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Saying Goodbye
When I first started with Weebly a few years ago, it was "user friendly". By that, I mean I didn't have to learn a bunch of code or whatever; it was designed for dolts like me who want to have a site/blog to write my stuff and not learn HTML or whatever.
It seems the techies have prevailed. I'm getting weird fonts with each text paragraph and see no way to change it without going to Themes and changing everything. I go to the help center and I get an automated thing in the so-called chat room that is of no help, and when I read other posts about fonts, I see stuff about custom CSS and commands to cut and paste...blah, blah, blah.
So, I guess I'll start looking around again for a user-friendly platform. This is a major pain in the ass because I've invested a lot of time and effort on my site and transferring that seems next to impossible without doing a lot of cut and paste, but I guess that's my only option.
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I have used weebly for 10 years and have not had any weird issues.... with fonts...
A whole number of quirks can be remidied by clearing cookies, cache and search history. These are, or should be, standard things that we all must do.
Some are still using Internet Explorer and cant work out why they must use another browser, or are using old themes which are non responsive and my reply when they dont want to upgrade to a newer theme is WHY? WE UPGRADE OUR CARS, PHONES, HOUSES, WIVES, HUSBANDS ETC but you wanna blog in the dark ages.
I have been very active on the community for a long time helping where I can.... and many issues have been from users getting lost in the simplicity of Weebly.
Their seo guide is great, and is very easy to implement.
yet users sometimes for example are reading seo guides wrtten by 3rd party sites promoting their fav hosting platform
Good luck
Ps i am NOT being paid to write this
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@irishimikedavis Certainly your comment about the less-than-stellar Weebly support is borne out by plenty of other users with the same complaint. Since the acquisition of Weebly by Square, support can at best be considered spotty and is likely to remain so or get worse over time. Square has had plenty of time to get its act together and, surprisingly, seems unable to do that from the perspective of support or basic communications about the new dual Weebly/Square platforms to the Weebly/Square user base.
The mashup of Square with Weebly for new account creation is a thoughtless mess. Square and Weebly are simply two entirely different platforms with different objectives (Square for e-commerce, Weebly for everything else) and should be treated as completely separate entities (as they were prior to the acquisition). It begs the question of what motivated Square to acquire Weebly in the first place. These two platforms can't really be melded into one (notwithstanding that, Square removed Weebly's own built-in e-commerce capabilities presumably because they don't want Weebly cannibalizing Square for users with simple e-commerce requirements) and the two site editors are as different as night and day (with Square a far less capable editing tool than Weebly). Square plays in the same e-commerce space as Shopify but is not nearly as powerful as that platform. Weebly can hold its own against any DIY website building platform notwithstanding the removal of its e-commerce capabilities. Prior to the Square acquisition, Weebly had a good reputation among its users for its ease-of-use platform and generally good support. The support end of that is pretty much over for now and the platform is seeing little if any ongoing development activity (if anything is happening on the Weebly editor back-end, Square is being particularly silent about it).
For those of us who have both platform expertise (having used Weebly for many years) and code expertise, user support is generally not required for the work we do and so we can appreciate the platform for what it is and how it works. That said, given Square's clumsy "integration" of Square with Weebly and the lack of communication around what the road forward actually is intended to be, expert users will likely not be surprised if/when we one day receive an end-of-life notice about the Weebly platform. Ideally, should that happen, Square will at least go to the effort of opening up a somewhat automated migration path for existing Weebly sites to Squarespace (different company from Square) which is a great DIY website building platform with excellent support, financing, and strong management.
Regarding your font issue, if you're looking for help here in the Community, provide some additional information about this problem (site url, screenshots, what happens) and expert users will be happy to take a look. I'd echo @whitemonkey's comment in that I've never encountered a font rendering issue in the dozens of Weebly sites I've built over the years so this is unlikely to be a platform issue (and special code should absolutely not be necessary if you're talking about standard Weebly text elements).
However, if you're pretty much done with Weebly, check out Squarespace (they have a free 15-day trial). Non-coders will find the depth of the site editing panels in many cases more comprehensive than what Weebly's editor offers and the editor user interface is somewhat better thought out and quite a bit slicker in operation. Coders will find some parts of Squarespace to not be as flexible or powerful as Weebly but less code is actually required when building sites on Squarespace. I'm a fan of grassroots coding so I'd give the edge to Weebly but, outside of custom code work, Squarespace is generally a better platform and is likely to have a much larger user base than Weebly.
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I am staying with Weebly . Though what is the future? @Adam any input?
Today weebly was down.. my tweet was answered within minutes and 1 hour later it is back up and running .. #goodjob
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@whitemonkey I'm also continuing to use Weebly because, for many smaller client projects, it's one of the fastest, most cost-effective solutions I can provide (of course, this is based on my own custom-coded themes and other work on the platform). But I've used other platforms before that ultimately were sent to the digital graveyard. The hodge podge approach to Weebly that Square has taken simply makes me wonder why Square acquired Weebly in the first place and what they really intend to do with it. As I say, it wouldn't surprise me if one day we receive an end-of-life notice. Been there, done that. Hopefully, they put in place a reasonably pain-reduced migration path to another platform in that event (that would be highly likely given the relatively large size of the Weebly user base).
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@PaulMathews being able to build my own site would be a dream
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