The Future of Weebly
The major criticism that most people have concerning Weebly is the inability to edit and upload the CSS/HTML of the web pages. Weebly promises to resolve this problem in the coming months.The future appears bright for Weebly with the coming additions of SnapLayout and SnapAds. It serves as a Myspace profile editor as well as an integrated widget platform. SnapLayout is easy enough. You simply drag and drop to make changes to the appearance of your profile using premade layouts or customizing your own. You can also drag and drop widgets to your profile. SnapAds uses advertiser’s layers and combines these layers to find which advertisement banner has the greatest success and will even mix up the ads if it sees an ad is becoming boring and less clicked. It does this by keeping track of the impressions and will cease showing less favorable banners and only the most effective live on. SnapAds will even figure out which ads are best suited for specific times of the day.Weebly’s major competitors are SiteKreator, Webnode, SynthaSite, and Wordpress. Weebly, SynthaSite, and Webnode are free services compared to SiteKreator which charges $95/month and Wordpress which charges $25/month.Currently, Weebly is being used by small businesses looking to advertise and get their name out. Teachers use Weebly to post assignments and helpful links for students, and now coaches are using Weebly to post schedules and cancellations for their team to check. Who knows who will be using Weebly in a couple of years.
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