Weebly - The Simplest Way to Design a Website

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Creating a website which delivers what you need for your business is a big task.

One of the most important decisions you make as a small business for your website, but probably don't realise it, is choosing the right content management system (CMS). The CMS is the tool which you use to publish content, add pictures, photos and information to your website. It is the backbone of your website. This post is about the content management system called Weebly.

Choosing a Content Management System

Choosing the right CMS is vital because you want something which you can easily learn how to use; a CMS which helps you publish content easily for your visitors to read; a CMS which helps you promote your brand, products and services and which can grow with your needs.

The trouble is that many content management systems are not easy to use. They are restrictive in how you can adjust your website to your needs and you often have to ask a web design company to make simple changes to your site which costs you a lot of money.

This is the beauty of Weebly. It is so easy to use and powerful at the same time. You can learn to use Weebly in a few minutes and create great websites in an hour or less.

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Drag and drop Website Creation

Weebly provides you with a set of pre-set templates for you to use right away, which are easily customisable with your logo, for example, and which can adapted with easily with images, information and elements like inserting videos into your web pages to make your site more appealing.

If you want to add some text including a photo onto your page, you just drag a box down from the tool bar onto the page and, hey presto, you have a block in your page into which you can quickly add the content. If you want to add a blog to your site, just  create a blog page and start adding posts.

There is absolutely no need for any programming skills to know how to use Weebly.

More Website Design Options

If you are not satisfied with the range of free templates within Weebly for your site's design, then you can always buy a template which is more suitable to your needs  which has been specifically created to install into Weebly. I use a company called 'DivTag' who create Weebly compatible templates. They have a good choice and you can create a good looking website for a few pounds and a bit of time to add your own content.

The templates are really easy to install and DivTag provides a number of training videos to help with the process.

A Great Website without a Great Cost

I have a number of websites based upon the Weebly content management system. It costs very little (about £38 a year) to have a 'Pro' account which gives you lots of options and features (e.g. site search, embedded videos and audio), but you can also use the free version of the CMS which is still pretty powerful.

More than just the saving of the hosting charge for the Pro account, you save a lot of money from not having to hire a web designer to build it for you, if you prefer to do it yourself and you have the time. If you want to change something on your website, just change and publish.

Weebly is a great website content management system for small business. You should try it.