Membership Areas With Weebly you can open certain parts of your website to members only. Limited Design Flexibility Compared to website builders like Wix you are not quite as free to move site elements around. Some people like the structure Weebly provides, others prefer total freedom. Webnode is a much better choice in this case.
Not great for international websites. Ease of use. Just drag and drop new elements onto your page and click them to edit their settings and features.
One thing that would make things easier, however, is an undo button, and the ability to save changes without publishing. The classic editor can also be a bit laggy at times. Choice and flexibility of design templates. There are some stylish themes with different page layouts for different uses e. They are all responsive meaning: optimized for smartphones and tablets.
The templates can also be edited via the source code. Currently available in English and close to 20 other languages.
No special feature to create multilingual sites but workarounds do exist. Do not use Weebly for non-English character sets like Russian, Chinese or Arabic as they are not fully supported. Your own domain name e. Some of the available domain endings are. Or you can bring your own domain with you from another provider, and redirect it to Weebly.
Learn more about Weebly domains and email accounts here. Depth of navigation. Unlimited levels of navigation hierarchy. A drop-down menu is automatically added to the navigation area. Weebly supports large site structures. Widgets small tools to add extra functionality. Image galleries, video and music players, and other gadgets are all included in the editor.
And there are other useful applications, too, such as tables, calendars, social media widgets and more to be found in the Weebly App Center. Weebly offers a robust and easy-to-use shopping cart with SSL encryption and all major payment options. You can add product videos and there are some decent options for optimizing products for search.
Detailed information can be found in our Weebly Ecommerce review. URLs are freely editable as well. The use of headlines H1, H2 etc. Learn more about it here. Blog entries can be scheduled, and you can integrate alternative commenting systems such as Disqus or Facebook.
Visitor statistics. You can also integrate Google Analytics , if you prefer. Contact form. You can create detailed contact pages, including a contact form and Google Maps integration, with just one click. And adapting it to meet your own needs is very simple. Available from the Professional plan.
You can either protect the entire site or selected pages. There is also a membership area that is available that lets you share certain content only with site members. However, this is incompatible with the Customer Accounts feature, which lets customers create an account after purchasing on your site — you can only have one or the other.
Newsletter tool. You can also plug in external providers via their App Center. Other email services can be found here. Add HTML code. Storage space. The Free and Connect plans have a limit of MB. Email, help center and live chat however, we found they are not that easy to reach on chat.
Email support usually responded competently and quickly to our questions. Phone support is available on the Professional and Performance plans. Fun Factor. However, we do like their non-aggressive sales style. Overall Rating. Weebly is a solid website builder, offering unparalleled ease of use and a decent array of features through an extremely efficient user interface.
Good question. Just select the element you want on the left, and place it on your layout on the right. With Weebly, no risk of that happening. Clean, sharp grid-based layouts make Weebly websites easy to digest. Working with text is also a breeze in Weebly. You just click what you want to edit and type your own words in the box. The navigation system also works wonders. You can dig deep into menus and submenus: Weebly handles them like a charm.
Finally, if you get stuck anywhere, the Weebly knowledge base can answer a lot of questions through clear tutorials and step-by-step guides. Failing that, the support is excellent, whether by email, chat, or phone. So are there any downsides? That depends. If you want more freedom with your layouts, then you might feel frustrated by the rigid grid system. You should go for Wix. This competitor also has an automated solution Wix ADI that can build the website for you pretty much by itself.
You can possibly shave off a few minutes of your website building time. First is a global undo button. You can undo what you type in text boxes, but it would be nice to erase mistakes when you move or add elements.
While the editor generally works pretty well, some elements could do with a bit of an update. The image upload editor, for instance, looks like a relic from late 90s web design.
And unlike other web builders that offer direct integrations with stock libraries like Unsplash or Getty Images, Weebly only offers Flickr with user-contributed images of questionable quality. In general, it feels like you have to work a little harder with Weebly to get the crisp, professional-looking website that often comes out-of-the-box with other website builders.
I have one popular statistic claiming 72 million for WordPress sites, but that seems absurdly high and I couldn't find a reliable source. BuiltWith puts WordPress at a more realistic 14 million. But, it's possible to create an approximate ranking showing the size of each platform. I've added the BuiltWith estimates for each platform:.
Remember that this ranking is a best guess and accurate numbers are hard to come by. The only thing we can say for certain is that WordPress is way out in the lead. And where numbers are available, you can see these companies are enjoying strong growth. If you're in the web business, you need to think about how these DIY tools might impact your strategy over the next few years.
Join today and get access to 1,'s of books and videos. Sign up today! How Popular is Wix. Here are their official subscriber numbers: Q1: , subscribers.
Q2: Over 1. Q4: Over 1. About the author. Steve is the founder of OSTraining. It only takes minutes to get started. All you need to get do is to create an account with your name and email address.
Then you choose one of the many available templates, and start moving things around with your mouse. Both website builders use drag and drop editors as you can see here:.
For some it could seem a bit overwhelming : not only can you position all the elements exactly where you want, you can also finetune colors, styles, fonts and even animate images and text.
And while this seems like a lot of complexity, Wix ensures that you never break your site entirely! How do they achieve that? Winner for Ease of Use : Fewer options mean Weebly has an easier to use product overall.
With Wix, you have complete control over the design. You can add external fonts. You can add pictures and video animations in the background. You choose a template based on your industry music, photography, portfolio, restaurant etc….
They call this technique Pixel Perfect, because you can really position things wherever you like, even if it makes your website harder to navigate. They also offer the aforementioned Wix ADI Artificial Design Intelligence , which can automatically connect your social media, generate a contact form or pick the best design for your audience. With Weebly, you can get similar results, albeit with less room for exploration. With Wix, you can choose how your site will look on a smartphone, which is excellent!
The only bad news is that sometimes you indeed have to rearrange some elements as they are not always aligned perfectly. And they only offer one sub-level for navigation, which is not really enough if you want a complex online home menu. So as previously mentioned, the reason Weebly is more structured is that all their templates are designed to work on mobile devices. It will usually look good on all kinds of screens, from smartphones to tablets.
Though, in a few of our Weebly websites, we have the problem that the font-size on smartphones is too little. No, but in all seriousness: Weebly is capable of accommodating much larger websites than Wix is. We wrote a complete review of Wix eCommerce here , and the conclusion is that it is pretty great for small online stores. All products can be optimized for search engines and you can easily add products and accept payment via PayPal, credit card Stripe, Wirecard , or offline payment.
Wix, as usual, is particularly strong in the visual presentation of your products: easily add images with a zoom effect, and also videos. And drumrolls please… recently they added customer accounts as well as subscriptions boxes , which makes it a lot easier for repeat buyers to use your Wix store! Weebly offers an ecommerce solution of similar proportions.
Weebly has actually been acquired by payment provider Square , suggesting a stronger focus on ecommerce in the future. But to be honest, Square has not been the most positive influence on Weebly overall. One big issues since the takeover has been a confusing messaging both Square and Weebly offer now a kind of same online store under their different brands and a complete lack of development of the Weebly website builder.
Weebly lets you create a new storefront or import your product list automatically. You can sell MP3s, videos or any kind of digital product along with physical items. And then there are some really advanced features: an automatic sales tax calculator USA and a shipping cost calculator.
But Wix now also offers that. The only point where Weebly shops fall short is on payment options. They have the same options as Wix minus the ability to let customers pay offline. Winner Ecommerce : Wix has added a remarkable number of ecommerce features in the recent past and is our top-choice for smaller online stores due to its attractive price.
When it comes to achieving the best ranking for your pages, both Wix and Weebly give you good enough options. For some obscure reason, Weebly has a restricted use of headline tags, while Wix lets you go from H1 to H6. And for an equally obscure reason, Wix changes all image file names into something rather cryptic, which is less than ideal if image SEO is important for you.
Wix takes this one home — Like with SEO, both Wix and Weebly have improved their blogging options a lot over the last few years. Instead, Weebly will let you create more complex layouts for blog posts and you can add any Weebly element from the regular editor e. Stuck for help? Both Wix and Weebly offer phone support, live chat, good tutorials and active online forums.
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