Wix Reviews & Product Details
Whether it’s starting a blog, opening an online store, showcasing a portfolio, or promoting a business, Wix provides a versatile platform to build websites and create content. A unique feature of Wix is its ADI or Artificial Design Intelligence which allows users to launch customized pages just by answering a few questions and when ready, go live with one click. Those with coding experience can use the Wix Editor to perform personalizations and add custom-built features. Design tools include a logo maker while marketing capabilities such as a comprehensive e-commerce platform, built-in search optimization tools, and a native appointment scheduling software can be enjoyed out of the box.
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| Deployment | Cloud / SaaS / Web-Based, Mobile Android, Mobile iPad, Mobile iPhone |
| Support | 24/7 (Live rep), Chat, Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support |
| Training | Documentation |
| Languages | English |
Wix Pros and Cons
- Automated SMS notifications and email reminders to limit no-shows
- Host public events, sell tickets online and scan them from the Wix Owner app
- Wix ADI lets you instantly build a website based on simple questions
- Over 500 templates with extensive editing tools and features
- Offers modern-looking templates
- Built-in analytics are only available on the highest tier
- Product subscriptions aren’t available on the lowest plan
- It can get expensive
- You can’t change templates easily
- Not the best at SEO
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It's simple, good for first time web users and easy interface.
No analytics portion, it's too simple and I feel WordPress is a much better option.
Easy templates to use and quick to create. While that's not always a good thing.
It's very easy to make and modify visually appealing designs.
It's hard to expand wix past a pretty page. Want SEO? Redo your site on another platform. Lead capture and automation? Rebuild your site. Really- Wix is ok for a solopreneur or very local shop that wants to have a website to claim they have a website if someone is specifically looking for them. If you want to aim higher, aim somewhere else.
Website design made easy. It was pretty. And we had to rebuild the websites in WordPress weeks later.
Wix's website building tools are pretty nice- getting mobile ready layouts and some beautiful basic designs are really cool.
Under no circumstances should you ever consider using Wix for ecommerce or if you care at all about privacy due to the fact that you can't install SSL certificates- basically you're allowing others to snoop your browsing activity by not allowing for encryption.
We needed a website quickly for my coffee shop and it's doing the trick there, but we can't use any of the ecommerce features due to the lack of SSL. We'll likely be migrating away from WIX when our term is up.
The software is easy to use and maintain. you can easily create a new website within an hour or so using one of the software's templates. no installation required. one-click plugin install/embed. Pretty much unhackable with a great password.
How restrictive the software is. The recurring charges that come with the premium format. Just use wordpress for a website builder. templates seem old and not really up to date with current capabilities like wordpress.
can easily pass on to clients/customers so they can easily manage their website themselves!
Wix does let you create a simple website for your business quickly, in a user-friendly way. The interface is easy to understand and all the templates look great on the wix homepage. People with no design or web experience who know nothing about the simplest of HTML can successfully create a website.
Biggest gripe is the actual sites that are created. The templates may look great, but non tech-savvy users don't know to use high res images, don't have a beautiful monochrome logo, don't know what a vector is, etc. They also write terrible copy, don't have a goal in mind when creating their sites and just aimlessly make ugly, cookie-cutter sites with wix templates. Wix is making the internet a worse place, singlehandedly. The "pro" version, or whatever they call it, removes the Wix branding and adds Google analytics, something that people using Wix websites have no idea what to do with. It just makes things needlessly complicated for those upgraded, non tech savvy users. Everyone should just save themselves from creating a site that will most likely give a bad impression of your brand, fork over a couple of grand and get a real site done. Restaurants can get someone to make something awesome, useful, and helpful for hundreds of dollars. Why bother trying to haphazardly create one yourself with wix? Concentrate on what you're good at, running your business, and let web designers do their jobs.
Fast website creation. I've tried it, I've let other people try it, and the final product is just always negatively reflects on the business. The benefits were speed for us, and when I told others to use it it was to save myself the time of helping them. I regret both.
Easy to create a website, ease of use, easy to understand layout
You can never leave them once you start. You can not export your site so you'll have to start from day 1 again Google hates them so you'll never get your site listed on Google EVER!!! And forget about adsense DO NOT USE WIX EVER!!! #1 - Google Hates WIX they use HTML5, which is flash and flash means you have no content #2 - I have 469 pages of content and at least 200 thousand words and what does Google Adsense say "You have been rejected because we could not find any content and only 11 words" #3 - My site is Wildlife Planet at http://www.wildlifeplanet.net. When I searched for Wildlife Planet NOT ONE page appeared on Google in the first 25 pages. #4 - I then searched for wildlifeplanet.net NOT ONE of my 469 pages appeared. Twitter account... yes Facebook... Yes even video, blogs, press releases with my website address came up, but not one of my WIX hosted 469 pages. #5 - It's so bad when I searched for wildlifeplanet.net this site that has ONE BANNER on it wildlife-planet.com came up #3 but not one of my 469 pages in the first 30 pages (about 300 individuals) of search results. #6 I wrote to WIX a dozen times about this and after I wrote to them EXACTLY what I wrote above here is their canned cut and paste response. "Your SEO looks great and you do have a lot of content. We guarantee you Google sees your site and maybe you should add more content. Google loves more content. Hope this helped, Have a great day DON'T USE WIX YOU'LL REGRET IT
DO NOT USE WIX EVER!!! #1 - Google Hates WIX they use HTML5, which is flash and flash means you have no content #2 - I have 469 pages of content and at least 200 thousand words and what does Google Adsense say "You have been rejected because we could not find any content and only 11 words" #3 - My site is Wildlife Planet at http://www.wildlifeplanet.net. When I searched for Wildlife Planet NOT ONE page appeared on Google in the first 25 pages. #4 - I then searched for wildlifeplanet.net NOT ONE of my 469 pages appeared. Twitter account... yes Facebook... Yes even video, blogs, press releases with my website address came up, but not one of my WIX hosted 469 pages. #5 - It's so bad when I searched for wildlifeplanet.net this site that has ONE BANNER on it wildlife-planet.com came up #3 but not one of my 469 pages in the first 30 pages (about 300 individuals) of search results. #6 I wrote to WIX a dozen times about this and after I wrote to them EXACTLY what I wrote above here is their canned cut and paste response. "Your SEO looks great and you do have a lot of content. We guarantee you Google sees your site and maybe you should add more content. Google loves more content. Hope this helped, Have a great day DON'T USE WIX YOU'LL REGRET IT