be honest. Here is a wordpress site building page ‘www.creepypastapeeps.wordpress.com and here is the weebly page at ‘www.creepypastalegends.com. There’s no comparison to what you can do to a page and the freedom of control you have. I have no affiliation with them nor to ipage but after TEN years of creative site building I can attest to the wonder of Weebly and the ease of ipage and BOTH are worth every red cent, which also happens to be cheaper than other site builders.

In LOVE with weebly. Thank god someone figured out how to cater to non-tech people like me so that I can produce great designs and have complete artistic control. I cam across your site and, as a happy Weebly.com user, I hope your review – and extended service will keep you and Weebly in business. I am looking for a directory solution similar to Weebly; in that I can design and build without having any programming knowledge.

I have checked with Weebly and I do understand that they do not have this option; I have asked for any referral that they might be able to offer. Are you able to offer any referral(s) that can take a look? I have not looked at your “template” and will just as soon as I submit this query. I am not looking for much. Simply the offer to my viewers to be able to enter data, have stored and then others to be able to view it. Minimal data entry points.

Thank you for any referrals that you might be able to offer and, if in looking at your templates, I find a solution I will contact you.

Free HTML5 website templates are the great solution to launch trendy and beautiful websites right away, even when you’ve tight budget, sounds amazing, right? Let me amaze you a bit, those templates doesn’t require you to spend endless hours of day and night to comes with stunning design for your business, agency, portfolio, resume, restaurant, photography or corporate websites, the only things you have to do – is to find out the best-suited html5 website template matching your personal or your clients requirements and change text, images, colors and other necessary site elements accordingly. So, today many of online forums are full of questions like “Where to find best free responsive html5 css3 website templates?”, “What are the reliable source of responsive html5 templates”. I personally find my fellow programmers always look for to build dynamic websites using programming languages like PHP, Python, Ruby, Angularjs, Reactjs, Nodejs and other javascript libraries. As a developer, I really appreciate those who contribute such HTML5 themes for the community, because it saves my valuable times simply allowing me to modify fantastic HTML templates rather than building them from the scratch. Sma But searching out perfect free html5 templates is an elusive job, requires scrupulous checks before heading for the final decision, thinking why?

The internet is open for all, anyone without having least knowledge of website security, SEO best practices, conversion optimization can develop and distribute them publicly over the distributed digital channels. Curious to know, are those free website templates are harmful? The answer is Yes. Suppose you chose a lightweight HTML template being impressed the by exquisite design, but if you don’t check responsive feature carefully. You might endanger your site reputation from the search engine penalty. Haven’t convinced yet? Don’t being tensed for your convenience, we’ve created an extensive list of free responsive html5 templates which have developed following site developing best practices like W3C Validation, SEO optimization, Compatible with all major browsers, precisely tailor with mobile devices, lightweight, fast loading and mind blowing design.

The amazing feature of this themes, they are either the creation of expert frontend developers and established web design agencies. Let’s your head around. More Free HTML5 Website Templates Business templates list. Timer - Responsive Multi page Business Theme Agency website includes the all essential data that represents the business to the visitors precisely. But the presentation would be engaging enough when you have a clean, modern and spacious design. To serve such need Time is perfect to house all the content professionally.

Time multipurpose agency template is easy to convert the programming languages for dynamic approach, tailored with agencies like travel, recruitment, government, marketing, web development, broadcasting, hiring, digital, design, job center, advertising and more. Infinity - Coming soon/under construction template Infinity is the finest example of coming soon and under construction website template.

The design of this template is simple, minimal, lightweight, attractive, resourceful, glossy, catchy, and fanstic, help you to create high converting under construction website for your upcoming event, product and website. The template is equipped with striking video background, impressive countdown timer, social connection links and one page responsive layout. Minimal – Bootstrap 3 HTML5 Template You might be working for a long time but didn’t change to build your own site that attract your targeted client. But don’t miss the change now. Grab the minimal bootstrap 3 based HTML5 resume template to showcase your professional work and your expertise details. The theme has programmed with simple, clean, lightweight and colorful design, packed with collapsed/hidden menu in the right side which house the navigational handles to give to tour to the one page sections and social icons to entice your visitors to be connected with you even on social media channels.

Gp - Free MultiPurpose HTML Bootstrap Template The most impressive Google fonts and maps enabled theme has proudly created for big corporation, Industry, and enterprise. The theme create supreme popularity of your businesses, corporates, agencies over your entire industry.

Shaped with elegant color various schemes, pages like About us for details expertise showcase and team, Service, sortable Portfolio, two column Blog and Contact, features like contact form, spacious slider, tabs, and clean footer. Prologue - HTML5 Portfolio Template Prologue is one of best resume/cv template, caught my attention when I was creating the rough list and stuck in my eyeballs.

If you are a creative person, like photographers, graphic designer, freelancer, video editor, webmaster, creative writer, website developers and designer want to showcase and share your technical knowledge as well as experience with your site users. This is the great theme to choose. Basically, the template is one page, has colorful, interactive and incredible left sidebar which align your site navigation with your face photo, and take the visitors in the different section with sooth scroll animation. Spot – Freelance & Agency Theme Sport has created with starting flat design enable with HTML5 bootstrap template, specially developed for freelancers and small as well as medium agencies. The theme is equipped with cutting-edge technologies and supports can’t conflict with older and modern browsers like iPhone, iPad, tablet, Desktop, Windows phone, Samsung phone, and other Apple devices.

Sport is HTML5 Bootstrap3 template is lightweight and fast loading, comes with sticky/ fixed header. The above the fold area is marvelous, and so does service, portfolio, client showcase, and footer section. Either you term it a project or work section.

It has awesome animation attached, can even a hasty visitors eyes quickly for unique animation. Agency Agency is a clever piece of work for, as the name suggests, agencies and small businesses. They are inherently beautiful and posh to look at without destroying the functionaliteis.

And speaking of functionalities, it packs quite a few of them. From being fully responsive to having a portfolio grid where the window pops up when you over so that you can have a look ath the item details. The about section has a responsive timeline along with a working PHP contact form with validation.

This will help you gather data on your users or to interact with them. The LESS files are included if you want to make it look better and tweak things around. Font Awesome is at work in the Services section with SCC only circle icons. Make your mark with a killer website and let Agency do all the work for you. Sedna Get your work out there with Sedna. From being a graphic designer to showing off your awesome corporate setting, this HTML5 template packs a punch in the one page that is brimmed with features to the fullest.

The effects and design used are beautiful and works effortlessly for almost any kind of business. Two of the greatest features that sets it apart is the fact that it keeps user friendliness and reusability on the top of its list. It welcomes tweaking and to take it further, the Sketch file of the design is included in the package so that it can be played with. Rage – Digital Agency Free Bootstrap Multipurpose Template Designed to be a creative, sleek and beautiful expression for multipurposes, Rage is a top notch, professionally crafted template with easy on the eyes CSS Animations and typography that really pop out to make the content speak. It is built on the Bootstrap 3.3.5 framework giving it all the features that come with this particular version of Bootstrap. The code that it’s written in is extremely neat, prim and proper and you don’t ever have to worry about what browsers it might be the most adaptable to. It handles browsers effortlessly.

Slab – Free Multipurpose Bootstrap Template If minimalism is your forte, Slab is your template. It uses space and fonts in the cleanest way possible so the focus on the website is exactly on what you want it on. The template contains a gigantic set of features. From being responsive to having seperate sections for videos, pricing, team and much more, it is also customization friendly so go ahead and make your website really yours and tell your story the way you want it to. For those who want to get down and get even more customized, they have access to online documentation for this and also a working contact form so that whenever your users have something to say to you, you’ll never miss a thing. Snow: Free PSD + HTML Business/Portfolio template When it comes to making a mark on the world with your work, you never want to compromise on the quality. He is robustly reliable and created with a modern and creative outlook to make sure you keep up with the rest of the world.

There are two portfolio pages to choose from along with two blog pages. So go ahead and put your best foot forward to become the industry thought leader. This is a hands down awesome creation and practises minimalism to the core. Land UI Kit + Landing Page Template (HTML) Here’s a template that totally nails the combination of simplicity and performance.

Rocking the Bootstrap framework and the SASS standard, you are sure to make the best use of that. The template has clean and efficient coding and it is perfect even if you’re not a coder because you can customize the way the template looks and works without having to write a single line of code. The images used are optimized so you don’t have to put extra effort to take care of that. So bring your customers to this wonderfully crafted landing page and it will take care of the rest. Attes free one page bootstrap theme Dazzle your users with your website.

While that seems like a duanting task to many, Latte volunteers to help out with it’s minimalist and beautiful design. It is a one page template that is rocking the Bootstrap framework and is perfect for creatives and agencies. It makes a witty use of white space that makes readability a breeze on the website and the best part is, it is snappy and doesn’t even require you to spend hours pondering over how to make it work because it is extremely easy in the backend to modify.

Oh and did we mention it’s responsive? Color HTML5 OnePage Bootstrap Template Themeinthebox seems to have come up with an amazing theme in its box- The Color Template that is a one page template that is built on the Bootstrap framework. It is specifically made out for professionals in the business industry in mainly the creative and agency sectors but the way the template looks, it can actually be used for other purposes too. The template rocks a clear and spacious look which makes the template look very clean but far from making it boring. The template also packs amazing animations that flow perfectly and are sure to impress your website visitors. Maguwohost – FREE Hosting Template This is the most different of the bunch as this template, MaguwoHost, is catered for the websites of companies that cater for other company websites.

We’re talking about a hosting template here. While hosting companies do a great job at taking care of other companies, they themselves need an awesome template to set them apart from bigger or newer competitors. This is where the extremely clean, efficiently coded and extremely professional template is necessary and this is exactly what Maguwohost provides. It is a one page HTML template that enables changes to be made to the way the website looks and how the information is displayed. There is even a domain checker so that people can confirm whether a domain is available or not. The responsive, beautiful and clean looking template also lets you edit the entire look of the website from the admin panel. Mazel - Responsive Multipurpose Template (Paid) For those who wish to create successful websites with a hint of personalization, Mazel is the one for you.

You can bring your A game with the 119+ different pages that you can use as you like. Crafted for almost any industry, the template really shines when it comes to showcasing a photo studio or a portfolio, even if you’re a freelancer, an agency or a blogger. Don’t forget, it also has features to pack a punch if you’re an Ecommerce business. To make it easy to understand what it is that you can expect once the template itself is done, there are 2 template demos for your use.

There are over 16 variations of the Homepage so you can really go to town with the looks of the home page, and even if you’ve been using the template for a while, you can always upgrade your looks using a different variation of the home page. Not just the home page, there are also a lot of options for the other pages included in the website: around 22 one page layouts, 28 portfolio pages, 15 blog pages and much more.

So there are almost more than a 100 combinations that you can make using all these features that the template provides. Also, get in touch with your customers with the working AJAX and PHP contact forms and reach to them with the newest offerings from you. Delight - Multipurpose One Page Template (Paid) The name delight is perfect for this template as it is simply delightful.

It is a very clean template that uses space and minimalism perfectly and creates a wonderful combination along with all the features of Bootstrap 3 framework. The template is fully responsive so you do not have to sweat it about which screensize your viewer is displaying your website on because the template will run flawlessly on any screensize. It even has retina support. The template takes it further with viewability with the mobile first fluid grid system and even focuses heavily on making any website it is used on look beautiful with the sleek and modern effects that it rocks. Speaking of making it look great, the template also has the Magnific popup, over 2000 icons that you can pick from with the support of Font Awesome 4.4.0 and sweet CSS3 hover effects that will make you totally feel that it is a great value for its price.

The documentation is up to date and you will have no difficulty figuring out how to get that paralla scrolling, the lightbox or the carousel slider work perfectly. Along with mobile first system, Delight is compatible for all major browsers along with being SEO optimized.

Revelo - Multipurpose HTML Template (Paid) Revelo is an interesting experience to users and there is perhaps no heights that you cannot achieve with this template. The template packs a lot of powerful features that you can totally use to dazzle the users who visit your website. If you can dream it, this template can do it for sure. Revelo really helps to reveal your jest of business with features like the numerous header and footer options and shortcodes that can add to the stunning look of the website. There are about 6 color options that you can pick from with a promise of more coming soon. The sidebar is particularly promising for any website because it is where customers look to for more offers and there are 3 different options at play here. Headers are also particularly important for navigation and you can construct the best experience for the customers by picking what you think goes best from the 7 options that are carefully crafted for the best navigability.

There is also a whooping almost giveaway of the revolution slider, the isotope filter and the form validator so you get to save as much as 63 USD with this template. There are a ton of other features included in this template such as the sticky header, the masonry layout, the coming soon pages, the mailchimp integration, the instagram feed and so much more that cannot be fit into this description so do check this template out. Versa - Multipurpose Template (Paid) Versa is well equipped with features to make any website look amazing. Be it a new website or upgrading an existing one, this template creates a fresh look for the website while keeping up to date with all the newest and greatest features in the web design industry.

There are over 25 demos that you can choose from for your website whether you want a one page website or a multipage one. The templates offer options for various purposes from business startups, to youtubers to online shops or even restaurants. It can also be used for photography or fitness purposes so whatever it is that your business is, Versa has got you covered. There are about 6 sliders including master sliders and revolution fullscreen and video sliders or the static parallax if that’s your thing.

The template comes with premium plugins so getting those little details perfect is easy now, and if that wasn’t enough, there are subtle and beautiful shortcodes too. This template is perfect to make almost any and every website stand out. Atropos - Responsive Website Template (Paid) Here’s a template that gets updates for its entire lifetime. If not having a bloated and clunky website is what you’re looking for, this clean and intuitive template is perfect for you and your business whether it is a business, corporate, portfolio or any other type of product. There are two skin tones or modes to choose from, one dark one light.

It also ships with a Revolution slider included in the package and there are over 185 HTML files included that you can use along with the countless other features like multiple home versions, the wide and boxed layout style which makes it so pleasing to the eyes. You can have an image background or even a video background according to what fits you better. And if something is wrong, there is also a 404 page for your discretion. You can also create hype in your customers with a coming soon page or even a countdown option letting them know you’re up to something even more awesome.

There are a ton of other features like the sitemap page, the services page, the support page, the ajax contact form and even a pricing table. The template also has the Google map integration to let your customers know exactly where to find you. The documentation is standard and you need not worry about understanding it. React - Business Theme (Paid) React to the changing website landscape with React. Yes, it’s a business theme from ericklvz which hones simplicity as well as customizability. Using the latest and greatest from HTML5 and CSS3, this is a very responsive template that is built with a SASS and a folder structure.

It is very neat and organized for all of us clean obsessed ones. There are 3 different landing page options with 3 different kinds of features each provides so whatever you may you want, you got it. You can get a beautiful gallery with features like zoom in and zoom out so you can really put the best pictures for your products and they will look great. You can have your full business and all that it has on the website with the many pages catered to businesses like the pricings page, the comparision page, blog pages, the support page, the sign in page, the sign up page and so much more.

Spacial - Responsive Website Template (Paid) Get a template that you can customize as you wish with thorough documentation. The template is fully responsive so you can view the website on any and every screensize and it will come out looking gorgeous without messing anything up in the functions department. It is perfect for businesses, creatives and agencies, ecommerce and much more. The source files are very organized so it is very easy to understand and use as well as being optimized for search engines. There are plenty of Google fonts to really make the website look modern. It is a gulp powered template with over 60 templates and has a clean and modular code. Shape - Business Template for All Niche (Paid) Shape is a refined website template for presenting your real estate, construction, finance, consulting, cleaning service or any other business made already for you.

It is a well researched and constructed template that makes the best design catered right for you. There is Ajax mail that makes your form ready to use and the user experience is perfectly made for niches. The look of the template is very easy on the eyes with sleek animations.

Everyone hates slow websites, make sure you do not face that problem and this template makes sure the loading of the page is blazing fast. The template has extensive and clean documentation and even then if you get into any glitch there is a Live support with real people that can give you instant feedbacks and solve your problem. There is an Awesome custom slider and is fully responsive with unlimited font icons and awesome jQuery effects. Neomax - Multipurpose Template (Paid) Neomax is a beautiful website with 15 demos that you can pick from. There is a mega menu included that will display the features on the website in an organized and clean way and it is also responsive. There are 140 HTML pages to pick from with different versions of the home, blog, shop etc.

So you can pick whatever you may require. There is a product slider with thumbnails carousel. And when you pick it there is the hover effect so every time you put your mouse on it, there is a zoom in and out effect.

The website can also have a parallax background ether with an image, a Youtube or Vine video background. The template also makes it very easy to get in touch with your users or let them get in touch with you with the working contact forms with a JQuery validation plugin.

There is even a lightbox gallery for beautiful display of your products and even twitter feed integration so customers can get in touch with your social media. You can customize the website even further by picking the best icons from over 600 of the icons that it comes with along with different CSS animations to pick from. Halves - Responsive Versatile Template (Paid) If you need to get started with an awesome and intuitive website, halves will half your work with a gorgeous design. It has over 11 pages for different purposes starting from home to contact to a portfolio section, pricing page and much more.

It makes a unique combination of typography and tables together to create a professional aura that is unparalleled to any other aspect in the industry. It rocks the Bootstrap 3.3.6 framework as well as plenty of HTML and CSS files. BigBag Store - Elegant Ecommerce Theme (Paid) Big bag store has big features packed into it. When you’re making an ecommerce website, you have to make sure that the template you have picked is perfect for it with all the features you may need for smooth operation.

This powerful template has 46 page templates already with more on the horizon. It enables quick viewing of the products and also a countdown option for the new awesomeness you promise to bring them. The template is ready for any viewing on any device and has been tried and tested. The crafting of the template is done very carefully and with a lot of effort and includes awesome features like the scroll animation, the brand slider and over 700 icons to pick from. You can even guide your customers to your outlet or office with the Google map integration that you can totally customize.

You do not need to sweat over cross browser compatibility either. It is built on 3.3.7 version of Bootstrap and is created with SASS. It is fully customizable with Google fonts, 4 versions of the home page and much more. Plus - Responsive E-Commerce Template (Paid) The plus point of Plus is how clean and minimal it is. Being a cross browser compatible and extremely responsive template, this template comes with over 35 HTML pages built on Bootstrap 3.3.7.

There are a lot of powerful features that can enrich any browser experience and any customizing experience. You can use the mega menu along with any of the 9 color schemes.

The code is validated and easy to get and the best part is, the developer promises free lifetime updates for it as well as solid support. You can use the Google fonts to create a modern and stylish look along with the tons of icons provided. There is even a coming soon page included in the template that will keep your customers on their toes with anticipation.

Helena - HTML + OpenCart Store Theme (Paid) One of the most stylish ecommerce templates around, Helena is an HTML Open cart store template that is easy to integrate into any current website or work you have. It has sliders that blend perfectly in with Bootstrap as well as Navigation bars that are extremely flexible.

The opencart theme comes free with it and there are different pages like the home page, the full product category, a separate page for cart and checkout. There is also a 404 page for the oh snap moments that all websites sometimes face.

There is even a FAQ and blog page along with a registration page. So go right ahead and adorn your website with this template. Summary Having exploring the largest collection of Free HTML5 website templates, I know you are excited to utilized them for your next projects, right? I would like to know which HTML theme can successful catch your attention. As a quick survey to help other developers to quickly pick from, post your valuable choice in the comment section.