Weebly brings its simple website builder to schools
There are already lots of teachers using simple website builder Weebly to create class sites, says chief executive David Rusenko. But the San Francisco startup wants to expand its classroom presence with a new version called Weebly for Education.
The new product adds just a couple of features to make Weebly more student-friendly. The key, Rusenko says, is to make it easy for students to use Weebly without sacrificing their privacy.
Normally, you need an email address… Continue Reading
Startups unite to drive nail into the coffin of Internet Explorer 6
If you’re still using Internet Explorer 6 — the frequently criticized web browser that was first released in 2001 — the Internet is becoming an increasingly hostile place.
Popular sites like YouTube are telling visitors who are using IE6 that they need to switch to a “modern browser” like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox 3.5, or Microsoft’s own Internet Explorer 8. There are even sites like Bring Down IE 6 devoted to getting web users off IE6.
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Free website builders Yola and Weebly hit 2M users
Yola, one of the better-known among a recent wave of easy-to-use website building tools, just announced that it has hit the 2 million user milestone. That means it doubled its user base in about six months, after taking more than a year to hit the 1 million user mark.
I was surprised to hear those numbers since I usually think of Yola as chasing competitor Weebly (at least in terms of users), yet I hadn’t heard… Continue Reading
Website-builder Weebly adds online stores
Weebly says that its easy-to-use website-building tools have helped create nearly 2 million websites (including my own). Now users can add customizable stores to those sites for free.
Basically, that just means Weebly has added integration with e-commerce services Google Checkout and PayPal, but judging from the demo that co-founder and chief executive David Rusenko gave me, the integration of those services with Weebly’s existing tools makes for a pretty powerful store-builder. All you do is… Continue Reading
Weebly scores 1 million users, reaches profitability
Weebly, an AJAX-based drag and drop web page creator, today announces it has reached a million registered users — and perhaps more importantly — that the three-year-old company is now profitable.
The San Francisco, Calif.-based start-up, seeded with $650k by Ron Conway (who participated in our Downturn Event VC Panel) and other angel investors including seed fund Y Combinator, in June launched two products to help bring in revenue: The first was professional accounts (versions… Continue Reading
Wix lands $3.5M to give amateurs the power of flash
Flash website builder Wix has brought in $3.5 million in second-round funding from Mangrove Venture Capital and Bessemer Venture Partners. The Israeli company has raised about $8.5 total since its founding in 2006 and hopes to continue developing its drag-and-drop tool that allows even novice web users to build flash sites.
Right now, Wix provides this service for free, but it announced today that it will launch a premium membership package including web hosting and related… Continue Reading
Weebly, a simple web page creator, launches AdSense feature and pro accounts
Weebly, a simple web-page creator, has seen some decent growth since it launched almost two years ago, currently gaining around 10,000 new users per week. The San Francisco-based company has already been trying to make it easier for anyone to create simple sites — now, it is trying to help its users make money from the traffic they get on their pages.
Using the Google AdSense API, which is generally limited web properties with “significant traction,”… Continue Reading
Weebly wants to help you design blogs
Weebly, the free AJAX website creator, has just raised a $650K angel round and launched a way for you to create blogs from within your site.
The move pits the young San Francisco company, which has garnered about 25,000 users, against entrenched players like Google’s Blogger, Automatic’s WordPress and SixApart’s TypePad — each of which have millions of users.
The money comes from Ron Conway, Steve Anderson, Paul Buchheit (a creator of Gmail), Aydin Senkut and Mike… Continue Reading
Weebly offers free, easy Web site creation
Weebly, a start-up that lets you easily create Web sites with the latest Web 2.0 tools, has raised seed cash from YCombinator, and moved to San Francisco.
The company is just three people from State College, PA. Co-founder David Rusenko originally told VentureBeat he would move to Mountain View. He changed his mind, he said, because he found a vibrant Internet start-up ecosystem in hipper San Francisco — the latest sign that San Francisco has become… Continue Reading