Hello, everyone.
David A. Cox here with Tech Talk America, and welcome to our first class all about WIX.
In this first tutorial, what we’re going to do is we’re going to go through the template
chooser, and I’m going to help you figure out which template is best for your business.
I’ve pulled a few of my favorites, so I thought I’d show them to you real quick.
Let’s window over here.
Once you have signed up with WIX, and if you haven’t done so yet, there’s a link in
the description of the video, it’s going to ask you what kind of website do you want
to create.
There are a couple of different ways that you can actually look at answering this question.
My advice is that when you’re first starting just try to be as accurate as possible.
One of the things that you’re going to discover is that WIX has hundreds of templates that
you can choose from, so while you may find that you like the template for maybe a business
that’s different than what you actually do, you can still use it, because, after all,
it’s a template.
You’re just going to swap out all the images with your images.
My advice, though, would be before you do that, first just go through what they have.
Find whatever is closest to your business, because part of what that’s going to do
is it might expand your mind as far as what your capabilities are here.
A lot of people maybe didn’t consider that, hey, maybe it would be nice to book clients
online.
Wouldn’t that be a nice feature?
Well, guess what?
You can do it with this.
When you go through here and you pick whichever option works best for you, I’m just going
do business now, because I’m going to show you a few of my favorites in a moment, it’s
going to ask you this question here.
This is a critical question.
You can either, at this point, go with the ADI, which is their intelligent software.
It asks you a bunch of questions and it kind of builds a website for you, which I have
tried.
It’s great.
It works very, very well.
It’s very easy to use.
That being said, when I was done with it and I compared it to redoing the process using
the editor, I have to say I like this a lot better.
Obviously, choose whatever is best for you, but I would strongly recommend that you go
with this feature here.
This is going to take you to the template chooser.
You can just browse through here at your own pace.
What you’ll find is that as you cursor over any of these, it’s going to also give you
the mobile version, so you can see what it looks like both as a website that you would
see on something like a computer and how it’s going to look on mobile.
What I’ve done here is I’ve pulled a couple of my favorites that I thought I would show
to you.
I’m going to close this out and just go on to the next one here.
This is a sample website for a vegetarian restaurant.
Now, obviously, all the images here, these are placeholders.
If you look as I scroll, it’s got that nice effect.
I believe that is actually referred to as a parallax effect.
I could be wrong on that one.
My apologies.
All of this text, obviously, you would just replace with your own images.
You know what?
If you are a vegetarian restaurant, you can even use their images.
That’s actually part of the value that you’re getting here is you’re also getting access
to massive library of images if you need them.
Up here at the very top of the website, you’ll notice here that we have a tab to switch back
and forth between desktop version and, once again, mobile.
The consistent theme that you’re going to see here with WIX is that everything is very
clean.
It’s very modern.
This is how websites look these days.
It’s very, very streamlined.
It’s very, very slick, very easy to navigate.
With all of these, you’ll see there’s a little menu button up here.
Again, very, very easy to navigate, get where you want.
Very, very important in a website.
Here’s another example that I found that I really like.
This would be a sample website for a bar.
You just swap out any images here with your images, if necessary.
You can upload your menu.
You’ll see here these are actually full templates.
You could do an entire menu right here.
That’s pretty sweet.
A show schedule, if you do live entertainment, that kind of thing.
You have little scrollable things.
Social media links, register, a whole bunch of different options that you have that are
available, and, of course, a contact page.
In this case, they actually even have one to book a table.
You can reach out through social media, of course, at the bottom.
Close that one out.
Another one here I really liked is the one for craftsmanship, if you’re a handy kind
of guy or gal.
Gals can be crafty, too, of course.
We have all sorts of different pages here.
Look at this.
I love this very slick slider.
Just replace any of that with your information.
Look at that at the bottom.
I just love how clean that looks.
Right?
Very slick, very professional.
I would hire that person.
Here’s an example of one that’s a little bit different.
This is a video background website.
In this case, this is the type of website if you’re announcing that something is coming
soon.
Your purpose, in this case, is just to collect email addresses, so that people can come back
and get information later on when it’s actually up.
This is an example of a video background that you could do.
I love this one here if you’re a cleaning person.
I need one, frankly.
Again, very professional, very slick.
The amount of time it takes you, really, to swap out everything here is very, very minimal.
Close out of that.
Another great one here for a handy type of individual.
In this case, I really loved the mobile version.
Check this out.
Very, very simple.
Put the phone number right at the top.
That’s what a lot of people want.
Your different services you list, a couple of quotes.
This is great.
It adds those big quotation marks and then you just paste in whatever text you need.
Social media.
Get a quote right there at the bottom.
We’re at the final one here.
I’m a big yogi, and I though this was just a brilliantly beautiful yoga website.
If you have a yoga studio, you want to have classes, profiles for your teachers.
Really everything you need, they have it all built in here.
What you will find is that some people think that these templates are all the same.
They’re really not.
There are definitely certain services that are built into certain templates, some that
have features that you’re going to really care about in a certain profession, where
you might not in other professions.
My advice here is to really have fun with whatever you want.
When you find the website that you want to start to play with, all you have to do is
click “Edit this site.”
If you haven’t already subscribed to my YouTube channel, you can do so just by clicking
the little logo at the end of this video.
In our future videos, we’re going to go through actually manipulating all these different
images.
I’m going to show you how to create hyperlinks and really start to customize this and make
whatever website you choose to go with, show you how to make it your own.
Thank you for watching, everyone.
Keep in mind also if you have any questions about WIX, you can always leave a comment
below.
I am going to be going through those comments and finding some of my favorites and turning
those into videos, especially over the next month.
Thanks for watching, everyone.
This is David A. Cox with Tech Talk America.
Class dismissed.