How To Build A Website VERY Easily? Use Weebly.

by Editweapon on December 22, 2009

I just put together a website for The Desert Party Band.  (This is a live band in Scottsdale Arizona that Ashley and I started.)

When I bought the desertpartyband.com domain initially, I figured I would use WordPress since that’s what I was most familiar with.  (I used Page.ly, the easiest wordpress webhost of all times…OF ALL TIMES…and documented Page.ly’s super simple setup process.)

But then my new site sat stale for 3 months because I couldn’t find a “band” template that I liked.  And of course, there’s always other things to get done.

Along the way, I realized a blog content management system (CMS) isn’t really what I wanted anyways, because DesertPartyBand.com isn’t meant to be a blog.

I realized what I really wanted was a “billboard” website.

Enter Weebly, The Easiest Way to Web

I first heard about Weebly about 2 years ago.  I saw it and thought, “Wow, that sure is simple.”  And then I never thought about it again.

Being in a hurry to get a site and some basic content online for The Desert Party Band’s first gig on New Year’s Eve, I flew through grabbing a template, uploading a logo/header, and writing some basic content.

Screen Shots of Weebly

Here’s a few screen shots for another work-in-progress idea — ForkMeDaily.com — that I put together while writing this post.  Killed two birds with one stone.

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Sign Up For Weebly Free

Free accounts get 2 sites for free and have to keep the “This site hosted for free by Weebly” footer tag.  But if you go Pro for ONLY $28 for 6 months, you get up  to 10 websites and can remove the footer tag.  There’s a couple other nifty things as well.

My Verdict

Weebly is the perfect low-tech solution for people like me who used to buy domains for so called *brilliant* ideas, and then do nothing with them.  Now at least I can put up a simple landing page. Easy, easy, EASY!

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sanjeev jha June 8, 2010 at 7:44 am

Nice post.Very helpful.But if you need more power,i will suggest indigloo.Indigloo website builder is a browser based website creator which has power of cms systems like drupal, joomla. You can create your website for free in 3 minutes.Indigloo provides advanced features like standard grid system to divide areas,power to move contents over one another,ability to create multilevel menus,Place holder for meta tags and keywords for each page etc.

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