For the would-be web designer looking for the perfect fit in a website building service, choosing often isn’t easy.  There are multitudes of options when it comes to selecting the right website building service to help you design the very best website to fit your needs.  How do you choose?  Wix is one great choice to consider for potential designers looking for a user-friendly, easily customizable, cost-effective service.

Design Features

Wix offers many excellent features, including online storage for site assets, video backgrounds, title animations, and mobile apps.  It also has great blogging and commerce features, and is accessible to novices and programmers alike.

After creating an account, users can choose whether they want Wix to automatically create the site for them using artificial design intelligence, or if they want to use a site template.  Wix offers more than 500 designer templates covering a wide variety of tastes and styles, including templates filed with stock content that users can customize with their own text and photos.  While blank templates are also available, the guided templates are good options for those designers who might need a bit of inspiration.

After selecting a template, users view a one-minute introductory video, after which time they can begin adding elements, changing the background, accessing the App Market from which they can obtain third-party site widgets, see uploads, and begin entering content.

Wix offers a variety of elements to choose from, including standard options for text, medial, social media widgets, buttons, and various other options.  Users can also access the Wix App Market for more selections.  Editing a template is simple – a user need only click on any element and use the resizing and dragging buttons to make changes, and text is easily able to be edited with simply a double-click.

As far as photos and videos are concerned, Wix offers an advantage in that it allows users to reuse images that they’ve already uploaded by saving them into online folders.  It also allows users to add images and videos from other online sources such as Facebook.  In addition, Wix provides many options of stock videos and images for users to use as needed.   Photo editing and enhancement capability is strong, and easy to use.

Wix gives designers the option to embed both HTML and flash code, as well as to add things like SoundCloud and Spotify playlists for visitors to enjoy.  Wix users have seemingly endless options to customize page design, and to create a site that truly displays the image and information they desire.

Another strong Wix offering is its e-commerce capability.  The Store option on the central toolbar adds a shop age that includes a product gallery including sample products that designers replace with their own.  The web store can include multiple pages on its own, and there’s also an extensive product-editing panel, allowing the designer to group products by collections and offer coupons.

For users who want to make their sites mobile friendly, Wix produces mobile versions of the sites, and gives users the option to edit those sites if they want to make any changes.

Pricing Options

Wix offers a free account option to anyone willing to provide an email address.  However, if you want a site featuring a custom URL, no Wix promotional ads, and/or a web store, you must upgrade to a paid account. Plan options range from the $5 monthly Connect Domain account, which simply allows you to use a site address you already own, to the complete $25 per month VIP plan, which includes 20GB of storage, a shopping cart, a domain name, unlimited bandwidth, priority customer support, and professional site review.

Customer Service and Conclusory Thoughts

Wix offers wonderful customer service.  Most features it is template editor have their own “help” button, which designers can open with one click.  Users also have the option of calling the support team, available 24/7.  The Wix Help Center, which users can access at any time by clicking on the question mark at the top right of the screen, is full of helpful answers and information.  Users can also submit a support ticket, or request a phone call when needed.

If you’re looking for a web-building service that offers an intuitive, easy-to-use, powerful interface with many options, Wix is a great choice.  It’s powerful, but very easy to use.  It’s simple enough to build a site quickly, but advanced enough to impress your intended audience, and help you achieve your goals.