Key Tool: Weebly
Most of the time I spent building websites is on just dragging things out, editing text, changing images uploading swf's and other things. If I do need to change something really specific about the website you do have control over the role HTML and CSS that actually makes the site each time it is visited.
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Weebly sites can take credit cards as processing for businesses. You can check out example of an ecommerce website made with weebly at my ecommerce site, www.organic-transport.com where we sell all kinds of wholesome, organic foods. With Weebly you can take credit cards through PayPal or red stripe (which integrates right into the web page) for fast and easy payment. It also has a blog feature, and if you're reading this then you are looking at an example of a blog made in Weebly. The customer support always get back to my email, usually in only 2 or 3 days.
Another nice feature is built in funtionality for SEO. There is a little 'SEO description' textbox for product pages and an 'Advanced Settings' area for normal pages for you to fill in the text that shows up when your page comes up in search results, is used for keywords, etc.
Another nice feature is built in funtionality for SEO. There is a little 'SEO description' textbox for product pages and an 'Advanced Settings' area for normal pages for you to fill in the text that shows up when your page comes up in search results, is used for keywords, etc.
As a Flash developer, it is crucial when deciding how you a building your website that you are able to upload your flash creations! Weebly will let you upload as many swf movies as you like, and there is no limit for any of them! Be careful if you are checking out other providers as many have a MB cap for flash files uploaded.
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Although I would recommend Weebly to anyone trying to get started building websites and quickly have something professional. However, there are some area I feel Weebly is lacking and would like to see improvement.
- CAPTCHA in forms - Weebly has support for basic forms for the user to enter information into. However, there is no CATCHA choice for these so I find myself getting email alerts from porn spamming bots, which is annoying to say the least.
- More Control of Customization - This I kind of a vague criticism, but I frequently use DivTag Templates website templates because it adds some new customization features. For example a more interactive footer, changing the backround for different pages. It would be nice if you had this control 'out of the box' in Weebly.
- Search on the Pages page. When choosing hyperlinks on your text, there is a nice search box that allows you to quickly filter out all pages except the ones you want to look at. It would be nice if there was something like that on the Pages page for people who have a lot of pages and get lost looking for a specific one.