Monday, January 15th, 2007
Weebly: Online Website Creation Tool using Ajax
David Rusenko told us about his product Weebly, a web site creation utility written with copious amounts of Ajax utilizing an easy to use drag and drop interface.
We’re trying to make a tool that’s easy enough for the majority of web users to use, and guides the user towards creating a complete compliant web site (not just an online word doc).
Weebly is now funded, has moved to the bay area, and we should expect some interesting news coming out from them soon.
Check out the video below, which tells the story better than a few words here. This is the latest of a set of tools that aim to get the average joe to a point where they can have a wysiwyg website editing experience.
3.6 rating from 35 votes
Is today Terrible Names Day or something?
Interesting…while this doesn’t have all the features of a lot of existing CMS’s, the easy-to-use factor is really nice. I could see this getting snapped up by a big ISP, or maybe a commercial CMS like Jot (which I know was already snapped up). Or maybe sucked into Google’s web site editing tools.
You say this is funded?
looks pretty swish! i like.
It uses Prototype and Scriptaculous.
And the name weebly, sounds like weewee when they say it fast in the instructional video.
Looks pretty cool to me. And I don’t like the Internet, or Internet related activities.
..or NintendoNintendo
demo video is in flash, and the weebly thing seems to be a plugin itself - yawn.
Wow, how wrong are you! Its a web app. And if you sign up you would know that.
yep sorry, guess i should have installed flash to realize that the broken plugin boxes all over their site were actually demonstrating an AJAX GUI.
I donno what to tell you. The main page has ONE flash video on that. The about page is all images. The signup tab pops up a little js modal. When you sign up, the tools are all javascript, its powered by Prototype and Scriptaculous. Sorry you cant grasp that. 8(
Hmm.. Drag n Drop still lacks performance in browsers. We must investigate solutions to make it better instead keep using whats currently available. The poor performance make this feel a bit like a rollercoaster ride. The author of this project has all my respect for his effort but until the perfomance issues in scriptaculous aren’t solved it will always be not-so-cool-after-all.
its nice, but one thing - “any one can create a site like that ”
there is no need off software engineers / web developers a 7th standard boy also make his own site……….. what else in that.