Weebly vs. Wix
Weebly
      I want to start off by saying that Weebly is by far the best drag-and-drop website builder I have ever used and thus gets my vote when compared to any other drag-and-drop platform, including Wix, Webs, Yola, PressWork, WebStarts, iamcreator, and Webnode. I am not, nor do I claim to be an expert in the use of any of these other website creator platforms. My experience has been very limited with these sites because I found what worked for me and stopped using the others. 

      My specific needs were met with Weebly, but your specific needs and goals might be met with one of the other platforms. I was looking for something to help me put a website up quickly and professionally, while still being on a very low budget. If this is the case for you, I would strongly recommend using Weebly because ANYONE can create a presentable site with it without having to learn anything new. 
      I think the thing that makes Weebly stand out from the rest is that it takes no explanation to get started. Everything is very self-explanatory and there is no learning curve. There is no need to know or learn HTML, CSS, or any other web design language. Weebly is widget-based with a toolbar that makes creating your first website in Weebly as easy as creating your 100th website with Weebly. For the beginning website creator, Weebly is all you need to get a website up in less than an hour. 
  • I don't know where Weebly is in comparison for SEO, but I know it has been pretty good with SEO for the sites I have put up. This website was built entirely in Weebly and it is currently ranked 489,846 in the world by Alexa (with only 1 site linking in). This might be also because of my diligence on social media and sites bookmarking sites like StumbleUpon, Digg, and Google+, but other sites of mine have nothing but a Weebly template and a little content and they've been going up in the rankings as well. Weebly does allow you change the meta-data for each page created with their platform.
  • Adding of extra external style-sheets and external JavaScript has been a challenge I have yet to solve, but I believe there is an answer to this that I just don't know yet.
  • Adding Breadcrumbs is another factor for Weebly. You can read about my solution for Breadcrumbs here.
Update (02/27/2014): I wrote this post about 2 years ago. Since then, Weebly has climbed up in its Alexa ranking to 233 in the world (original post = 489,846). Also, it has grown its backlinks from 1 to 170,401.
Wix

Weebly

Positives

  • No learning curve.
  • Simple and easy to use.
  • What you get in the free version.
  • Price / Value

Negatives

  • External style-sheets and JavaScript not self-explanatory.
  • Adding Breadcrumbs.
  • Not the best for a professionally-built site.
  • Weak in Customer Support (No phone support)

Wix

Positives

  • Sites can be made to look more professional than Weebly.

Negatives

  • A little more of a learning curve than Weebly.
  • Need to have basic understanding of Illustrator/Photoshop.
  • Basic understanding of Flash is helpful.
  • My favorite thing about Wix is that it gives you complete creative freedom as long as you understand basic concepts of design in Illustrator or Photoshop. Having a basic knowledge of Flash also helped to understand what Wix was capable of doing with its powerful Flash based platform. 

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