This article is both a review and a review. Wix.com is a hosted website builder service. 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 constructor is completely based on the browser-based visual editor. There is no need for special knowledge here. The user does not have to write a single line of code. Ready-made sites normally interact with search engines. In any case, this is what the developers of the platform claim. One of the differences of the service is the use of innovative HTML5 capabilities to create new sites. This is often mentioned by users when they write a review. Wix.com is one of the largest drag-and-drop content creation services.
Templates on the site
The www.wix.com service database has hundreds of unique website templates on various topics: from ordinary one-page business cards to corporate resources. Parameters such as fonts, text size, color palette, photo design are easily customizable. This allows you to customize the site to your liking.
Web Applications
Along with an easy-to-use site editor and a huge selection of design templates, users of the service have the opportunity to integrate modern web applications from 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 blog. To inspire new users who have only recently come to the platform and are planning to create their first website, the administration constantly uploads 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 category any interesting sites made using the service. To get there, you need to submit your project to the Site of the Day contest.
Opportunities
http.wix.com allows you to create masterpieces. The service provides users with the following main features:
- creating and deleting pages;
- adding contact forms;
- create menu items;
- changing sizes, colors of elements;
- adding Google maps;
- HTML and Flash elements;
- integrate galleries from Tumblr, Flickr and Instagram;
- adding PayPal and eBay services;
- add 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 for the entire project and for each page separately. Although Flash and Ajax technologies are actively used on the platform, the developers assure that this does not affect search engine 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 corner and in the lower left. In the free version, the site address looks like this: user.wix.com/site.
Cons of a free service
The disadvantages of the platform include the following features.
- Hard to read domain name.
- Presence of advertising.
- Unable to view attendance statistics.
- Free space limits for files (maximum 500 MB).
- Too much RAM is required to edit the template.
Pros
The advantages of the platform are:
- quality layouts;
- wide functionality;
- ease of working with the constructor;
- SEO opportunities;
- interaction with social networks;
- clear interface;
- premium account allows you to move your site to another hosting;
- large Russian language knowledge base.
