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Re: Show HN: Weebly 4 – Websites, eCommerce and Email Marketing

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Post by arrosenberg »

rubidium wrote: post #6

So let's say I'm going to set-up a small business with an online store and other content (blog, etc...). Let's also say I don't care about the tech stack or want to be doing custom css/html. Weebly looks promising for that, and at $25-50/month isn't too bad. For people more familiar with this area, what other options are there? Wordpress+shopify? And how do the fees stack up with the different options?

I haven't played with Weebly, and I've spent a fair amount of time doing custom development, but I have a store on Shopify. The pricing on the last two tiers is very competitive. On the top non-enterprise tier, Shopify is about $180 a month and the feature set seems pretty comparable. Shopify doesn't provide a ton of tools to build your site unless you can do HTML/CSS, so I'd imagine Weebly is stronger in that respect for non-technical users.

The email piece seems like an after-thought, once you get beyond a few hundred customers, you will need a more serious solution for email marketing.

Re: Show HN: Weebly 4 – Websites, eCommerce and Email Marketing

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Post by swlkr »

atourgates wrote: post #13

One thing I've noticed on Weebly, Squarespace, Wix and other similar "DIY without any coding" website platforms is that all their themes depend on having excellent photography. Excellent photography is great, but many of the small businesses who are primarily targeted with these services, don't have it. And stock photography looks like, well, stock photography. I'd love to see a service like this embrace themes that…

It would be cool to make a service that does stock photography (or custom photography for the right price) that integrates with Weebly, Squarespace, Wix and other similar DIY website platforms.

Re: Show HN: Weebly 4 – Websites, eCommerce and Email Marketing

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Post by codegeek »

drusenko wrote: post #36
stevoski wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just followed your link on an English-language website (Hacker News) in response to an English-language comment (yours) on my iPad (running in English, my mother tongue and main language) while in Spain (where I live) Your site was presented to me in Spanish. Please don't do this. Don't choose a language for me based on my location.

This one is really tricky. You'll see this same behavior by Google, Facebook, and most other major providers. We spent a lot of time looking into this, it's unfortunately a very complex situation: 1- In theory browser language should be the perfect way to do it, in practice as often as 25% of the time or more it's set incorrectly. Unfortunately, that means a lot of people that don't speak English end up with English…

Isn't it simple to just give an option for user to change the language on a site ? A dropdown on top right ? Genuine question. Why guess what the user wants to see ? This is a tough problem. Let the user decide.

Re: Show HN: Weebly 4 – Websites, eCommerce and Email Marketing

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Post by codegeek »

fergyfresh wrote: post #60
drusenko wrote: post #45

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Interesting. I experienced it differently myself (while I was traveling, both Google and Facebook would show me local language, regional sites), as have others we've tested with. We've done a bit of research into how others do it to come to this point, but it looks like we should dig a bit deeper.

[Accepted-Language] in the HTTP header and the location based on the IP address (Google has a super easy API for this) is the easiest way that I could think of. Both are pretty easy to implement as I have done both before.

unless you are on a VPN. then what ?

Re: Show HN: Weebly 4 – Websites, eCommerce and Email Marketing

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Post by reviseddamage »

drusenko wrote: post #39
reviseddamage wrote: post #29

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Hi, for your ecommerce, are you a payment facilitator or do you use a third party partner.

You can use a number of merchant payment providers, currently Stripe, Square, Paypal and Authorize.net, so you have lots of options.

OK, so all third party, nothing proprietary yet, correct?

Re: Show HN: Weebly 4 – Websites, eCommerce and Email Marketing

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Post by quirkafleeg »

stevoski wrote: post #42
drusenko wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This one is really tricky. You'll see this same behavior by Google, Facebook, and most other major providers. We spent a lot of time looking into this, it's unfortunately a very complex situation: 1- In theory browser language should be the perfect way to do it, in practice as often as 25% of the time or more it's set incorrectly. Unfortunately, that means a lot of people that don't speak English end up with English…

Thanks for your response. It is indeed tricky, as I know from both sides of the situation. I don't think this behaviour is as prevalent as you suggest. I just checked Facebook and Google from a newly opened "private browsing" tab and both gave me English versions.

Out of curiosity, what happens when you go to this page in a private window:

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/en

Note the "en" in the URL and "English" in the language selector in the top right of the page.

The button text and input placeholder text is not in English for me, nor is the text at the bottom of the page. Blogger, Google groups and I think other Google stuff, like Flights, is the same.

Re: Show HN: Weebly 4 – Websites, eCommerce and Email Marketing

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Post by drusenko »

Angostura wrote: post #66

The move from Weebly 2 to Weebly 3 seemed to be very rough - lots of unhappy punters. What lessons did you learn from that move, how did you handle thing differently this time?

We learned a lot, and things have been completely different this time around. We were much more careful about managing timelines & deliverables much further upstream, delivering features in more of a phased approach to prevent on big last minute merge with unanticipated interaction effects, ensuring adequate time for internal testing as well as external beta testing to uncover bugs of all kinds (regressions, usability, etc), and then cutting scope aggressively if necessary as the deadlines approach to make sure that we maintain a very high quality bar -- those are just a few of the things we've been able to improve on.

Very proud of Weebly 4 and the team that made it all happen, it's both our biggest release ever, as well as our most polished!

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