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How to Build and Manage a Website With Your iPhone Weebly introduces its free blogging platform as an iSO app.

By Gwen Moran

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Weebly broke ground in 2006 when it launched a powerful free program that makes it easy for entrepreneurs and others to build websites without any coding or blogging knowledge. But this past May, the company did something few thought was possible: It introduced an eponymous iOS app that allows mobile users to update their content, add photos and images, moderate comments, monitor stats and even build an entire site or blog right from their iPhones. And it's free.

"Today people are on the go, away from their computers, maybe standing in line at Starbucks. The app lets them respond to customers and comments right away," says David Rusenko, who founded Weebly with his Penn State college buddies Dan Veltri and Chris Fanini. "Anytime, anywhere, you can take and post a picture or video, monitor your stats--it lets you respond wherever you are."

Rusenko is mum about exactly how many of Weebly's roughly 13 million-plus users have downloaded the mobile app, but he says it was among the top three productivity offerings on the iTunes App Store for a week and a half after it was first released. An updated version, released in July 2012, has a five-star average user rating in the App Store.