Weebly

            I didn’t have to search long to find a site builder that grabbed my attention. Weebly.com was named one of Time’s best website builders in 2007, and the site they’ve built to promote themselves is great. Several of the free or cheap website builders required you to sign up with a domain before explaining anything about itself. Weebly has tutorial after tutorial available for perusal before you sign up for anything. There are 100+ professional themes, the ability to load your own photos, host a photo gallery, embed a survey page, etc. Weebly creates a mobile-friendly version of your site so people can easily interact with it on their mobile device, such as a phone or a tablet. If you are an html whiz, you can completely redesign the site to make it look and feel exactly the way you want it to. Your domain name is hosted for free. The BBC published a favorable report about Weebly, although they noted that you’d have to pay if you want a personalized domain name.

            I was so taken by the presentation for a Weebly site that I signed up and started working on my own. I didn’t have enough time to refine my site this week, but from the few times I logged in, it appears that the platform is very easy to work with. The real challenge is knowing what to put into your website!