Weebly Release Notes: New Features and Apps from April

5/2/2016

Happy May! Last month was jam-packed with new feature and app releases. Here’s a quick roundup of what we launched in April.

Navigational Menus - Create navigation pages that reveal child pages when clicked. Simple way to build an elegant and organized navigation experience for sites with a large number of pages.
Theme Merchandising - Theme Gallery is now categorized by popular verticals, making it easier to pick the perfect theme for your website, business or blog. Click “recently used” to view previous themes you’ve used in the old gallery format.
Email Preview Text - Customize the text displayed after the subject line in the inbox. This text helps your recipients preview email content and plays an important role in email open rates. Available with Weebly Promote.
Email as Webpage and Social Share - View any Weebly Promote email as a webpage and share that page on social media. Great way to gather additional visibility for your site by sharing email content publicly. Includes stats on social traffic to the page.
App Dashboard Cards - Improved app access and performance data available directly on your Dashboard. Supported by a growing number of apps including Schedulista and MarketGoo.
Smart Groups - Create custom Weebly Promote contact lists based on a specific set of rules. Currently, you can make smart groups based on store purchase, membership and form submission. This is an effective way to target emails based on visitor actions. Available for Grow and Accelerate plans.
iOS 4.6.0 - Site and blog post editing for contributors, improved site stats design, stability and speed improvements.
Android 4.4.0 - Scheduling blog post options, stability and speed improvements.

Here are the new App Center apps that went live last month:

Modal Pop - Create beautiful modal pop up windows with any Weebly element.
Scroll Back To Top - Small, graceful icon that lets users scroll back to the top of any page - 100% free.
OpenMenu Deals - Deals & coupons for restaurant websites.
Promo Bar - Customizable bar for promoting coupons and specials on your site.
Fyrebox - Interactive quiz builder.
Social Billboard - Stream of social photos for events.
Maps - Customizable Google Maps widget.
Social Media Feed - Social feed for Instagram content.
Facebook Like - Enable Facebook sharing options (share, like, recommend) on any site page.
Photo Overlay - Open site photos in a fullscreen overlay.
Image Loupe - Add click to zoom feature on any image.
Topit - Back to top smooth scroll.
Social Buttons - Custom buttons for your social accounts.

5/2/2016 02:52:59 pm

Wow! There's a lot of great stuff for April!

Peter from Luminous Themes | Designers of Premium Weebly Themes link

5/2/2016 03:13:36 pm

The new Weebly apps marketplace is truly amazing. It's a great way to add interactivity and dynamic elements to your website with absolute ease. We've incorporated many apps in our theme demos over at luminousthemes.com

Cheers!
Luminous Themes | Premium Weebly Themes |
www.luminousthemes.com

Uzo link

5/2/2016 11:07:35 pm

Peter, when is the Ethereal update going to be ready?

5/3/2016 03:57:32 am

Hey Uzo, the update for Ethereal is almost complete and should be out by the end of this week. It's going through a lot of bug-testing at the moment and once we're done with that, it'll be released.

Thanks for your support!

Luminous Themes | Premium Weebly Themes |
www.luminousthemes.com

Charles

5/3/2016 04:52:35 pm

Why not have a slider for the home page for Ethereal? Otherwise the theme is great.

5/4/2016 08:34:10 pm

Hey Charles, thanks for the kind words!

That's an excellent suggestion! We're actually in the process of finishing up a major update to Ethereal that will introduce sliders to the homepage header, as well as other elements (such as background video).

Cheers!
Luminous Themes | Premium Weebly Themes |
www.luminousthemes.com

5/6/2016 04:51:13 pm

Thanks Peter! It would be also great to see more themes that work for larger logos. Many of the top fixed nav themes have spots for logos that are smaller. Weebly only has one theme that they provide that has this, but there are very few layouts, typical Weebly, so if you could design one of those, that would be a hit. You could have two versions, one being a mobile nav at the top with centered logo above the title pages and headers, and one version that has a traditional nav below the logo. Make it so that you can increase the size of the logo easily. Also, make a splash page that has nothing but a drag and drop area with a custom background with a mobile nav in the top left corner. This way you can have your logo or text in the center with a button to direct people to other pages.

Good luck with the new themes! Hope this helps. Weebly customers for years have been asking for more themes that are better quality, and most of what we get are bloated features for ugly looking theme layouts.

nerdynautN link

5/2/2016 06:55:29 pm

Awesome features

Hamza Daud link

5/3/2016 01:46:00 am

This is good stuff :D
Thank you for posting this!

john c link

5/5/2016 04:13:42 am

rally good work

5/5/2016 04:13:59 am

really good work

Deborah

5/5/2016 01:18:44 pm

Thank you for finally adding the navigational menu option where it doesn't have to be a page, it's just the word! I've been waiting for this for years! Thank you!

Deepthi link

5/7/2016 10:49:03 pm

I would like to second that. When I first set up my website I had to figure out a way around the problem without losing viewers. Now, hopefully I can re-structure the website and eliminate some of the links I had to put in place to help visitors locate my galleries. Any comments/feedback would be welcome.

Tom

5/9/2016 09:47:52 am

I agree. This is a wonderful feature. It will make navigating our website much smoother! Thanks.

Website Design Sydney link

5/6/2016 05:08:16 am

Great app release - lots of variety for our clients here in Australia. Awesome guys.

hazel

5/9/2016 09:10:18 am

When will Designer Platforms get ANY upgrades? We are paying customers too and we get ZERO updates.

Weebly

5/9/2016 01:35:18 pm

The Designer Platform will be getting a lot great upgrades, although we can't give any specifics right now. Thank you for your patience!

Christine

5/9/2016 08:02:49 pm

I would really like to hear a date for the Designer Platform updates. I keep hearing stay tuned but no further details and why do you continue to allow requests to beta if you aren't going to let anyone else in?

noha

5/10/2016 11:15:23 am

If i purchase the business plan will i be able to have an app for my website on ios or android

5/10/2016 03:25:08 pm

Creating a full iOS app isn't included with any of our upgrades. If you want a beautiful mobile site that will look great on any iOS or Android device, all you need to do is choose a theme and we take care of the rest for you (and this is true of any site, free or upgraded).

Aditi Joshi

5/13/2016 12:23:30 am

wow,great news...I was working for Mentor Global so from today onward I can start my work new features.very useful...

Anthony Martin

5/14/2016 12:49:13 am

RE: updates to the designer platform...
I agree, we're paying customers too, 6 months ago I asked about some of the carbon features appearing for us on developer, and still nothing! What I saw of carbon looks fantastic, I can see some of the white label stuff may be difficult to incorporate without breaking brands, but all the tabs, sliders, additional page layouts, e-commerce improvements, newsletter functions etc, surely they could be ported relatively easily?

Megan Havers

5/19/2016 05:44:47 pm

I would like to attach an E-Newsletter to my Website?

Paul link

5/19/2016 10:32:54 pm

our need and have to .... add on element date picker .......please concern and add on that as soon.

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