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July 25, 2019
Wix Fast and Free to Start, But Should You?
Wix is used for managing a website. It contains current information, archives, and events calendar and a gallery. Wix is used by three people to manage the website. It is a fairly user friendly way to build a website once the user becomes familiar with the setup. The Free package is nice but paid does seem better.
- Wix makes it easy for users with no coding experience to create a visually appealing website.
- Wix has a variety of plug-ins including, galleries, forums, chat, blogging, Instagram, counter, PDF viewer, and many more.
- Wix is also connected with a large variety of third-party apps that can be used such as chatbot, contact form, Eventbrite, and Event Viewer.
- While Wix appears to make itself user friendly, there is a lot of apps that are unnecessary that must be waded through. When you are trying something new it is actually complex, until you get the "hang of it".
- Without a paid subscription Wix does not populate on Google searches very well.
- Wix hosts its pages, and again if you do not have a paid subscription the loading can be slow and burdensome.
October 20, 2019
Wix Helped Get Us On Our Feet
We started with Wix as a solution to not having a website. Our company was purchased by an investment firm, and we were in the process of being carved out from our parent organization. We had a major product launch coming up at the end of 2018 and needed to have a website in place for it; after researching, Wix seemed like the best and easiest option for getting a page up. It turned out to be so easy that I recreated our whole web presence using Wix (our former parent organization had completed a web redesign earlier that eschewed much of the information our customers need to make purchasing decisions; this was our chance to rebuild that information). Today, we have a more robust web solution in place, but Wix remains our top option for landing pages and "quick need" pages which do not necessitate an entire development process.
- Easy to build pages and sites that look professional, even with little web design experience.
- The graphical user interface lets you see in real-time how your site will look.
- Easy to add applications with further enhance your site.
- Good value for the price, especially if you can find a coupon code as we did.
- Easy to add and manage users.
- Easy to get people trained up on how to build a page.
- We registered our domain from Wix, and are unable to easily set up a page-level redirect in order to funnel traffic to our new web presence.
- While useful, the GUI can be a bandwidth hog - you need a robust internet connection for the best experience.
- Very easy to hit a ceiling on what you can do to make the page look good; would be great to have more robust onboarding for enterprise-level businesses.
September 30, 2019
Tons of customization, but far too easy to mess up.
When I switched from WordPress, I spent several months working with both Wix and Squarespace. I ultimately decided to go with Squarespace, as I found that although Wix has more customization options, it was more difficult for our clients to use. Clients liked the "do anything" interface but quickly messed up their sites, which was a hassle for everyone.
- Good, simple on-boarding process.
- Lots of visual customization options.
- Many different themes to choose from.
- It's too easy to mess up the design of your site...you can literally drag and drop elements anywhere, which looks awful!
- The interface is messy and overwhelming for inexperienced clients.
- The branding is inconsistent. Wix looks modern and polished in some areas and old and clunky in others.
Wix is used by my company to develop and frequently modify our website. I developed and patented a carbon capture technology back in 2007, and after much searching selected Wix to build our website. I was pleased with the website from the start, as it was relatively easy to build given the tools inherent in Wix. It addresses the fundamental need of a small technology company: to get noticed. And it does it effectively.
- Wix provides a complete platform with a short learning curve. As a technology professional, I don't have time to resolve website problems.
- The resulting product is professional, allows for enough detail, and can be updated easily with new developments.
- The ability to quickly add blogs is important to me, as we must frequently provide extensive and updated technical information to relate to a sophisticated audience.
- A very useful feature is the ease with which we can insert video in the website.
- Wix appears to have been designed for retail businesses, given the presence of a shopping cart. An alternative format for technology companies would be welcomed.
- Because the work we do involves design drawings produced in DraftSight and other CAD software, it would be particularly useful if we could import such drawings into the website.
- Although Wix provides a library of photographs, few are technology oriented. More, please.
I have used Wix to create websites for an entire organization, but I've mostly used it to create landing pages and/or mini sites for specific aspects of an organization like a campaign for a new product or a registration site for an upcoming conference. Wix is perfect for small businesses who cannot afford to invest in an in-house web developer or designer but need a professional, visually-pleasing website.
- The most important strength of Wix is its simplicity and intuitive interface. Wix is, by far, the best web CMS that I've ever used because it's easier to navigate and understand than other CMS platforms. Once you start building your site, there are pop-ups explaining what to do next until your entire site is filled with content. Because it's so easy to get started, I've completed websites on the same day that I started them, which makes marketing managers and directors extremely surprised and excited.
- Wix's design and theme options are the best I've seen. When using other CMS platforms, I've had a difficult time finding themes that fit the way that I want to organize the content on my website. I felt restricted because the themes were not editable. Wix, however, allows users to edit themes as much as they want. The platform will also take the information that you've already plugged into the site and find a theme that works, choose the best fonts, and even implement color schemes. Wix really gives you control over the way your site is organized but also provides a "hands-off" route for people who don't want to be too heavily involved in the design process. There are options for any and all levels of experience and involvement.
- Wix has an option to add a contributor to a website, which I also have not seen on any other CMS platforms. In most cases, CMS users would need to create several logins to get their colleagues or partners to edit the site. But with Wix, I can have my own account with both personal and professional sites - and invite colleagues to edit a specific website without seeing anything else. It's similar to having a Google Drive of websites. I can see all of my Wix websites, but colleagues can only see or edit the websites that I invite them to.
- One place where Wix falls short of other CMS's is with insights and analytics. On other platforms, I can instantly see how many page views I received, what time the pages were viewed, location, etc. But seeing this information on Wix requires a Google Analytics integration that is not automatically included when you make an account. You have to first go to Google Analytics to make an account, then come back to Wix to activate the integration, it's a little time-consuming for a feature that most CMS's come with instantly.
April 23, 2019
Great basic website designer!
I use Wix as a training tool for the call center I work for. They can use it as a resource also to reference different aspects of how a call should go. Also, it has all of our call scripts and information that customers may inquire about. There are buttons for each question a customer may have, with the proper response for our agent to use.
- Wix makes it simple to set up a basic website in a matter of hours.
- They have a lot of options in the free version.
- It is super simple to create a website that is easy to use.
- There are some extra features that are not available in the free version.
- The user interface can use some improvement when it comes to the overall layout.
- They could also add to the tutorial library to help new developers further.
February 07, 2019
Great for Small Businesses
Wix is currently being used for our online store for our farmer's market. We are only open seasonally because we are an on-farm Market, so we only open when we have crops being harvested. We also offer a wide variety of non-perishable food items. We get people wanting to purchase items when we are closed, which is why we started using Wix to help us sell when we are closed.
- Wix does a great job helping us sell our products online without over complicating it. Setting up an online store isn't always an easy thing to do, and can be very frustrating.
- Very easy to use, set up and maintain. Great for beginners.
- Pricing is very reasonable. Great for small businesses.
- We would love to see more integration and more features offered. While it is very easy to use and has lots of feature, we'd like to see more.
- Better tracking and analytics. It is nice to see how what you are doing is working through tracking and reports. What they offer is very limited.
In 2017 we moved our organization's website from a Wordpress site to Wix and we haven't looked back. Representing our company on the web is important and Wix has become our one-stop shop for website design. It's ease of use and multiple design templates have made training our department heads a breeze. We now have a web presence, with responsive pages and mobile compatibility, all of which we did not possess before our move to Wix.
- Easy to setup
- Help documentation is easy to access and detailed
- Customization
- See what your website will look like on a computer / tablet / mobile device
- The blogging feature could be improved. I would like to see additional blogging layouts available.
February 27, 2019
Good Start for Website Design
We use Wix when it comes to having students create websites, teacher blogs/doc logs, students digital portfolios, etc. It is often part of a choice that teachers share with their students when they have an assignment/creative task and are looking for a program to design a website. I have found that teachers across all subjects and departments and across our district have utilized Wix in one way or another. Website design in general, or having students create sites in which they share their information with a wider audience is a great skill that they need to practice and Wix helps with this.
- Easy drag and drop features let users create an engaging website with ease.
- Professional layouts and designs take the guesswork out of the creation and allow more time to be spent on the content.
- The ability to add features/integrations like a store, feedback or comment options, and more interactive tools can go a long way in personalizing the site.
- Even though drag and drop makes things easier, at times there is difficulty getting things to fit where and how you want. Maybe have a way for the item be influenced by other features around it to make it fit better?
- The templates are great for students to get started, but more options and maybe some more modern designs (ex WordPress/Squarespace) would be nice.
- A better data and analytics feature. WordPress nails this and I wish other website programs would do something similar.
I used Wix to build my first website, so the problem it solved was getting me my first, rudimentary online presence. Their marketing messages are correct: even a technology and design novice can use Wix to build a passable, even attractive, website. If you're not excited about embarking down a big learning curve to get a website up and running, and you need something that's relatively simple, Wix may be a fine choice for you.
- It gets you a website up fast. If you need a website and you need it now, its templates will do the trick, and some of the templates are nice and reflect current design trends.
- It offers rudimentary plug-ins such as contact forms, calendar widgets, newsletter signups, and the like. Because it's all made in-house (or at least approved), you don't have to worry about something not working properly or crashing your site.
- They can take care of the technical stuff for you, including registering and hosting your domain. Wix can truly be a one-stop shop for your website.
- The feature set is extremely limited. There's just so much you can't do with Wix. You're stuck with only the tools they give you, so if your company grows and you need something more robust, you'll need to start from scratch with something else.
- While some of the templates are modern, the majority look severely outdated and will hurt your brand more than help it.
- While they have a "pixel perfect" drag and drop editor, allowing you to move elements with extreme precision, the trade-off is that sometimes the elements don't display properly on mobile, no matter how much you tweak them.
November 15, 2018
Best place to design a website for your business
Wix is the core of my production business as well as the websites I create for other businesses. It's used on a daily basis to create and design websites. I also use Wix for my blog.
- It's easy to use and learn
- There are a lot of great functions
- Great customer support
- Affordable
- Lots of design maneuverability
- Some of the features do not work consistently or they are not able to be seen at all times.
- There are frequent bugs.
- SEO optimization can be improved.
- They removed some features that I cannot get back.
- Form builder applications and plug ins can be slow to set up and slow to load.
- Cannot customize certain features.
- Handling the footer section can provide issues.
- Event application / plug in has basic features but mostly not useful.
- Paid plug ins don't work well or fast enough.
- Paypal buttons take a long time to load.
- Repeater boxes don't work well.
- It doesn't allow you to copy and paste a section from one website design to another website design, which is an important function for saving time when managing multiple business websites.
January 15, 2019
Websites from Scratch to Published with No Stress
Wix is a browser-based webpage builder editor and hosting service, allowing users to create personal or business webpages with no or minimal coding experience required. In our Digital Media program, we allow students to utilize Wix to build a web portfolio for their work, including photography, graphic designs, and video productions. We also utilize Wix for a course overview site for new and prospective students to view past projects, learn more about our program, and to contact us with questions via a web form on the site.
- Easy to use interface
- No coding required
- ADI Service: can build the website for you by answering a few questions
- Generic/Basic templates
- Simple sites
December 20, 2018
Wix can be a lifesaver only if you want to be saved!
Wix was used to create a website and I should say that it was quite easy to create. The time it took to create the website was very minimal and the collaboration on Wix was near perfect, Wix made the work easy by providing the templates to choose from and ADI was very neat in preparing the first draft. We did not have trouble creating the website even though we did not have any experience in website development.
- Wix provides templates according to your business. Most of the times these are enough to create the first draft.
- The editor is very good and easy to use.
- The collaboration works like a charm wherein every stakeholder can make the changes themselves with any dependencies.
- Sometimes it becomes tricky to shift from editor to ADI.
- There are certain functionalities in the editor which can become quite hard to use and understand.
- There is a room for a lot of improvement in terms of mobile responsiveness, most of the times the websites look messy.
January 04, 2019
Wix is a great, user-friendly way to build a website!
We used Wix when we were shopping around for a way to build a simple website with a custom domain name and a blog. Wix is one of the most simple and user-friendly ways to build your website.
- Wix is easy to use.
- Wix is a cost-effective way to build a website.
- Wix makes building a website a more stress-free experience.
- My experience with Wix was positive. No immediate issues to report.
I use Wix to present myself and my freelance writing business online. I built a simple website to showcase myself, what I offer, and a blog. Wix was easy to use to build my website, has a lot of tools and options I may never even use, and offers website hosting, personalized email, tracking, SEO tools, pretty much everything I need to manage my online presence.
- Easy drag-and-drop website building and customization.
- SEO and marketing tips to get site listed on Google.
- Website building wizard for even easier website building.
- Website hosting is easy to manage.
- Personalized email for marketing consistency.
- Blog could use updating, particularly in formatting. Doesn't follow the rest of my website's settings.
- Would like to see more automated social sharing.
September 14, 2018
Websites made easy!
Wix was helpful for us to build a really neat website in a very short amount of time, Wix is used by the administration and the marketing department mainly to communicate with our audience and also to let people know about important events that come up. Wix was really instrumental for us in zeroing on the website design and helped us put it up. The best thing about Wix is that it has many templates and you will get suggestions according to type of business, this has made our work very easy.
- Wix has a lot of templates, Wix suggests templates according to the kind of business which makes work very easy.
- The Wix ADI is great because it is easy to setup the whole website rather than picking and choosing each and every element.
- Wix help's you with previews on browsers as well as mobile. The websites created are responsive and look great both on computers and mobile devices.
- Wix ADI though it is great has a lot of room for improvement. There can be more templates that can be added.
- If you quit the ADI it is little tricky to get back into ADI.
- The editor is great but can be a little more easy to use. There is a slight learning curve involved.
December 29, 2018
Wix - Great Power, for Better or for Worse
We are using Wix to build our main website. We hold about 60 events a year, plus produce a radio show, so I'm using a combination of Wix code and Airtable to make this a database-driven site with dynamic pages. This will make us far more efficient and accurate than the current way we do it (creating all pages manually in Weebly).
- Wix allows a lot of flexibility in design. For me as a designer and a brand manager, that's very important.
- Wix has a lot of the current options for page design, such as parallax, video backgrounds, and the like.
- Wix code allows us to create dynamic pages, and do custom things previously only possible on a very costly custom-made site.
- Wix's design features can be a curse as much as a blessing. It's tempting to use animation and overdo it on big images but they'll kill page load time and at a certain point become detrimental to usability.
- Wix code is not for the faint of heart. You have to be willing to dive into the world of Javascript and relational databases. Not as "out-of-the-box" as their marketing would like you to believe. Still, powerful though.
- On certain things, such as buttons for example, they need to make them more style-based. Each button on the site is essentially custom designed by you. So if you decide you want the button style different, you have to manually redesign it for every instance on the site. No universal CSS change for that.
November 21, 2018
Wix: a very dynamic website creator for us coding dummies!
Wix is being used by me to promote my freelancing art/design business. It displays my personal projects as well as client projects I’ve completed. It solves the problem of providing an accessible platform for potential clients to look at the design services I have to offer.
- Image hosting: seriously love that if you upload a reasonably sized image, it loads in a snap
- Ease of design: I can design a website from the ground up pretty quickly just with a few clicks
- Great templates: if you’re not very design-oriented, there are great defaults to get you started with to help develop ideas of your own.
- No coding necessary: you don’t need to code to create a great looking site.
- I think if I had to see something different, it would be increased control of certain aspects of the templates
- Ability to add your own font file would be nice, as having to conform to a small library of fonts doesn’t help when I need uniformity for my brand
- Better mobile support for certain design functions: some designs I pick just don’t look that great on mobile such as a carousel design to flip through images. It looks clunky.
- The ability to change the design formats on mobile separately from desktop to ensure a nice flowing site would be immensely helpful
January 18, 2019
Good, but sometimes glitchy, software for website development.
We use Wix to develop customer friendly, easy to use websites with advanced integration options for our clients. It is useful in the context of developing these websites but not for other purposes, which saves us from actually hiring a developer and manually coding and developing a website directly, which would be much more expensive even if it had more customizable options.
- Customizations
- Integrations
- Built-in graphics
- Relatively glitchy
- Sometimes hard to use
- Drag and drop has difficulties sometimes.
June 28, 2018
Wix is great for Small to Mid-Size Businesses!
I've used Wix to set up a personal website for myself. That website serves as my personal portfolio and my resume. I have about 6-10 pages on it. With the numerous templates that Wix provides, I was able to browse ideas and then build my own site using a number of techniques I saw. I did the same thing for a client of mine who had already bought the premium Wix package but then decided they did not want to take the time to set up their site themselves. For them, I was able to build a 20-page website highlighting their services as well as add a blog and an event page for them.
- Wix provides new users with templates so that you can really get a site up and running within an hour or so.
- Wix publishes a daily blog that teaches you how to use their website as well as other digital marketing skills such as SEO.
- If you're willing and have the time, you can customize your site down to the last detail.
- In my experience, Wix has trouble working with Chrome. The click and drag features are jumpy at times causing misplaced images and text.
- Again, with Chrome, it seems that the site editor/interface is very slow to load.
- If you're looking to customize your site to its fullest, you will have to upgrade to a paid account.
June 29, 2018
Ehhh skip it and use WordPress
We use Wix for our primary website, it houses basic information about the company, provides some educational information and has some lead generation contact forms.
- I think if you need a very basic website as a novice it is pretty accessible.
- I found Wix doesn't play well with other programs. For example when we were using LeadPages it did not integrate well at all with and as I prefer the LeadPage platform for landing pages it was quite frustrating.
- MailChimp doesn't integrate with Wix well either and I had to rely on Zapier to the automation. As someone who has used WordPress for years and seeing that they integrate easily with many of the common digital sales platform I feel that Wix just isn't cutting it.
February 09, 2018
Complete customization from start to finish
We have transferred over several of our business needs into Wix such as payment processing, email management, domain name hosting, and website building. Previously, we were using GoDaddy for our domain name, email management, and website hosting. Wix has helped us become more self-sufficient with more control over what we are publishing.
- Love the drag and drop system! It is completely customizable and helps you decide what you want so you do not have to have all the answers. Truly is a great option for nonprofits and businesses alike.
- Easy SEO management and clear reporting options. This helps us to have all of our website and external marketing on one platform WHILE understanding how it is working. We are able to make adjustments based on what visitors are responding to.
- Love all the widget options. Wix has several applications and add-ons to meet any needs you might have. We utilize this such as video publishing, blog, and several customizable button options.
- Since the website builder utilizes a drag and drop system, it can take a bit longer to load your page. It's a good idea to adjust the size of any photos or media that is inserted to help alleviate this problem.
- We signed up during a promotional period. Our contract has not expired yet but I am nervous that the prices take quite a jump after the initial contract period.
- There is great customer service but not a lot of help available online. I would like to see better help manuals.
May 07, 2018
Wonderful wonderful Wix
We use Wix for our website. I use it almost every day to push out Shoutouts, manage lead forms, etc. It helps start our sales funnel currently.
- Wix is great at drag-and-drop customization for your website
- They're nice as a catch-all for website and CRM in one
- Their support team is always on top of things and will help me personally with my site if needed. So awesome.
- Wix could be better at customization on the edges of a webpage. You feel kind of constrained after a while.
- Mobile formatting could be better within Wix, you can't add any additional tools only subtract them from the existing site.
- I don't love the user interface, I wish it was more sleek and modernized adult.
March 05, 2018
Wix for education
Wix is used by the students as a digital portfolio to document learning and post a demo reel.
- Clean interface
- Easy to navigate
- Great looking templates with a variety of themes
- Easy to set up
- Add education templates
- When I clicked to change the template, it didn't display the templates in the selected category until I refreshed. Maybe the Internet is a bit slow tonight.
February 28, 2018
Cleanliness is Godliness, and this is not clean.
Wix is a great starter website option for clients that need a website ASAP. Wix gets the job done if you need to just get a landing page and some basic information onto the web. I don't personally recommend it as my first go-to option unless I'm working with inexperienced people. It's best for people who don't really know what they're doing or how to do design.
I began using Wix when I was starting out for a portfolio web option, but at the time they didn't have a decent built-in blog platform and I wanted to be able to have a blog as well. It looks like they've now built that in as an App and it seems better than before, but there still doesn't seem to be as much customization as I'd like. I do like their additional ADI (Advanced Digital Intelligence) that does assist in creating a basic website to start with. I think this is ideal for someone who doesn't have any clue how to get started on a website.
I began using Wix when I was starting out for a portfolio web option, but at the time they didn't have a decent built-in blog platform and I wanted to be able to have a blog as well. It looks like they've now built that in as an App and it seems better than before, but there still doesn't seem to be as much customization as I'd like. I do like their additional ADI (Advanced Digital Intelligence) that does assist in creating a basic website to start with. I think this is ideal for someone who doesn't have any clue how to get started on a website.
- Apps. Wix provides many add ons or apps to put on you website for whatever needs you might have.
- Themes! So many to choose from!
- Free option. While I don't think any serious business owner should use the free option since it has ads, it's still an option.
- Inability to change themes. Once you've chosen a theme, you're locked into it until you build a new web page. Then you have to transfer all your information and premium over.
- Weak UX
- Ads
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About Wix
Wix includes customizable HTML5 templates that can be used with its drag n' drop website builder. The vendor also offers 24/7 support and an App Market with over 200 apps. (These paid apps, as well as professional services offered by Wix, allow the company to make money while keeping its hosting service free.)
Wix Technical Details
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| Mobile Application: | No |