i'll be honest wix is easily one of my
favorite tools and best website builders
on the market and if you look at what
different designs you can create with
this tool it becomes clear just how
extensive wix website builder really is
in this wix 2022 review we'll go through
the main process of using wix in the end
we should have a published website that
looks like this let's answer the
question is wix good
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to learn how to build a website with wix
just create a free account at the wix
website once you log in we can start
building our free website at this stage
you can choose between building a
website with wix editor or the wix adi
automated tool what's the main
difference well adi is created for
complete beginners it's an easy to
manage tool that allows you to have a
finished website in a couple of minutes
wix editor is everything that wix has to
offer in one place lots of tools design
freedom and even code editing for this
video's purpose i'll briefly talk about
how to use wix both adi and editor so
let's go with wix adi first to see just
how good this automated system is oh and
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on next in this week's tutorial click
start now then you gotta choose the
theme of your website it can be anything
from a very specific type of vlog like a
motivational blog to any type of
business like a motorcycle repair shop
the list is actually quite extensive
once you're done just click next now
pick all the features your website needs
it's not a life or death decision you
can add or remove these things later on
so don't overthink it
pick what looks appealing to you like
instagram feed is great for any
portfolio and an online store feature is
kind of self-explanatory
once you're done with this step click
next and fill in all your main
information until you reach this page
with themes this is where you select
design options for your website
next free website designs will be
presented choose carefully but don't
overthink it you can still change these
things later on the last step of the
small setup select what pages your site
will need i'm going to add a blog page a
contact page work page and service page
once that's done finally click edit
website the actual editing process is
quite easy in this mode the overall
system is just to add or remove sections
going from top to bottom you don't have
to full drag and drop controls you can't
place individual elements wherever you
want
but it's a blessing since these pre-made
sections are modern and well constructed
it saves you lots of time first to
modify these parts let's say move
existing sections up or down you can use
these keys right here pretty simple to
delete sections click free dots near the
top or just press the right mouse button
anywhere on the section body the right
mouse button will pull up an extra menu
it's kind of like any photo editing
software on your pc so i won't talk
about this too much if you click manage
it will bring you main website tools
like wix ecommerce wix seo and file
uploading these are a bit more advanced
features like wix blog which allows for
blogging and publishing articles in a
pretty easy and straightforward way even
for advanced projects wix online store
capabilities are more than enough to
change the whole design of the section
click this design button at the top then
on the left click section design and
choose from pre-made designs and that is
kind of everything i have to teach you
about the wix adi tool you can publish
your site by clicking here or continue
to customize your design and
functionality
now if we want something more immersive
select wix editor this tool is for when
you want to test the extent of how
customizable wix overall system really
is let's start by picking what your
website will be about which means
template there are a lot of modern sleek
looking themes that wix offers when you
find the one click edit for this
tutorial i'll go with this creative cv
choice
now you'll see the editor window it will
look something like this i really like
how clean the controls are the buttons
are well defined and understandable the
thumb rule about editing designs is this
you want to edit an element double-click
it you want to change the background
double-click on an empty space once an
element is selected a new menu on top of
that element should appear just like
that this is your main control over
every element to modify the menu you can
double click on it or press here to
bring out the customizer it will let you
change the order and other settings of
your main menu to change more detail
settings for text like font style and
effects click edit text and you will see
all the options you can change if you
have at least a bit of experience with
design all these different options
should be self-explanatory as i
mentioned you can also use the right
mouse button just like in any pc app to
access extra options but what more
experienced web users will love is the
fact that here you can modify the entire
code i mean you can even modify
javascript create brand new code
snippets or import already compiled
parts
i don't see a lot of builders especially
free ones that would actually give this
much editing freedom to check how your
design responds to different screen
sizes you can change the view from
desktop to mobile by clicking on these
two icons you can also have different
design settings for mobile view or even
just create a completely alternative
design than a desktop one to integrate
any third-party apps like instagram or
soundcloud into your design click on
this little icon you will find all the
apps that wix allows you to integrate
into your design and i think in this
large selection you will find what you
need as i mentioned you can publish a
website on a subdomain with the wix free
plan or connect the domain with premium
plans but of course we don't expect too
much from free hosting on a sub domain
but still what performance can you
expect after running gt metrics tests
wix loaded our website in about 6
seconds so it's not ideal but it is
lower than the average site loading of
around 8 seconds however and this is a
big plus to wix our site seemed to load
in a few seconds on most real life
scenarios
that was because it takes just around 2
seconds for our site to load most of its
content and be interactive to the user
so for the end user they won't really
notice those four extra seconds we also
checked the uptime and after a month of
constant pinging wix scored 99.98
uptime with around six minutes of
downtime
well
we're going to be honest here for a free
website hosted on a subdomain you really
can't ask for anything more we're done
with the wix tutorial for beginners part
now let's talk about pricing it offers a
lot of different plans these range from
a completely free to a business
e-commerce option overall you can start
with a premium plan for around 15 a
month four of these plans are focused on
regular users and their sites
while the others are tailored
specifically for e-commerce if you're
planning to sell online and are serious
about it i have to say that for a
website builder that is great for both
pros and beginners the prices are fairly
reasonable and within the industry
standard the great thing about wix these
plans come with no renewable price
increase however to get the best
discounted price for any plan you'll
have to pre-pay for the longest period
which in this case is two years so as we
saw the performance is quite great here
you can get extensive web building
options and there are lots of third
party apps on the marketplace you
definitely won't miss it if you go with
wix for beginners personal projects or
business sites at this point you should
have a working design and the know-how
to make a wix website that works for you
i talked about wix in general and showed
you how to work with both versions of
the builder wix adi and wix editor sure
there are many more things you can do
with wix but it's a great start and i'll
maybe do another wix website tutorial
video just to reiterate this wix review
adi is for when you want a website fast
and don't want to deal with decoding or
too much choice wix editor is when you
want to mess with code and craft
something a bit more special so no
matter your website building skill level
you will be able to craft the website
from scratch so what did you think about
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