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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!
 


Comments

tornadowx
03/17/2012 12:30pm

Nice!

tornadowx
03/17/2012 12:36pm

But it doesn't work on my Android...

03/17/2012 12:48pm

Hmm, we're sorry to hear that. We tested on Andriod successfully, but given the wide range of devices and OS versions, it may not work on all of them. Please let us know the model name and number of your phone, along with the OS version you're running by emailing support@weebly.com so we can investigate further.

04/03/2012 7:37am

it works fine on my razor! thanks weebly!

04/08/2012 12:39pm

So far, it is working for me also.

04/08/2012 7:48pm

works perfectly on my Android..running Acer Liquid E,,,just posting 146 pic? slide show...and showing beautifully..thanks so much Weebly!

teila
04/25/2012 3:47pm

thats becuze cell phones are not as smart as computers

03/18/2012 11:46am

Really very good updates! Kindly release the new themes soon.

03/20/2012 5:24am

Nice updates. but do release the new themes soon.

04/09/2012 11:33am

Good Job! We like to have new themes.

04/10/2012 3:57am

Thanks!

03/21/2012 11:03am

Awesome feature on an already great product. Keep up the great work Weebly.

03/22/2012 3:18am

It definitely is nice!! I need to implement on my site http://www.smallday.in/ and i like to have search traffic for Parenting, Controlling diabetes naturally, food etc.... And if it works for androids, it is icing on the cake :D

03/28/2012 2:40pm

Cool..

03/30/2012 10:29am

Works on my new Sony Xperia S

03/31/2012 11:35pm

Works well for me too

04/06/2012 7:37pm

What happened to the ability to size the slide shows? I was able to size mine before (Small, Medium, Large), but now it seems that this feature has disappeared. The slide shows are now too large.

04/12/2012 3:37pm

well then your computer doesnt have a size at all...LOL...

04/07/2012 6:32pm

hahahaha! thats cool

04/10/2012 8:51pm

you guys are amazing!!! keep the updates coming!!!
check out my website, mockingjayrocks.weebly.com

04/27/2012 3:13pm

Weebly is the best! I liked webs better, but the was before i found weebly! Check out my game website at www.flashgames1337.weebly.com

04/29/2012 3:24pm

yes very nice

03/17/2012 12:46pm

It would be nice to be able to choose the size for your slide shows as most pictures are different sizes which makes the slide shows to be HUGE. Picture Collages would be ideal too =)

03/18/2012 10:07am

You can change the size of slide shows by placing them in a multiple column. (They automatically adjust to fit in the column.) Hope this helps!

04/06/2012 7:38pm

I've tried that. It doesn't work.

Eduardo
03/17/2012 2:31pm

Nice job but please make updates releases faster!!! I LOVE WEEBLY!

03/17/2012 9:39pm

Fantastic news Weebly! Well Done!

03/22/2012 2:40pm

Thanks Weebly. This is awesome. Keep it up! :)

04/09/2012 11:41am

I also love Weebly.

03/17/2012 2:35pm

Once again, weebly, nicely done! Looks absolutely amazing! One question: when will the weebly iOS app come out?

03/17/2012 2:42pm

Hi, please make this available to other phone as well. Not everyone has iPhone or Android. I, myself like other people, use Samsung Focus running Windows Phone 7.5 and whenever I tap on the picture it doesn't show me anything.

03/18/2012 9:36pm

Agreed! I would love to see a Windows Phone 7 App!

03/17/2012 3:08pm

Great job! Thanks!

03/17/2012 4:04pm

i have stuck around weebly for a long time . not sure how much longer i will stay if those new themes aren't out soon. i'm getting left behind. need to incorporate more social media plugs, and links etc. pinterest, g+, etc.

thanks so much!

03/17/2012 10:50pm

Hi Herman, not sure if this is what you mean but i just add these in with the custom html , get the code and drop it in . you can check out my site (which needs a design update, i know but it's still going great for me ) www.guestsmartialarts.com.au

Perhaps weebly could record a youtube video on how to do it if they've not already

03/22/2012 11:50am

There are a lot of third-party how-to things you can look up. I added our floating Social Media buttons by Googling, 'Add Social Media Buttons to Weebly Site', and it walked you through it, it's pretty simple.

Although you're right, I would love to have that be a Weebly plug-in, because when I finish at my site this year, I'll have to teach them how to alter it, which'll take a while.

04/02/2012 3:08am

Yes, I agree. More plugins would definitely be an advantage. I am fairly new to Weebly and getting on much better than other platforms I have tried. About to launch my website to the public!

04/04/2012 3:21pm

But it will slow the web page to load and it will hurt the rankings....I like the weebly what it is now...I have checked the times for the blogs and it loads at an average time....

04/06/2012 7:40pm

I love Weebly, but I think the usable space on the page needs to be wider. It seems very narrow.

03/17/2012 4:32pm

Please release the new themes soon. Is there any information about a date or something around that?

03/17/2012 4:52pm

Nice...

03/17/2012 9:32pm

Thanks again for great job!! Love Weebly!

03/17/2012 10:35pm

I am operating a site where I place College Recruiting Profiles for High School Athletes and the Slideshow is awesome. Easy to use and it really looks great. With the youtube video upload and the slide show we have all we need to present our players in a professional manner to college coaches.

03/17/2012 10:37pm

Awesome feature on an already great product. Keep up the great work Weebly.

Ness
03/18/2012 12:06am

What about captions for photo galleries?
I'd like for the photo gallery element to have captions for the thumbnails and the option to link the thumbnail picture to another page on the site (like the normal photo element) and not just to the full sized version of the image.

I love Weebly and this improvement would mean a lot for my site. Is there any chance of this happening?

03/18/2012 2:45am

nice, i like weebly

03/18/2012 5:13am

Even with a small staff and millions of websites around the world, Weebly has consistantly had great service with a great product. I have used Weebly to build business websites since 2008 with the start of the PRO account. If you folks want a fantastic experience when building your website, GO PRO!! Thanks Weebly for the fun!!

03/18/2012 5:58am

WOO! Can't wait for the new releases

03/18/2012 9:18am

Weebly indeed never leaves us empty handed. You are awesome.
It is the site with a big/kind Heart and one that constantly keeps on improving for the benefits of its members.

Keep it up Weebly. Indeed with a little patience you are always
there to SURPRISE us with NEW developments. We are proud to
be part of Weebly Family.

03/18/2012 9:57am

Thanks Weebly this is really cute but uh... When are you rolling out the new templates and features?? I'm getting to the point where I find myself changing codes or buying third party templates and that, to me, defeats the whole purpose of Weebly to begin with. Not to mention that this update in features was was down the bottom of the list of what everyone actually voted for.

JMV
03/31/2012 7:07pm

I agree. The the current templates got old fast. Weebly was the best option two years ago but hasn't kept up with the recent competition. Please offer better templates soon!!!

03/18/2012 2:25pm

Great to see you guys are not only working on the major things but also the smaller bits that make our lives that littlee bit easier!

Thanks for all of your hard work and support as always.

03/18/2012 4:01pm

Question? I have a tablet and a blackberry curve. I can't get videos or slideshows to work on either. Very important for my business. Any solutions?

03/18/2012 4:38pm

We would like to have the option to comment on blog posts via facebook (connect facebook to our site). Is that possible?

03/18/2012 7:03pm

Great updates
Slideshows and photogalleries always look fabulous on my site.
Thanks

Gaadup
03/19/2012 1:10am

waiting for news themes. Still haven't started my website on weebly though taken membership 8 months back. Want to start with news themes so still waiting.

03/19/2012 1:14am

Yes, please don't miss the Footer improvements.. very important

03/19/2012 1:29am

I teach people how to design websites using Weebly here in the UK - my students will love the faster gallery pics and the mobile slideshows - great work :-)

ps I second Ness's request for an option to display captions with thumbnails.

Please ♥ Weebly by going PRO - it's amazing value!

03/19/2012 5:14am

Hi! It's really nice to read new Weebly blog entry. Fresh news from you brings in updades and new features. Thank you.
Please do not forgett about footer improvements and I would like to see "nofollow" possibility, when linking to other www site (not only open in a new window). Thank you.
Anyway good job Weebly team. Thanks!
Have a nice day!

03/19/2012 6:00am

Thank you for all the new mobile features!

Anand
03/19/2012 6:11am

I must say - Too Little Too Late.

The cosmetics updates are nice-to-have but please understand, your paid (and free) customers use Weebly not only to build a good looking site but also to have a functional site. With your last few (and far in-between) releases, you are largely being perceived to be ignoring (or incompetent?) any enhancements towards improving website functionality. In case you have lost track, take a look below;
- your last functional modification was mid December (more than 3 months ago)
- One prior to that was in the month of October (about 6 months ago)

Wonder if you have given up on your passion, which was being supported by paid customers, of building a 'different' platform and happy being just another surviving-free-website-builder.

I have been extremely patient and waiting just because i too love Weebly like many others do.

Anand
03/19/2012 6:42am

Sorry but just to let you that you know how patiently have your customers been waiting.
You had asked your customers to suggest and vote for features. Here is what you have delivered over last few months and votes for each released feature;
Font choices - 59 votes
Slideshow option - 25 votes
Mobile version - 25 votes
Multiple editors - 16 votes.

There are a many with more than 1000 votes.

I truly appreciate that you are a small team and the work your team has been doing but then growth oriented start-ups don't make that excuse, do they?

Katya Reimann
04/11/2012 11:06am

I've noticed the same thing. It's like the smaller things are getting cherrypicked, rather than the big "elephant in the room" stuff.

03/19/2012 8:27am

Definitely, computer and Internet technologies mobilized. And soon, instead of 5-6 different devices, we will have a small computer, which will be always at hand and can perform many functions.

03/19/2012 8:34am

This is all well and good, but there are two problems. The "summer focussed on design" is nearly a year old, and the blog post announcing it was just dropped of the "recent post" list by this post (or perhaps the "inspiration" one.)

03/19/2012 9:27am

Outstanding -- I was just thinking of the expected updates in the last few days and wondering if/when we would see them. Glad to know you think it will be soon!

03/19/2012 2:02pm

Hope the new themes come out soon. It would be great to have the option of changing things like the width of the template, add a background, colors, etc.

03/19/2012 11:10pm

hi,

the new functionality regarding slideshows does not work with the lg optimus v which uses android 2.2.1.

03/20/2012 5:39am

Thanks so much for all your hard work. Obviously it seems that some poo poo the updates that take time, energy to make right before release. I'm glad to have your service and truly appreciate how hard a small number of people are working to help the world make better sites. Thanks

03/20/2012 6:16am

Thanks for all the updates. Keep them coming.
I love Weebly :)

03/20/2012 10:15am

When will the iOS App come out? And will it be available in the Netherlands?

03/20/2012 12:38pm

When is the Iphone app coming out?

03/20/2012 1:16pm

Excellent work as always Weebly!

03/20/2012 1:25pm

Well done Weebly, keep up the good work.

03/20/2012 7:54pm

Very nice!

Thanks Weebly!

03/21/2012 2:26am

hopefully, weebly would make a login system, to make profiles, and such. But i don't have to stress over themes :) i make them myself :) just learn from the docs and then you'll get along :D

03/21/2012 6:17am

I'm excited!
I mean, the updates do take time, and that really did not fly well with me since I pay for Weebly's services. Then I discovered that their team is really small, plus compared to the other WYSIWYG builders out there, Weebly is top of the line.

Concerning updates, themes are easy to customize, I think that there are other features that might take precedence over themes. Still, I have no problem in doing tutorials on how to update your templates in the meantime.

I re-activated my old blog, jaylacreates.weebly.com so that anyone who has questions can feel free to ask there. I will help out the best way that I can with tuts and free themes until the Weebsters get the theme ball rolling.

Until then, keep it coming Weebly!

Anon
03/21/2012 6:37pm

Please make it possible to put captions under the thumbnails in the photo gallery element! Please!

thanks ..but waiting for more templates :)

03/23/2012 9:12am

Nice!

03/23/2012 11:43am

Awesome article!

03/23/2012 2:20pm

Thanks. Now we are getting faster slide show.

03/24/2012 3:19pm

Thanks for all your efforts to improve Weebly Websites (which is already pretty awesome)!

03/24/2012 9:48pm

I am so happy the controls are gone!
makes my website much more tidier - thank you for the improvements!

BRAEDEN RHYS
Business Director

www.triamond.com.au

03/25/2012 2:11am

Thank you Weebly, the photo galleries look so much better, now they look more pro.

I'm looking forward on new weebly features. I am thinking of using weebly on all my websites (pro version), the only thing that stops me now is seo optimization which seems to be harder on weebly than on wordpress.

Tom
03/25/2012 5:43am

Weebly is the best!!!

03/25/2012 6:00am

Weebly has proven to be the tool to use for getting input from others.
Thanks Weebly for your website

03/26/2012 8:05am

Wow yeah man, I'm sure it is a great way for you to get INFO from others because your site is completely a phising site! Pshhh!

03/25/2012 8:05pm

the photo galleries look great!

03/26/2012 8:18am

So excited to hear about the upcoming new themes!! Thank you for the update :)

03/26/2012 11:31am

This is absolutely cool! Amazing!!

~Anja~

03/27/2012 3:45am

Guys, this is too little too late. 3 months ago you published a blog post that had nothing to do with development and after an entire quarter, this is all you have to show us. Now you ask us to wait just a few more weeks for new themes. You said that 6 months ago. I have two weebly pro accounts but other web editors are getting way ahead of you at this point. Wordpress is getting easier every day and Wix has just released an incredible update. Keep pace guys, or I will be forced to move on.

Premanand
03/27/2012 10:10am

Thanks for the update

03/27/2012 6:59pm

This is great. Thank you! Looking forward to the next big update.

03/27/2012 10:10pm

Slide shows allows you to watch photos in a sequence and photo galleries allows to differentiate pics. You can create many folder according to categories.

03/28/2012 1:57am

My 1st comment, 1st weebly website & 1st weebly blog. Im no longer a weebly virgin! Cant believe how quick I built my website

www.weddingandtributebands.co.uk

Thanks Weebly

03/28/2012 9:24am

As always, great job Weebly! For over 5 years now, I have been continually impressed and choose to stay with you. Thank you!

03/28/2012 10:11am

Love all you folks are doing to make Weebly better and better!

03/29/2012 6:13am

You have done a great job by sharing this informative post. I would like to appreciate your good work and also would like to encourage you to keep it up.

03/29/2012 10:57am

Nice feature... Great work.

Jay
03/29/2012 5:25pm

Hey this totally rocks!

Dan
03/29/2012 8:07pm

I don't see any way of applying the following new feature:


"Option to hide the slideshows controls (play/stop/arrows) that show on mouseover"

03/29/2012 8:51pm

I'm very glad to hear this. Now we just need an android app.

more themes pls!
03/29/2012 11:35pm

pls. we need new themes! i've been thinking of going pro but the themes suck... and pls. let us have this option to do a tag or labels into cloud as it takes so much space in list form. also a way to put in audio from external source like sound cloud. weebly is way behind for some reason and takes months for updates.

03/30/2012 8:12pm

We're looking to send some clients who aren't the perfect fit over to weebly, but the big concern we here over and over is the lack of new templates. Fresh designs/templates seem to be long, long overdue now...

03/30/2012 10:38pm

Wow, very nice!

03/31/2012 5:46am

can you guys make some new themes

03/31/2012 10:59am

Weebly is epic and i enjoy it very much!!

M inc
03/31/2012 11:09am

Where is the iPhone/iPad app? This is almost a necessity for me now.

03/31/2012 11:11am

Weebly becomes bigger and bigger with each new feature. I've decided to go pro and the unlocked features are good to say at least. I'm hoping they are going to make online store feature better.

03/31/2012 11:11pm

Nice improvement. I also noticed that you have made the css editing much more easier. Thank you.

Please introduce some simplified ways for the gallery (it's a request)
I think everyone will like that.

04/01/2012 11:50am

Woooooooo-Hooooooooooooo!!!!!!!
I think that says it all.

04/01/2012 12:18pm

ATTENTION WEEBLY STAFF:
Concerning galleries and slideshows, is there a way to create headers that are slideshows (without the extra coding needed to accomplish that :) )?

I tested out these new updates and cropped a few images to header-size and they were automatically re-sized, essentially loosing the mystique of a header, this is even after removing the padding from the content area.

Since the updates are surrounding this aspect of the interface, I was hoping may be some growth in that department?

04/01/2012 2:38pm

I have been steering people toward weebly for over 4 years now. I have zero html coding skills which makes weebly ideal for people like me. My clients are now aksing me to switch to WordPress because of the ability to use various fonts on a page, slideshows, templates and tables which make the sites look professional. I want to stay with Weebly as a paying customer, but please provide more templates, tables and add the ability to insert tables. You did great with the slideshows, but those that have grown with weebly would like to see it continue to grow a little faster for the paying customers.

Mark
04/05/2012 2:12pm

We spent over $80k developing drupal and wordpress sites, and dumped everything for weebly, which we have 42 sites on now. It only took us 40 days. Good luck with your wordpress venture.

04/12/2012 7:47am

Hey There Mark,
I think you should look at what you have in front of you! Some of us designers here have knowledge about weebly and I think you should let us try to make templates. Maybe we can make them and you test them to make sure all is well and good and we go from there. People can either buy them or rent them, maybe? I made a quick example and think we should try to round up some designers from around the world and see if we can create some designs that maybe Weebly buys (or at least gives credit) for their themes? I would love to hear your feedback and anyone else that would like to join in on the topic. Thanks Jose

04/01/2012 3:54pm

:))

04/02/2012 1:15am

This is good idea because lot of people using mobile phones and they are not only using to make a call also they like phone browsing thanks for making this kind of mobile website so easy to get the content neat and quality

04/02/2012 1:29pm

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04/02/2012 1:57pm

Nice improvement. We'll try to use on our blog too. Thank's a lot!

Does anybody know what happened to my last comment?... ANYWAY! Cool upgrade Weebly! I especially like the random option. It makes it so it is not the same picture in the beginning. Sometimes having things in the same order gets boring. THANKS WEEBLY! My website looks great because of you! :D

04/02/2012 4:11pm

Hi everyone,
Since the guys and gals at Weebly have their hands full, I decided to start posting free simple Weebly Themes on my blog. No catch, just download and use, but don't sell them.

Just posted the first one: http://jaylacreates.weebly.com.
Will add more later.

If you have any theme suggestions, throw them my way and I'll crank them out for you, until we get those theme upgrades.

Toodles.

04/02/2012 10:41pm

I just rediscoved Weebly after a few years and it's awesome how flexible and easy to use it is!

Jonathan

04/05/2012 2:29pm

cool upgrades ! thanks weebly

04/05/2012 2:37pm

Awesome !

04/05/2012 2:39pm

Good job ! l can't wait to see the next upgrades.

04/06/2012 6:01am

It's amazing - thanx a lot for that one ..!

04/06/2012 7:24am

I am operating a site where I place College Recruiting Profiles for High School Athletes and the Slideshow is awesome. Easy to use and it really looks great.

Lisa
04/06/2012 7:52pm

Wowsers

04/07/2012 9:09am

Long time, no release. Just kidding the new features are amazing, I've started my 3rd website with weebly, and the ease of use is just great. Keep up the good work!

04/07/2012 4:08pm

Thank you guys so much!!! Before my website looked really weird on my Ipod. Also, everyone visit my website about the Hunger Games Trilogy!!!

mockingjayrocks.weebly.com

Thank you again!!!

Adam Shaw
04/09/2012 10:00pm

great, but where are the new themes?

04/10/2012 11:24am

I wish you would include more options for the aspect ratio advanced feature within the slideshow, then we could place rotating banners which are closer to a 24/5 ratio, rather the options you offer.

How come there are posts from almost a month ago and I received the upgrade today, I'm a Pro user, I edited on weebly yesterday and today and it was today that I was notified about updates... Is it because I'm using your spanish version?

04/10/2012 6:43pm

Please size the slideshows! give us the option of making them whatever size we want.

04/10/2012 8:45pm

what we need now is flash player on the Ipod, so we can edit our sites!!!
visit my site about the hunger games at mockingjayrocks.weebly.com

Subha Chakraborty
04/11/2012 4:13am

beautiful

04/11/2012 5:38am

Yes it is a good plan to get quality and neat websites for business

04/11/2012 12:38pm

That's cool..

Weebly.. is a good!!.

Grant
04/11/2012 7:18pm

Not working properly on my iPad 2 or Samsung Galaxy 2. Slide show works OK but when I select any individual picture the picture drops half off the bottom of the screen. When I chose a page with photo gallery the main page shows OK but when i select a picture it too drops half off the bottom of the screen. Can not us my iPad or phone to show my site. Very dissapointed.
Also when can we have the top menu show but not be selectable!!!

04/12/2012 11:44am

Does it work yet on the kindle fire?

04/12/2012 5:23pm

:))

When I chose a page with photo gallery the main page shows OK but when i select a picture it too drops half off the bottom of the screen.

04/14/2012 7:36am

Weebly is always good.

04/14/2012 11:34pm

Is there a way to make folder that hold photos in them (albums)? or can you upload on only one page all your pictures?

04/17/2012 11:32am

I need to put some information for each image, how can I add, title or description for each image in the slideshow? Exist this option or it is posible add it in future?

04/17/2012 11:39pm

Weebly is inspiration for our own small company in the Netherlands to create websites for our customers in our region.

The CMS is very well build. We hope to get more inspiration of choices Weebly makes!


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