We completely rebuilt our Site Creator from the ground up to give you a more modern, powerful and intuitive way to create and update your site.  Many improvements were made both to the design and the user interface, but at the core, it's the same Weebly you know and love.

Now you can see how your mobile site looks on iPhone and Android, choose a unique mobile theme and edit your mobile site directly from your computer. Whether you make updates to your main site or to your mobile site, we make sure both sites are always in sync.

Get ideas and inspiration to help you create a high-quality site or even to have fun refreshing your current one. Site Planner shows you how to organize your information, layout your pages, choose your site address and grow your traffic. And, best of all, it can be easily accessed at anytime while you are working on your site.

After reading your survey responses and talking to many of you on the phone, we were truly inspired by your entrepreneurial spirits and the amazing sites that you have started on Weebly. Our new tagline, "Start Something" reflects the energy, passion and determination you all have shown taking a leap to start a site of your own!

The new Weebly was lovingly hand-crafted here in San Francisco. We're proud to share this update, and we can't wait to show you what we're working on next!

HD Video (Pro)

We’ve enhanced our video element to encode in true HD quality for stunning clarity. We’ve also increased the limit from 100MB to 1GB, allowing up to 30+ minutes of HD quality video. Videos play in HTML5 and are fully compatible for playback on mobile devices and iPads. Check out the player in action as we show you all the exciting features we’re launching today.

Site Search (Pro)

Site search helps your visitors quickly find the information they need.  The results display beautifully right within the theme of your site.  

You can enable the search box in your website header or drag & drop a search box directly into your site. Whenever a change is made to your content, these changes are immediately indexed into the search results.

Header Slideshows (Pro)

Add a slideshow to your header to showcase what’s important to your visitors in an interactive and professional way. Our new header slideshow editor is incredibly intuitive, supporting a variety of impressive transition effects as well as captions and linking on each slide.   

Want to see the header slideshow in action?  Check out the top of this page!

Custom Footers (Pro)

To date, your footer only supported a single line of text, but with our new custom footer feature, it becomes a drag & drop region allowing for a huge range of possibilities. You can create a minimalist footer with a simple copyright message or build a more advanced footer with links to important pages, social media icons, your company’s logo, or a contact form.  

Social Icons Element (Free & Pro)

Our new Social Icons element can be placed into the content and footer areas of your site, complementing the social icons already visible in your header. And we’ve tripled the selection of social icons available, adding popular services like Pinterest, Google+, Flickr, and email.

Embedded Documents (Now a Free Feature!)

The Embedded Document element has always been a feature of Pro, but today we’ve made it available to everyone!  Use it to display documents directly in your website, such as a resume or menu.

Upload Larger Files

We’re happy to now support larger file uploads. The file size limit for Free users has been increased from 5MB to 10MB and the limit for Pro users has been increased from 100MB to 250MB!

We’re super excited to get all these features into your hands. If you’ve been thinking about upgrading to Pro, there’s never been a better time than now!

We wanted to give you a heads up on some changes we will be making to our plans and pricing early next year to support the new Pro features added today.

Most importantly, current Pro customers will not be affected. Your service will be grandfathered, and all Pro features -- including the new ones announced today -- will remain at the current price, including future renewals.  You’ve supported us since the early days, and we greatly appreciate that. Thank you!

Our goal is to give you the best way to create a high-quality and effective site that you’re proud of. The plan changes in January reflect the increased power (and additional cost) of all features just released, and will ensure that we can continue to make Weebly even more powerful than it is today.

Here are the details of what’s coming:

New Plans
We are adding a new entry-level plan, Starter, priced similar to our current Pro plan (around $4/month). Starter will contain a subset of the current Pro features, and the price of the Pro plan will be ~$8/month. If you are a current Pro customer, your price will remain unchanged.

10 Sites for All Accounts
Today, free users are limited to 2 sites. Going forward, all accounts will be able to build 10 sites. The site limit for free users (including existing free users) will be increased from 2 sites to 10. 

Starter/Pro per Site
Starter and Pro will be offered on a per site basis instead of per account. All users that are upgraded to Pro before January 7th will maintain 10 Pro sites per account.

Free Users: Upgrade now before January 7th
Free account users who upgrade before January 7th will lock in the full set of Pro features at the current price, including 10 Pro sites per account. If you’ve been thinking about upgrading to Pro, you’ll definitely want to take advantage of this window.

If you have specific questions about your account that we haven’t addressed here, email us at support@weebly.com.

And last but not least, we’d like to wish everyone a very happy holidays! We're thrilled to close out 2012 with such a big update and even more excited about what we have in store for 2013!

20+ New Themes & 100+ Color Variations

It’s no secret that a great looking, professional theme is critical to your website and brand. We want your sites to look incredible and that’s why we’ve dedicated a team of designers to building the best themes on the web.

When browsing through the new themes, you’ll notice a variety of styles ranging from beautifully graphical to classic minimalist. In addition, you’ll notice another cool feature: color variations! Just hover your mouse over the theme’s thumbnail to pick the color variation that works best for you.

An Expanded Selection of HTML5 Web Fonts

Choosing the right font can be hard and it seems you can never have too many to pick from. With our expanded selection of web fonts, we’ve made it much easier to find that perfect choice. Browse through the new fonts in the “Design Options” area under the “Design” tab of Weebly.

Drag & Drop Uploading

We recently introduced the option to upload photos & files to your website just by dragging and dropping. Save time by dragging photos into the upload window or just drag & drop them directly into your website! When you drop multiple photos, we’ll ask if you want to create a photo gallery or slideshow. Check out this video to see how it all works!

We are always striving to provide the easiest and most powerful website building experience available. 

To help us better understand your needs, we've created a short survey that shouldn't take more than a few minutes to complete. Your answers will really help us prioritize our improvements going forward.  

In return, we want to give away some awesome Weebly schwag! Of the people who fill out the survey, we're going to choose 10 at random to pick their choice of the following prizes!

• A Weebly T-Shirt -- We have various designs and slogans. It's your choice. All t-shirts are high quality and made by American Apparel.
• A Weebly Hoodie -- Dark gray with a light blue Weebly logo, this hoodie will definitely turn heads. Also made by American Apparel.
• A Weebly Shot Glass -- A classic shot glass with the Weebly "W". Great for many occasions.

Introducing Page Layouts
No longer does every page of your site need to share the same layout.  All themes in Weebly have been rewritten from the ground up to support 4 different layouts: a landing page, large header image, short header image, or no header image. This gives you greater flexibility and allows a more professional look. Choose a page layout from the "Pages" tab of Weebly.

Social Media Icons & Phone Number Field
Every theme now has the the option to include social media icons and a phone number field at the top of your website. The icons are designed to match the look & feel of each theme and provide an easy way to direct your visitors to your social profiles around the web. 

*Please note: The features above are available on original Weebly themes.  They will not work with custom themes created through the HTML/CSS editor.

Button Element
The new button element is simple, but powerful. Drag it on, hover over it, choose the desired style, and set the destination link. Each theme has button styles designed to match its look and feel and all buttons have hover and pressed states. Check out the examples below.

25 Brand New, Modern Themes
The new themes in Weebly are simply beautiful.  We've designed the themes with a range of different styles; some themes are minimalist, others are elegant, and others colorful.  You'll have no trouble finding a theme to well represent your brand and personality.  Check them out!

Let us know what you think!
As always, we'd love to hear your feedback. We've been working very hard on these improvements and we're always excited to hear your thoughts.

And finally, a big thank you to our Weebly Pro and domain customers, who make this all possible!

Only a day after our new theme beta test, we're excited to announce the immediate availability of Weebly for iPhone! Now you can post to your blog and manage your site on the go.

Here are a few of the exciting features:

• Create blog posts on the go with our simple drag & drop posting interface.
• Easily add text, photos and videos.
• Custom designed photo filters.
• Rich text editing support for linking, bolding, bulleting, etc.
• Instantly share your posts to Facebook & Twitter with one click.
• Moderate & reply to blog comments and form submissions.
• Detailed site traffic stats.

Click here to download Weebly for iPhone, and if you like it, be sure to give us a 5 star rating in the App Store! We'd love to hear what you think.

A note to Andriod users: We haven't forgotten about you! We're working on an Android app, but we want to make sure we get it perfect and it's going to take some time before we have anything to show you. Stay tuned!

Page Types

With your existing theme, all the pages of your site share the same layout. This means that if you choose a theme with a large header image, every page is required to have a large header image. With page types, the layout of each page is configurable between 4 choices: a landing page, large header image, short header image, or no header image. This gives you greater flexibility and allows a more professional look.

Button Element

The new button element is simple, but powerful. Drag it on, hover over it, choose the desired style, and set the destination link. Each theme has button styles designed to match its look and feel and all buttons have hover and pressed states. Check out the examples below.

Social Media Icons & Phone Numbers

All themes now have areas for social media icons and phone numbers at the top of your site. Just hover over the icons to link them to your social media profiles and click the text to type your phone number or other message. These fields can be turned off under the "Design Options" area if desired.

All the themes in Weebly have been rebuilt from the ground up to support these new page types and features. It was a massive undertaking, and there's the possibility we missed a few things that would result in minor inconsistencies between the old and new versions of your theme.

Due to this risk, we've placed these features into a beta state that you can activate by clicking the button below.

We'll be keeping a close eye on any issues that arise to ensure full stability before introducing these features across the millions of websites on Weebly.

In addition to these features, we're putting the final touches on 20+ new, gorgeous themes that incorporate visually appealing, modern design styles. We're excited to release these themes alongside the official theme relaunch, coming soon after this beta period.

If you're feeling a bit adventurous, activate the beta now and be sure to send your feedback to support@weebly.com!

Did you know that over 10% of your website traffic visits from a mobile device? We were ahead of the curve when we introduced automatic mobile versions of your websites, and today, we're taking things a step further by upgrading your slideshows and photo galleries for mobile optimized viewing and interaction. 

Now, when people are viewing photo galleries or slideshows from a mobile device, the photos open full screen and allow native touch and swipe gestures. This works extremely well not only on iPhones and iPads, but the wide range of Android devices as well. 

Check it out for yourself. Just click a photo in the gallery below from your smartphone or tablet to see these updates in action. 

You'll also notice the following improvements when viewing photo galleries from a computer:

• Slides switch faster from one to the next
  
• You can use your keyboard arrow keys to change slides
  

In addition, we added two new features to slideshows that we think you'll like:

• Option to hide the slideshows controls (play/stop/arrows) that show on mouseover
  
• Choose whether to start the slideshow on the first slide or a random slide
  

Over the past many months, we've also been diligently working on the vast improvements to our themes. We want to thank everyone who's been patiently waiting for these updates. While the release has taken us longer than anticipated, the improvements are substantial and enable much more professional, powerful looking websites. 

We're excited to get these updates into your hands, and it should be just a few more weeks before we have some major news to announce on this front. Stay tuned!