Carbon: The Next Generation of Weebly

http://www.weebly.com/carbon

by jdori • 11 years ago

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dang• 11 years ago

Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10312412, which looks like the relevant blog post.

steve-benjamins2• 11 years ago

Weebly is consistently one of the most thoughtful, polished products I've ever used.

I'm interested to get my hands on Carbon— if only to see how they put it all together (I can guarantee you, the experience will be thoughtfully crafted).

redidas2• 11 years ago

How does Weebly compare to other options like Squarespace? I'm currently researching these kinds of services so this couldn't come at a better time.

dublinben3• 11 years ago

One of the significant drawbacks to every proprietary drag-and-drop website builder is that you cannot easily export your website. Any time you spend building your site with their tool just further locks you into their hosting platform.

I've seen some very nice personal webpages built on Squarespace, Weebly, Wix, etc. by non-technical and non-design users, but I would never recommend it to a business client.

steve-benjamins2• 11 years ago

Squarespace is excellent as well— they are both (by far) the two best website builders.

Weebly is easier and less sophisticated. Squarespace has a steeper learning curve but is more sophisticated.

That being said, Carbon is clearly a play by Weebly at being more sophisticated, so we'll see!

Source: My job is reviewing website builders at sitebuilderreport.com. I've reviewed 50+.

kin• 11 years ago

For product based small businesses I think $25/mo is pretty competitive.

UI/UX is pretty well designed, at least from what I can see in the free trial. I am a bit confused with the the hamburger menu on the top right and the Edit Store/Add Product tooltip placement. Behavior doesn't look intentional to me, it's oddly placed.

lerxst• 11 years ago

I listened to a talk from David Rusenko a few months ago, and they have worked on creating a product that is easy to use from the start. It's amazing to see how far they have progressed as a company and how easy to use their products are. Creating a website is not an easy thing to do for many people, and I appreciate the attention to detail the Weebly team puts into their products to make them as intuitive as possible.

Drdrdrq• 11 years ago

Given that their own page looks weird (I can scroll right) on ff on android tablet and that I was unable to view video because half of it was hidden (it even crashed later) I think I'll pass.

Carbon: The Next Generation of Weebly

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