Things You Should Understand About Weebly. What do the terms and conditions tell you?
1. Weebly is in Beta
There are existing software bugs, and Weebly is not exactly well-behaved in my browser. I have submitted a ticket on some Weebly browser issues, and I will post more about that when I get an answer. Anyway, you should understand that bad things can happen when a development tool is in beta, up to and including the complete destruction of your site. Luckily, Weebly has enabled backups. I have already begun backing up all my Weebly sites, including this one.
2. Content Ownership
Weebly does not own what you put up on Weebly's site. This is a common enough practice and as long as your account is valid, you can maintain possession of the site, but Weebly is quite clear that they will revoke accounts that violate the T&C.
Weebly does not allow vulgar or obscene content.
Weebly does not allow you to use a weebly page as method of forwarding traffic to another site.
These two steps will help manage the proliferation of junky, search engine spam sites, which plague free blog hosts, something Weebly will have to stay vigilant against. This will be hard because Weebly is a great boon to commercial site development, and the difference between spammer and marketer is really just the color of the hat. Mine's blue.
No illegal or harmful content, no email spam, no using Weebly to harass anyone - another thing that they need to be particularly vigilant about.
I'll quote this one:
(l) promote or provide instructional information about illegal activities, promote physical harm or injury against any group or individual, or promote any act of cruelty to animals. This may include, without limitation, providing instructions on how to assemble bombs, grenades and other weapons or incendiary devices;
Don't offer illegal products and don't make automated use of the system. This will also discourage spammers.
But, you can monetize your site with ads!
Why am I going to the trouble of discussing the Terms and Conditions?
Because, unlike Squidoo or MySpace, the spammers don't get to run around unfettered here. If you want to make commercial sites but you don't want the unfortunate association with spammy pages that lower the credibility of your own site, then Weebly is a great direction to focus on your site development.
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"You should understand that bad things can happen [...] up to and including the complete destruction of your site."
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4/17/2011 07:18:42 am
I have been with Weebly for about 2 years now. One year with the free version, and one year using the pro version.
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