We just pushed out some new additions to the form element that we think you'll enjoy.

Predefined Options:

When collecting information from your website visitors, you probably want to ask common questions like "How old are you?", "How satisfied are you?", or "Where are you from?".  We added a new feature called "predefined options" that makes asking these questions really easy.  With one click, you can have all the appropriate options added into your form.  We'd hate for you to have to manually type out all 50 state names!

File upload field:

Now you can accept file uploads from your website visitors!  Just drag on the "file upload" field to a form and you can instantly be accepting pictures, documents, or whatever you wish through your website.  Due to the space requirements of accepting a lot of file uploads from your website visitors, we've made this feature available to our pro account members.

We hope you enjoy these updates! We have some more super cool stuff coming out shortly, so stay tuned.  As always, we really appreciate your support of Weebly!

We've worked incredibly hard to build the easiest, most powerful website creator out there, so that you can build yourself a website, and have it hosted, free of charge. Over three million people can't be wrong -- and we're incredibly proud to be able to help you get online.

We also listen very closely to your feedback and have heard from some of you that while you're comfortable using Weebly to build your site, you've never built a website before and would like someone to walk you through the process from start to finish.

That's why we're excited to announce that our design team can now build you a professional website, complete with a customized header image and color scheme to match your desired look. Our staff will spend hours working with you one-on-one to understand your specific needs and build you a custom site from the ground up. The website also includes 1 year of Weebly pro service, which normally costs about $50.

Once you're satisfied with your new site, our team will hand it off to you, and you can easily make future updates with the familiar Weebly editor.

What do you get?

   * A professionally designed website (5 pages included)
   * Unlimited design revisions for 30 days
   * A free year of Weebly Pro (A $50 value)

How does it work?

   1. Call (877) 324-3977 to get started.
   2. You pay a one-time fee of $449.
   3. You tell us exactly what you want during an initial consultation.
   4. We show you multiple revisions and you approve what you like.
   5. Your website is finished within 1-2 weeks!

Traditionally, a professionally created website costs many thousands of dollars. Now, we're able to provide you with a stunning website that you're able to make future updates to yourself, all at a fraction of the price.

If you're comfortable using Weebly to create your own site, that's great! This service likely isn't for you.

However, if your time is valuable and you'd like someone with experience to walk you through the process, we're here for you. We're very excited about this new offering, and we hope you are too!  Click the images below to see some example sites created by our team for Weebly customers.

Want to learn more?  Call our design team right now at (877) 324-3977.  The first 100 customers to sign up will receive a 10% discount!

Just in time for Christmas, we have a holiday gift for you! We've just released new form building features that let you completely customize and build new forms, including contact forms, RSVP forms, surveys, or anything else you can dream up!
 

You'll see a new category under "More" called "Forms". Here, we've added a Contact Form, RSVP Form and Survey Form. Once you've added one of these forms to your page, click it to start customizing it.

Once you click on the form, you'll notice that the rest of the page fades away, letting you focus on the form you're working on.

The elements bar now contains the form fields that you can add to your form, including short and large text areas, option buttons, a dropdown box, checkboxes, a name field, an email field, an address field and a phone number field. You can add these fields to your form by dragging them on to the page.

There are several advanced options you can set, such as modifying the confirmation message a user sees after submitting a form, setting a special confirmation page, modifying the field instructions (a little box shown with instructions when the field is selected) and setting a field as required or not. You can also download the form entries as a .csv file, or view them right from within Weebly.

When you're done, publish your site! Your visitors will be able to fill out the form created, and their entries will be emailed to you and stored in Weebly to view and download later!

We're still a small team, but we're working hard day and night to improve Weebly for you and help make creating a website fun, fast, easy, and free. We've got a lot planned for 2010, and are excited to finish and release some of the major features we are currently working on!

Happy Holidays, and thanks again for your feedback and support!

You may have recently noticed a few updates to the photo gallery element.  Now we offer you the option to add captions on your images or setup links to other pages or websites!

This feature is very easy to use -- just click on your photo gallery images in the editor and you'll see a few icons.  The chain link icon is used to setup an image link and the text bubble icon is used to add a caption.  The captions show when you're viewing the gallery images at full size or when hovering your mouse over the thumbnail. Check out the examples below and let us know what you think in the comments!

Weebly is of course the best way to build your own website, but now we're piloting a new program that would let a professional design team create your Weebly website for you!  After a quick consultation about what you need on your website, our design partners would go to town, building you a website worthy of an award.  Once you're satisfied, the website would be transferred into your Weebly account so you can update it using the familiar Weebly editor.  

We're looking for a few volunteers who'd like to give this a try, for free.  It's okay if you already have a website -- we can redesign it!  For this pilot test, we're primarily in search of small business owners looking for a more professional website & design.  We're only able to select a few volunteers for this opportunity, but in the future, this service will be available to everyone for a reasonable fee.  Just click the link below to apply, and if selected, our design partners will be in touch with you shortly.  We'd love to hear what you think in the comments.

Update 10/12: We have received an overwhelming number of volunteers and do not need more at the moment.  Thank you!

Update 10/28: We've contacted the handful of people selected for this pilot test.  We had so many great candidates and unfortunately can't build everyone a free site -- I wish we could!  Thank you to everyone who applied!  We will make a future blog post to announce when the custom built website service is available.

We've just released a new customizable poll feature, in partnership with PollDaddy! You can now drag and drop a poll on your page, edit and customize it right from within the Weebly editor. Here's a sample poll:

The new polling element comes jam-packed with features, and you don't even have to leave Weebly to use it! Simply drag on the "Online Poll" widget from within the "More" category, click it, and then click "Edit Poll".

From there, you can create multiple polls, set up the question you're asking, add and remove answers, and set up the poll theme. After you're done, click "Save Poll" -- the overlay window closes and you're immediately back in the Weebly editor. It's as simple as that!

We've been working at a break-neck pace to keep making Weebly better and better for you. We're monitoring your feedback very closely, and developing the features you request most. You can always make your voice heard at our Weebly slinkset page.

Thanks again for using Weebly, and we appreciate your support!

We've just released an awesome amount of features that we've been working on, including sub-pages, a video player, a flash element, embedded documents and foreign currency support!

This is quite possibly the most exciting feature of this release. When editing your site's pages under the "Pages" tab, you can now drag these pages left and right to group them under other pages.

This allows you to order your pages and create a page structure, so that you can create more pages and remain organized.

Once you've defined a structure, these pages will automatically be organized in a menu format -- hover over one page, and a menu drops down with its sub-pages.

There is no limit to the number of pages and sub-pages you can create, so you can have the freedom to unleash your creativity!

As part of this release, excess pages that would have previously caused the menu to overflow onto two lines will now be grouped into a "More" category.

If you don't want Weebly to do that, there is an option under the "Settings" tab to disable this new functionality.

While we're constantly improving Weebly for everyone, we're also thinking about those of you that show us the ultimate form of support by purchasing a pro account. Two of the new features, the video player and embedded documents, are now part of Weebly Pro.

Video Player

The video element allows you to upload a video directly within Weebly, and display the video in a professional, unbranded player.

It's as simple as dragging on the video player and uploading a video. No need to visit any other sites and, best of all, your video will be displayed with a very professional presentation: no branding, and a simple, sleek UI.

Embedded Documents

The embedded documents element lets you upload a document, such as a Word, Excel or Powerpoint file, and have it be displayed in a window on your page. Instead of forcing your visitors to download the file to view it, they can now see its contents, right from your web page!

We've also released a few other new features, such as a Flash element, that lets you upload a Flash file and have it displayed on your page, as well as foreign currency support in all e-commerce elements, which lets you choose other currencies besides US Dollars when using PayPal.



We're always doing our best to make Weebly easy, fast and powerful, so you can have fun making your own website!

As always, we appreciate that you're using Weebly, and we're actively listening to what you want next: you can always vote on new features at our Weebly Slinkset page.

We're especially thankful to our Pro users and users who buy a domain: without you, we wouldn't be able to keep improving Weebly. Thanks!

Thanks to Justin's hard work, we're happy to release 8 new themes for the Weebly community.

Justin designed these themes with education, business and wedding sites in mind, but by uploading your own header images, they should look great for any type of site.

As always, thanks for your support, and stay tuned for some exciting new features soon!

We're happy to announce an improved photo gallery element!  Our newest addition to the Weebly team, Adam, has been hard at work the past few weeks to release the new gallery with the following improvements:

• Next/previous buttons:  After you click to view an image larger, hover over the photo to see next/previous links to easily load the next/previous photo in the gallery.
• Border options: Choose between a few different border styles, or no border at all.
• Squared images: If you have photos of different aspect ratios in the same gallery, things can look a little messy.  The square images option displays all the photos square so they're always in a perfect grid.
• No more white backgrounds: You may have noticed with the old photo gallery that a white background was automatically added to photos that did not have a 4:3 ratio.  This problem has been fully fixed!

If you have an old gallery already on your site, republishing your site will add the next/previous feature; however, if you'd like to have the other features, just drag on a new photo gallery element and re-upload your photos.

We hope you enjoy the new features!  Check out the sample galleries below and let us know what you think in the comments.

As you can tell, this is a huge improvement, and we're excited to be able to roll it out live tonight.

We've made quite a few other incremental changes, such as improved design for certain parts of the editor, as well as a significant number of bug fixes and other improvements.

We also had quietly pushed some changes over the last month, such as bulleted and numbered list support, a "Read more" break element that lets you control the length of your blog posts' previews, the ability to add image captions and edit the image's ALT tags, the ability to choose a blog post's "permalink", and that your blog will now recognize and highlight comments made by you when you are logged in.

Even better, there are a few exciting things coming up that we will be able to release soon, so stay tuned!

Thanks again for using Weebly -- we appreciate your support and come to work every day excited to continue making Weebly the fastest, simplest and most powerful way to create a website for you.