Wix Review

If you need a website fast that is both functional and displays your content without overpowering the page, you should check out the Wix website. They offer a free website builder that can make a website in less than two minutes (check out the movie from their main page to find out more).

It sounded like a lot of hype, so I tried it out real quick, and you really can make a professional looking website in a few minutes. When I say professional I don’t mean “professional.” I mean they actually look good.

The generator is also easy to navigate and use. If you can move a mouse and click buttons on your keyboard, you can make a website.

Now I am usually an advocate of building a website on your own after learning the basic codings of HTML and CSS, but at the same time there is nothing wrong with using a template. Using a template will help you get your website up and running now, instead of waiting to learn and understand the programming languages.

After making your template, you can also use Wix free hosting. You will be registered as a subdomain (mywebsite.wix.com) and Wix does place it’s own ads on your page in the sidebar and the footer.

If you want to get rid of the ads and use a proper domain, Wix offers real hosting as well. For about $5 to $20 a month (depending on your plan) you can use a real domain and get better hosting with higher bandwidth and memory caches. All of the plans, except the cheapest one, also get rid of the Wix advertising.

The gripes I have about this website is that they place advertising on your websites, but in the free hosting world this is pretty commonplace. I also don’t like how you have to pay about $20 a month for the ecommerce package which really only gives you a shopping cart. Aside from that addition, the package is worthless compared to the $15/month unlimited package which gives you all the same features except the shopping cart.

If you need a website fast, Wix will help you out. If you already know how to design, Wix really won’t offer you anything you can’t already get with better hosts.

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