Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeebly

My group and I finally published our website that we've been working on for the past couple of weeks. Before you continue reading you should go check it out...www.wwuusefulresources.weebly.com. We chose to work with the free website builder Weebly. Overall, we had a pretty good experience with them. Their site is easy to navigate and it's all pretty much drag and drop. Personally, I only ran into one glitch - or bug - while working on the website. It wasn't dropping the text and pictures where I wanted them, so I ended up just closing it out and reopening it. I have to say that I'm extremely proud of the website that my group and I created. It's professional, it employs CRAP (see my previous blog on this subject) perfectly, and it has great content. We had a lot of fun putting it together, too, especially when we went around and took all of our own photos for the site. Once we had all of our information, we basically just took turns putting our information in. After all the info was in, I went through the entire website and made sure the font, colors, sizing, what have you, were all exactly the same. Our finished product is definitely something I will show future employers.

As far as working with Weebly, the only issue I had with it was that it was too simple. Yes, this was nice only in the fact that we wouldn't have wanted it to be a difficult project, but at the same time it didn't really allow for any creativity. I'm sure if I spent more time with it I would have been able to figure out how to make it more user friendly and...how shall I say this...flashy? I like really creative and unique websites, and although ours is visually pleasing, I would like it to maybe not look like we used a template. When I saw the presentations on those who utilized Wix, I was a little bummed we didn't try that website builder out. Those websites seemed to be a bit more creative and it contained more options.

Overall, I did have a good experience, and I would definitely use Weebly again (or I might even try Wix next time). I would also recommend it to someone who is either just starting out, or someone who needs a free website to promote their own business. I'm glad there are website builders out there that are free. It helps give people a chance to gain some experience, especially people like me who are looking to go into website building as a profession.

I found this video on YouTube that was created by the Weebly company to explain a bit more about their website...