Weebly by Melaina Y.

Weebly

          Weebly is an app where you can create your own website or blog. It has several cool features so that you can have an amazing website. It is free and very easy to use! You can have a slide show, a survey a gallery, and even make money! You just simply download the app, or go to https://www.weebly.com/ to start.

          For the app, when you first open it up, you need to sign in using an email address, this is to make an account if you don’t already have one. This also allows Weebly to email you when you get a new comment on your blog, new orders that people have made, things like that. But you can always turn this off in the settings if you don’t want all of that. Once you have signed in, you will be at the ‘Home’ page. This is where you can see other articles and websites that can help you get started. There is also a blue button that says, “Start editing your website”. When you click this, it brings you right to a new website, or your own website if you have already started one.

          Once you have chosen your template, you can go anywhere from there. At the top is a ‘plus’ button, so you can add anything with this. Just drag and drop. Right next to that is the ‘page’ button, so you can click which page you want to go to, rather than searching for it on your website. This also allows you to be able to choose your order of pages and lets you add pages. Next to that is a ‘theme’ button, so you can change your theme if you don’t like it, or you can change the font on your website. Next to that is a ‘Preview’ tab which lets you preview what it would look like from another person’s point of view and lets you publish your website to the world!

Editing Your Website

          If you go back to the home page, you will see a bar at the bottom of the page with more buttons. These are the main ones and gives you access to many things. The ‘Insights’ lets you see all of the stats of your website, like sales and marketing insights. Then there is the ‘store’ tab which lets you add items to your website so people can buy them from there. You can add coupons to items and see orders that somebody has made. This does not need a plan so it is free! Then there is the ‘Website’ tab that lets you look at an overall look at your website or blog. It will tell you if it is published or not, how many posts you have on your blog, things like that. You can also edit these from here too, just tap which you want to edit. Then your ‘account’ lets you look at your settings for Weebly. You can choose to have notifications when someone makes an order or comments on your blog. There is also a ‘Support’ help place that lets you get help when you need it. You can also log out of your account or even delete your site so that it is no more.

‘Website Page’

           The main pros for this is that it is very easy to use, and pretty much straight forward. There are hundreds of amazing websites out there made from Weebly, and you can make one too! There are so many great things to Weebly, and the best part is that it is easy to use and mostly free! If you really want to get into it and want to invest a little more into your site, you can get a plans to get an even more advanced website to make it more enjoyable. The problem is that it will cost money and a monthly or yearly subscription, depending on how much you want to get into it. It is not entirely free, but for the majority, it is. Weebly is used all over the world by people and you should try it too!