- Building a website is easier than ever.
The days of having to code everything from scratch
using HTML and CSS and then upload it to a server
are no longer the only option for a website.
Most mainstream sites nowadays use CMS programs and themes
and there's even sites that let you use visual editors
to place objects on your sites pages instead of
having to code at all.
Today, I'm going to show you how you can use
one such site to build a beautiful website
easily, Wix.com.
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First head to Wix.com and click Start Now.
Click Sign Up and enter in your info
to create a free account.
After that it will ask you some questions on what you are
trying do and then help you narrow down some templates
and features that might be pertinent to
your business in particular.
Next you'll be able to choose between using
the Wix A.D.I. or artificial design intelligence
or the regular Wix editor.
The A.D.I. attempts to design the site for you
based on your industry and allows you to make smaller
changes beyond that.
It's great for those who aren't terribly sure about
designing the site and just want to get it up,
running as soon as possible.
With the A.D.I. you choose the industry then type of site,
answer whether you need to sell things, et cetera,
then you choose a color scheme that you like
and let it build the sites homepage and theme from that.
You can go in and make changes to the sites color or font
by clicking Site Design then Customize.
You can then select from their predetermined colors
and fonts to make those changes quickly
across the entire site.
You can also click on any section of the site
to get options specific to that section.
For example, clicking on the header will give you options
on social networks to add, if you want the header
to stick to the browser window when someone
is scrolling, et cetera.
Clicking on another section might bring up what
background image or title you want in that section.
Clicking on the blog section will allow you to choose
what blog posts are shown and in what way, et cetera.
You can add new sections to the pages by clicking
the plus button then choosing from the plethora
of predetermined sections and then choose from the options
for displaying those sections.
You can then customize those sections just like any other.
Adding pages to the site works in much
the same way as sections.
You simply click Add and then Page, and then you choose
from the options that they have including a
completely blank page if you want.
You can then add sections to those pages just like
you did the home page.
There's not much else too with the A.D.I. version of Wix.
It's super fast.
The pre-created designs look pretty good and
the customization is enough for anyone who just needs
a web presence and doesn't necessarily have a designer
on hand but just wants to get something that looks great
and works well really quickly.
Now if that's too much handholding for you, you can always
use the editor.
The Wix editor on the other hand is more similar to
that of other gooey website designing programs
and something that someone who wants a bit more control
over the way the site looks is going to probably
want to use this.
Think like moving the logo over here,
the text over there, et cetera.
You start with this type of site by choosing a theme.
Once editing the theme you can click on just about
any object in the theme to get options for that object.
Change the header settings like we did in the A.D.I.,
change the menu navigation, but also change any of the
text or images on the page as well.
And then, here's where it gets a bit
more involved than the A.D.I.
You can then move these objects anywhere you want.
And even add new objects by clicking on the Add button
on the left.
You can add and edit a crazy amount of items,
from menus, sliders, subscriber forms, buttons,
even pop ups or just shapes and line and text.
Once you add an item it also automatically helps you
line things up on the page using ruler lines
that appear when you move things around, similar
to Photoshop or some other photo editing program
and it's super handy.
You can even animate objects super easily, something that
takes a lot of annoying coding normally.
In addition to the freedom of moving object from the site
around easily, Wix also has an app market that allows you
to add other functionality to the site.
Things from a plug=in that lets you
add restaurant menus easily, to one that integrates
Facebook comments on the site, to one that allows you
to create a private area of your site that requires
a log-in for people to get to and a ton more.
Most of these plug-ins are free too, which is great,
with some more complicated ones being availabe for
$4.50, $1.99 et cetera.
And there are some that are actually included or
at least have additional features if you upgrade
to a paid or premium account.
Regardless of whether you use the A.D.I. or site editor,
you can use Wix for free if you don't mind Wix' ads
on the site and having a Wix.com domain name for the site,
which is similar to how, say, Wordpress.com works,
but for $10 a month you can remove the ads and get
your own domain and then at $14 a month, which is the plan
I would probably recommend, you get unlimited bandwidth
which is the amount of data from people accessing your site
which is important if you plan to do any type
of decent traffic.
You also, with this plan, get a $3 ad voucher,
which is also nice.
All in all, Wix has a crap-ton of features thanks to
those apps in the app market and is super intuitive
and easy to use and for most people is going to be
all you need to build a site that looks good
and is super functional for a cheap cost.
There you go guys.
Hope you enjoyed that quick tutorial using Wix
to make a website which I thought was kind of cool.
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