We’re releasing a pack of new features this Monday, including the ability to upload files, a completely rehauled linker, the ability to add custom HTML tags to your page, and a new process for upgrading, among multiple other bug fixes and tweaks.

File Upload. You can now upload files to your Weebly page, and they’ll automatically be linked for you. Weebly will create a well formatted download area with the file’s name, size, and extension, and will display a different file icon depending on the file’s type.

Weebly recognizes over 150 types of files, and will display over 40 unique icons. Additionally, Weebly automatically virus checks all uploaded files.

New Linker. You can now create multiple different kinds of links within the Linker, accessible from the text editor.

You can link to any of your Weebly pages automatically — without typing in a URL — and Weebly will make sure that those links don’t break, no matter how many times you might rename your page. You can also link to any website or email address, as well as to any uploaded file. Weebly manages your files and does “garbage collection” for you, so you won’t run into a broken link, but you also won’t have any unnecessary files.

Custom HTML. You can now copy and paste chunks of HTML on to your page. Our goal is that we have every element you’d want to drag on your page, that you can completely configure without editing any code. But, since you might want to add something to your page we don’t support yet, you can copy and paste the HTML snippet into a Custom HTML element. The code will be hidden away, and you’ll be able to manipulate it just like any other element. And last, we automatically “quarantine” your HTML snippet in an iframe, so that it can remain independent from your page without the risk of damaging your theme.

New Upgrade Path. Finally, we’ve just put in a new feature that will prevent caching of changed files, and automatically upgrade your client, while you’re using it, to the newest version. This will happen seamlessly, while you’re using the software, and none of your changes will be lost.

Aside from these major feature upgrades, we’ve also released many smaller tweaks and bug fixes. As always, we appreciate any bug reports or other feedback. Stay tuned later this week for another release, and two large feature to be released next week.

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We just rolled out a couple of new features: You can now Edit, Crop, Resize, Enhance and Adjust your pictures in the new integrated Snipshot image editor, we’ll present a warning (but allow you to continue) if you are using an unsupported browser, we released some small updates to the themes, and a couple other small changes & fixes.  

The main released feature, Snipshot integration, allows you to easily edit your image, crop and resize it, automatically enhance it and adjust your image’s brightness, contrast, saturation, hue and sharpness, all within the Weebly interface.  Once you’re done editing your image, click “Continue”, and your image is automatically included in your site.  To access the feature, double click on any image and click “Edit/Crop/Resize Image”.

Thanks to everyone who submitted feedback — over 100 since our last major feature post. Special thanks to ’skalf’, ‘mdrinera’, and Colin on TechCrunch who pointed us to our improper \’ apostrophe handling. Keep all the great feedback coming — we’re all working as hard as we can to bring you the best possible web site creation tool, and it plays a huge role in deciding what features we develop next.

 
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As you may have read on VentureBeat, TechCrunch, or YCombinator’s home page, we recently received seed funding from YCombinator, and moved to the San Francisco bay area. Since Dan, Chris and I are all now working on this 24/7, expect some cool features in the next couple weeks.

 
 

This blog post serves two purposes: to announce a new, simplified sign-up process, and to let you know of important announcements in the next week.

First, we’ve just implemented a simplified sign-up process. You can now sign-up without an email address, and use the system right away, even before confirming your email address. You’ll still want to enter an email address so you can retrieve your password if you lose it, but it’s no longer required.

Second, we’ll be making some big anouncements next week. Stay tuned, and be sure to check out Matt Marshall’s blog, VentureBeat.

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