Weebly.com is great!
I thought I’d write a note about my experiences with Weebly.com, the environment that I used to build my website and that hosts it too. I was really pleased to find an application that would allow me to build and maintain my own website and blog without me needing to have any HTML programming abilities. Weebly has ticked all the boxes in my opinion and as such I thought I’d spread the word. What’s more is that it’s free and it’s good too.
As a marketing manager, I have a reasonable amount of experience in updating websites – in fact I used to be responsible for six of them at one point. The work I used to do was largely content management facilitated via content management systems associated with the sites (Serena Collage for example). I am not a technical man however and creating a site from scratch was/is beyond my current capabilities.
Weebly provides a drag and drop type facility for creating your own site, you really don’t need to have programming skills or knowledge about site hosting, web servers, search engine optimization or other such internet related detail.
With Weebly, you use menus to select what you want and pull it into your site. You can use your own imagery or select from that provided. The site is reasonably intuitive to use although it does help if you have some knowledge of content management because then you’ll know about making links within or outside pages, you’ll know about hiding pages from the visible navigation and you’ll appreciate the value of meta tagging.
I would recommend that you design your site structure on paper (or some other medium) before you set about building it just because it will speed up the creative process and help you build something more coherent and usable for those that visit your site.
An important fact to highlight/reiterate is that Weebly is free to use. Why pay someone to create a site for you when you can do it yourself for nothing. The design interface is free and completed sites are published and hosted for free too. In addition some limited statistics are made available for you to appreciate the number of visitors your site has entertained. Brilliant!
If you are more accomplished and want more from the environment you can upgrade your package and pay for extra services. The analogy here is like using free or paid for virus protection software. What is great though is that you don’t have to start by handing over your cash. You can experiment, learn and get results before deciding about whether to make a financial commitment. Weebly will provide the website address for you too (unless of course you already own your own domain and want to use that) meaning that you don’t even have to purchase a domain name. Admittedly you’ll end up with a Weebly extension to your site address but that’s not much of a cross to bear.
If you’ve ummmnned and arrgghhed for a while about building your own website Weebly.com can help you stop procrastinating and allow you to get on with construction. Have a go, you have nothing to lose and it’s fun to create something worthwhile.
Weebly.com gets my recommendation!
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As a marketing manager, I have a reasonable amount of experience in updating websites – in fact I used to be responsible for six of them at one point. The work I used to do was largely content management facilitated via content management systems associated with the sites (Serena Collage for example). I am not a technical man however and creating a site from scratch was/is beyond my current capabilities.
Weebly provides a drag and drop type facility for creating your own site, you really don’t need to have programming skills or knowledge about site hosting, web servers, search engine optimization or other such internet related detail.
With Weebly, you use menus to select what you want and pull it into your site. You can use your own imagery or select from that provided. The site is reasonably intuitive to use although it does help if you have some knowledge of content management because then you’ll know about making links within or outside pages, you’ll know about hiding pages from the visible navigation and you’ll appreciate the value of meta tagging.
I would recommend that you design your site structure on paper (or some other medium) before you set about building it just because it will speed up the creative process and help you build something more coherent and usable for those that visit your site.
An important fact to highlight/reiterate is that Weebly is free to use. Why pay someone to create a site for you when you can do it yourself for nothing. The design interface is free and completed sites are published and hosted for free too. In addition some limited statistics are made available for you to appreciate the number of visitors your site has entertained. Brilliant!
If you are more accomplished and want more from the environment you can upgrade your package and pay for extra services. The analogy here is like using free or paid for virus protection software. What is great though is that you don’t have to start by handing over your cash. You can experiment, learn and get results before deciding about whether to make a financial commitment. Weebly will provide the website address for you too (unless of course you already own your own domain and want to use that) meaning that you don’t even have to purchase a domain name. Admittedly you’ll end up with a Weebly extension to your site address but that’s not much of a cross to bear.
If you’ve ummmnned and arrgghhed for a while about building your own website Weebly.com can help you stop procrastinating and allow you to get on with construction. Have a go, you have nothing to lose and it’s fun to create something worthwhile.
Weebly.com gets my recommendation!
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