Hi. This is Mart from Blue Lightning TV.
For those of you who wished you had your
own stunning, professional-looking
website or have one that doesn't really
thrill you, I'm going to show you where
and how you can create one for free at
Wix.com. Wix has an amazing tool that
fills it for you automatically it's
called their 'artificial design
intelligence'. In addition Wix allows you
to edit any of your website's sections
with its intuitive drag-and-drop editor,
and other built-in features using Wix
makes building an awesome-looking
website simple easy and fun. Go to their
website at Wix.com. You can create a
website for free, or upgrade to a
premium version. But with the free
version, you get pretty much everything
you need to begin. Click start now, if
you're new to Wix you'll need to sign up.
Type in your email then type in a
password
The first page asks what kind of website
you want to create. for this example I'll
build a website for an online consulting
company, so I'll click business you can
build your website two different ways
one is with the Wix editor which is a
great drag-and-drop editor, or we can
work with Wix ADI. ADI is wix's
artificial design intelligence. I suggest
starting with ADI, since it does most of
the 'heavy lifting' automatically and then
edit your site in the Wix editor later.
Adi works by asking us a bunch of
different questions. For example, it asks
what kind of business do you want to
create a website for. I'll type in
consulting Wix automatically populates a
list of types of consulting companies
I'll click consulting firm, then click
next. It then asks does your website need
one of the following features. If your
website doesn't need any of them just
click skip or next you can always add
any of them later if you want
next we'll type in the name of our
business. I'll type in James consulting
and click next. Then it asks you where your business is
located. You can skip it or type in its
address and click next. ADI is gathering
existing information about your company
on the internet so for example if you
already have a public Facebook site
it'll scroll that site and add your
information however since this is a
fictional site, we'll skip this section
next it asks us to check our company's
info if you want to upload a photo, just
click on this icon or we can add it
later. I'll add our company's email
address and phone number.
Then, click next. Now the ADI software
is putting all of our information
together and is starting to build our
site. Next, we'll pick a theme or general
look for our site. For now I'll click
classic, and then click continue ADI
will begin to create your website's
initial design section by section, so
just sit back and relax. The purple dot
is ADI's eyes cursor and is automated it
found some high resolution images and
text on the internet that applies to the
type of company your website represents
keep in mind you can replace your images
and text at any time in the Wix editor
for now it's just showing you how your
website will look overall I'll click
this button on the lower right which
opens this list of options that will
guide you to create your full web site.
let's preview the site. Click preview at
the top you'll notice that they
installed a cool effect with the photo
called parallax, you can change that or
any other aspect of your website later
if you want, after previewing it click
the blue X button. If you want to change
the entire website design just click the
next line in the list. Adi
asks you if you like it to choose a new
design for you or if you'd like it to
show you how to do it yourself I suggest
to click show me how, because it's easier
to change or reverse any changes that
are made click site design the one that
says customize is the classic theme that
we already picked so for example if we
click the elegant theme ADI
automatically revises your design to
reflect the elegant theme to preview it
click keep it preview your site and
preview at the top.
As you can see it's a similar layout but
with different text and colors if you
want to go back to your first design
click the blue X button to end the
preview and change the entire website
design click site design click the
classic theme and just like that we're
back to where we want to be we'll keep
this next we have the option to change is
the color theme
I'll click on the customize theme, and
click here to open the color palettes.
There are dozens to choose from for
example, let's click this one immediately.
It shows you how your website would look
with this color palette. If you want to
go back to the black white and gray
palette that ADI originally chose for us,
just click on that color bar
and instantly it reverts back to that
palette. I'll click keep it the next
option allows you to change your
website's fonts in this case since I
like the fonts we already have I'll just
skip this option if you want to change
the layout of your sections, we'll click
here and click show me how click on the
section you'd like to change.
Click this button to see the layout
options. You can scroll on the left to
check out your various layouts click on
the one you like the best to see it
apply to your website then click keep it.
Next, we can edit the specific content of
a section. Select a section and click
edit. Here you can edit any of its info.
For example, if we want to add a map
location for our business, just check
map
and just like that, ADI instantly adds
the map to our design. When you're done
editing the content, click the button on
the lower right and we're done with that
section. If you want to add another
section or page click the next two
options. However since I don't want to
add either of them, I'll skip them I'll
click this button to end our edits. To
see our website click publish to use the
free Wix domain. Click publish and
continue to view your new site click
here. We've created a beautiful effective
website in just about ten minutes or so.
If you want to edit anything on your
website, open back the Wix ADI page and
click done. Click site on the top and
click go to editor when this page opens,
click go to the editor, which breaks out
of the ADI technology.
If for example we want to change this
background, just click on it and click
change strip background. Immediately, a
panel pops up that gives you multiple
choices of new backgrounds. You can also
find an image or video by clicking the
respective buttons here. When you click
image, a page opens giving you options to
find images from your computer, social
images, free images from Wix and images
from big stock. When you click video you
can choose one from your computer or one
for free from Wix. Just click on the
category, and click on the thumbnail of the
video to place it instantly into your
website.
click the X to close out of the window.
If you want to change text no problem
just click on the text click Edit text
and edit it.
To go to another section
click pages home, and click another
section to edit it. When you're done
building your website click publish at
the upper right, and click save Changes.
You can either choose to upgrade to
connect with your own branded domain or,
connect with wix's free domain. If you
want to view your site click view site.
I hope this is giving you a good start
to explore and have fun creating a
website using Wix. If you have any
questions, just contact Wix and they'll
be happy to walk you through it.
This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV
Thanks for watching