Wix.com sites builder

With the advent and rapid development of the Internet, many new opportunities have opened up before users, in particular, the possibility of communication. Now you can discuss various topics on the forums and get valuable advice, talk about yourself in a blog, find old friends using social networks and much more.

A much wider field of activity opens up a website for users. This is an opportunity to express yourself, your hobbies, work, and the company. But the creation of even a simple design or functional site requires basic knowledge of HTML and JavaScript, image processing skills and placing web documents on Internet servers.

Today, it is quite popular to use website designers that provide tools for creating websites without a proper reason. The existing services have their own features and advantages, but one of the best projects in their field is the free Wix.com service.

Wix.com is a functional designer for creating websites from scratch, which will be a great help for users who have no experience in creating web documents. The whole process is as simple, easy and intuitive as possible - using the Drag and Drop mechanism, you can easily drag and drop elements of a web page, and a selection of settings will help you to change the basic template according to the task of the site.

For novice users Wix.com hope reference and training support, which will help create your own website. At the forum, you can ask a question.

• video course
• The educational center

The main page of the site lists the main features:

• To use the constructor, programming knowledge and other special skills are not needed, the tools provided allow you to develop a Flash or Html5 website of any complexity.
• Hundreds of unique designs for various project formats (from portfolio to business card site) or the option to create a site from scratch.
• Create mobile sites, Facebook pages or blogs.
• Many settings for changing the images, colors and fonts of the site provide opportunities for changing the basic template.
• All elements of the web page are easily edited, moved and configured.
• Support SEO parameters for indexing in search engines.
• Basic constructor options are free. To extend the functionality of the site provides paid rates.

site creation

Step 1. Register and select a template

In order to use the designer Wix.com you need to go through a simple registration procedure, where you only need to specify an e-mail and password. After that, the user can immediately create a site by selecting the appropriate subject:

The Wix.com service provides a wide range of themes for design: from photography, design, art to business, services and restaurants. Each topic contains professional templates, categorized. For example, in the theme “Music and Entertainment” there are website templates for actors, theater, cinema, dance, events, musicians, etc. Often, the templates intersect with each other in different categories.

On the same page there are opportunities for streamlining designs separately Flash and Html5, as well as the ability to view the latest or most popular works. Each layout has a "View" button with which you can see how the future Internet project will look like after the completion of work.

In case the user wants to apply his own design, the option "Empty" is present, where you can choose the structure of the location of elements and menus on the future site, the rest of the elements are added manually.

STEP 2. Editing and customizing the template

After selecting the basic layout for the site, you need to click the "Edit" button to go to make your own changes to the finished design. The designer switches to the editing mode, where many options and settings are provided for the user.

The finished template can be changed in one of the ways:

• Click on the element that requires changes.
• Use the left side menu consists of four items. Each item contains submenus, between which you can switch and edit.

The left side menu consists of four items:

• Pages - options are designed to work with the pages of the site. They can be moved, edited, added and deleted. The page hierarchy in the form of a drop-down menu is supported. You can also specify GOAL data for each of the pages of the site.
• Design - options allow you to change the site's background, colors, as well as fonts.
• Add - section with widgets that can be placed on a web page. In particular, these are text, photos, gallery, media, forms and lines, buttons and menus, social networks, Internet shop and applications.
• Settings - here you can set the website address, add favicons, set SEO parameters for search engines, set up statistics.

Below is an example of how to change the settings in the selected template. Gradually, three different windows open at once with parameters — first general, then detailed.

To insert widgets, you do not need programming knowledge, installation of plug-ins, etc. In the corresponding menu item, you should select the appropriate widget and simply drag and drop to place an element on the page. Depending on the settings, tick may be displayed on one or all pages of sites.

Functions that are not in the constructor can be added using HTML code. But even without this, there are enough available elements for a standard full-fledged site. All page elements are provided to the settings according to the needs of the user.

Step 3. Finish. Own domain and premium rates

Top right in the editor of Wix.com has buttons for saving changes and viewing the created pages. Item "Publishing" allows you to place the site on the server and make it available to all Internet users. Since the Wix.com service is free, therefore, a restriction has been introduced on the domain address, which will be:

http: //your_login.wix.com/site

This, of course, is not the best solution, so it makes sense to connect your domain to the project. Unfortunately, this will have to go from a free account to premium rates. Wix.com has several paid offers:

Advantages of a paid account

• Getting a quality design, fully customizable.
• An administrative page with settings and the ability to change the content of the site is added easily, simply without specific knowledge.
• There is SEO functionality and many useful widgets.
• You can support the site yourself or contact Wix.com technical support.
• As a bonus for premium rates, the domain is provided free of charge. Coupons for advertising on Google and Facebook are also provided - which is important for starting your own online business.

Wix.com offers great deals for web developers. You can become a partner and earn money from the income derived from your own site. For creative people, they offer a job to the designer Wix.com. They get access to the Directory of Professionals (Wix Pro), where the administration of the service sends customers who are looking for performers.