5 Reasons Why You Do Not Want A Free Weebly Website

I assume if you're reading this article that you're familiar with the free website service known as Weebly. The people at Weebly say that their software is the easiest way to create and publish a website on-line, and I agree, but I have issues.

There are thousands of people just like me who have experience building websites with both Dreamweaver and GoLive. Most of us earn a very good living with these tools and wouldn't think of using anything else. Then along comes Weebly. What kind of a name is Weebly anyway?

Recently I decided to build a little website with this toy of a program know as Weebly. And after doing so, I want to give you my top 5 reasons why you do not want to build your own Weebly website.

Ease of Use
Weebly is so simple to use that a monkey can do it.* And that's the problem. I've spent years developing my web design skills so that I can charge $100 an hour to create websites for people just like you. If you decide to build your own website with Weebly, the days of me building websites for $100 an hour are over. Who in their right mind would pay me to build a beautiful, functional web site when they can do it themselves without a technician? Please, I have a family to support.

Cost
Weebly is completely free. And when I say free, I mean free. You don't have to purchase software. You don't have to purchase server space from a hosting company. You don't even have to pay a technician to make change for you.

Weebly will not only make it impossible for me to earn money building websites, but it will take away my ability to charge you to host and service your site after I build it. How can I support myself when Weebly is taking away my ability to do so. It isn't right.

Service
I don't think it's right that you as a customer should expect me to get back to you immediately every time you have a simple question about your site. It sets up the wrong impression. If I jumped every time you contacted me with a problem, you would begin to take me for granted. Besides, I have a life.

In this case, the problem isn't with Weebly, it's with the entire community of Weebly users at TakeOnTheNet who are on the net day and night ready to answer Weebly questions for anyone with a Weebly website. All I can say to those people is, "Get a life."

Features
Dreamweaver and Golive are the most comprehensive website development programs on the planet. They can do everything. When you have a site built with one of these programs it's the same as telling your friends that you have the Mercedes-Benz of websites. Think of the pride you'll feel.

Yes, Weebly can do everything you want on your site, but that's not the point. You can add photos, text, slide shows, video, audio, credit cards, advertising, contact forms, flash files, maps, calendars, custom headers, unlimited pages and blogs. You can choose from over 20 beautiful designs and have your own domain name too, but again, that's not the point. The point is, you want to be able to tell people that your website is better because it was built with Dreamweaver and it was expensive. When I build a website for you, you'll be proud of it.

Marketing
Web designers like myself don't just design web sites for people like you, we help you market your sites too. This is one of the main ways we earn money from you after your site is built. It's also one of the most profitable things we do in our business.

Weebly is trying to lure you away from that part of our business by telling you that you can do this yourself without our help. They've even creating links to popular social networking sites to help you get started. Worse yet, sites like TakeOnTheNet offer a Weebly website marketing course loaded with tips on SEO, SEM, PPC, linking strategies and social networking to help you market your site for free. They're giving away our secrets and taking money out of our pocket. It's just not fair.

Please, don't go to Weebly to build your own website. While you're at it, don't go to TakeOnTheNet to learn how to use this software either. It's not fair to our brotherhood of web developers if you're capable of building a website in two hours without going though an apprentice program first. And don't tell your friends about this software either. Just say, "No!"

* The monkey must have basic computer skills

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Comments

Sat, 20 Dec 2008 at 3:06 AM, by N/A
Get a life. I love Weebly and you can make it work. NOT everyone can use Weebly in the same way. Stop your crying. I build websites to for money, but Weebly is my # 1 Site I use.

Tue, 3 Feb 2009 at 5:02 PM, by ED
Stop sulking. You are just jelous and are saying that you are greedy and want money. YOu are not saying don't use Weebly as it is rubbish, you are saying not to use weebly so you make money. I am never going on this site again.

Tue, 26 May 2009 at 2:45 PM, by Gary Carter
The only reason people have paid to have websites developed is because they couldnt do it themselfs...until now. You have to get with the times. As with any type of business theres always going to be progress and advancments and weebly now allows people to create amazing websites for FREE so we no longer have to pay professionals. I understand you may lose money from this but thats just business. Find something you can do that weebly cant and then sell that instead. Some people may still need help with custom HTML features in weebly and you could quite happily charge $10 or some small fee to create that for them. Dont fight weebly, work with them.

Tue, 26 May 2009 at 3:43 PM, by Lindsay
You BIG baby!! Your post makes me sick! Who the heck wants to pay someone like you $100 per hour to build them a webstie that they can now build on their own...and for free? You need to stop sulking and get yourself a life. I am very happy that I now have my very own professional website that makes me money every single day, and it didnt cost me one single cent. Get over yourself and go find a new career to support your family!

Sat, 30 May 2009 at 5:30 PM, by Jon Kepler
Has it occurred to any of the people commenting above that this article is satire? I think it's pretty funny. Oh, and if you'd like to visit my website at http://www.jonkepler.com , you'll find that it's made with Weebly.

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 at 2:29 AM, by hi
Jon Kepler, good point, it is satire, thanks for posting this, you convinced me to use Weebly! You have a good sense of humor to!

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 at 5:51 AM, by Mark
LISTEN CAREFULLY - If English is not your first language or if you have limited english skills, you will not realize that the writer is JOKING and that he is actually giving you 5 VERY GOOD reasons for using Weebly.com

Go to Wikipedia and learn the definitions of:
Satire: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satire
Irony: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_entendre

Wed, 2 Sep 2009 at 5:28 PM, by Jennifer Cox
Thanks for the tips! (And, yeah - my website is a Weebly site - and yeah, I totally got the reverse psychology!)

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 at 5:49 PM, by Annie
Hi
I think that everything you wrote here is simply just helping "weebly" grow and make people who doesn't know about it go and check it. Personally i think that you are one of weebly staff:)
Cheers

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 at 2:08 PM, by Abdel
I think this itself is a kind of publcity for Weebly .. u should call it 5 Reasons Why You should have A Free Weebly Website

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