Wix - Great Power, for Better or for Worse
December 29, 2018
Wix - Great Power, for Better or for Worse
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Wix
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.
- The data-driven, dynamic pages will eliminate an entire part of our event launch process. Multiplied across 60 events, over several years, that will save us a ton of time but also vastly increase the quality of our presentation.
- The data-driven pages will also give us the ability to archive past events and radio shows in an easily searchable manner. This will be helpful for us when it comes to booking new events as well. (It has been no small feat for me to figure out the code to get this all working, though!)
- This new site will reflect our brand and organization vastly better than our old site. It will make our organization appear much more professional and legitimate.
Wix is more flexible and more powerful. But it's also got a steeper learning curve. For our organization, it is the right combination of power, low cost, and allowing do-it-yourself.