We're nearing the last week in the Weebly T-shirt design contest! All submissions are due on April 15th. For a quick refresher on the rules and prizes, here's our last blog post.

I also wanted to put up a couple submissions we received that we've liked. This should give you a better idea of what we're looking for in a t-shirt design. Both of the artists behind the submissions have also included color variations in their designs.

Both of the designs below are for the front of the T-shirt.

Design 1

Design 2

Keep the good designs coming, and good luck to everybody participating!

We're holding a contest to design official Weebly t-shirts! To enter, submit a t-shirt design for the front, and optionally the back, of the t-shirt to info@weebly.com with the subject: "Weebly design contest".

Prizes
1st place: $100 in cash. Your t-shirt design will be used as the official Weebly t-shirt. You'll also receive 2 free t-shirts, and a few Weebly keychain bottle openers.
2nd place: $25 in cash, 1 free t-shirt, and a Weebly keychain bottle opener.
3rd place: 1 free t-shirt and a Weebly keychain bottle opener.

Guidelines
- A high quality logo file can be downloaded here. You can use our existing logo or change it up a bit.- Feel free to be witty and/or slightly risqué.
- Please use no more than 5 colors, and as few as possible.
- Designs incorporating multiple t-shirt colors will be given bonus points.
- You can use our current slogan "Web creation made easy", or make up a completely new one.
- Please submit your design by April 15th 2008.
- By submitting your design, you represent that you have full ownership rights over the submitted design, and you agree to transfer full ownership and usage rights to Weebly should the design be chosen.

Good luck!

Even though this is a bit of a belated welcome, we still wanted to write a post to welcome Greg to the team. Greg is the newest Weebly, and joined us in early January. Before joining Weebly, Greg also worked on Snipshot, which is a really cool way to edit your images online. We're super excited to have him working with us, and he's already made huge contributions to the team.

On another note, we've just fixed another round of bugs, so things should be running more smoothly. Dan got a bit backlogged on support, but he's just about caught up now, so you should be getting a prompt response from us on any questions you might have.

We'll be rolling out some of the most requested features over the next few weeks, so be sure to check this blog for announcements. We're really excited that so many of you are using Weebly, and we're working hard to make it better for you! As always, we really appreciate your feedback (it helps us figure out how you use Weebly), so please keep it coming!

Wishing you and yours a Merry Christmas and happy holiday season from the Weebly team!

We're home for the holidays and send our greetings from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Roundup, Montana.

We're growing really fast, and that's been very exciting for us: it means that more and more of you are finding Weebly useful to create websites where you weren't able to do so before. Our old support system, though, wasn't keeping up with the times, and Dan was having a bit of trouble getting back to everybody in a timely manner -- we were getting over 100 requests per day, which was becoming difficult to manage.

In order to manage your requests better, we've rolled out a new support system that contains much more help information, and when we don't already have an answer, will handle each request by assigning a ticket. You'll be able to visit the support area to view the help information and file a ticket, or email support@weebly.com. From that point, you can continue to reply by email or the support area, whichever you find more convenient, and we'll be able to keep track of your request more efficiently.

Since there's a lot more self help information available, we've already seen a drop in help requests. With the new system, we're also setting a goal of replying to support requests within 24-48 hours.

Thanks for helping us make Weebly better!

We're currently looking to hire a top-notch web developer that is well versed in client-side Javascript, HTML/CSS, PHP and MySQL. To view a detailed description of the opening and submit your resume, please visit http://www.weebly.com/jobs.html.

On a side note, there's a short challenge embedded on the jobs page -- bonus points if you can figure it out.

Today we added 5 new designs for you to choose from when developing your website.  You can see from the screen shots that these designs are adaptable to a variety of uses, except for the pencil design, which is geared towards our growing teacher userbase.   For the designs with header images, keep in mind that these images can be changed by clicking on the existing image and choosing to upload a new one in place of it.

We've just added a set of tooltips that introduce a new user to Weebly. It's a new user introduction of sorts that steps through adding an element, changing your site design, adding a page, and publishing. It also points out helpful tips, like what to do with the two column element when you drag it on.

If you already have an account, you won't see the tooltips, as it would most likely be annoying. If you want to check them out though, clicking on "Try Live Demo!" on the homepage is the easiest way to do that.

UPDATE: We transitioned over to a new storage device and, after testing and making sure everything works correctly, opened back up at 9:00am EST. If you get a 404 error while visiting your site, logging in and republishing should fix it.

Although having a redundant storage device fail is highly unlikely, we'd still like to apologize for any inconvenience during the period you were unable to log-in and edit your pages. We feel really bad -- though on the upside, we've purchased a better array that should make file access quicker, which should speed up publishing and overall usage.

Our storage server (RAID array) was experiencing some issues earlier that would occasionally cause a 404 error when publishing your site. We're upgrading to a new device (should be completed by the end of the day) -- in the meantime, you can still edit your site, but you can't publish it until we fix the issue. Your site should still be available to the world as normal, without any issues.

If you happened to run into the 404 error and your site is currently unavailable, please email support@weebly.com, and we'll make sure your site gets back up ASAP.

We're very sorry for the inconvenience, and working hard to get over to the new storage device as soon as possible (should only be a couple hours left). Thanks for your patience while we deal with this infrastructure issue.

We've just rolled out some cool new features tonight and fixed a few bugs. As you can see from the picture to the left, we've put a brand new look on the Weebly editor, that fits with our recent redesign and makes things a bit cleaner and clearer.

Dan has been tracking feedback and ranking the top feature requests. One of the top features has been the support of Meta Tags, including Meta Description and Meta Keywords. This new release allows you to edit your Description and Keywords tags. It also allows you to specify code that will be included at the bottom of all of your pages -- a common use for this is to include code for statistics services (like Google Analytics). These can all be found in the "Settings" tab.

We also sped things up by about 6x, so things should go considerably faster now.

The last feature, "Share this Draft", is something I found myself wanting while writing blog posts. When you're writing a blog post and save it as a draft, a link will appear below the "Keywords" section. This is a secret link that will allow you to share your draft with others, by sending them the link. A common use for this would be to allow someone to proof-read your blog post for you, or to get their opinion. If you don't hand out the link to anyone, your draft will still be private.

As always, thanks for the feedback! We're listening closely to what you have to say, and working on the most important features to you, so be sure to let us know if you'd like to see a new feature in Weebly.

On another note, we're still working on some top secret stuff (this isn't it): expect some exciting things to come.