Weebly Pumpkin Carving Contest 10/20/2010
UPDATE: Some people have been experiencing a problem uploading photos to our Facebook page. If you're having trouble, just email your photo to info@weebly.com. ------------------------------------ In honor of fall and Halloween festivities, we are hosting a Weebly Pumpkin carving contest! We have created a couple of templates that you can print out and use for your pumpkin, although we encourage you to be creative and represent Weebly in your own design if you’d like. Download the basic template or download the advanced template to get started. If you're feeling extra creative, you can carve in some Weebly dudes from our Twitter page. Once your pumpkin is complete, take a nice clear photo and post it to our Facebook page. You can submit your photos until Friday, October 29th. Like any good pumpkin carving contest, there will be prizes! We will be giving away free 1-year pro accounts and free 1-year domain packages to the top 3 winners. The winners' names and pumpkin pictures will also be featured in our Halloween blog post. So let’s see some Weebly spirit and some awesome pumpkins! To get you in the mood, we found some cool pumpkins from the Internets: We also found a video with some pumpkin carving tips: Good luck & Happy Halloween! 35 Comments Photo Slideshows Now Available! 10/05/2010
 We're proud to release one of our most requested features - photo slideshows! Now it's incredibly easy to display photos on your website or blog in a beautiful, professional slideshow format. The new slideshow element (available under the "Multimedia" category of elements) allows bulk uploading of photos, automatic resizing, transition effects, captions, and many different display styles. Check out these examples. Slideshow with thumbnails on the right: Slideshow with numbers on the bottom: Simple slideshow with captions and the auto-play option turned on: We're working super hard to bring you the features you need to build beautiful, professional websites. Thank you for your support! We'd love to hear what you think in the comments. Weebly just got faster! For the last couple weeks we've been putting the polish on our text editor to give you a smoother experience. Before, editing text could sometimes be a bit buggy. If you pasted text from Microsoft Word, the formatting would sometimes be different than the rest of your site, and removing a link could be difficult. We heard your feedback and just released the following updates
And finally, we also released 6 new themes we hope you'll enjoy       Stay tuned to the blog next week -- we have a few awesome features we're getting ready to release! And as always, we appreciate your feedback and are working as hard as we can to make Weebly better for you every day. You can view our most-requested features and vote on your own requests at our feature request page. Thanks again for using Weebly! New Themes For Your Websites 08/11/2010
We just released 9 new website themes that we think you'll really enjoy! The themes have a range of different artistic styles and are all around very polished & professional. You'll notice that all the themes have a header image that's easily replaceable with one of your own using the ImagePerfect tool we announced last week. Many of these themes were actually top contenders in the Weebly Design Contest we held back in May. You'll be seeing more themes from the contest being released in the coming weeks. Click on the thumbnails below to see the themes in full size, and of course, let us know what you think in the comments!          Introducing Weebly ImagePerfect 08/04/2010
Editing an image isn't easy -- even basic things like resizing, cropping, rotating and aligning your image perfectly can be frustrating to get right. You talked, we listened, and we're excited to release the next step in Weebly's ongoing improvement: Weebly ImagePerfect. When you mouse over the header image on your site, you will now see an "Edit Image" button. When you click on this button, we'll open up the ImagePerfect interface.  From here, you can:
Here are a few sample header images we created to show how powerful ImagePerfect is:     We're incredibly excited to finally be able to release these features. We're always working tirelessly on building your top requested features, so please continue to let us know how we can keep improving Weebly for you! We've been very busy lately creating a set of features to help you customize your website header images. Most themes have a header image, or banner, at the top of the page. Now, you can easily replace this default image with one of your own, or one from our gallery. You can also add text into the image and all sorts of cool effects. To top it off, each page of your site can have its own header image. These features are truly awesome and we think you're going to love them!  Before we release these features live on weebly.com, we want to get them fully tested by those interested to make sure they are perfect. Here's how to check out the new features:
 Brett Ashton and Derek Steer, friends to many of us on the Weebly team, are currently riding their bikes across the entire United States to raise awareness & money for World Bicycle Relief. They have made it about 2/3 the way through their 4000+ mile, three month journey and have been chronicling their adventures in detail on their Weebly website, powerofbicycles.com. World Bicycle Relief is an organization that provides bikes to people who need better access to food, water, education, & health care. For example, in Zambia, Africa, AIDS is a widespread epidemic and World Bicycle Relief has given thousands of bikes to health care workers, allowing them to deliver AIDS treatment to patients in remote areas of the country. World Bicycle Relief also provides bikes to the children of Zambia to help them get to school. Children in Zambia often have to walk dozens of miles to get to class. Having a bicycle makes this multiple hour long commute a lot more feasible for the children. Brett and Derek have had an exciting, eye opening journey so far, but they've also experienced a number of difficulties including severe knee pains, many flat tires, broken spokes, and very HOT conditions. Here's a little excerpt from their blog:  "At 9:45pm, Derek got his third flat of the day. It was completely dark, and he had to remove his headlamp from his handbars so that he could see to fix it. It's hard to say whether the light from the big rigs passing by at 70mph was a welcome help or just plain terrifying. Now without any spare tubes left, we rolled into Fort Stockton. We spotted what looked like the only restaurant near any of the motels, a Chinese buffet, and rushed in 5 minutes before closing. It was 11:30 by the time we checked into our hotel and after 1 before we got to sleep. It was a 19-hour day, during which we probably spent 13-14 hours on the road or fixing flats." We're super proud of these guys for battling through these obstacles, day after day, all in an effort to increase the awareness for World Bicycle Relief. A bike costs about $130 to provide; and these guys have raised enough money to provide 46 bikes, so far. Their goal is to raise enough money to provide 200 bikes, so they still have a ways to go and only a few weeks left to do it. If you'd like to donate to this great cause, you can visit the donation page here. Keep in mind that you don't have to donate enough for an entire bike, as even a $10 donation is highly appreciated. Brett & Derek put together a quick video to talk about their experience and why they're doing this, and we've also included a second video to show the real impact of WBR's efforts that you can watch below. Congrats to Brett & Derek -- we wish you guys the best on the rest of your journey!! PS. Great job creating an outstanding Weebly website. Announcing the Design Contest Winners! 06/11/2010
We're proud to announce the cash prize winners of the Weebly Design Contest. The competition was strong with over 2,000 themes submitted. Our expert judging panel narrowed down the selection to their top 10 favorites, and then the Weebly users voted to determine the top 3 prize winners. There were so many outstanding designs contributed, and we want to thank everyone who participated and voted! Without further ado, the winners are: 1st Place - In Touch with Nature  Prize: $10,000 Designer: Michael Heald 2nd Place - Low Lights  Prize: $2,000 Designer: Evaldas Vaitkus 3rd Place - Clean, Crisp, & Structured  Prize: $1,000 Designer: Frederick Rosales 12 New & Beautiful Themes are Now Available 05/27/2010
If you've been thinking about giving your website a fresh look, you're in luck! Over the past few days, we released some new, slick themes that are available under the Design tab of the Weebly editor. Many of these themes come with a great looking header image already in place, but if you want to replace this image with one more appropriate for your site, just click on it and upload a new one. We hope you enjoy these new themes and want to thank you again for your support of Weebly!             Our expert judging panel has chosen their top 10 favorite themes submitted to the Weebly Design Contest and it's now up to you to determine the winners of the $13,000 in cash prizes! The voting period starts now and will end on June 2nd at 11:59:59pm PT. You can visit the voting page now to cast your vote. We want to thank everyone who participated in the contest! The competition was strong with over 2,000 themes submitted, and although there are only ten finalists, all of the best themes submitted to the contest will be converted for use by all Weebly users! Here are the top 10 theme finalists (in no particular order):           | Service Status
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