Wix.com
Free Website Builder
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Website Builder
- Blog Publishing Tool
- Online Store Builder
- Online
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
What is Wix.com?
WiX allows anyone to develop flash websites for fun, business or hobby. With WiX anyone can create an amazing flash website in just minutes.
Wix is the simpler, faster, better way to create stunning web content. Make a Flash website just the way you want it, add stunning free content or upload your own
- No downloads or programming needed
- Creating a website with Wix is free
- Simple drag & drop interface
- Thousands of free, fully customizable Flash templates
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Supported Languages
- English
- Ukrainian
- Russian
Comments and Reviews
Tags
- Website Builder
- Online Store Builder
- Blog Publishing
- ecommerce-websites
- html5-website-builder
- flash-website
Recent user activities on Wix.com
komp12321 added Wix.com as alternative(s) to TeleportHQ
jonathanthiffault added Wix.com as alternative(s) to RubberDuck
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Easy to use, single pane of glass for simple websites.
Really good if you want to make a simple website! If you wan't to make more complicated one than I recommend Wordpress, and a VPS host.
Challenge: • Wix have WEAK ethic. According to both Matt Mullenweg and Matt Jacobs, Wix stole code from an open source community. This means that Wix violated the software license. Which is an abusive behavior. Thus Wix have weak ethic. Sources: • https://arstechnica.co.uk/information-technology/2016/11/wix-stealing-gpl-code-wordpress/ ______• http://archive.fo/hm6ur • https://ma.tt/2016/10/wix-and-the-gpl/ ______• http://archive.fo/fqggG • Wix is own by a for-profit corporation. It is not owned by a not-for-profit community. Usually a corporation first priority is to hoard money. Not serve you and protect your privacy.
Strength: • Easy to use
Suggestion: • I do NOT trust Wix. Unfortunately some people choose to use Wix for their e-commerce services. Maybe they did not know about Wix's weak ethic. So I occasionally and TEMPORARILY allow access to Wix domain names. After I am done I block any domains name related to Wix. • If you need software from a company with stronger ethic, I suggest to try any other software. Such as Drupal Commerce, WooCommerce (commerce on WordPress), Shopify, or any other software to your liking.
Notes: • Wix domain name is owned by the for profit corporation "Wix.com, Inc." Source at https://gwhois.org/parastorage.com+dns
• Wix is an Israeli cloud-based web development platform that was first developed and popularized by the Israeli company also called Wix. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wix.com
[Edited by Francewhoa, December 25]
It is simple to use, but the site loads slowly, the support line is not good at all. I recommend using Godaddy.
Not for Medium-Large businesses, or anyone. Their sites are over a second slower than Squarespace and Shopify. Bad Amazon/Ebay integrations. Requires hijacking your naked domain for no reason. Poor scaling on small laptops. Terrible performance on slow laptops/phones.
Honestly, this sucks. you can only do a simple, very simple site, no protection or back up... it's a NO from me.
[NDAS is not a competitor in the hosting / auto-site industry as are other reviewers herein.]
We found the system highly problematic and tech support lacking in knowledge of web code. In addition, any solution offered (usually avoiding code topics) involved compromising the user's own privacy / security, often without achieving a successful solution. Too much suspicious interest in the type of browser used, which is also a sign of (1) lack of knowledge and or (2) a wish to compromise / track / collect user information.
Tech support also showed signs of being overburden (?) as response to initial queries took hours. Acceptable BUT when given extensive specifics about a problem to speed up the process... the wait time increased x5 or more.
[Edited by ndas1, September 28]