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Weebly Page Settings

Weebly Page Settings dictate the characteristics of a page

Page settings is one of the two settings of a Weebly site that defines the properties of a page. The other setting is Weebly Site Settings.

While Weebly Site Settings applies to the website as a whole, the Weebly Page settings is local and has an impact only on the individual page they are applied to. For more information about how the page settings and site settings influence the published Weebly site, please check our article about Weebly Site Settings and Page Settings.

In this article we will focus on various fields of the Weebly Page Settings, what they do and how it matters. Weebly Page Settings is very critical …

May 17, 2013 Category: SEO, Site Management No Comments

Setting Up Weebly Custom Mobile Version Independent of Desktop Version

Serve your Mobile viewers a content different from that of your regular desktop version.

Weebly-Custom-Mobile

Setup your Weebly site to serve one version to your desktop viewers and a different version to your mobile visitors. And here is the beauty. You can have all of it setup in the same Weebly site, and still edit content independently.

In this article we will walk you through the three simple steps you need for total custom mobile site.

For illustrating this, we will use Just Demos Home page. View the JustDemos Home page from your desktop and compare with what you see on your smart phone. Notice that you are presented a different content.

The new Weebly editor interface with Mobile view…

May 1, 2013 Tags: Custom Mobile Version
Category: Site Management, Tutorials 19 Comments

Weebly Editor Interface

Weebly Editor gets a new interface

The two major changes with the new Weebly editor interface are the location of elements and a new mobile view option.

1. The Weebly drag-and-drop elements are moved from the top-panel to the left side panel.

The drag-and-drop elements, design options are now in the left side panel. All elements are now available in one view, making them more easily accessible for editing.

2. The new Weebly Mobile view option.

This mobile view option in Weebly editor is a critical and much required option. You can now pick and choose a different theme for the mobile site. In addition, this is your gateway to create custom mobile site with a content different from your …

May 1, 2013 Tags: Weebly Editor
Category: Elements & Features, Site Management 8 Comments

How to Transfer Domain from Weebly to GoDaddy

Transferring Domain from Weebly to GoDaddy is a 3 step process

We will go through each of these steps in detail here. While we show it for GoDaddy, the procedure pretty much remains the same for transferring domain to any other registrar. In essence, you need to

1. Unlock your domain at Weebly

2. Initiate a Transfer at GoDaddy

3. Setup your domain at GoDaddy to point to your website hosted at Weebly

Among many, the most profound reasons behind transferring a domain from Weebly to GoDaddy are:

Follow these steps to transfer your domain from Weebly to GoDaddy

Step 1 – Unlock your domain at Weebly

It is normal for domain registrars to lock the domains, in an …

April 3, 2013 Tags: godaddy, weebly
Category: Site Management 2 Comments

Weebly Site Settings and Page Settings

Weebly Settings are at two different locations. It is very important to understand the role they play.

In addition, knowing the influence of these settings will go a long way towards maintaining your site. In this article, we cover the two settings, Weebly Site Settings and Weebly Page Settings in detail.

1. Weebly Site Settings

The “Settings” tab that you find along with main tabs in the Weebly Site Editor defines site wide settings.

Weebly Site Settings

So, what does the Site Settings do ?

In brief, any thing you include in the settings options here applies to every page of the site. Hence these are “Site wide Settings”. This is best explained by an example.

Site wide settings for Weebly sites

Say you want to include Google Analytics tracking …

March 31, 2013 Tags: site settings
Category: Articles, SEO, Site Management 11 Comments

Incorrect Weebly Stats

Should you really care for Weebly Stats ? Are the stats right ?

In this article we address the common concerns Weebly users face.

Weebly provides two primary reports.

1. Pageviews

2. Unique Visitors

Now, the Unique Visitors reported by Weebly is rubbish. Just throw it away. Weebly has no clue what it is counting and how. For almost all sites, Weebly would show unique visitors 15% less than pageviews. Weebly’s report of Unique visitors is plain wrong.

And the next one is Pageviews. This can be correct to some extent. But Weebly counts the pageviews from robots, worms etc. Weebly does not distinguish real views from those of the bots. So, this number can’t really be trusted.

If you …

February 20, 2013 Tags: Google Analytics, Weebly Stats
Category: SEO, Site Management 4 Comments

The Search is ON for Weebly Pro

Weebly turns on the much awaited Search function for the Pro users

No doubt, Weebly themes was the most sought after. Next in line was the “Search”. And on 12/12/12, Weebly turned on the Search function for Pro users.

If you are a pro user, you have the choice to turn it ON or OFF.

Here is a snap shot of what you are going to see:

Soon you will see the Search Box showing up adjacent to the social icons (in most cases). The exact position of the search box depends on the theme

Publish your site and your site now has the Search functionality.

Check the demo site http://justdemos.weebly.com/…

December 12, 2012 Tags: Weebly Search
Category: Site Management, Tutorials 15 Comments

No More Free. Google’s Custom Email With Your Domain Now Costs $5/User/Month

Google Apps For Business

A remarkable free solution for custom email for startups and small businesses, Free Google Apps For Business, has now vanished.

On Dec 6th, 2012, Google announced that new sign-ups for Google Apps For Business Free Account is discontinued. Google Apps For Business Free version, which included 1) gmail with custom domain name (like info@MyDomain.com) for 10 users, Google Docs, Google Calendar, etc is no longer available for sign-ups.

This effects domains registered with Weebly, which relied on Google’s Free service to offer 10 free email accounts. Google continues to provide the free service for all users who have signed up with Google Apps For Business before Dec 6, 2012. But new sign-ups for free version of Google Apps For Business …

December 9, 2012 Tags: Custom Email, Google Apps For Business, outlook.com, zoho mail
Category: Articles, Site Management 13 Comments

Identity+ Free Weebly Theme

Identity+ Free Weebly Theme available for download (login required). This Weebly Theme features Flexible Footer, Four different Buttons.

Check Live Demo of this theme.

Click Here To Download Identity+ Weebly Theme

Once you download the zip file, import it into your Weebly site as a zip file. DO NOT UNZIP . Import it as-is. See instructions for importing themes into Weebly.

Buttons of Identity+ theme for Weebly

Four Buttons to choose from.

Need more buttons ? Stay tuned. Very soon we will provide you a whole suite of buttons that you can pick and choose for your theme.

Fexible Footer. Simply drag & drop elements into the footer and they are automatically applied to the footer of every page of your site.

Check the …

June 24, 2012 Tags: Identity+, Weebly Themes
Category: Custom HTML, Site Management 6 Comments

Adobe Shadow. Test Your Site For Mobile Devices

Designing with Weebly ? Did you know, more and more websites are being viewed from Mobile Devices ?

Checking how your site appears on mobile devices is going to make these viewers a lot happier. As per Weebly sites, there is not much control on mobile version. But if you are designing with fluid layout, then you can turn off the mobile version altogether and let your desktop version optimize itself to the device.

In our previous article about Adobe BrowserLab, we have seen how to check your site’s appearance for various browsers. In this article, we will cover how you can use Adobe Shadow to check your site’s appearance for various mobile devices.

Without Adobe Shadow, you probably will …

June 21, 2012 Tags: Adobe Shadow
Category: Site Management No Comments

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