A recent project needed to get on-line quickly, easily, cheaply and with minimal effort. The site had to be able to be administered easily by non-tech types and also contain a few features such as a blog, contact forms, the ability to include custom HTML for Twitter feeds, PayPal, sharing links, etc., etc.
A number of options would fit these parameters, and obviously a content management system of some sort would be ideal. Installing, configuring, finding and paying for a host can be troublesome at times, which led me to Weebly - an on-line Content Management System with free hosting, no set up fees or issues, feature rich and easy user interface. You can pay for a pro version which gives the usual obvious benefits of own domain (instead of subdomain of Weebly), better stats (but you can just plug in your own Google Analytics code), a couple more features to include on your website, removal of the Weebly link in the footer .... anyway, you get the idea.
Using Weebly was a pleasure and feedback from the admins of the site was positive in how easy it was to use. It's always nice to come across a powerful simple piece of software, that does what it says on the tin, does it well, and looks nice.
Full customisation of the site via HTML and CSS is possible, but there is a good range of nice-looking templates to get started with.
There is support for basic e-commerce functionality, but I didn't get round to exploring these options. I imagine they would satisfy the requirement for selling a few items on a basic level but it would not be anywhere near good enough for a full blown e-commerce solution.
For this project though, Weebly more than fulfilled the requirements and I would happily use it again for a similar small web project.
Weebly project: http://thejoshboggifund.weebly.com/. Fund raising website for LCpl Josh Boggi, injured in Afghanistan on New Years Eve.
A number of options would fit these parameters, and obviously a content management system of some sort would be ideal. Installing, configuring, finding and paying for a host can be troublesome at times, which led me to Weebly - an on-line Content Management System with free hosting, no set up fees or issues, feature rich and easy user interface. You can pay for a pro version which gives the usual obvious benefits of own domain (instead of subdomain of Weebly), better stats (but you can just plug in your own Google Analytics code), a couple more features to include on your website, removal of the Weebly link in the footer .... anyway, you get the idea.
Using Weebly was a pleasure and feedback from the admins of the site was positive in how easy it was to use. It's always nice to come across a powerful simple piece of software, that does what it says on the tin, does it well, and looks nice.
Full customisation of the site via HTML and CSS is possible, but there is a good range of nice-looking templates to get started with.
There is support for basic e-commerce functionality, but I didn't get round to exploring these options. I imagine they would satisfy the requirement for selling a few items on a basic level but it would not be anywhere near good enough for a full blown e-commerce solution.
For this project though, Weebly more than fulfilled the requirements and I would happily use it again for a similar small web project.
Weebly project: http://thejoshboggifund.weebly.com/. Fund raising website for LCpl Josh Boggi, injured in Afghanistan on New Years Eve.
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| The Josh Boggi Fund - Weebly website |
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