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We get asked the same questions a lot: Why should I use Weebly over another CMS and What is so good about Webfire Themes. This article is designed to help you understand some of the core benefits of using Weebly as well as how one of our Stylish and Professional Weebly Themes will help you design, build and manage an amazing website through this truly exceptional Website Builder. 

In all honesty. Webfire Themes is quite Humble. We don't want to be pushy and shove adverts in your face. We don't want to bombard your inbox with spam. We don't want to post thousands of pointless tweets a day to try and make you notice us. We simply want to develop and provide the best Premium Weebly Templates available, with no hidden costs and the best support service possible.

That being said. Listening to our customers in the past has always been a good thing. The way we've developed our Weebly Themes over the past few months has changed thanks to suggestions and feedback from our loyal customers.

So we'd like to give a big shout out to all you guys (and gals) that have had a big part to play in the ideas for new developments we're working on at the moment.

This blog page is no exception. We're going to listen to your feedback again, and have a go at explaining ourselves in a little bit more detail and why we think you should use Weebly and why Webfire Themes is the best resource for Premium Weebly Templates.

Weebly is the most popular and in our opinion the best website builder available. It is extremely flexible and, and the fact it’s absolutely free to use.

For those of you who don’t know what Weebly is. it is a Website builder that uses a drag and drop concept. This makes it the perfect tool for creating eCommerce websites, Blogs, Portfolio Sites, e-zines and as it’s free non-profit websites.
It is so easy to use, a complete novice in web design can build a site. You could have a website setup within a matter of minutes, and after a little more time spent you could have a well established website, that cost you absolutely nothing to set up.
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Weebly creates an opportunity for mobile friendly website design, with a library of Free Weebly Templates along with the opportunity to install Custom Weebly Templates that will help you make your page look like a professionally designed website.

Here is what you need to know about why having an account with Weebly.com will allow you to start building a professional looking website instantly.

As Weebly is a drag and drop website Creator, you will see a list of Drag and Drop elements that you can drag into your page area to add Text, Images and widgets like Slideshows and Embedded YouTube Videos.
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The use of Drag and Drop in Weebly takes away the need to know any HTML or CSS, so building a site that looks professional is easy and possible without paying a website designer hundreds of dollars.
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With Weebly you are presented with a simple and intuitive website builder that is purely web based. The editor gives you a real time preview that shows you what your site will look like once published so you don’t need to constantly publish and refresh.

You can drag in the Weebly Elements from the dashboard into your page and move them around wherever you want them to be. Whether you want things in two equal columns, or three columns, with the middle one being wider, you can. the layout of the page can be defined exactly as you want it.
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Also, each page you create gives you the option to select some predefined layouts, which follow the common design trends.
When editing custom Modules like Forms, Maps, Embedded Video, Social icons, the Weebly dashboard pops up with the options inline, meaning you can configure each element there and then, allowing you to focus on the job in hand, and not have to jump to a different page to configure.

Earlier in this article we mentioned how flexible Weebly is as a platform. One of the key components of this flexibility is the ability to customize the default templates or even upload custom templates.

The Template, or Theme. is the framework of your Weebly Website. it is built using HTML, CSS and sometimes Javascript or JQuery (Don’t worry if you don’t know what that means, you don’t need to). The Template, or Theme defines the style of your website, and the location of certain elements such as how the menu looks, where the logo is placed, what the different sections on the page look like, the background colors/images used on the site etc.

If you do know any HTML and CSS then you can quite easily customize your weebly template. If you don’t know any HTML and CSS, then don’t worry. you really don’t need to.
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There are also some great advanced features in the settings like Changing your Favicon and Copying your website (which is a feature even some of the most advanced Content Management Systems don’t allow with ease). The ability to copy your website means you can play around without breaking your live website.

Not all of the Weebly templates (Free and Premium) are fully responsive. This is where another brilliant feature of Weebly comes in!Weebly has a mobile display and builder where a “mobile” version of your Weebly website can be designed. This again, uses the Drag and Drop features available in the Weebly Dashboard, but specifically for mobile devices. It is the perfect way to cut out the non-essential data on your website to make things easier to read when viewing the website on a Mobile Device.
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This isn’t something you HAVE to do. Weebly automatically create a mobile version of your website, but you can tweak to your taste via the Mobile Builder.
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​Weebly offer a fantastic eCommerce platform which gives you the ability to sell your products without worrying about the technical setup. You can add the products with the same ease as building your website. The drag and drop features are available and in-line pop ups guiding you through product setup is there.You even get to use the eCommerce features in the free Weebly package, and only need to upgrade to the paid version if you need to use more advanced features.
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Weebly also offer some premium features that you can unlock with one of the paid subscriptions. These start at as cheap as $3 a month and allow you to do things like publish your website on your own domain, and use the premium slider, drag and drop footer.
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Unlike most other companies that offer something for free but you have to pay to get the most out of the tool. Weebly is not the same. You can really get a lot out of the free version, and can build a fully functioning website without having to pay anything.

From the information above, I think you will agree that on paper Weebly is the most user friendly and functional Website builder available. If you haven’t already, you should try it out and see that it really is the best.

It allows you to do some basic customization with no knowledge of CSS and HTML, and work right up to designing fully custom Website Templates if you do have the experience in CSS and HTML.

Weebly is flexible enough for you to buy and install Custom Weebly Templates which still allow you to use the main functionality of the Weebly Dashboard.

Although there are paid subscriptions on Weebly to use some of the “Extended” features, you can really do everything you could imagine on the Free Version.

Weebly allows for eCommerce Driven websites, Blogs, Portfolio Pages, business Pages.

You can embed code into the site via the drag and drop, which allows for things like Custom HTML widgets, embedded widgets such as a twitter feed and other third party sites that provide a code for embedding.

The Instructions provided by Weebly are easy to follow, and if you get stuck their support service is absolutely stellar. They really go the extra mile in helping you out.

There are even more features we haven’t discussed in this review, such as the SEO settings you can set on each page, the ability to setup an advanced menu structure without any coding, the flexibility of the drag and drop Form widget and many other great settings that you can use to customize your websites functionality.

All in all, you will be hard pushed to find such a well maintained and flexible Website builder anywhere else.
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Once you have had a go with Weebly and can see the potential of your website when using one of our custom Weebly Templates, you won’t be tempted to pay a web designer lots of money to make your site ever again!

How to add a favicon in weebly is a really common question for weebly users and webfire themes customers so we thought we should write a weebly article on how to add a favicon in weebly.

What is  a Favicon? A Favicon is a great way to personalize your website to make it that little bit more unique to you. It is the little icon that shows up next to your website title in the browser.
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By default it looks like this:

You can replace the Weebly icon with any icon of your choice!
These instructions will show you how to add a favicon in Weebly.
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Please Note: you must have either the “starter” or “pro” subscription on your site to edit the favicon.

Step 1 – Create your Favicon
Most image programs today allow you to create a favicon, in this example we’re using Gimp to create our favicon. Your favicon should be 32 x 32 px. A lot of people use their company logo.

If you don’t have any image manipulation software, the best bet is to use the default one installed on your computer to create a 32 x 32 px image (png or jpg) of your icon. you can then use a website service such as http://www.favicon.co.uk/ to convert it into the correct format (.ico)
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Here is the icon we’ve created:

​Step 2 – Upload the favicon into weebly
From the Weebly dashboard go to settings:

​Scroll down to the “favicon” section and click the “upload” button and select your icon file

​Step 3 – Publish your website
Click Publish:

Now you should see your icon when you view your website
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