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By: Alexandra Anderson
Editor: Lillian Castro
Reviewer: Cristian Lopez
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4.6
/ 5.0
★★★★★
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| Features | 4.8 / 5.0 |
| Ease of Use | 4.8 / 5.0 |
| Pricing | 4.2 / 5.0 |
| Reliability & Support | 3.8 / 5.0 |
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As a web builder, Wix is an industry leader when it comes to ease of use, setup time, and available features. The browser-based, WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) site-building service is hands down one of the foremost brands in this industry niche, and that's not without just cause.
Getting started and familiar with the platform is a straightforward process, and the resulting websites you can build are in keeping with industry standards, as far as design and customization go.
While you're not going to get the same level of support as you would from a leading web hosting service, the feature set available and included in this free service is a pretty exhaustive list. All it takes to sign up — and said signup is free — is an email or a Facebook account.
Once you're in, you can preview thousands of templates, which are all broken up into categories and then further classified by design or industry type.
For example, choose the Online Store category with the Clothing & Accessories subcategory to start selling your custom-printed t-shirts. Your garage band can showcase your latest performances and let family and friends know of upcoming shows by utilizing the Music and Band categories.
You can browse the most popular templates and check out the newest additions. Once you've made your pick, you may feel a tad overwhelmed at the interface — but that's only because the functionality exceeds that of your typical drag-and-drop builder.
You can manipulate and edit virtually any facet of your new website, until it perfectly matches the picture in your head.
Finally, get your finished creation noticed by search engines (and the millions of web surfers that they send to websites) using the Wix SEO Wizard. Just tell the Wizard the words or phrases you want people to search for and find your site, and Wix will spit back out a full SEO report — so you know where you stand in terms of relevant visitors being sent to your site.
Wix premium plan customers can also benefit from $300-worth of search engine advertising credits, upping the chances of increased site visitors.
Anyone could find themselves wanting a website at some point in their career or personal life. Whether you're a stay-at-home mom with a creative writing habit to share or a serial entrepreneur ready to profit from your next great idea, you don't want building your own website from scratch to be a strain — on your wallet, your time, or your brain.
With Wix, you can be your own web designer, developer, and marketer. The interface is easy to use and the end designs are up to snuff with industry standards. When it comes to code-free website building, Wix is a leader and an innovator.
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Gain access to an industry-leading website builder like Wix without paying a dime. You can run a website — on a wixsite.com subdomain — free forever. You'll have to deal with slightly reduced features, but you'll get the full set of design tools Wix is famous for.
The somewhat pricey Combo or Unlimited plans, plus the packages for businesses, ecommerce, and enterprises, remove Wix ads and include a free domain name. The Unlimited plan comes with, as you'd expect, unlimited storage and bandwidth, but at that point you're paying three times the amount of some of the cheaper (and top-rated) web hosts and web builders out there.
All in all, Wix wins when it comes to taking advantage of a free website builder tool for very basic websites. If you're serious about your web building needs, it's worth looking into one of the more economical and efficient website builder services.
Unfortunately, support tops the list of Wix reviews complaints made by users. Keep in mind, millions of folks are using these services, many of whom are using the free account or cheapest plan. You can't expect the same level of customer service for a free offering as you would for a premium provider. You're also not going to get the uptime guarantees that the best web hosts will offer. So, service and reliability aren't Wix's fortes, but you certainly can get your money's worth of uber-easy design-related features. That's always a huge perk for website builders.
Wondering how Wix stacks up againt other web hosting services? See our host-vs-host reviews below and compare them side by side.
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Wix is the winner
4 out of 16 times.
Alexandra Anderson
Hosting Expert:
Wix is easily one of the most popular website builders on the market today, and our review reveals the platform lives up to the hype of its reputation. Getting started is as easy as inputting an email address, the cost to sign up is nothing, you can get a 1-year domain registration voucher included, and you can be designing in minutes. Within the Wix Editor, you can quickly and easily customize one of thousands of industry-specific themes via drag-and-drop, and you can even edit your mobile site display. Add more functionality with any of the hundreds of apps and tools found in the Wix App Market, e.g., Site Booster or Form Builder. Finally, get your new blog or online business noticed with the help of Wix's SEO Wizard and up to $300 in search engine ad credits. Wix has certainly mastered the wonder that is carefree, code-free website building.
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★★★★★
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