Is a super popular constructor that is best suitable for creating different kinds business card sites–Complicated from the design and functional points of view: portfolio, business site, promo page or landing page. Blogs turn out to be very successful - they are easy to create, convenient to maintain. The eCommerce component is also well developed, especially taking into account applications and branded know-how like Wix Corvid.

Scope of Wix can be characterized by three factors:

1. Sites with few pages, since the design of each must be formed by hand. Blogs, forums, storefronts, and other dynamically expanding page types don't add any complexity to your site. The volume of only static pages affects, such as contacts, benefits, terms of cooperation, company histories, production and others.
2. Need deep and fine design customization, as well as the introduction of a large number of small functional elements.
3. The Wix App Store contains rich assortment of additional functionality(in fact, modules, if taken by analogy with other systems). Several categories of useful applications (more than 250 titles in total) will help you achieve almost any reasonable goal.

Ideal for creating small and medium-sized sites with sophisticated design and functionality. This constructor can be simple, superficial, if necessary: ​​they took a ready-made template, replaced the demo content, adjusted the colors, and got a website. With the same success, it can be used to construct arbitrarily complex pages with a bunch of details: animations, effects, forms for collecting and packing information into databases, interactive elements, pop-up authorization windows for different stages of access to information, all sorts of polls, tabs, columns, etc. other things.

Vicks can be used both to create your first website or training ground, and as a commercial tool - to develop complex and beautiful client sites. It is a good first builder and a good tool to help an experienced designer. The system is built in such a way that it allows for easy expansion of design possibilities. And even create your own, which are not in the stock delivery. Vicks is available for mastering the average PC user.

Who will be interested in Wix for sure

• small and medium business entrepreneurs;
• artists, designers, makeup artists, musicians, stylists;
• writers, journalists, bloggers, fashion designers;
• everyone whose activities are related to creativity and self-realization.

The service is capable of inspiring with its appearance, helping to implement ideas that are tricky from a technical and / or design point of view. Basic rich constructor with wide additional possibilities for scaling the functionality in breadth and depth.

You can master Vicks in two days, and in fluent mode - in 20 minutes. candidate # 1 queuing up for WYSIWYG services.

Functionality

The total capabilities of Wix consist of: editor functionality, general settings, control panel, installed third-party applications and options that you can implement on the site yourself using the Wix Corvid tool.

Any section of the editor contains tips for working with it. Hovering over the "i" circle will display a short explanation and a link to the full FAQ on the topic. Absolutely all options and widgets are provided with explanations, just in some you need to click on the "?" to invoke a pop-up window with instructions. You can also go directly to the Support Center, a knowledge base in Wix with the ability to search for answers to a request. Going through the categories of the knowledge base with your eyes, you can get an idea of ​​the constructor's capabilities - the names of the FAQ sections clearly list the functionality.

The structure of the Wix Site Design Editor:

The core of the functionality is defined by a sidebar with several sections of options and functions.

1. Menus and Pages... List of all static pages of the site and associated menu items. When adding a page, a menu item will be automatically added, which by dragging and dropping can be placed where needed or made a sub-item of another menu item (nesting up to 2 levels is supported). You can create new pages, links in the menu (to anchor, web address, mail, phone number, document or promo box) and set the script for opening them (in the current or new window). You can also add dynamic pages to your site that will pull content as it updates from the cloud or a database you create in Wix Corvid. For each page, you can assign visibility and adjust SEO, duplicate, make the main page, set the general layout of the layout, access rules, or convert to a dynamic page.

   

2. Background... Here you can choose a background for your site in the form of a picture (downloaded or stock from Wix), color, or even a video. The latter can turn your site into a very bright and memorable sight. Any video clip can be downloaded. You can activate the parallax effect to give the site visual depth when scrolling due to the difference in the speed of movement of objects located at different distances;

   

3. Add... An extensive collection of the types of elements that can be added to the page. It includes:
   
4. App Market... Branded store of applications that can be added to the site. A very strong part of Wix. Using this section expands the stock platform functionality several times. It contains a huge number (currently 252) of applications of various directions: forms, work with social networks, galleries, applications for the store and marketing. You can add an interactive calendar, such as email marketing tools, polls, Dropbox, eCommerce gadgets, SEO tools, and more, to help with the standard builder functionality. All apps are sorted into categories. Most of them are developed by the Wix team, the rest, as a rule, are the integration of the capabilities of third-party services. About half of the applications are completely free, and the rest have both a free use case and a paid one with additional features.

   

5. My downloads... Upload your photos, documents and audio files to the hosting. This will be your library, the files of which you can place on the site.
6. Blog... This section appears after activating the blog on the site. From here you can add new posts and edit existing posts. When creating a material, you can select a heading, type of CNC link, fill in meta tags and add a photo / video. By the way, the formatting options appear after the text is selected, they are hidden by default. You can choose the option of feeding the blog feed - in a column, tiles, cards. Here you will also see links to related applications for quick installation (Wix Events, Forum, Instagram Feed, etc.).

   

7. Online booking... A separate section with the functionality of the Wix Bookings application - a powerful tool for collecting requests for booking something (appointment with a doctor, renting houses, hotel rooms). You can set up the reception of group (yoga, dancing) or personal (services of a hairdresser, psychotherapist, for example) applications according to the calendar, connect the reception of online payments through PayPal, set up employment schedules for employees and collect a client base. A widget for visitor access to an appointment for a service can be placed in any part of the site. A detailed setting of the block layout, its design and the choice of the displayed data (price, description, duration, days, service name) is available.

   

   
   

   The upper part of the editor is occupied by a panel with all sorts of useful things: saving changes, step back, preview, publishing, access to the editor of the mobile version of the template. There is also an additional menu of options:

8. Site- a quick access menu to a large number of important functions and sections: saving the site, reposting links to the site on social networks or to mail accounts to attract reviews, publishing and search engine optimization of the site, connecting a domain, activating the site version for the visually impaired (a mandatory thing for government websites) , sharpening of published photos, access to general settings and control panel, as well as viewing site history (list of backups to restore).

   

9. Instruments- activating the toolbar for adjusting the size and fitting of site elements, their automatic alignment, adding a ruler, site borders and enabling developer functions (property bar, showing hidden elements, activating Wix Corvid and the ability to create new functions using JavaScript).
10. Help- a list of editor hotkeys (copy-paste, duplicate, shift by pixel, return, delete, rotate, select elements, preview, etc.), FAQ on working with the editor and SEO-optimization of the site, terms of use and privacy policy of Wix.
11. Connect premium- choosing and buying a suitable Wix service plan.

How to Use the Wix Visual Editor

Visual WYSIWYG editor("What You See Is What You Get") supports the function drag-n-drop, that is, the ability to drag widgets by pulling on the "drag" tab on their top border. By narrowing or expanding the dotted lines at the boundaries of objects, you can change their size with the mouse. When you select any element or block on the page, icons will appear leading to settings and quick actions on the object. Usually we are talking about setting up a design, connecting a database, choosing a layout, displayed elements and their parameters. For example, for a gallery, you can select and sort a photo, for a video, add a link to a video, or select an uploaded one from the library, and assign playback rules. Everything is in context, always logical and appropriate.

Vix has and cinemagraphs- a collection of images with smooth animation in GIF format (you can find it in the background settings - free Wix library, category "Movies"). Yes, the builder offers a large collection of free ready-made images on many topics, there are also paid stock options. In the background settings of the section strips, you can enable parallax and other block scrolling effects. You can do the same with individual elements by selecting them and choosing Animation.

By the way, you can upload photos to the site from Instagram, and leave links to your site on the social network itself. Owners of advanced accounts and photographers should be helped. Complements the theme of decorating the site with the possibility loading your own fonts... By default, you can use Google Fonts. If this does not seem enough, you can use your own. This is done in the section "My Downloads" - "Download Fonts".

Let's go back to the main feature branch. The editor does not contain all the available options. The heart, the main command post of the site, is the Wix dashboard. It displays in tiles the important default features and all installed applications. Here you can get access to the entire set of site features and control the process. Here's what you get in stock right after the website is created:

• Wix Blog- connecting the blog to the site and setting it up in the editor.
• SEO master- a comprehensive tool for website promotion (we will describe it in more detail below).
• Marketing newsletter- Create newsletters and advertising mailings to your mail databases using ShoutOut, a specialized application. You need to create a letter layout using the design settings and select a mailing base for the mailing. It is also possible to launch automatic mailings according to specified conditions, select templates for banners and letters, attach a mailing subscription form and monitor statistics on launched mailings.
• Domains and mail- buying a new or attaching an existing domain to the site, adding corporate mail with all business tools from Gmail (mail with a domain name, office suite, letter storage, video conferencing).
• Accounts- creating and sending invoices to clients, accepting online payments (debit and credit cards, PayPal), tracking payment statuses, reports. The invoice format is customizable, you can add taxes, select the currency and numbering order.
• Contacts- the client base of the site. It can be used for mailings, collection of information, subscriptions and more. It is possible to divide users into groups, block, filter selection and manually create new contacts.
• Autodistribution- setting up automatically sent letters for various scenarios. By default, there are templates for greeting new contacts registered and subscribed to site updates. In this way, you can send files, thank for purchases, offer coupons for a discount, invite to visit the store again, ask for feedback, congratulate you on the holidays, and stuff like that. Schedules, terms of mailing and attachment design can be flexibly configured.
• Site co-authors- adding people with administrator or back-office manager rights via the postal address. For what? To help you maintain and fill the site.
• Database- creation of collections of information that will be stored in the cloud. Data must be added to tables with the specified number of columns and fields. These collections can be connected to various elements on the site to collect information, or vice versa - to issue it.

All new applications will also be added to the control panel for quick and easy access in the manner of the sections listed above. This structure makes it easy to navigate the extensive functional flow of Wix. By the way, most applications are designed and presented similar to the designer interface - stylistically and in terms of ease of use. That is, having mastered the Wicks interface, you can safely install as many applications as you like without the risk of confusion. Even if they are serious in their essence and capabilities, they will be no more difficult to figure out than the rest of the interface. Adding new features will not complicate the work on the site, which is important.

We consider it necessary to note a few more powerful applications. Wix Forum- a tool for adding to the site a full-fledged forum with sections, themes, design settings, structure and access rules. Wix Music- application for adding albums, singles, playlists for free listening or selling. Nice player, many settings. Wix Events- adding events with the ability to register in them. Weddings, concerts, seminars, single events and posters with schedules, invitations, guest lists, tickets - we are talking about all this. Wix Video- uploading videos up to 15 GB, broadcasting from YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook, mailing lists for promoting your video channels, collecting subscriptions, selling videos and getting statistics on the entire process. We've taken a few examples of apparently useful Wix apps for building an overview. There are much more of them, it is better to see the assortment with your own eyes.

Finally, let's briefly note other useful features and nuances that remained behind the scenes:

• You can connect to the site for free SSL certificate(protection of the site using the https protocol);
• Wix has iOS / Android mobile application that allows you to conduct a live chat with the site's clients (for this you need to activate the Wix Chat application in the control panel), add photos, products or post materials to a blog;
• Possibility optimize images for display in the mobile version of the site. You need to go to the mobile template editor, select the desired picture and crop, enlarge / reduce the source and leave in sight the part that you need;
• Can be put on the background 360 ° images using the 360 ​​Images application;
• Can protect with passwords individual pages of the site or hide them altogether;
• Thanks to marking grid the area that will be displayed in the mobile version of the site is always visible;
• Wix Hotels- a free application that provides a complete mechanism for setting up room reservations for hotel owners;
• Wix Restaurants- a free application that allows you to create an online menu according to all the laws of the genre and take orders for food delivery;
• In the editor you can use layers, hide individual items and restore them as needed;
• When developer mode is activated, item property pane and console to add values ​​to these properties;
• Can create copies one site within the account or transfer the site to another account.

In general, the service has combined the space of applications and business opportunities on the Web into a single concept of a virtual office - Wix Ascend. This includes applications for creating forms, live chat, email tools, messenger, built-in CRM, payment methods (via chat, invoice and other forms of cashless payments), automation of typical business processes, division of workspaces according to various criteria, planning systems and issuing notifications, numerous marketing tools (mailings, creating banners, implementing promotions, working with social networks and video hosting, advertising integrations, and more). Such a detailed and broad approach allows you to cover the entire process from attracting customer attention to selling and establishing personal contact for further cooperation. Wix is ​​a powerful platform for building business websites, and it can provide it all.

In addition to the extended business component of the functionality, the constructor allows you to comfortably create multilingual sites. Going into the settings from the editor, select the "Multilingua" application, it is installed by default. Allows you to add as many languages ​​as you want to the site, automatically creating a copy of the site for each localization. All this is combined into a clear and convenient single interface for the administration of language versions. Of course, you need to translate the content manually, but the standard labels of templates and widgets in most cases will be automatically displayed correctly in the selected language. However, they can be edited too. After launching the language versions of the site, an icon for switching localizations will appear in the header. A useful thing for supporting international business or encouraging multilingual customer groups within the region.

Obviously, the stock functionality of the constructor is inextricably linked with the capabilities of applications from the branded store. They can even be regarded as modules that are not installed by default (like uCoz, for example, you can choose your own set of modules). In the process, add the ones you need in any quantity - and go ahead. Apps are written either by the developers of Wix itself or by teams from other companies looking to keep their products in sync with the ecosystem of the world's most popular website builder. Therefore, the quality of the modules can be trusted - it is beneficial for both parties to maintain its high level for obvious reasons.

Designs and working with templates

Wix so far contains 500+ templates sorted by category: shop, business, photography, video, music, design, restaurants, events, portfolio, blog, beauty and health, fashion, art, landing pages. Immediately after registration, you will be offered to choose a design for the site. You can filter the selection by newness or popularity. By the way, one day the selected template cannot be changed in progress. So choose more or less thoughtfully. Full screen preview is possible.

Wix has one of the nicest set of pre-built templates in the niche. It's a pleasure to look at them, the variety of approaches and structures is off the charts. The developers periodically add to the design library. Approximately 30-60 new samples come in a year. All of them can be use for free... Each template is responsive. You can also choose a blank sheet and design each page of your site from scratch in the editor.

By the way, the impossibility of changing the template in the process is due to the absolute positioning of elements on Wix sites. This gives freedom of action in the design, but fundamentally cuts the ability to export settings and content to a new template. That is, the rule of one template, let's call it that, is due to purely technical reasons. This is the price to pay for the flexibility in design customization.

Mobile version of the template can be configured separately by switching to it in the editor header. Menu, image format, pinning of individual elements (contacts, "up" button), background, hiding of elements can be adjusted. You can also use one-click automatic optimization - the result is good. Changes in the mobile version of the site will not affect the desktop one. When editing a large version, the center of the page will be highlighted with dashed lines - this is the area that will fall into the mobile template. You can navigate by it.

The editor allows you to change the stock design beyond recognition by adding new sections ("Stripe" widget), widgets, images and customizing their appearance. Everywhere you can add effects, animations, if necessary, adjust sizes, indents, layers, backgrounds, fonts, element shapes, and more. The appearance of a Wix site depends more on your design skills than on the template you choose. Although you can publish your content with a minimum of changes in a suitable template and get a ready-made website. As you like.

The logo is an important component of the brand image and its design. With the free Wix Logo Maker app, you can step by step create a beautiful and unique logo that captures the essence of your brand to successfully position your company among customers and partners. Choose a name and slogan, a suitable graphic component, and then modify it all in a simple and functional visual editor. You can work with fonts, colors, element sizes, shapes and backgrounds. Dozens of parameters for converting - padding, transparency, size, alignment, borders, rounding and more. This tool is comparable in capabilities to quality paid online logo creation services. The only difference is that here it is built-in and free. After completing the work, you can safely save the result and use it at your discretion.

Price policy

Wix can be used for free for an unlimited time for those who are satisfied with the site on a subdomain like: uguide.wixsite.com/sitename. Most of the constructor functions will be available. You can connect your domain and get richer functionality after paying for one of the following tariff plans.

Wix Pricing Plans:

1. Connect Domain (from 123 rubles / month)- allows you to connect your domain, get premium technical support and gives you 500 MB of disk space, but does not remove Wix ads;
2. Combo (249 rub / month)- 3 GB space, free domain, remove ads, favicon;
3. Unlimited (375 rub / month)- increase in disk space up to 10 GB, form builder, Site Booster application;
4. eCommerce (RUB 488 / month)- 20 GB of space, the ability to connect the basket. The rate for creating a store.

Important: when paying for tariff plans, VAT will be charged additionally.

Note that the older tariff plans include all the advantages of the younger ones plus they add something new. The first rate may be interesting for those who want to create a business card site or landing page on their domain. A small and uncomplicated site with a moderate amount of media content. Combo is suitable for the same purposes, but on a large scale - you can make a portfolio with a lot of photos, start a blog, or create a website for some organization.

Unlimited should be chosen when you plan to download a lot of content and expect a heavy influx of traffic in the future. These are blogs with a forum, corporate sites and other projects similar in complexity and volume. eCommerce for those looking to trade. The possibility of selling digital goods looks especially interesting. There are more suitable constructors to decorate shop windows with thousands of positions of tools, building materials, workwear and other things, but selling music, illustrations or photos from Wix is ​​a very good idea.

Discounts on annual rates

Wix often holds promotions lasting from a couple of days to a month, knocking down the cost of tariff plans up to 50%. Discounts apply when paying for annual plans. What do you need to participate? Just seize the moment. Sign up to Wix to avoid missing out on another sale. As soon as the promotion happens, you will receive a notification by mail:

The conditions of the promotion, that is, the percentage of discounts and the list of tariffs for which they can be obtained, may differ from time to time. The bottom line is that when you decide to use Wix, you are guaranteed to start at about half the price. There are a lot of holidays and just good days in the year, many of them are flavored by developers with this kind of promotions.

Advice: Register, start building a website. By the time the work is completed, the next discount will just ripen - the interval between them, as a rule, is small. Launch a website saving you some money, all other things being equal.

Analogues and competitors

Wix feels light compared to other visual builders. It's hard to compete with its functionality in this class - the wild number of integrations, applications, editor flexibility, quality of templates, branded features (Wix ADI, Corvid, Arena developer portal) and so on make the product a tough nut to crack.

Examples of sites

The strong point of Wix is ​​small websites with stylish designs. It is not for nothing that many photographers, artists, designers, movie stars, musicians and other creatives around the world first study Weeks in search of ways to implement their ideas. It's like a bohemian default constructor.

Nevertheless, it is also suitable for creating websites on more practical, tangible topics - drilling wells in Nizhny Novgorod, selling scrap metal in Vladivostok, dentist services in Moscow or service stations in Yekaterinburg. Quite life things, business as usual.

Websites on Wix:

Wix is ​​the best and most promising website builder in the visual editor solutions niche. From a technical and design point of view. Its developers set themselves and solved several difficult tasks:

• We made an interface that is convenient to work with, despite a million functions.
• Go beyond the limitations of a WYSIWYG editor by implementing Wix Corvid.
• We created an effective ecosystem for doing business on the Web by combining specialized tools under the Wix Ascend label.
• We introduced the artificial intelligence Wix ADI, which after a while will build us sites that require almost no edits.
• We made the app store an integral part of the interface and functionality that you want to use.

Wix - multipurpose machine to create a variety of sites. Thanks to high-quality applications and a flexible editor, the functional scope is very wide, and given the potential of Wix Corvid, they practically disappear. Using HTML and JavaScript is possible, but completely optional. Moderately simple, bright designer, with a bunch of useful, and in some places even surprising by the standards of a niche, opportunities. With a direct comparison, it has no analogues in terms of functionality.

The constructor is suitable for everyone who needs a business card site of any topic, portfolio, landing or promo page, blog or store for selling digital goods, some craft, piece things, branded clothes, watches and other things like that. We recommend that you draw the attention of owners of a rental business, restaurants, cafes, concert venues (ticket booking) and everyone whose activities are related to receiving clients on a schedule (hairdressers, make-up artists, dentists, coaching, yoga, dancing, tutoring).

The service is perfect for the role of the first website builder. Even if you have not yet decided to create a website, we recommend that you get acquainted, first of all, with Wix on occasion. It will live up to expectations.

Wix is ​​a free do-it-yourself website builder based on ready-made templates. The service is intended for users of any skill level. Website development does not require programming skills, the constructor is intuitive. On the official website, you can also take advantage of paid premium plans, which include a domain, storage space and other features. Registered users get access to the Vicks personal account. It is with the help of this service that sites are created.

Wicks personal account features

To get started with Wix, you need to go through a simple registration process. You can also use your account on one of the social networks to log in. After registering or logging in, the user immediately enters his personal account. Here you can create your own website for free. To do this, first of all, you need to choose a template from the category with the desired topic. Then you can start editing it. Wix provides a wide range of tools for this. It is possible to change the background, the number of sections, their names, and more. In your personal account, you can add text, pictures, photographs and various elements (for example, buttons, colorful forms with important information) to the site template. It is also possible to download a collection of photos and images, create a slideshow from them.

Vicks users can add videos and music tracks to their sites. It is possible to add icons for social networks and payment systems, a card, a block with reviews, a list of goods for online stores. The finished site can be viewed before publication and, if necessary, make changes. During publication, users can choose a free domain or enter the name of a previously purchased one. After the site is published, it can be optimized for the mobile version. It is also possible to connect additional applications to promote the website and improve its work.

Finally we got to one of the most popular online services in the world, the WIX website builder. First - instructions: registration, choosing a template, creating a website, integration. Then we'll talk about the pros and cons and compare Vicks with other constructors.

What is WIX?

WIX is an international online service for creating and promoting websites. Launched in 2006 as a designer of blogs, online stores, landing pages without knowledge of programming languages. The platform is based on the concept of drag & drop or "dragging and dropping" elements. The user base is 180 million people from 80 countries. The service has been translated into 11 languages, including Russian.

The WIX platform is positioned as universal: it will suit both a freelancer and a housewife, a school teacher and an entrepreneur. More than 500 design templates are available for websites of various topics from business to arts and crafts. A flexible editing system allows you to create a design, functionality for solving specific tasks.

Registering with WIX

Before creating a website, go through the standard registration procedure. On the main page, click the button "Create a site" or "Login" in the right corner and then "Create an account".

You can register with Vicks through your Google or Facebook account.

When registering, please provide the following information:

• E-mail address;
• repeat e-mail;
• come up with a password, it is desirable that it include capital letters (written in Latin) and numbers;
• repeat the combination.

After filling in the fields, click "Create".

The service provides the ability to log in via Facebook (click on the appropriate button, specify a password, login from a social network account) or a Google mailbox.

If you have an account, you just need to enter your email and password to sign in to Wix.

Personal account WIX

Let's see what parts the designer's personal account is made of and what can be done in it. When you sign in, the My Sites tab opens by default.

It displays projects that are in the process of being created or have already been published. Move the mouse cursor over the site icon, activate the "Select" button. The Quick Actions menu is available in the upper right corner. Use it to perform the following operations:

• view the site;
• rename;
• copy;
• transfer the site;
• add a co-author;
• delete the project.

The next section after "My Sites" is "Help".

Here the user will find a detailed answer to technical questions, ranging from how to choose a template, ending with SEO promotion, setting statistics, and troubleshooting. To speed up the search for information in the header of the section, the search line. We drive a request into it and get answers on the topic. Vicks has a huge database, there are answers to almost any question.

After the "Help" section, there are account settings.

Optionally: enter your first name, last name, set your profile photo. Here the password is changed, mail subscriptions are managed, and the account is deactivated (deleted). Also, the tab displays the history of payments, vouchers are issued and the language changes.

Service WIX regularly conducts various promotions, providing users with "vouchers". To get them, you need to buy a tariff plan. For this, a free domain is provided for 1 year or other useful bonuses.

How to create a website on WIX

Development of projects in the online constructor is carried out in two ways:

1. Wix ADI - Automated Generation.
2. Selecting and editing a template.

In the first case, the service will independently create a website based on the answers to the questions. Templates will be generated in just 30 seconds. Of course, the resulting site can be edited: change the design, add widgets, services.

The second option is through editing the template. This method can be called manual.

The template library consists of several topics:

• business;
• restaurants;
• health and beauty;
• music;
• Photo;
• portfolio and resume.

The templates presented in the sections are divided into paid and free. The status is displayed in the upper left corner of the selected icon window.

Free and Paid Templates - What to Choose?

Choose a template that suits your topic. Of course, you can take absolutely any design and change all the elements in it, then the theme will not matter. But all the same, the initial choice on the topic is a simpler one. Buy or get free? - It depends on you. The prices for templates in "Viksa" are small, plus you can count on fewer similar sites on the Internet, since people usually take free options.

Before approving a suitable template, the service invites you to read all the information. When you hover the cursor over it, the buttons are activated:

• "Edit" - when pressed, the user is transferred to the design mode;
• "View Template" - displayed in the browser for visual assessment of the design. The function of viewing the site on mobile devices is also available.

The "About template" tab is located under the buttons.

It contains information about the features and functionality: fast loading of tracks, photos, videos.

How to change the template

Click "Edit", go to design mode. Design elements are controlled through the menu and using the mouse cursor. On the left there are buttons that open access to editing:

• site structure - "Menu and pages";
• background - photos, videos, images, materials from other resources are added;
• adding various elements, starting with a text frame, ending with promo boxes, users, charts;
• installation of services: WIX Music, Bandsintown, Instagram Feed, which make it easier to work with information;
• downloads - import video, photos, fonts, audio, documents.

Go through the pages of the project, manage them using the menu at the top of the designer. The "Site" tab contains the functions of saving, publishing, connecting a domain, and a tariff plan.

Here you can see the history of the site, sharpen images. In the "Tools" tab, rulers and borders are activated, and the elements are centered.

All edits are carried out directly on the site. To change the text or image, just click on it. To move - drag the element with the mouse.

The most important functions are duplicated as buttons on the right:

• zoom out;
• cancellation of an action;
• editing the mobile version of the site;
• preservation;
• preview;
• publication.

On the right is a toolbar for working with site elements. This is changing the size, position of text blocks, copying, deleting.

SEO optimization in WIX

In "Vicks" there is a step-by-step algorithm for website promotion:

• optimization of text content;
• adding descriptions to images using Alt-tags;
• connecting social media accounts to the site;
• adding a blog to Google Search Console.

Step by step optimization starts in the SEO Wizard section. Here add the name of the site, the actual address, write down the key queries (meta tags, a training video will help you to choose them correctly). The service will offer 24 steps, which include optimization of titles, descriptions.

Adding a site to Google Search Console

WIX automatically loads the site into the Google Console when registering the site's domain name. The sitemap is updated and posted when changes are made. This ensures fast scanning of all pages by robots, speeds up the indexing of the resource. Get helpful, free tips to improve your site's search rankings.

Adding to Yandex Webmaster

To add a blog, online store, landing page to Yandex.Webmaster, register a domain, copy the header tag in the service and add it in the editor. Complete the process by clicking the "Confirm" button in Yandex.Webmaster.

Search Console and Webmaster are required to manage site indexing. Through these tools, you can see the number of indexed pages, positions, search traffic, incoming links and errors when crawling the site by a search robot.

Ready integrations

One of the important disadvantages of WIX is the lack of ready-made integrations with Russian services. Among the ready-made solutions, there are the following options:

In addition to Facebook and Google tools, the rest are English-language marketing services that are almost never used in Russia.

WIX or CMS?

Very important question. Or can you formulate it in more general terms: website builder or CMS? It all depends on the goals and objectives.

CMS - site content management system, "engine". Installed on hosting. You can install a template on the CMS or make your own unique design. Example: WordPress, Bitrix, Joomla.

• If you are doing an SEO project (a site for promotion in search engines), then of course a CMS. Easier content, technical optimization, plugins, the ability to sell a project, and so on. I would recommend using WordPress.
• To create a business website of 5-50 pages, it will be easier and faster on WIX. You don't have to think about words like hosting, databases, FTP and involve web developers.
• You make a Landing Page for the sale of goods / services, for example, through contextual advertising, here "Vicks" is a good solution. The best I would call specialized constructors with marketing tricks, like LpGenerator. But CMS in this case is an extra hassle.
• If necessary, you can find a programmer who will transfer the site from WIX to another CMS.

After detailed instructions, let's objectively consider all the pros and cons of creating a website on the Vicks platform.

Benefits of WIX

• A library of 500 responsive templates. This is a lot;
• A simple drag & drop constructor;
• Lots of items, applications in the App Market;
• Huge knowledge base, both on the "Weeks" and the community;
• Good technical support.
• There is a free plan.

Disadvantages of WIX

The service has no technical, functional drawbacks. For more than 10 years of work, the creators of WIX have perfected the interface, created balanced tariffs, and included all the necessary functions.

• There is advertising on the free plan and you cannot connect your domain.
• There are no ready-made integrations with Russian services. For me, this is one of the most important disadvantages. For example, you wanted to connect CRM, or an end-to-end analytics system. And you can't do it. Simple tools, for which you just need to add a piece of code to the header, you can connect it yourself.
• Very weak opportunities for online stores. No integration with 1C. I'm not even talking about other warehouse programs. There are no normal means of online payment for the Russian Federation, connections of Russian delivery services.
• There is no way to export the site, although you can contact third-party developers.
• Pricing in dollars.

Pricing website builder WIX

• Connect Domain is a basic package that offers domain connectivity, 1GB performance, 500MB hosting space. ($ 4)
• Combo - personal package with a performance of 2GB, 3GB of physical space, free domain, remove ads, favicon, bonuses; ($ 8.25)
• Unlimited - focused on business and freelancers. This is unlimited performance, 10GB of free space, no ads, favicon, bonuses, as well as a form builder and Site Booster; ($ 12.41)
• eCommerce - a commercial offer that includes all the items of the previous package, plus an online store; ($ 16.16)
• VIP - all eCommerce options, including 10 mailings, priority technical support. ($ 24.50)

Comparison with competitors

On the Internet, in addition to WIX, there are many services for creating sites online. I have added several options to the table for comparison.

Name platform	Quantity templates	Free tariff	Interesting features
		Yes, with ads and no domain.	Blogs, landing pages, corporate sites, business cards, online stores.
		No.	Universal constructor, there is integration with AmoCRM.
	63 (some differ only in color)	Complete.	Good for online stores. All necessary integrations.
		Yes, no domain.	Nice editor, different from other builders. Perfect for Landing Page and special projects.
		No.	A solution between a cloud builder and a CMS system.

My feedback on the WIX constructor

I would call this platform a good solution for creating landing pages and company websites. When you need it simply, quickly and at no extra cost. You can do it yourself, you can contact the developer. Website development on Vicks will cost like a couple of business lunches. The number of templates is huge, among them there are interesting solutions. The subscription price for WIX is standard and, plus or minus, is equal to other constructors.

Another thing is that it is not suitable for serious marketing tasks: there are no integrations with services, SEO optimization is easier and more reliable to do on your own CMS, there is no A-B testing, etc. To create an online store, it is better to use specialized constructors or make a project on Opencart / another CMS system.

(Last update: 07.05.2019)

Good day, ladies and gentlemen! Today I want to tell you, friends, how to quickly and easily create a website for free... Nowadays, various website builders are gaining more and more popularity with which you can easily place your unique website or blog on the Internet. I looked at several of these free site editors and opted for a more functional site builder - under such a beautiful name Wix.

Wix is ​​not just a website builder, but a leading cloud platform with millions of users around the world. From there, you can easily create a beautiful website yourself.

Wix.com - Free HTML5 Website Builder

It is the leading web development platform that gives everyone the opportunity to create their own website and manage their online activities in full accordance with their own vision. It is as easy as shelling pears to create a website on Wix; any Internet user without any special knowledge or technical skills can. Grow your business, showcase works, sell products, or try new ideas. With the Wix website builder, you will find that building a website is fun, easy and free.

This service was created in 2006 and since then, in addition to gaining popularity, it has significantly improved in technical terms (HTML5), and an interesting innovation has also appeared - website builder from Wix allows users to add volume scrolling (parallax) to the site, that is, you can select not only photos, but also full-fledged videos as a background on the site. You don't need to leave the builder page to get tips and help from the Wix team: the support is built right into the site editor.

How to create a website for free on Wix com

With the advent of Wix, website creation is easier than ever. With the help of a simple and affordable visual editor, everyone can implement their online project in no time. No technical skills required - the platform developers have taken care of everything.

With Wix, developers, web designers and other online professionals can offer their services to millions of users. Thanks to our powerful technology, everyone can create their own unique, professional and effective website. And no coding! You may know that Wix is ​​a large international company with offices in Israel, USA, Lithuania and Ukraine. The Wix team already numbers 1,000 people. The head office is located in Tel Aviv, on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea.

78 million people have already built sites on Wix and 45,000 new users are added to the site every day.

In order to create a website you need to create your account on the service. Go to Wix - http://ru.wix.com/, click the "Create Site" button. Enter your mail and come up with a password or click the button to log in via social networks:

Create a Wix Account

The next step is to choose the theme of your future site. So, as a service in Russian, you will understand everything. All possible types of sites are divided into 15 categories, and each has several subcategories. This was done not just for beauty - in the development process, designers take into account the specifics of a particular business and supplement the template with suitable functionality.

For example: templates for musicians integrate with Wix Music, templates for online stores (you can create an online store by this link http://ru.wix.com/ecommerce/internet-magazin) are stocked with sales tools, and templates for photographers are designed to keep images in the spotlight. You can, of course, take an empty template and refine it to the desired result, but it's better to save time by choosing the appropriate one:

Choose a theme for your website

After specifying the theme of a new site or blog, click on the GO button. You have to choose a suitable template, this is not an easy task, but at the same time it is interesting. There are over 500 templates in the Wix collection - most likely there is one that you like. When choosing a template for your project, try to imagine how visitors will use the site, be sure to take into account the type of your activity and pay attention to the design:

Select a template in the desired category

Please note that there is a preview button or go straight to the editor by clicking the corresponding button. Using the editor is easy and convenient: all elements of your site can be moved and changed by simply clicking on them with the mouse. No programming and complete creative freedom. All changes are made on a visual level. Such a tool allows you to successfully create your website even for a child, that is, a person who is completely unfamiliar in site building:

Online website builder wix

The main advantage of the HTML5-based Wix builder is that there are no boundaries for creativity. You can change the color scheme, move elements, manipulate the images and see what happens. If you want - download the video:

Setting up the website background

And use it as a background (don't forget about the parallax effect, read above), add anchor links, add a gallery of images or bright call-to-action buttons. It all depends only on your imagination. In which case, there is help with the Wix editor:

Help in the Wix Editor

Well, if you don't like the result, you can return to the previous version at any time using the site history function.

Do not forget, dear comrades, when creating a website about mobile. The number of people using smartphones is growing by leaps and bounds, and not so long ago Google announced that their search engine gives priority to those sites that are optimized for mobile devices. If your site is built on Wix, you already have a mobile version. Decide to tweak something - welcome to the Mobile Editor:

Mobile Site Settings on Wix

In general, friends, you cannot list everything in one post, it is simply not possible, and it is not necessary. You have to try it yourself and read the wiks blog, where there are useful tips, various instructions for beginners.

Bottom line: a convenient, beautiful, lightweight constructor that fully supports the Russian language, including a support service and a forum, working in HTML5 and equipped with a large application store in conjunction with a bunch of free templates, the creators of the service can only be praised and thanked. Go for it, be creative.

P.S. And I will remind you one more thing, after you create a free site on Wicks, start its search engine optimization. After all, a poorly optimized website can be compared to a note packed in a bottle and thrown into the sea: no matter how interesting it is, hardly anyone will read it. To avoid such an unenviable fate, think about what queries people will search for a site like yours - these will be yours.

Use them to optimize pages, images, videos and texts. Ranks right in search results and attracts visitors who can become your customers.

And let me say goodbye to you. Good luck to everyone, without exception, and see you soon. Bye Bye.

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Today you will not surprise anyone with a website on the Internet, but really high-quality websites, unfortunately, are not often found, and:

• they were either made by the Aesir in their business for a lot of money;
• or they were made by the ases in their business for themselves.

Cheap and good is unrealistic! .. This is exactly what people think when they face a problem.

Is it really so problematic to open a website? Open a good resource that will WORK and solve the primary tasks of the owner:

• Attract visitors;
• Be pleasant in design;
• Simple in usability and so on!

Until recently, one could say: no, this option is possible, but for a lot of money. Today, you yourself can bring it all to life!

Yes, yes, by yourself, WITH YOUR OWN hands... Now using online Wix builder(Weeks)- website creation is not difficult! But first things first.

By now, you might be thinking:

• Yes, it's just such a publicity stunt!
• It's just another website builder with minimal features and limitations!

You can only convince you by showing a REAL EXAMPLE of creating a website on Vicks with your own hands. It:

• Very fast;
• As simple as possible;
• 100% effective!

So, just look at this instruction, and already in 15 minutes you will create your own resource by simply exploring the online website builder for free!

Create your own website for free!

And, believe me, the result will satisfy you, the resulting site will not be inferior to the resources created by professional studios.

It's time to get down to business!

Stage 1. Registration / authorization

For a full-fledged work, so that you, in the literal sense of the word, feel at home, you need to go through simple registration on the site.

After a quick registration, you will see your username in the upper right corner. Now you can start directly creating your site! An online website builder is at your disposal for free.

Stage 2. Getting started on creating a website!

You will see an invitation from the site administration, in which it will say “Start creating a site”!

Everything is simple and intuitive!

Let's imagine that you are planning to open a website for a company that sells children's clothing. Now we will see step by step how the Internet representation of this company is born.

Attention! Now we are working with you in absolutely free mode!

Stage 3. Choosing a template for the site.

So, by clicking on the button, we will be automatically redirected to the choice of a template for the site. Yes, there is a choice, from what, and it pleases! Free online website builder offers categorization and there are tons of them. That is, you choose what suits the specifics of your activity:

We are just perfect, as part of the selection of a template for a company specializing in the sale of children's clothing, this template:

Please note that there are both free templates and paid ones ( however, their cost is very symbolic).

Stage 4. We design the site!

And now you can see directly website builder WIX... First, give a name to your resource (you can change it later at any time).

Also, you can at any time link your domain to your site.
You can change ABSOLUTELY ALL items. This feature is offered by the WIX website builder:

As you can see in the illustration, there is a toolbar on the left, where you have the following options:

Working with pages:

Design experiments:

The ability to add any components: text, photos, galleries, videos, shapes and lines, buttons and menus, online store, social networks, etc.

For example, this is how you can simply change the background of the site:

Convenient settings panel:

From here you can at any time:

• Change the name of the site;
• Add SEO elements for promotion;
• Enable mobile version;
• Add contact form and social media profiles;
• Examine statistics;
• Add favicon and more.

Here's an example with SEO padding:

And also there is a very interesting opportunity that provides website builder WIX:

These are very useful applications and applications that can be added to your site in 2 accounts ( a lot of free ones, which is good news).

For example, let's add the ability to follow you on Twitter right now:

We choose:

Add:

We are looking at the result that can be placed in ANY part of the site. We did it in the header:

You can also simply change the style of the photo:

Add text, tell about yourself, your company, activities. To create a website for free in 5 minutes is real - just click and write:

Write what you like, stretch it as you want, insert it anywhere on the site:

Design a "footer" with copyright:

Creating a business card website for free in 5 minutes becomes a reality, because you do not feel the action in complex editors, but simply assemble all the parts of a single whole.

At any time you can click on "Preview" to evaluate the changes made, on "Save" so that the actions are not lost, and also, when everything is ready, on "Publish", and the site will appear on the network! The "Upgrade" button will enable new features at your chosen tariff!

Before publishing the site, you have to make a few simple settings:

Check the following points:

• Allow search engines to index the site;
• Show the control panel of the mobile version;
• Confirm your contact details.

Everything! The creation of the company's business card site is completed! You can always easily make adjustments, supplement, improve, and develop your site!

Benefits of WIX

As you can see, creating a website in WIX is very easy. We can confidently say that Wix is ​​the best website builder out there at the moment. And here are some of its benefits:

• You don't need to have any special skills, everything is intuitive! There is no question of programming;
• WIX is a versatile and one-of-a-kind Drag & Drop builder with HTML5 functionality;
• In the presence of a huge number of original templates;
• Many applications that extend the basic functionality;
• You can customize your site for yourself, for your corporate identity. It's easy and simple. Making a website with your own hands turns into a pleasure. You just collect everything on the screen and IMMEDIATELY see the changes;
• You also get professional hosting absolutely free of charge - even at the basic plan without a monthly fee! 100% benefit;
• There is a possibility of integration with social networks and SMO marketing;
• Additional paid Premium plans at more than affordable prices open up new opportunities!

Create your own website for free!

The advantages of the Premium tariff are obvious:

• No ads;
• Low cost of 1 month - comparable in cost to 2 cups of coffee;
• A coupon for 2000r for an advertising campaign in Yandex.Direct;
• Connecting your domain name + favicon;
• Even more space for your data;
• Unlimited channel speed;
• 99.9% uptime + DDOS protection;
• Quality assurance;
• VIP support.

And many many others!

That's why this online website builder is the best! You should have been convinced of this on the example of creating a website! Be creative and have fun!