Dear all, welcome to this new video! Let's see how to build a complete
website with Wix.com in just 12 minutes! This is a very powerful online
platform you can use to create, edit and publish your HTML5 website without
any installation required. It comes with complete site management tools,
including SEO, cookies and analytics support, making Wix perfect for all
users that want to get the best from their sites.
Wix.com is free but it is served with advertisements and some limitations.
You can upgrade with several subscription plans that also include a bigger
server storage and bandwidth. In this video we will use the premium
Business VIP plan.
To build your website just sign up on Wix.com and go through the
interactive wizard by replying to all the questions. Select the kind of
website, its content such as blogs, chats and more and specify your
experience in web development.
At this point go ahead with the Wix ADI wizard by giving your business
name, any link to your website media files and then review your Wix profile
and pick the right theme. Depending on your answers Wix generates several
templates for your Home page, including several alternatives for other
pages.
The result is the first draft of your website, ready to be modified in
layout, design and contents.
Each Wix website is made by several pages, such as the current Home page
and other secondary pages with the same theme chosen. Then each page is
composed by several blocks called sections, each with proper layout,
content and options dropping text, images, galleries, lists and much more.
Let's start editing the Header section on top! Click on it and go to
Section Design on the left to change its design by picking any ready
template. On Customize change the header type, selecting Regular to leave
the header on top or Fixed to keep it visible as you scroll the page.
You can also edit the header color and its text. These affect just the
current section, without impacting the rest of your site.
To edit the whole page design go to Design, Themes and select a different
theme. This changes the main colors, the text appearance, style and size
and any animation on it.
Let's come back to the header.
On the left add or hide the menu, the business name, the email address and
the social media icons. You can also include any logo with any bitmap
Image or vectorized Shape as Media Type, adjusting size, ALT text or
applying any direct link.
Click on Replace to open the media library and browse for another logo. On
Site Files you get all your media files already imported. You can upload
any image, video, audio file, document or archive directly from your
computer, Google Drive, DropBox and more.
At this point choose the image to use as logo and check the options on the
right to crop the image, edit it or adjust its tags and metadata. Then go
to Apply and extract a dedicated color palette from your new logo!
Make sure to go to Optimize Design to get quick ideas on your website
appearance. You may need to apply further adjustments to get everything
in line.
Now let's see how to change the page layout. On top go to Add, Section to
Page to browse for any new section for the current Home Page. Each section
comes with its own format, layout and content that you can add and then
customize with the left panel. In this case insert title, subtitle,
paragraph and edit each listed item by going to Settings, Edit. Change the
image thumbnail with the media library, correct the buttons text and
their link and build the section as you want most. Always use Section
Design to customize colors, text style and appearance.
To remove all the useless sections just select these and go to Delete.
Whereas use the right arrows to move each section up or down on the layout.
In the same way you can include a Media Gallery section to add a list of
images or videos imported from your computer or through any YouTube or
Vimeo link, attaching a proper thumbnail from the media library. Or else
choose any Text section to add titles, subtitles and descriptions. Make
sure to fit its design and colors with the rest of your website.
Now let's see how to write a post. Select the Post section and go to
Manage. This opens the main Wix Dashboard showing all the default post you
have. Remove these all and make your own with Create New Post above.
This opens the text editor where you can specify title and body text by
following a block structure. Select any text and change format, style,
colors or add quotes, lists, links and distribution and indentation.
On the left side click on Add to add further blocks containing media files,
galleries, documents, buttons or even pieces of HTML codes.
With Settings set the post thumbnail, the publication date, the author or
add any description or comment section.
Under SEO you can adjust the complete SEO settings for the post, including
how it must show up on Google or social media, the URL slug to customize
the post link, the title tag, the meta tags and more for the post indexing.
With Categories you can group post into categories and go to Tags to
assign useful tags to search your post within your site.
Moreover the premium Monetize allows you to earn from your post and manage
paid subscriptions. With Translate you can get your post into different
languages with no effort.
Once your post is ready, go to Publish on top to make your post visible
online! Wix will automatically update the Post section showing thumbnail
and title chosen. At this point you can go to Design to customize its
background and appearance and add a further Text section to include a big
title over the posts.
At the bottom you can modify the Form section with the options on the left:
enable and disable parts, edit their content and customize design and
layout with Section Design. Moreover you can edit the Form to add, remove
fields or make any of these as required, like Name, Email and Message. On
Form Settings set the email address to use to receive all user inputs.
Make sure to check the Footer as well! Edit the Copyright notes, import
social media links and adjust colors and layout as needed.
Now let's see how to manage your website pages. Click on Page in the top
left corner to check all the existing pages and click on any to preview it
and start editing it on its single sections, as seen for the main Home
page. You can also adjust SEO settings, set permissions or either rename,
duplicate or remove any page.
Whereas to create a new fresh page you can go to Add, Page on top and
select a proper template to use. If you start from a vacant page you can
drag and drop any section you want, compose the page and then edit each
section inside it.
On top go to Edit Menu to customize your website menu by changing the
order of its items (or pages) or rename any. Consider that if you delete,
rename or add any page the menu gets updated automatically.
That's it, the website is ready! Go to Publish to make it online by linking
a proper domain. You can choose either a free Wix.com domain,
or simply connect a custom domain offered by
Wix or your own one. Now your website is online!
To manage your website go to Site, Dashboard. This opens the main Wix
Dashboard where you can check the status and the options of each site you
have linked to your Wix account.
On the left you can check all the Post written and published; import all
your contacts within Wix; manage all your email and chat messages and open
the CRM Tools (Customer Relationship Management) to welcome and interact
with users with useful automations and form submissions or improve
collaborations with workflows, tasks and reminders.
Whereas on Site Members you can manage all the users that subscribed to
your site or got banned.
With Marketing and SEO you get advanced tools to bring traffic, including
SEO Wiz to get an optimal SEO on Google, Sitemaps, the Robot file and much
more. You can also launch email campaigns, use Google My Business or
publish beautiful social media posts.
With Marketing Integrations you can connect Google Analytics,
Facebook tools and much more. You can also make a new logo or promote a
new business merchandise.
Whereas open Analytics and Reports to check your site traffic.
You can also enable Monitoring Tools to receive live updates.
On Settings check the website name, URL, favicon and update your business
profile with location and contacts. Set the site language, region and
currency and define all the Roles and Permissions.
At the bottom, on Advanced, open Privacy and cookies to add cookies and the
privacy policy page according to the GDPR and CCPA regulations.
Thank you very much for watching this tutorial! Make sure to check our
video description to learn more about Wix.com and start creating your
first website for free!