UX Lessons from Weebly
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One thing you might want to add to your reviews is "ease of sharing". For the non-technically inclined (your audience) being able to share content is pretty big and is one of the major reasons I tell people to stay far far away from Wix. Example: http://imgur.com/TS1Z2Vq No images, no content, etc. Not to mention, from a technical perspective Wix is a nightmare.
Interesting point- ease of sharing is not something I had investigated too closely before. Thanks for sharing.
Weebly's markup is good- especially compared to most website builders markup with poor markup (as you pointed out). Wix probably has some of the worst markup among website builders.
For reference, here's an example Wix website: http://s99433.wix.com/stevebenjamins and here's an example Weebly website: http://weeblyreviewed.weebly.com/. You can check out the markup using your console.
> Look how easy Weebly is to use compared to these other implementations!
Weebly isn't a joy to use. It's just easier to use than most of it's competitors, which is what this article focuses on.
There is room for improvement here...
To be clear: not all website builders suck. Weebly and Squarespace are two examples of very good website builders.
The article is an in-depth look at Weebly. The bad examples are meant to show how easily a website builder's interface can get ugly. Squarespace wasn't included as a bad example because it has an excellent interface. In fact Squarespace and Weebly are the only website builders I've given a perfect score to in my website builders guide.