Weebly Online Website Creator: Easiest Way to Create a Website

Weebly is a San Francisco, California based free online website creation company that was founded in 2006 by David Rusenko, Dan Veltri, and Chris Fanini. In early 2007, the Weebly founding team joined a micro-seed funding program called Y Combinator. The company funded by angel investors from Silicon Valley, including Rajeev Motwani, Mike Maples, Ron Conway of Baseline Ventures (original investor in Google), Aydin Senkut, and Paul Buchheit (creator of Gmail). Weebly was named by Time Magazine as number four of the fifty best websites of 2007.

As an online, AJAX-based website creator, Weebly was written in vim on Fedora Core 5 machines, and is compatible with any web browser including Internet Explorer 5.5+/7.0 and above, Firefox 1.5/2.0 and higher version, and is functional in Opera 9 on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. In October 2008 Weebly become compatible with Safari and Google Chrome in addition to its previous browsers compatibility. In the same year Weebly added the WeeblyPro feature, allowing users to create password-protected web pages and upgrade file size limits, as well as receive additional support services.

Currently Weebly has more than 3 million users. What make their service interesting is its simplicity and ease of use - and backed by reliable hosting infrastructure. Weebly allow all types of users - either newbie or savvy - to easily create, manage, and host their websites. Weebly provide hosting servers so You don’t need to pay for a hosting provider. They don’t impose arbitrary bandwidth restrictions, storage caps or limits on the number of pages allowed, either.

Weebly uses a widget style format, allowing users to create pages with just clicks to drag and drop page elements (widgets) like videos, pictures, maps, slideshows, files, forums, games, RSS feeds, Flickr feed, or HTML code onto a page and fills in the content. Users can easily create any types of websites, from personal sites or blogs to web presences for their small to medium business, portfolios, weddings, classrooms, and more. Weebly slightly saves customers time and money so they can focused and spend their time to create useful contents for readers.

Weebly provide 70+ ready to use templates to choose from, and users can completely customize the template, or build their own template with HTML & CSS, right in the Weebly editor.

Weebly start off by offering fully free services and don't put advertising on the site. Weebly free services have some limitations, however. But users who are very pleased with what they see and use, mostly upgrade to WeeblyPro account versions for just small fee.

Using WeeblyPro account You have option to purchase a custom domain name (www.yoursite.com) to replace cheap-look, default subdomain (yoursite.weebly.com) given as part of free service. WeeblyPro account also allowing users to create password-protected pages and upgrade file size limits, as well as receive additional support services like setup email address with your own domain (mail@yoursite.com).