This article is both a review and a review. Wix.com is a hosting service with a website builder. It allows you to create them for free.
Service Information
Probably not one good review Wix.com received from users. Now the service has about 40 million users. The designer is completely based on a browser-based visual editor. There is no need for special knowledge. The user does not have to write a single line of code. Ready sites interact normally with search engines. In any case, the developers of the platform claim this. One of the differences in the service is the use of innovative HTML5 features to create new sites. This is often mentioned by users when they write a review. Wix.com is one of the largest services for creating new resources with the presence of drag-and-drop technology.
Website templates
The database service www.wix.com has hundreds of unique website templates for various topics: from ordinary single-page business cards to corporate resources. Settings such as fonts, text size , color palette, photo design are easily customizable. This allows you to make the site to your liking.
Web applications
Along with a user-friendly site editor and a huge selection of design templates, service users have the ability to integrate modern web applications of other developers into their site. They are available in the Wix App Market. Users can also use high-quality hosting for free, create mobile versions of their site, integrate with Facebook and maintain a blog. To inspire new users who have only recently come to the platform and plan to create the first site, the administration constantly posts new original developments that were created using the platform in a special section. What can be done using the service can be judged by them. In fact, this is the best review. Wix.com accepts in this section any interesting sites made using the service. To get there, you need to send your project to the contest “Site of the day”.
Opportunities
Website http.wix.com allows you to create masterpieces. The service provides users with the following main features:
- create and delete pages;
- adding contact forms;
- creating menu items;
- resizing, colors of elements;
- Adding Google Maps
- HTML and Flash elements
- gallery integration from Tumblr, Flickr and Instagram;
- Adding PayPal and eBay services;
- adding audio and video;
- using the functions of the online store;
- integration with social networks.
Optimization and promotion
You should also talk about the policy of this service in terms of promoting the created site. The service allows you to edit meta tags both completely for the entire project, and for each page individually. Although Flash and Ajax technologies are actively used on the platform, the developers assure that this does not affect search promotion at all. An HTML version of the pages is created for it.
Account Types
There are two types of accounts on the service: free and premium. When using the budget version some restrictions are imposed. There are also platform blocks in the upper right and lower left. In the free version, the site address is as follows: user.wix.com/site.
Cons of a free service
The disadvantages of the platform include the following features.
- Difficult domain name.
- Availability of advertising.
- The inability to view attendance statistics.
- Restrictions on the amount of free space for files (maximum 500 MB).
- It takes too much RAM to edit the template.
pros
The advantages of the platform are:
- high-quality layouts;
- wide functionality;
- simplicity of work with the designer;
- SEO features
- interaction with social networks;
- intuitive interface;
- premium account allows you to transfer the site to another hosting;
- large Russian-language knowledge base.