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ComiXology Thousands of Digital Comics. East Dane Designer Men's Fashion. Shopbop Designer Fashion Brands. Those plans are starting to look pretty generous! Then there are the time savings you get with Wix. Ignore the five-buck Wix Connect Domain plan. It gives you 2GB bandwidth and removes all Wix branding. This plan comes loaded with sales and marketing features — and lets you sell an unlimited number of physical or digital products. It costs less than one high-street coffee per week.

Whatever premium plan you choose, Wix gives you two weeks to change your mind for a full refund. Keep Wix VIP in mind for when your site really takes off. But upgrading gives you much better features like removing WIx ads and using your own custom domain. These rates are the cost per month when you sign up to a yearly plan, and are billed annually. Read our Wix Pricing Review to find out which plan is best for you. We certainly think so! Wix ranked as the best all-round website builder in our research. For ease of use and a level of customization, Wix is our top choice.

You can pay monthly for your Wix subscription , but this does make the cost more expensive, and does not include perks such as a free domain name, premium apps, and ad vouchers. Remember you pay upfront in full for your plan when you sign up. You can connect your domain name to your Wix website through two connection methods — Wix recommends connecting via name servers, but you can also connect via pointing.

Wix has a free plan that allows you to create, publish, and edit your website, with access to great features like adding images, apps, and videos, creating slideshows, and more. You can stay on this plan for as long as you like, but it does have its limitations. Wix also offers helpful tips and guides so you can boost your own rankings. The interactive Wix SEO Wiz helps improve your website and gives tutorials, tips, and step by step guides on how to boost your online presence.

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Wix is not a specialized ecommerce builder, but it does have a good range of ecommerce features for you to run your business or online store. This allows you to sell unlimited products, create discount codes, auto-calculate tax and shipping costs, say goodbye to transaction fees, and more!

See our Wix eCommerce Review for a full in-depth review of using Wix to create your online store. Wix makes it easy to create a stunning, powerfully interactive website for any project, business or idea you could possibly imagine — and you can do it in an afternoon, no coding required. Its designer templates give you a big head start. None of those drawbacks are deal-breakers for us.

Has our Wix review helped you make up your mind? Remember all the premium plans come with a two-week money-back guarantee, no questions asked — but you can use Wix free forever if you want. So give it a whirl! Did this guide help you decide whether to use Weebly, then help to get you started building your website? If so or if not! Do you know anyone who can benefit from this article? Click the share buttons below to send them this page. Email will not be published required. A website is very much essential for a business to show its digital presence.

If I could migrate the website, I would do it today. Dear Uschi, Thank you for your comment. Have you tired to reach out on their twitter help and support page to gain a direct response from Wix? Alternatively request a callback from them directly? I really like what I have heard about Wix. For a new training business I was going to use Wix. Thanks for your comment. They never understand the tech problems I am explaining and they take NO responsibility for any problems. After saving pages and publishing them, I go back the next day and pages are missing, text colors go from white to red, icons no longer linking…Way too many times!

The respond days later with lame emails taking no responsibility, nor giving help to resolve the issues. Wix do offer a fantastic knowledge center however, this actually got scored the best across all of the website builders from our in-house research investigation. Should you have any really specific questions why not give them a direct call using their phone support service, you can find all the details here.

Actually very sad because their website builder is classy. Hi Proru, Thanks for the comment and for bringing this to everyone attention. Wix is great but the new blog has one very big and major disadvantage which creates a major speed issue. The new blog has no ability to set the number of blog posts on your blog page. This actually means that if you frequently write articles, you blog page will become and endless list of articles which takes up a lot of tome when loading the page. Absolutely unacceptable and the ability to add a custom feed is not a solution.

I can not understand how such a great platform has this major drawback. Yes, unfortunately this is a negative of opting for Wix should you wish to have a blogging website. If you need a website around your blog though, Weebly is a great choice given that you can have an RSS feed and archive two features not currently available on Wix.

Wix enabled me build my agency website without any knowledge of coding. Thanks for the review jeremy. If I signed up for Wix plan and receive a free domain for one year, is the domain mine or does Wix retain ownership to it if I do something else after a year? Hi Tammy, when your domain is up for renewal, you get the chance to pay to keep ownership. Check out our article on domain names for more info: This is so NOT true regarding their tech support! They have the worst I have ever experienced.

I am trying to resolve an issue and in order to do so, I have to go to their support page and find the problem I am experiencing, which I cannot find. Thus, I cannot reach them until I am specific on what they have listed. There is no call number and no way for me to reach their call back number because my technical issue does not exist among their template issues.

Totally frustrating and ridiculous. Just give us a number or chat line we can reach you by Wix. Follow the link on https: Have you heard back from them yet, Sandra? Did they tell you to duplicate your site? I had a glitch as well and when support finally called back, they told me to duplicate my entire site to fix it and it ended up wiping out all my SEO!

I actually tried bringing up this very issue on this board like 2 weeks ago and they apparently refused to publish my comment. They are literally the worst.

The support is just as glitchy as the design tools themselves. My daugther built us a Wix website for my plumbing business. And after we had a terrible customer service experience and lost all our SEO, we decided switched over to setmysite. What kind of fix is that? The whole thing is ridiculous. Like I said — between the glitchy website tools and terrible support, Wix is more of a toy than a serious business option. I am a regular follower of your blog. And the points you have mentioned over here are very essential in my point of view.

Cool article, I think it will help a lot. Here everything is written so step by step that everyone will be able to figure out what and what, even if you do not get something you can always turn to support. Even I as a writer understand what and what, by the way, I work here greatpaper. Whom you are interested in, I can help everyone very cheaply. I hope that someone will come in handy in this article. Have a nice day! Hi AI, you certainly can do that!

Head to the Wix App Market and search for social media icons. There are a ton of great things about Wix. But I am going to focus on the one thing about Wix that annoys me to no end. The analytics module sucks big time!!!! I hate it very very very freaking much. So much that so that I messaged them about it several times the first six months that I was with them. But to no avail however. This part of their services is created and managed by a third party and I wish so very freaking much that they would get somebody better!!!!

All of their graphs refresh daily with absolutely no visible history past one week. To me this is the most basic and most gratifying visual representation all, being to se the ups and downs over time. This is the same graph you get with google analytics. The same graph you get pretty much every where but not here. Its enough to take a whole star away from any review I do of these guys!!! There is one other problem with the analytics as well. It has a map with drop pins of where people are when they come to the site. It is without at doubt wrong every single time.

It consistently puts the pins about 1 mile south of the actual location. The developers argue with me every time I point it out. I even sent them screen grabs of pins dropped into the middle of a body of water. Now they just completely ignore me. I hope Wix comes to their senses about this. DO NOT waste your money and time. While it is easy to use a template, they are absolutely useless when it comes to the restaurants.

Almost NONE of the apps available for stores are available for restaurants. Even a customers email is not a requirement in a restaurant portion of Wix! I have been with Wix for almost a year and now seriously considering switching to different developer. Wix is looking into this issue, so perhaps if you lend your voice to this page https: Great help and easy to understand the details you are sharing this site, thank you for the information and keep it up!. Functionality is great as are templates and ease of building the site. The entire framework is not responsive.

Kind of a huge oversight that makes it absolutely useless.

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Hi Michelle, what Wix templates are you using? In our experience, Wix sites do tend to be responsive. Thank you for getting in touch. I did and I payed a lot of money and still do not have a working site. The only customer support is a email situation, that has proven less than helpful. I am disgusted with this website. I warn everyone do not use them. The company does offer phone support, so it might be worth checking that out.

I am not a small business that can anywhere near afford this. The pricing is pretty transparent in our experience! Hello, Interesting and informative blog. I have a question. Can you help me to figure out a solution to this issue? Am new here, But to be sincere WIX is practically the best, It makes it soo easy for me to open an online store, The issue is that I wanna subscribe for the premium,but am kinda scared of the monthly shit,am I not suppose to buy the domain once of better still A year.

Hi Ben, whether Wix premium is right for you will depend on a host of factors. Read our Wix Pricing Plans Review — https: Hopefully it will give you some good insights. Now i learn new things in the social media opportunity to growing business. Thanks for this article. I definitely enjoying every little bit of it. It is a great website and nice share. I want to thank you. You guys do a great blog, and have some great contents. Keep up the good work. Now I know not only what builder to buy, but at what level.

Thanks for all the info! Had a horrible experience with Wix and their customer service: I paid for a yearly premium subscription, worked on the website for 1 day and got the account blocked. That makes it impractical for eCommerce. The support is great too.

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For those who wish to start their business online without paying for website, this is a good opportunity for u. For me, i love this wix. The paid premium plans can help your site grow alongside your business too! I found Wix easy to use until it came time for posting from a mobile device.

I could not edit from a mobile device tablet which is what I travel with. With so many travel bloggers and traveling web site owners, you would think this would not be a problem. It makes sense that you should be able to edit your site on-the-go, right? Or you can jump right into a Weebly free account and test it out here.

I found your review very helpful. My questions are theses: My site is currently independently hosted with email included. Should I or even can I stick with my existing host when I upgrade to a paid version of Wix? At the moment I achieve page 1 position 1 or 2 on Google organic listing when searching for my service in my city is Chimney sweep Bath.

I imagine the website builder game has changed a fair bit since you first started out Ben, but Wix definitely has all the tools you need to create a great website. So I hope the following helps:. Wix will host your website on both a free and paid plan. This is the delicate one — and I understand how important rankings can be for your online presence, let alone the impact they can have on real world business. In theory this should minimize the impact on your rankings.

However, so many things could go wrong that I really suggest you talk to an SEO specialist that you trust if you want to go down this route. Things like how competitive your ranking search terms e. In this instance, it might be worth seeking out an SEO or web migration professional for some expert advice. I checked out another review website of web hosting companies and learned about webhost.

Com and X10 hosting. When they explained all the services you receive for the free site such as emails and bandwidth and all the other specs it seemed from what I read that x10hosting. Com was much better than w i x.. And how do they compare to Wicks and Weebly? Both webhost and x10hosting. They white label other website builders and use them as their own. Think about mobile phone contracts. You can expect to pay a premium for a Samsung or an iPhone because they are premium products, whose users find real benefit in what they can do with them.

On the other hand you can also find much cheaper phone contracts for inferior phones. I guess it comes down to which sort of product you prefer? Weebly is one of the most user-friendly builders in my opinion. Likewise, Wix is easily the best all-round-website builder on the market. If I get through wix and one day I leave them and host site elsewhere will I be able to use my domain? But I would always recommend getting your domain from a 3rd party as it makes it easier to take with you if you ever want to move platform. It can be a lot more fiddly to extricate if purchased through the website builder itself.

If I buy through third party, I will be the owner of the domain. If I buy through website builder like wix, will they own it or will I? If you buy a custom domain from either a third party or Wix then you will own that domain. Thanks for this great review. That seems pretty expensive. Do you know of any cheaper alternatives? Good to know you found the review handy, Wix is a great platform for non-technical users to get themselves an online presence with. I understand your concerns about the potential stacking of costs per user, but this is unfortunately one of the knock-on effects having your own mailbox i.

I guess it comes down to what you want to achieve. Having a personalized mailbox looks more professional so is pretty vital if you want it for business purposes. An alternative would be to create gmail accounts and then include the email addresses as links on your site so that people can still contact you, but without you paying the monthly fee.

And if you still want to look into professional help with your website, Wix have in-house experts that can lend you hand. Please feel free to share if you think others could benefit too — we really appreciate the word being spread. Read the article with deep interest. Agreed with almost all the points except one. I have a paid wix website https: The problem is that Wix does not support Wiris editor for Mathematics. Then I type on MS Word, take help of snipping tool, make a jpeg and paste this jpeg as a picture on the site.

Can you please help me in writing Mathematics on Wix site. Thank you for such an extensive overview, with good detail and valued opinion. Wix outlines how to do this here. I currently use Wix for my husbands website for his business. The stock images are great quality and on topic, but you still have the freedom to add your own loge and pictures.

Hi, I just opened my website with wix using a premium plan. I just had one query will I be able to take Booking for holiday stays as an agent on wix? Will it help me boost my site and reach out to a lot of people? The Wix editor has an SEO optimization section that you can use to improve your site and help boost its online visibility. Event tracking again, especially on non-ecommerce sites, is a fundamental requirement. A small business owner, for example, would like to know if anyone clicked the call button to make a phone call to our company.

After being a customer of Wix for almost an year, am thinking of moving out of the platform now due to these issues. It sounds like your issue is more with load speed than the mobile editing process — and this can be impacted by numerous things including: As for tracking, I know you can add google analytics to Wix, which should provide a much needed degree of transparency to your site and how it is being used. Once again we got amazing article that is really helpful for us.

I am doing a school project and would love some insight of why someone should choose Wix instead of another builder such as Weebly. Any insight would help! I think you could pick any of the reasons in the article above as to why Wix is a better website builder than Weebly. Take a look at our website builder comparison chart , it should give you some more food for thought. Please tell if I can import themes from sites like themeforest. This means they will not work with Wix as Wix is built in a totally different manner to WordPress.

So if you find a design that you like on ThemeForest, you can try to replicate it in Wix — cheeky, but effective! Fantastic Fantastic articles all over your website. Feels like really thorough comprehensiv and quality work. Tell me something please, after i make a website on wix under free plan, can I take the code and database to another hosting site like siteground.

I think as per your reviews the answer is No. Is the export functionality given in any paid plan or another free website builder, like weebly maybe? What all can be exported exactly? Different builders provide different levels of export functionality, for example Weebly lets export a fair chunk of your material. Thanks for the great info. I have used Wix in the past and it was a very good experience. Do you know if a storefront can be password protected in Wix, or any other reasonably priced platform?

I have a small business and need a very simple wholesale storefront solution. A builder would be great, I can do that. My wish list would be to password protect the storefront with returning customer login capability so their information would be stored. The B2B platforms are much more sophisticated and expensive than what I need. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!! If you can password protect your homepage then this will in effect shut off the rest of your site from users.

Wix also lets you create members-only areas so you can really control who sees what in your store. I love this article and will link to it in a post of mine, relating more to WixMusic. May I also use the following graphic, please? Users and subscriptions https: It looks great on a regular computer or laptop. And it also looks great on any Mobile phone.

However, when I take my Wix URL and cloak and mask it with my Godaddy domain name and open up the site on my mobile phone using the Godaddy domain, the site becomes very small and slender. I have to manually widen it to fill out the screen on my phone. Has anyone else experienced that?

Or is it one of those things where the only way it can work properly is by upgrading to Combo? If you subscribe to a Wix premium plan, then you can use your own custom domain URL directly with no need to mask — this will solve your problem. If you cancel your Wix premium subscription then your site simply returns to the free version of Wix. I really learnt a lot from your site. I am really excited to start a website asap. Your guides are easy to understand, clear, informative and inspiring.

So thank you so much for that. I was wondering if you or know someone who offers a similiar level of quality about launching a campaign on google ads or ads on facebook? Have a read of our Wix eCommerce review , which should prove helpful. I cannot seem to find a wix community forum anymore, or any way inside their webside to chat for help, or even send an e-mail for help on that matter. It seems like such an easy issue, and they are not addressing it in the Help section. My need is for a fairly simple eCommerce website with Blog potential.

I currently have a hosted website in Australia. Does Wix actually host websites? I tend to research the heck out of everything. I was leaning towards Wix when I discovered it does not have responsive design. This is because Wix actually combines two editors into one. You can switch between the desktop and mobile editor with the click of a button, so that you can optimize your site for both desktop and mobile platforms and ensure there are no issues! So as long as you take a bit of time to get things just right in the mobile editor, your site should look great whenever and wherever it is viewed.

For more information, it might be worth having a read of this discussion. Or should a make some adjustments before? To optimise your site and make it mobile friendly on Wix, you will need to go into the Wix Editor. Click this phone icon and you will be taken to the mobile editor. This is where you can optimize your site for mobile devices. I was not aware of many things mentioned in this post, thanks. I have been using Wix for a number of years and will eventually go premium, it is very functional and serves my purpose at the moment until I want to add the online shop facilities.

I do need some assistance for the moment though. It some times uses a random image!!!! I am sure that the image size is fine because it was working but not now. Maybe I am doing something wrong. Wix also have a support page for this issue. If you enter your email into the Top Tools box above the comments then this will subscribe you to our updates and the Wix code will be with you inside 72 hours latest. Having just taken over a Wix website I find it is extremely hard to manage. Adding content has me pulling my hair out and support is a joke.

I have spent three days just trying to clone a button to an existing menu with no luck! None of the help videos work. I manage a site on a different host that is much easier to work with. That one is free for our personal non-profit and this one is a paid premium site for an organization. If you want to build a site that never changes this might work for you. If you like to stay current and have a good experience changing your site to reflect your current or future content — stay away from here. You simply drag and drop and voila, the element is on the page!

Agree, that the WIX support is lacking. On-boarding a new client needs to be much easier, such as having a support person for the first week of on-boarding. If this is the case, then you will need to upgrade to an eCommerce or VIP plan otherwise you cannot accept payments. Unfortunately these are the only two Wix plans that allow you to use a payment gateway and sell items. I read on another thread about users asking for discount codes. Are these something you always have or on an adhoc basis?

Hi, Jeremy, Fantastic review with tons of info. If so, is this only available with paid versions? Hi Jeremy, Our published website has more content than the edit website. That is very strange! Have you tried clearing your cache as your browser might be loading a previous version of your site saved in your cookies? Otherwise I would recommend contacting Wix support to clarify the issue. The support pages are super in-depth and cover most Wix issues.

However if that fails, you can ask for a callback here. This is actually surprisingly helpful as this will put public accountability on their support team to answer your question as soon as possible — which they do. The forum link is broken and I have searched all over and cannot find any links to community forums where I can crowd source some assistance. Can you help me out?

In the meantime, if you head to this page and follow the instructions you should be able to submit a question ticket and get some answers. I have problem with Wix. I bought premium plan for 2 years and it has been fine until… One day, I mess up with Wix store. Click on Wix store premium plan and immediately in 5 minutes after that stupid action cancel it b. Wix said, they are not gonna refund it because it is upgrade. They recommend I cancel my premium plan, buy a new plan and they will refund the left over of my previous plan.

They refund me the purchase for Wix store and make my website gone also. I just want my normal website like I have before the witch store. Thing a little tricky here is they use the word Premium plan for what you buy a plan and Premium Plan on Wix store very very similar and make people not easy to see the differences. I cant call Wix to talk about this issue and solve problem quicker b. The auto machine voice said it will available on Monday. Sounds like a very tricky and frustrating situation you are in at the moment. Before making any further decisions, call the customer support number when you are able to and explain the situation to the support team.

There should be no issues at all if you want to upgrade a monthly premium plan to one where you pay annually. You can find more info about the various plans here. Only one stumbling block, and I just ran into it. They wished me luck, basically. Have a flick through the plugins to see which suit. Wix will work perfectly fine for you in India. I would just be a bit more cautious about which domain you opt for it you buy a personal one —.

The 4 Tabs across the top do not active when pressed. The biggie is when I type in prices on my Repair page the info goes to all 3 other pages too, and the same for deleting. I was looking for a Wix forum where we could post these questions after Customer Service is closed. Definitely feel free to share your results and the solution Wix provide as it might prove handy to other readers in our community. Thank you Jeremy for an excellent review. I had a WordPress website previously but, given the time and money I had to spend keeping it going, Wix ticks all the boxes for me.

I may well have to start with a premium plan however as I want to use my own domain name from the off. Also, feel free to give us a share using the social media buttons on the side of the article. I have been bombardiered with their sales ads for a year or more, ever since I looked at them. Can I make a website, for free, people can see online, or not??

They have become the rich, I presume. Worse, now my stuff i saved to them, is where they can access it. SO was it too good to be true? If not this Wix Support page might help. Another outstandingly detailed review thank you. I have today upgraded my WIX to paid as I am going to be opening a store. I am very happy so far.

I tried WordPress and left very quickly. It may be the market leader, but it was not for me. I know what you mean. Hey thanks for the review mate! Just a few questions though, will I be able to sell my photos online using the wix free website builder? Also, will I be able to switch to my own private website and a different domain later on if I use the free website builder?

Both have pros and cons and it is discussed in-depth in our domain name guide. I am building an online store using Wix, and I seem to have glitches so Im scared to upgrade and publish it. Are these glitches fixable? I think the footer is fixed to the mobile screen so your visitors can access important parts of your website without searching for the menu bar. Was it accidentally hid this function? One more question I forgot to ask. If we already have a business gmail acct that has our site address how would I connect that to the wix site?

I see that you can purchase the g suite and get an email for your site but if you already have one, how would you do that? You can operate them separately. If you want your website visitors to message you, you can insert your email address into the contact us box while you are setting up this feature, so when someone messages you, the message will be sent to your email address. Thanks so much for this article. I have been creating a website with Wix and love the choice of themes and the ease of functionality.

The animate tool is particularly awesome.

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We have a domain and hosting plan with Godaddy currently. What are your thoughts on transferring your domain to Wix vs. Wix recommends against pointing. Is there a difference in speed or anything? For domain names, there are pros and cons of each method connecting it to your Wix website from your domain name registrar, or transferring the domain to Wix. We have a guide on domain names that goes over these points.

I think bandwidth and storage for Wix is fine. That is, unless you are planning on uploading thousands and thousands of very large files. I am considering using Wix for our organizations website. We are nonprofit and have a. Would it be simple to switch to Wix? I have no clue as to how that aspect of websites work! If you are wondering if it is easy to connect your domain name the. Wix has tutorials in their support center on how to connect domain names from other service providers to a Wix website. We also have a guide on domain names that goes over this as well.

I am in the middle of creating my online store through Wix. I have registered a domain with another host crazy domains are you aware of how simple or not it is to link? I have created my business emails using gmail. Again do you know if it is easy to link to Wix? Does Wix allow you to have services available to customers such as Afterpay? Wix should have tutorials if you visit their support center. We also have a guide on domain names here. You might find it helpful. We use GSuites the business version of Gmail as well.

You can keep your email function completely separate. Hi Jermey, I have 7 restaurants Australia wide. With few outlets have different prices. Like Sydney outlet will have different prices to Melbourne outlets. Is wix can handle multiple outlet ordering. Like can I choose restaurant when ordering. Can you please advise if wix can handle this in Wix Restaurant template?

If not can I choose outside online ordering company to amalgamate with wix website and template? Have you tried asking Wix directly to see if their restaurant tools can allow users to choose between multiple restaurants? I think the restaurant tool might be built specifically to cater to one single restaurant. If that was the case, one option is to build separate websites for each of your restaurants. This is assuming that all restaurants have unique brands and menus? As for your last question, you can find an external widget to integrate with Wix but it depends if both platforms are compatible or not.

Wix does allow you to embed HTML widget codes into a website. Have read your review on Wix web site builder. I live at a retirement village in Victoria, Australia. Can you offer any overview comments to set me on the correct track. With Wix, you can build your website the way you want it to look and feel. Perhaps you can start with reviewing other similar websites to see what you like or dislike about them. Take what you like or what inspires you and plan how you want your website to look. List out some important pages you want include and what content you want to share on those pages.

I just subscribed to your newsletters and I am amazed of the ton of great info you provide. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. I, too, have some questions for you. My current host is Bluehost and the platform I am using is WordPress. Also, I gather that Wix and Square Space have their own different platforms. I see people on Wix are not that pleased with their customer service. Is Square Space customer service any better? If I transfer to Wix I checked out the emailing alternative you recommend.

Their pricing seems very good compared to Constant Contact. Would you be able to better explain? And my final question: These include posts, pages, images, comments, attachments, categories and tags. All the tools available are built into their platforms already, and they are all managed by the website builders. So if something is not functioning, they will fix them. With WordPress, you can bolt on various plugins that are created by external developers and they will be responsible for fixing them not WordPress. Wix is growing very fast and I think their support team will catch up soon as it is a big part of their service offerings.

Sending newsletters is more proactive I suppose, rather than relying on your website visitors to subscribe. I have never used Wix. I must upgrade a simple website built with Wix. What is my best route to accomplish this task. I suppose the first thing you can do is sign up for a free plan with Wix. Take some time to use their platform to see if you are happy with the way their website builder works. Only then should you make a decision if you want to upgrade to a premium plan. You can also take a look at our Road Map and our FAQ page , as it shares some other helpful tips on what else you need in order to build a website!

Thank you for great help with this review! I have built a website with Wix and it was easy and works well. I am a musician and I like to have the home page as a page where I tell news about the band and new bookings. Now I saw the new possibility to have a blog. I wonder , would it be a good idea to have a blog on the site and move this news function to this instead of the home page?

I am a little unsure of the difference between a blog and my news home page. Just thought that a blog page maybe is designed to be more easy to update with latest news and video clips and photos? But…I heard that you can not delete a blog that you have added to the site. Can you explain the differences to me? I think it really is up to you — whether you feel that your visitors will prefer to see your updates on your home page or on your blog — or both!

This way, your visitors can see if there is anything interesting. Thank you for your article. I found it extremely helpful. The apps make it very easy to add functionality. However, I am a complete novice to managing a more sophisticated website and was a little disappointed when I found out today my bad for not knowing this but as an alert to others that I also almost have to host the site on Wix.

My experience with trying to get technical help from Wix has been terrible — even finding a call in number is not obvious. Given my lack of technical knowledge, this is very important to me. My concerns are signifiant enough that I may have to forgo the ease of design for the reliability and confidence in support. But thank you again for your article and thoughtful responses to the comments people have offered.

Follow the link and you will reach phone support. Just insert your phone number and they will call you back. I just checked this phone callback service and the next help agent available is in 11 minutes, which is very reasonable. Passing up on Wix, which you also think is really easy to use and is very functional, or experimenting another website builder.

WIX has beautiful web templates but the builder for the free blog is non-functional. I had 2 live websites with WIX where the builder worked just fine. I was testing a new blog and just used the free template — nothing worked. Impossible to upload a video. Very frustrating because I lost a lot of time.

As for the blogging function, you should be able to add multimedia such as videos, images to your blog posts. Can you give it a try again and see? First of all, thank you for the review. I am wondering if you have come across a way to use a Redirect with wix? The Wix Redirect tool only works if you are using the same domain name. So redirect from xyz. In your case, since you are trying to redirect a. Registrars usually have tools where you can specify which URL you want to redirect. I am starting a blog site to share reviews on food and recipes. I am hoping to get a few sponsors since I will be mentioning their good products, and it will be great if the cost of running the site could be paid off by the sponsorship income.

Give Wix a shot and test them out. They have a free plan and there is no time limit to testing them out.

If you like using Wix, then you can consider upgrading at that time. I am intending to set up an online e-commerce store using WIX. I understand that for free user, the webpage will be loaded with wix advertising and it cannot be used for online payment. We have a discussion about their pricing plans here. The number one thing you need to know about Wix is that there is no support.

Sorry to hear about that. Is there a specific question that you have? Maybe I might be able to help. This is seems very positive and I was ready to try until I read loads of reviews about not being able to contact wix if they had an issue with their website. What would you say the best customer service contact number for them should there be any problems?

Click on that and it offers you a callback phone support. I just checked out this phone callback service and the next help agent available is in 10 minutes — not bad.

Also, you can pick any one of their template designs. Have you thought of signing up for a free account to play around with Wix? You can create a free account for an unlimited amount of time, and upgrade only when you are ready. Also, I am comfortable using WordPress to design our site. Is there a plugin that would allow me to setup our existing credit card processing account thus alleviating the need for an eCommerce company all together? If I wanted to grow a large scale email list to send out monthly or weekly newletters, are there options for larger scale email services integration on WIX, such as MailChimp?

Integration with larger newsletter services such as Mailchimp is straightforward. Mailchimp should provide you with embed codes so you can embed a sign up form on your website. They used to be a great company with great customer service. It seems like these days they care more about getting new customers than providing customer service. Thanks for your feedback. I think one of the common challenges of a fast growing company such as Wix is to catch up with their customer support.

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