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Websiteweebly.com
Blogblog.weebly.com
CategoryConsumer Web
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San Francisco, USA
447 Battery St #250
San Francisco, CA, 94111
USA

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Founder & CEO
Founder & CTO
Founder

Funding

Total$670k
Seed, 5/07
Baseline Ventures
$650k
Seed, 1/07
Y Combinator
$20k

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Weebly

Weebly is an AJAX website creator that allows you to create pages with template skins and content widgets. Users can easily drag-and-drop content widgets like pictures, text, video and Google Maps in WYSIWYG-fashion. They also have a new blogging platform that can be added to the navigation bar of your personal Weebly page.

Weebly has opened up its API to outside developers so they can create embeddable widgets for both the Weebly pages and blog platform. Users can track their site traffic and stats on their Weebly dashboard. Users can also promote their sites by emailing their friends and posting to Facebook and StumbleUpon through the Weebly dashboard.

Weebly is a Y Combinator startup.

Products

Weebly Blog Platform

Websiteweebly.com
StageLive
Launch DateAugust 16, 2007
Tags blogging-platform

Weebly lets users add blogs to their existing Weebly sites. All you have to do is go to the “Pages” tab on your Weebly site’s dashboard and click “Add blog” and you’re off to the races. From there, users can easily integrate drag-and-drop widgets, pictures and videos to their blog posts. You write blog posts the same way you create Weebly site pages, in WYSIWYG-fashion.

The blog platform sidebar has all the usual suspects including author bio, archiving, categories and RSS feeds. The blog platform uses AJAX, which allows you to easily move content around and edit the design.

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Above: Weebly Blog Platform Screenshot -- #1
Uploaded: 2/5/08

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Comments

jringer - June 24, 2009 at 2:32pm
ready to kill weebly. I have been building my site and it just quit, and I can't see any of your sites either. I was going to pay, but now there is no way - unless someone calls me or answers the 5 emails I've sent about the functionality. I really didn't think my site plan was that advance.
AJ Drops - April 23, 2009 at 9:45am
Been having problems with Weebly for a good while now. Today it got worse - The publish live button doesn't work. I'm only able to save posts as drafts. When I refresh the page, nothing happens except for a timeout of my browser. Not happy. Contacted support and it seemed worse than Yahoo! because they tried to point me in another direction with innane things instead of just letting me let them know what's going on. I post every single day with a few of my friends(too bad they don't have the multi-author system - boo!) and we really need the publishing to work because we post many posts. Weebly grinds at us to no end.
David Rusenko - April 17, 2009 at 1:22pm
Hi Jan, I just wanted to respond here to make it clear that we've resolved your issue. As I understand it, you had signed up for multiple accounts, and that is why you did not see all of your purchases under the one account you were logging in under. I'm glad we were able to resolve the issue in a timely manner, and feel free to contact me at david+c@weebly.com if you have any other questions. Best, David
Sera - February 13, 2009 at 8:57am
I love weebly, I haven't had any problems to date, I hope for those who have, get what they are owed... :) Other than that, its stress free and easy! -sera
Sera - February 13, 2009 at 8:53am
I absolutely love weebly! Take a look at my page!! theserashow.weebly.com -sera
Mike H - February 2, 2009 at 11:56am
If it didnt have ".weebly" after the name then it would be alot better. I wish it was easy to add favicons.
esmyu - January 28, 2009 at 11:38pm
Very easy to use (user friendly) compared to other social networking sites. Hope your company will stay long even crisis. Continue to improve your services and "more customization features".
Jan - January 25, 2009 at 10:26am
I sent a bill for damages to Accounts Payable last week because I have several websites that I can't access, and Weebly refuses to even acknowledge that I paid for these accounts last October. I want to make it clear that I expect either that the bill be paid in full or that I simply get my websites, so that nobody else can take them. I've already paid for several months for nothing. The charges appear on my VISA statement, so there's no denying they exist. The problem is totally with Weebly staff.
Glen - December 13, 2008 at 6:06pm
Weebly is the best creation tool I and my team has ever seen. The simple drag and drop features are excellent, go get signed up now!
David Rusenko - October 14, 2008 at 11:38am
Hi Joe, Dirk, Peo and Joyce, We take abuse requests very seriously and respond promptly to each request. You can view our abuse policies at http://www.weebly.com/abuse.html To address Dirk's concerns: We only remove websites that violate our abuse policy, by which they must either be infringing copyright or where we are ordered by court to do so. As such, we have one of the strongest policies supporting our users in the industry. However, to address Peo's concerns, from the other side of the coin: We react pro-actively and immediately to all spam and copyright infringement. We also have policies to deal with other content that may be considered illegal in various parts of the world. As you can imagine, we receive numerous requests each day from conflicting parties that wish to censor each other's sites, and we are very careful to not remove any content under such circumstances. I've replied to your email and I'm confident that we can work through this with you. Finally, Joyce: We have a 24-48 support response time for free users, and a faster response time for Pro users. If you have not received a satisfactory response to your request within that time frame, please feel free to email me at david+c@weebly.com. Thanks again for using Weebly! Best, David Rusenko
Joyce - October 13, 2008 at 7:44am
I have sent Weebly 3 emails about Adsense not working on my site and no help to date. Only a link to sources which didn't help. I would like to get my money back.
Peo - October 10, 2008 at 7:37pm
I have been asking Weebly to remove a webpage about me that is full of lies, difamatory and illegal. This page was set up by somebody that has a grudge against me. I have sent no less than 10 emails to their abuse department only to get 3 automated "do not reply"-responses from them. Emails sent to their support department or info departments also go by unanswered or ignored. Except in one case where I was told to send the email to the abuse-address (the robot monitored address). Weebly is not a serious company and should be avoided at any cost. There are better companies out there, that DO care.
Dirk Olsen - September 18, 2008 at 7:34pm
I agree with "Joe". It seems they don't give any guarantees whatsoever for the service, and they say they may at their own discretion delete websites. So I wouldn't put any valuable information there. The tools are good, but the service stinks.
Joe - September 18, 2008 at 7:26pm
Weebly might be good, but there is a lot of offensive material on weebly. And the support/abuse department there is non-existent. It is practically impossible to get an offensive webpage removed. Until they get their act together, I think they should be avoided.
Groobers - June 24, 2008 at 2:49am
Weebly is a fantastic website creator, it is so easy to use and produces a professional looking site. I wanted to ask Craig in the post below if he feels it is worth changing the domain name.
Craig - June 12, 2008 at 7:04am
I created a website using Weebly and changed the domain to www.redfoxmarketing.co.uk . I am pretty happy with the results. I only took me a couple of hours to do.
Fivestar - June 7, 2008 at 5:15pm
I have used weebly to make a real cool site, link above. Very happy with it, very easy to use. i am a non techo, so this is as easy to use as Blogger, but comes out looking like a proper site, pages and more flexibility. Go weebly! I have made 3 sales in my first 2 weeks, which I am very happy about.
Felix - May 10, 2008 at 3:08am
I made my website in 2007 and with the professional and FREE help fromm weebly i could get that design I allways wanted. Chanche almost everything if you want to do that. A little help from html and the fantastic invention weebly made my website legendaric!
Greg - May 8, 2008 at 4:26am
I agree with Cameron. Weebly looks pretty but it isn't as comprehensive as comfypage. If you want to do some exciting things with your website I'd go for comfypage.
Cameron - January 15, 2008 at 5:44am
ComfyPage is a website creator that is more comprehensive than weebly. Still easy to use. http://comfypage.com/.
Norman Manley Alumni - January 15, 2008 at 2:04am
this site is the best so far even though i don't quite understand how to use it
Lindsay - December 18, 2007 at 10:39pm
I used weebly to create a website that I could hand over to non-techie University students. It was really easy to use for me and them. Brilliant!
mitu - December 18, 2007 at 6:32am
I think weebly is one of the best web creator but if it had a free domain name i would say it is world most best website creator.

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