Tomáš Podrabsky Have you ever thought that you would like to start your own website, but were discouraged by the lack of knowledge in this area, the time or financial requirement, or the fact that you actually have no idea how the site should look? All these problems and many more are solved by the WIX.com web service. How to create a website easily and without knowing a single code? WIX.com provides everything from a pin to a locomotive when it comes to web development. It offers beautiful templates from professional designers, mobile optimization, domains, large image collections, secure hosting, SEO, 24/7 support and many others. All this with just a function drag & drop and now the best part – practically everything is free and in Czech.
Templates
Are you a designer, blogger, manager, lawyer, photographer, do you want to run an e-shop or just want to fulfill your childhood dream of your own website? Wix will suit you in almost everything. The app market offers 250 applications, thanks to which you can further expand the possibilities of your site. Personal e-mail box, optimization for mobile phones and a simple editor with which you can customize the pages according to your taste and most importantly more than 500 templates in these categories:
- Shop
- Online store
- Photography
- Video
- Hudba
- Appearance
- Restaurants and food
- Accommodations
- Events
- Portfolio and CV
- Blog
- Health and wellness
- Fashion and beauty
- Community and education
- Creative art
- Landing pages
Each of the categories is further expanded into other subcategories, and new ones are still being added. The selection is really huge, and if I were to evaluate the design of the offered variants, it is really top-notch work and a modern look in almost all cases of templates, which are not even similar and yet the same in their functionality and simplicity.
We're getting started
In the beginning, you don't need anything more than yourself register using email and choose Create a new page. Now it's up to you which template to choose from the plethora. There are really so many of them available that choosing the ideal one may take more time than the subsequent editing itself. When you have finally gone through all the options, the button Adjust you automatically redirects to the editor, which is incredibly simple. Everything works on the well-known principle of drag & drop, that is drag and drop. You can rewrite individual texts with two clicks, as well as change the background of the entire page. You can easily add new shapes, social network buttons, music players, additional menus, headings or text boxes. But what is probably the most interesting thing about the whole editor is own Wix App Market. Thanks to it, you have the opportunity to add such applications to your site, which will expand the functionality of the site by leaps and bounds. Applications are divided into the following categories:
- Analytics
- Blog
- Reservation
- Tools for business
- Cat
- Design tools
- Events
- Forms
- Free apps
- Hotels and travel
- Created by Wix
- The latest application
- Tools for marketing
- Hudba
- Indispensable applications
- Online store
- Photography
- Social networks
- Video
Would you like to connect with your customers and add a chat option to your site? The Wix App Market will offer you 16 different variants for this. Do you need an application for reviews from visitors to your hotel, restaurant or transport company? If you're passionate about design, there are almost 40 variants available to liven up your website with animations or Instagram integration. How about adding the ability to comment, like or link to all your social networks on your blog? Here, musicians will find applications to start their music, for example from Spotify, a video clip on YouTube or a familiar button Available on iTunes to link your music directly to the Apple Store. You can also use various applications for services such as PayPal, eBay or Amazon. If you plan to open an e-shop, you will find applications for creating discount events or coupons here. The selection is really wide and you will definitely discover new features that you didn't even know you wanted on your site. Most of these apps are free and some are available with a Premium account.
Premium account
This brings us to other options for your website. The offer of the premium plan is wide and it can be chosen by a beginner when it comes to website creation, as well as by a demanding user, for whom the whole business depends on its presentation. All plans include free hosting, new or existing custom domain connection, storage space, Google Analytics services, premium support and waives all other fees. You can choose from 5 plans that start at €4 and end at €24 per month for the variant with the most options, which is a great price in any case. The free version displays Wix advertising, but very decent. However, 4 of the 5 premium plans offered completely eliminate advertising.
Whether you have already chosen the premium plan or are still trying the free version, you do not have to worry about publishing problems. You can actually do it with just one click. After that you can play around with things like custom site icon, optimize SEO for ideal display in the Google search engine, you connect social networks or you change the domain. Wix.com has a lot to offer.
If I have to describe the whole project in one word, it will definitely be that "simplicity". I never imagined that I would be able to design, create and publish my own website without a lot of help. Wix is your designer, web developer friend, and admin all in one. Wix uses over 100 million people in 180 countries and that's a sign of quality. You've probably never been so close to your own website. It doesn't get any easier.
Is this an advertising article? I don't see a warning anywhere.. As someone who has already clicked a few sites in Wix, I agree that it can be a dream come true for a certain group of users. But the moment the user wants/needs something extra (more advanced forms, etc.), they have to pay for it (it adds up). Limitations of the big platform on basic things, e.g. more levels in the navigation, general styling of the navigation, etc. And whoever looks at the code of the generated website once, he will not sleep peacefully for the rest of his life :) Optimization for search engines on Wix is IMO practically an oxymoron..
Why should it be an advertising article of Mr. Vozábal? it is a review and editor's view. The fact that you have a different point of view does not mean that his is an advertising one.
I didn't mean it in any bad way, I just haven't seen such a positive review since Half-life 2 came out :) I recommend those interested in the service to try i https://www.squarespace.com/ or Czech https://www.zombeek.cz/ a https://www.mioweb.cz/. Of course, there are many others (eg. https://www.shopify.com/ for those interested in the e-shop).
This is a completely obvious advertisement, the text of the advertiser, and it is sad that Jablíčkář does not mark it :(
Somehow I don't understand why there are "reviews" for creating web pages on pages dealing with apple products and things around them? Could the author clarify this for me?
Because people dealing with Apple products can also be normal people who want to make a website? According to your perception of the world, we shouldn't write anything that doesn't relate to Apple, i.e. not reviews or anything... luckily we write more things than just Apple.
Good day. I also have a site from Wix.com. Everything is as Jablickar describes in the article. Easy to navigate when creating pages etc. the trouble is that these sites do not have technical support. Although there are a lot of articles and offered answers everywhere, if you get stuck on the problem that you really don't know how to deal with something, there is no one to turn to. Not even if I paid for a premium service. So with that I turn to everyone present with a question - if you know how to someone from wix. com contact with technical problem please let me know…. thank you very much.
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