 As dedicated Weebly designers, we often get quizzed on how to make a brilliant website in Weebly. The platform itself is has a ton of features that make it incredibly easy to build a site for yourself, but as with anything, the difference between a good site and a great site is all in the detail. Below are a few of our tips on taking your Weebly website to the next level.
Keep it simple The most common mistake we see newbies to website design fall into, is trying to make their site flashy and fancy. There are a ton of things you can do with a website, and Weebly has a whole lot of features to help you elevate the site, but if you are new to designing – less can be more. Web design is a constant balancing act between creating something that looks good versus something that also provides information to your customers and search engines. Err on the side of saying what you need to, without swamping the page with thousands of images and lots of text. White is nice Continuing on the theme of simplicity, if you aren’t confident in your design skills or taste, don’t be afraid to use white space. White is safe and it’s very hard to offend people’s sensibilities with white. So before you go and make the background of your website a whole colour block or a busy image, stop and think ‘will this look better with a white background’. Learn the platform through and through This may seem obvious, but there are a ton of features in Weebly for you to uncover. Open up the website builder and test every element and every button. Understand how placing an element works, and what different elements do at different sizes etc. The better you understand the platform, the more comfortable you’ll be in designing something really appealing in it. Grab a custom Weebly theme If you’re wanting to step slightly away from the usual themes that Weebly offers, have a quick search around for some of the custom themes there are out there. These can be slightly trickier to upload to a site, but they can give you the entirely unique look for your site you might be after. Our 543 Weebly Themes are an example of these, but there are some other great companies out there that provide some really nice themes. Stumped? Search in the Weebly App Center Sometimes you might be battling away trying to do something in Weebly and you just can’t get it to work. In these scenarios, if you don’t find an obvious element in the website builder, try searching the App Store. As an example, there are a number of apps that let you ‘hide an element’ on different size screens – which may come in handy if you want your mobile site looking slightly different to your PC site. Get a Website Designer’s Help Sometimes at the end of the day paying a specialist to make you a beautiful, functional site might be the best option. Any designer that spends their working life designing in Weebly will have tricks and coding knowledge that will elevate your site that extra bit higher than what you can achieve yourself. Your time may be better spent doing business development, or it may be that you’ve tried to make a site look good, but just can’t quite get there. Either way, there is absolutely no harm in chatting to a pro and seeing what they can do for you. We love bringing people’s dream sites to life – so consider it an absolutely privilege to be involved in any website build. Those are our quick tips on how you can improve your Weebly site from a design perspective. Check back, as in the future we’ll give you a few more tips, including how to make the most of your Weebly site in search engine results. |