<![CDATA[Weebly Blog - Blog]]>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:16:11 +0700Weebly<![CDATA[Announcing Weebly E-Commerce Features!]]>Wed, 27 May 2009 09:39:30 +0700http://blog.weebly.com/2/post/2009/05/announcing-weebly-e-commerce-features.html

We're launching a simple yet powerful way for you to create an online store through Weebly today. You can read about it at TechCrunch and VentureBeat, but I wanted to take a minute here to introduce you to the new features.

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When editing your site, there are now 4 new elements in the "Revenue" category: Product Block, Product Small, Product Regular and Product Large. The first time you drag one of these on, you will be prompted to associate your PayPal or Google Checkout account with Weebly, so you won't have to worry about that again.
Each style has a different way of organizing your product, so you can have full control over how it is displayed. Even better, mix and match styles to draw attention to certain products over others, include colors variations or other options, and add variety to your store.

Next, you simply upload a picture, add a title for the product, enter a description and (most importantly) enter a price. All of these aspects are fully customizable, so you can hide the picture or description, or change to any other format without dragging on another product.

You have all of the Weebly tools available to create your store. Build it out however you want with complete flexibility -- add featured products on the home page, create pages for categories or products, and feature videos, audio and photo galleries to show off your products in the best light.

Best of all, Weebly does not take a cut of your sales, and these features are included free in all Weebly accounts -- so you can get started selling easily and for free!
We've created a couple sample stores, with screenshots above, so you can see some of the power and flexibility of the system, but we're even more excited to see what you can create! We'll continue featuring existing sites, but will also start featuring new Weebly stores, so be sure to submit your site for consideration.

We're working hard to bring you the quickest, simplest and most powerful way for you to create your online presence, and we're excited to be able to offer the ability for you to sell products from within Weebly. Thanks again for your continued support!
]]><![CDATA[Weebly infrastructure upgrade]]>Tue, 19 May 2009 03:46:32 +0700http://blog.weebly.com/2/post/2009/05/weebly-infrastructure-upgrade.htmlPicture
We just completed a major infrastructure upgrade during our maintenance window last Thursday, May 14th, that we've been working on for a few months. What does that mean for you? Not only should you notice that Weebly is much faster since then, but it also means that we'll be able to keep Weebly fun, snappy and responsive well into the future.

From now on, we are also going to be using the weeblystatus feed to post advance notice of any schedule maintenance, so you can plan your editing activities around those times.

We're getting ready to announce some exciting news soon, but I wanted to quickly post in the mean time and keep you up to date on our efforts to continue making Weebly as best as possible for you.

]]><![CDATA[New themes and features!]]>Sat, 02 May 2009 17:58:43 +0700http://blog.weebly.com/2/post/2009/05/new-themes-and-features.htmlJustin has been working on a new set of themes, and we've just released seven of them into the wild! (You can view a larger version by clicking on the preview).

Favicon customization

We've also just released a new feature for Weebly Pro users: the ability to customize your favicon (that little icon that shows up in the address bar). You can now upload a favicon in the "Settings" tab in the Weebly editor!

Along with the new themes and features, we've pushed a set of bug fixes and speed improvements, so the Weebly editor should now be even faster!

Maintenance notification

Finally, we've set up a weeblystatus Jaiku page, where you can go to get updates and maintenance notification. You can even get an RSS feed of our status notifications.

We're working on some very exciting new features that we'll be releasing soon, so stay posted! Thanks again to all Weebly users for making great sites with Weebly -- we'll continue working hard to make Weebly better, faster and more powerful for you!

]]><![CDATA[New features: more powerful blogging and a cleaner interface]]>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:50:30 +0700http://blog.weebly.com/2/post/2009/04/new-features-more-powerful-blogging-and-a-cleaner-interface.htmlI'm excited to announce a new set of features we rolled out recently: much more powerful blogging features, a fresher, cleaner Weebly interface, and a whole bunch of smaller improvements.

New Blogging Features

First up, we've released an entirely new set of blogging features. Once you're editing your blog, you'll notice a "Manage Blog" button. From here, you can moderate all of the comments for your blog in one fell swoop, and move into the blog settings area, where you can choose to close comments on a blog-wide basis, leave them open, or have them be moderated.

There is also a new post settings area, where you can initiate trackbacks and set the comment moderation settings for each individual post.

Finally, you can also change the post date by clicking on the date when editing a post, and set it to anytime in the past or future.

Cleaner interface

We've also made a significant amount of improvements around the elements interface. The ugly blue boxes that surrounded all elements are now gone, and your site should appear in the editor exactly how it will when published. The blue box surrounding each element that allows you to move the element and delete it now only shows up when hovering over the element.

Also, we've added the ability to move elements from one page to another by clicking on the arrow in the top left hand side of the blue surrounding box.

And more!

We've added quite a few other requested features, including the ability to open links in a new window, constant improvements to our infrastructure to make Weebly faster, an autoplay option on the Weebly audio element, and many other bug fixes and improvements.

As always, we'd like to thank all of your for using Weebly and providing incredibly helpful feedback! You can always suggest and vote for new features by visiting the Weebly slinkset page.

We'd also like to especially thank those users who buy a domain or purchase Weebly pro -- we're working very hard to provide the easiest, fastest, most powerful way for you to create a website and blog out there, and we appreciate your support in helping us achieve that objective.

]]><![CDATA[Help find Nikasia]]>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:45:18 +0700http://blog.weebly.com/2/post/2009/03/help-find-nikasia.html

UPDATE: Nikasia was found!

Nikasia Nowell is a 13-year old girl from West Oaklane, Philadelphia that went missing on March 12th, 2009. Her family has created a Weebly site to help spread the word.

If you have seen Nikasia or have any information about her whereabouts, please contact the local police or the family here.

You can also help spread the word by Twittering about the site, or by re-tweeting the family's original message.

]]><![CDATA[Want to help translate Weebly?]]>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:23:18 +0700http://blog.weebly.com/2/post/2009/03/want-to-help-translate-weebly.html

We're currently looking for people who are able to help us translate Weebly into other languages. Specifically, we're looking for help translating Weebly into:

- Spanish
- French
- Chinese
- German
- Japanese
- Italian
- Arabic
- Portuguese
- Korean

If you know any of those languages and are willing to help out, please send an email to translate@weebly.com. Thanks!

]]><![CDATA[New Weebly Affiliate Program]]>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 05:25:48 +0700http://blog.weebly.com/2/post/2009/03/new-weebly-affiliate-program.html

I'm happy to announce the launch of the Weebly Affiliate program. We've had people write in for quite a while asking if there was any way they could make money helping us promote Weebly, and we're glad that we now have a program to do so.

The terms are very straightforward: sign up at http://affiliate.weebly.com/, and place your affiliate link or banners on your website. You will earn a 25% commission on any sales you refer, which can add up fast.

There are a few ground rules: We will absolutely not tolerate affiliates who spam, and you are not able to advertise against the keyword "weebly". Other than that, we'd love to work with you and help in any way we can -- feel free to email us at affiliates@weebly.com.

]]><![CDATA[Announcing Custom Themes!]]>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:53:28 +0700http://blog.weebly.com/2/post/2009/02/announcing-custom-themes.html

After quite a bit of work building and testing the new custom theme features, we're happy to announce that we've finally launched the ability for any user to incorporate their own theme into Weebly.

When logged in and editing your website, you'll now see an "Advanced Editing" tab that appears when you are choosing a design. Click on this tab, and you will be able to edit the full HTML code and CSS styles of your website and upload files your theme depends on.

Once you do so, you'll be presented with a full suite of tools designed to help make advanced customization as simple as possible. From a syntax-highlighted code editor, to an instant preview tab, we've put some work into making the editing interface simple and comfortable.

When you've created a theme you like, you can export it by clicking on the "Export" button, which will prompt you to download the theme package .zip file. You can then give this theme file to any other Weebly user, who will be able to import the theme by clicking "Custom" and then "Import" under the Designs tab.

We're always working long days (and nights!) making Weebly the easiest and most powerful way for you to create a website, and we have a lot of exciting features coming up soon, including a simple way for you to customize your page without having to edit any HTML or CSS.

Thanks again for using Weebly, and thanks especially to the users who support us by purchasing pro or buying a domain -- we couldn't do it without you!

]]><![CDATA[Beta users wanted]]>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:58:11 +0700http://blog.weebly.com/2/post/2009/01/beta-users-wanted.htmlWe will be beta testing a set of features that allows any Weebly user to customize their theme, and are looking for users who know a bit of HTML/CSS and would be willing to spend a little time to test out the new features, won't mind if things aren't 100% solid yet, and will be able to give us some thoughtful feedback.

In return, you'll be able to get access to these features before anyone else, and have complete control over the design of your site.

UPDATE: These features have been released.

]]><![CDATA[Merry Christmas!]]>Thu, 25 Dec 2008 01:31:53 +0700http://blog.weebly.com/2/post/2008/12/merry-christmas.html

Merry Christmas and happy holidays from the entire team here at Weebly! Wishing you and yours a very merry holiday season.

- David, Dan, Chris, Justin and Drew

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