Easily create a website for free!

Weebly is (http://www.weebly.com) web host provider, a website which helps others to host websites. The advantage of Weebly is that it has a powerful online website builder with drag and drop interface. Weebly is popular and there is a wide demand for it, because anyone can build website there with easy and fun and add amazing features. The best thing is that they also provide free hosting service with a sub domain (i.e.: http://www.yourname.weebly.com). They’ve also added many new cool features recently and changed the look of the website to a rocking one.

Interface & features of web builder

1.) Designs: Weebly has a great list of designs for its users to choose for their website. The best feature is of Weebly, unlike other online web builders, is the freedom of the user to edit the template, you can even change the pictures and other content which comes with the template to make a unique.

2.) Adding pages: Adding pages is so easy with Weebly’s builder, all you need is to click on the “Pages” button on the top of the builder and add the page by giving it a title. You can also edit the pages here arrange and manage them to suite you needs.

Hosting for free

You can create a free website (and also a blog) with Weebly using their sub domain. The best feature is that the Weebly offers you ad –free web hosting for free (but they’ll pace a footer link)! But you cannot enjoy the whole features of Weebly with this package. You must sign up for a pro-account for enjoying all the features. So let’s check the features of a free account:

1.) Basic content: You can add text just by clicking and dragging the ‘Text’ icon to your page. There are options to add a paragraph with picture and to add picture independently. You can write text with or without title. You can format your text by making the letters bold, italics or underlined while typing it, adjust the size and increase the size of the letters and also make your text in two column .Formatting text is so easy you don’t even have to use your keyboard for this purpose; a few mouse clicks will do it for you.

2.) Multimedia content: Besides uploading pictures for your content, Weebly helps you to create and mange your photo album and add them to your website. You can also add other multimedia contents like video and audio to your website. You can add videos pro YouTube and Google Video. Also add Flickr slideshow, embed Google maps or upload any file so that your users can download them from your website. But for adding an audio player on your website you need to sign up for their pro account.

3.) Adding fun to your website: You can add games and puzzles to your website to make your visitors excited. You can 6000+ games with heyZap , crossword puzzle powered by NY times and other two games to your website.

4.) Other utilities: There are also other many other tools a website must definitely have. A contact form is such a tool; you can simply add a contact page to your website by dragging and dropping it into your page. You can also create Feed reader on your page. Not yet enough for spicing up your website? Then add what you want using their custom HTML tool. You can simply add your HTML code and save it, your unique content will appear there.

5.) Generating revenue from your blog: Earlier there was no way to add Google Adsense on your website hosted with Weebly. Even if you use ‘custom HTM’ tool for adding the code provided by your Google Adsense website, it will not be shown when you view your page (but you can see the Adsense ads while you’re editing the page and you can’t while you are viewing your page). But I somehow managed to add my Adsense using a widget from Widgetbox. But you can easily add ads from other Pay-Per-Click programs and I’ve added the ads of Adbrite just by adding their code using ‘custom HTML’. Now Weebly started to add ads from Google Adsense just drag and drop the Google Adsense icon to your website and they’ll, but you must set your publisher id and other settings. I guess that you may have to share your Adsense income generated from your Weebly website with the Weebly.

Pro account: Pricing and features

Weebly’s pro account is rather cheap and you can enjoy lots of feature using it. Anyway I guess you can’t get a custom domain name by signing up with the pro account. You’ll get a good discount while you sign up for a long term account. You must pay $4.58/month for signing up for six month, $3.99/month for 1 year package and $2.99/month for two years package.
The key benefits of a Pro account are:

1.) Password protected pages: You can create password protect pages, where you’ve added your private content (for e.g. your family photos or others...).

2.) Remove the footer link: As I’ve mentioned earlier Weebly will put a link on our website to Weebly. To remove this link you must sign up for a Pro account.

3.) 10 sites: There are limits on number of websites you can host with an account, by signing up for a Pro account you can host up to 10 websites on your account.

4.) Add the audio player: I’ve mentioned this also, you can add any multimedia on your website for free, but for adding an audio player you must sign up with their pro account.

5.) Upload files 100 MBS: With your pro account you can add files of 100 MB on your website for your users to download. And the interesting fact is that there is no limit on number files you can add for downloading. In short you enjoy unlimited space!

You’ll also get premium support from Weebly by signing up for their pro account.
If you want a web builder by which you can easily create web pages and manage them. And do not want to mess up with your pages and other contents while uploading it to your website, I highly recommend Weebly. You may find other websites with online building tools, but I think Weebly is the best one and it also has several other features. In fact all the features and more a website really wants. So go and catch the Weebly.