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

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Post by NicoJuicy »

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 personally use wordpress and woocommerce, got all the customization i need

Free mostly, paid plugins for setting it up faster :) -- emails, abandoned carts, ...

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

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Post by NetStrikeForce »

stevoski wrote: post #30
drusenko wrote: post #2

Hey everyone, David (founder/ceo) of Weebly here. We’re really excited about this launch, Weebly is now a platform to power a business online with websites, ecommerce, and email marketing all under one roof. In case you haven’t heard of us, we were W07 (one of the first YC batches) — 9 years later, over 40M people have created their site or store on Weebly, and 325M people around the world and half of the US populati…

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.

The worst case of this I've found was Waze.

Android phone in en-gb. Play Store account from UK. Download Waze while in the middle of France, get the voice indications in French. Who's the clever cookie that decided that? :-)

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Post by scurvy »

swlkr wrote: post #62
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.

Weebly has built-in integrations to Getty Images where you can license photos from their library. Is that what you're asking for?

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Post by nl »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

This looks to be exactly the behaviour the OP is complaining about. Personally I think this is the correct behaviour.

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Post by fergyfresh »

codegeek wrote: post #64
fergyfresh wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

[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 ?

You will get localized date formatting among a few other things probably. I am just saying you could use location from the HTTP header that is meant to tell the server what languages you speak. The VPN portion could really only be fixed by allowing you to select and save an address that is originally defaulted to IP.

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

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Post by brryant »

BadassFractal wrote: post #67

How does this Weebly compare to squarespace, wix and webflow? What's the differentiation?

Webflow CTO chiming in here - Weebly is definitely great for getting something up and running. But if you have specific design needs, then Webflow may be a better fit for you. We have powerful layout options like Flexbox: http://flexbox.webflow.com, and a full interactions & animations toolset: http://interactions.webflow.com. Our CMS also gives you the ability to embed dynamic content into you page, so you can power a lightweight ecommerce solution via Shopify or Foxycart. We also support SSL, and a powerful hosting stack where you'll pages will load in less than 30ms.

tl;dr: Webflow if you need powerful design controls without coding.

There's more info on our website, https://webflow.com - cheers!

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