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Revision as of 05:00, 3 June 2010

Weebly
Developer(s)David Rusenko
Dan Veltri
Chris Fanini
Stable release
Beta
Operating systemCross-platform
TypeWebsite creation
WebsiteWeebly.com

Weebly is an online, free, widget-based Web site creator, funded by micro-seed fund Y Combinator. It uses a widget style format, allowing users to create pages with only a few clicks. The user drags and drops different page elements (images, text, or interactive content, etc.) onto a page and fills in the content. It competes with Yola (formerly Synthasite), Jimdo, Webs, uCoz, Wix, WebStarts and other web hosting and creation sites [1]. The site was originally created by David Rusenko, Dan Veltri, and Chris Fanini, all of whom attended Penn State for an undergraduate degree.[2] It was named by Time Magazine as number four of the fifty best websites of 2007.[3]

In June 2008, Weebly added the Weebly pro accounts feature, allowing users to create password-protected pages and upgrade file size limits, as well as receive additional support services.[4] As recently as October 2008, Weebly has become compatible with Safari and Google Chrome in addition to its existing compatibility to Internet Explorer and Firefox.[5]

Beginnings

The objective of Weebly when it was first created was to enable content creation.[6] According to Weebly staff:

How many people have good information that they would like to put on the web, but currently don't know how? Maybe it's because they don't have a web host, maybe it's because they don't know how to write a web page and upload it. Whatever it is, web content creation needs to get easier, and I think this is the next step. Want a three column layout? Drag and drop. Add Google AdWords to your site? Drag and drop. Then double click it, and set your options from easy drop-down-menus.[6]

Initial Release

When Weebly came close to an initial first release, the staff decided to release it in a two-phase launch plan: first, there would be a limited invitation, followed by something "more substantial" a few weeks later.[7] The initial invitational beta release was announced June 2006[8], followed by the official private-beta launch on September 12, 2006 [9]. Later, in February 2007, Weebly staff announced it was working on a new WYSIWYG-like editing interface for Weebly.[10] This interface, along with a few other new features, was released March 2007.[11]

Criticism

Since it is built on its own platform, Weebly cannot take advantage of pre-existing plugins from other popular blogging engines.[12] In December 2008 Weebly reached 1 million users. It released several new templates but at the same time received criticism for not realising the biggest feature request from users: the ability to edit or upload the CSS/HTML of the web pages.[13]. Responding to this request, on February 26, 2009 Weebly released the ability to edit the CSS and HTML of any site[14].

References

  1. ^ Kincaid, Jason. (June 10, 2008). "Weebly Adds AdSense Support For Drag And Drop Cash." TechCrunch. Retrieved May 14, 2009.
  2. ^ Levy, Stephen. "A Boot Camp for the Next Tech Millionares." Newsweek. Retrieved on May 14, 2007
  3. ^ Weebly.com - 50 Best Websites 2007. Time. Retrieved on October 29, 2007.
  4. ^ Adewumi, David (June 10, 2008). Weebly, a simple web page creator, launches AdSense feature and pro accounts. VentureBeat. Retrieved on November 2, 2008.
  5. ^ Weebly Staff (October 13, 2008). Safari/Chrome compatibility, Nabble forums, and more. Weebly. Retrieved on October 29, 2008.
  6. ^ a b Weebly Staff (May 24, 2006) Weebly Blog Archives: First Post! Retrieved on June 02, 2010.
  7. ^ Weebly Staff (May 26, 2006) Weebly Blog Archives: Getting Ready Retrieved on June 02, 2010.
  8. ^ Dan Veltri (June 26, 2006) Weebly Blog Archives: Exciting Developments Retrieved on June 02, 2010.
  9. ^ Weebly Staff (June 26, 2006) Weebly Blog Archives: Weebly private-beta launch Retrieved on June 02, 2010.
  10. ^ Weebly Staff (February 24, 2007) Weebly Blog Archives: Hard at Work Retrieved on June 02, 2010.
  11. ^ Weebly Staff (March 7, 2007) Weebly Blog Archives: Weebly Re-Launches Retrieved on June 02, 2010.
  12. ^ Gonzalez, Nick (May 9, 2007). Weebly Launches Blog Platform, Closes $650K Investment. TechCrunch. Retrieved on October 13, 2008.
  13. ^ http://venturebeat.com/2008/11/03/weebly-scores-1-million-users-reaches-profitability/
  14. ^ http://blog.weebly.com/2/post/2009/02/announcing-custom-themes.html
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