Weebly is a drag-and-drop online website hosting platform for generating websites. You can build a website for selling products online without professional skills. Here, Naiba briefly introduces the Weebly website building process and analyzes whether Weebly is good for building websites, its advantages and disadvantages.
Weebly Website Building Tutorial
1. Go to the Weebly official website and click the Sign up button in the top right corner.
2. Enter the registration information and sign up for free.
3. Choose whether you are building a website or an online store website. Foreign trade enterprises should definitely choose an online store.
4. Give your store a name.
5. It asks about your current sales status; you can choose any option.
6. Select the product categories you want to sell.
7. Set a store address.
8. Enter the Weebly admin dashboard. There is a Setup Guides section; follow the steps one by one.
Click 'Design your website' to enter the website appearance design. First, it will ask you to choose a Theme.
After selecting a Theme, we can click the 'Start editing' button in the upper right corner to edit the appearance.
The text content on the website can be modified directly. There are various tools on the left, such as text, images, videos, etc.
Select the module you want to add and drag it directly to the desired location on the website.
After designing, click the 'Publish' button in the upper right corner to publish the website.
When publishing, a domain selection interface will pop up. You can either register a domain directly with Weebly or use your existing domain.
However, unfortunately, if you want to use a custom domain, you need to pay. Upgrading from the backend starts at $12/month, which is relatively expensive, and there are also sales commissions.
Weebly has a built-in store system; you can add products directly.
When adding a product, you can choose the product information and images, and also set SEO information.
Once you have completed the Setup Guides, you can officially open a store on Weebly.
Is opening a store on Weebly good?
To bind your own domain and open a store on Weebly, you are required to upgrade to a paid plan. Therefore, we must analyze whether Weebly is worth building a website on before considering an upgrade.
Naiba's personal opinion is that opening a store on Weebly is not good.Why do I think opening a store on Weebly is not good? The reasons are as follows:
- The price is not cheap; besides the basic monthly fee, there is also a transaction commission.
- Editing posts is inconvenient. It is only suitable for websites with very few articles, but such websites are not conducive to SEO optimization.
- Lack of autonomy. When you want to migrate to another platform, you will find it difficult to export your data.
Publishing articles on Weebly is also done by adding Pages using the page builder. Think about it: every time you publish an article, you have to go to the backend to create a new page, layout, and then type. How troublesome. Naiba found two websites built with Weebly from a web search. If you're interested, you can open them yourself to get a feel.
- https://www.rosemaryroche.com/
- http://www.danielleobrienart.com/
Websites like the two above can easily be created by simply building a WordPress site. You only have a one-time cost for the domain and server, with no commissions or anything. Isn't that great? Most importantly, when building a website with WordPress, the data is in your own hands. You can import and export it freely. With Weebly, changing platforms is very troublesome. The official platform does not provide data export; you can only do it manually or pay for third-party services. Therefore, Naiba's personal summary of the pros and cons of building a website with Weebly:
Advantages:- Just pay, no need to worry about server maintenance or website building.
- Visual editor, you can create a beautiful website without knowing code (provided you have an eye for aesthetics on the frontend).
- All-in-one integration of everything needed to open an online store.
Disadvantages:- Not cost-effective; you spend money but don't get a good product.
- Not conducive to SEO optimization and ranking, with a low chance of obtaining free search traffic from Google;
- Data is not free; it's akin to being held hostage by the platform, unable to freely change servers or platforms.
Using Weebly for website building is less cost-effective than using Shopify. If you want full control over your data and not rely on a platform, then WordPress is the choice for the vast majority of business websites. For Shopify store setup tutorials, you can
Refer here, for more, you can read
Articles in the Shopify category. For building a website directly with WordPress, refer to
WordPress installation tutorialis sufficient, or you can choose Naibabiji's
Website Hosting Service. Related articles:
How to Migrate from Weebly to WordPress
2. Enter the registration information and sign up for free.
3. Choose whether you are building a website or an online store website. Foreign trade enterprises should definitely choose an online store.
4. Give your store a name.
5. It asks about your current sales status; you can choose any option.
6. Select the product categories you want to sell.
7. Set a store address.
8. Enter the Weebly admin dashboard. There is a Setup Guides section; follow the steps one by one.
Click 'Design your website' to enter the website appearance design. First, it will ask you to choose a Theme.
After selecting a Theme, we can click the 'Start editing' button in the upper right corner to edit the appearance.
The text content on the website can be modified directly. There are various tools on the left, such as text, images, videos, etc.
Select the module you want to add and drag it directly to the desired location on the website.
After designing, click the 'Publish' button in the upper right corner to publish the website.
When publishing, a domain selection interface will pop up. You can either register a domain directly with Weebly or use your existing domain.
However, unfortunately, if you want to use a custom domain, you need to pay. Upgrading from the backend starts at $12/month, which is relatively expensive, and there are also sales commissions.
Weebly has a built-in store system; you can add products directly.
When adding a product, you can choose the product information and images, and also set SEO information.
Once you have completed the Setup Guides, you can officially open a store on Weebly.
Publishing articles on Weebly is also done by adding Pages using the page builder. Think about it: every time you publish an article, you have to go to the backend to create a new page, layout, and then type. How troublesome. Naiba found two websites built with Weebly from a web search. If you're interested, you can open them yourself to get a feel.
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