More and more user friendly, ‘artificial intelligent’ website designer systems are becoming more and more popular, like WIX and recently I discovered Weebly as well, and WordPress is also highly popular amongst novice website builders. Wix.com is a free to use cloud based web development platform and has become incredibly well known over the last few years. WIX is the biggest player in the website building landscape and hosts up to and over 90 million websites. WIX websites are visually impressive, and are designed for small businesses, restaurants, online stores etcetera and are optimized for mobile devices. WIX has an impressive APP Market with incredible plug-ins right into your website. WIX is available for free but if you want professional features you will need to go onto one of the value plans on offer by the company.

WIX Pros:

• Design: remarkable templates
• Extremely Flexible
• Add Animations
• App Market
• Artificial Design Intelligence: an assistant to help create your website.

WIX Cons:

• Pricing
• Templates cannot be changed
• No access to the source code

Some other useful information:

• Ease of use: 5 stars
• Flexibility: 5 Starts
• Ad Free? Yes
• Languages: 4 stars
• Your own Domain Name: Yes
• Navigation Depth: 2 Levels (@ starts)
• Widgets: 5 stars
• Monetization: Yes
• Ecommerce: 4 stars
• SEO: 4.5 stars
• Visior Stats: 4 stars
• Contact Form: Yes
• Passwords: Yes
• Newsletter Tool: Yes
• Add HTML Code: Yes
• Storage: 500MB+
• Backups: Yes
• Fun: 5 stars

Overall Rating: 4.5 stars

WIX has made a great impression on me and I would recommend this platform to my customers if they were asking for a place to host and manage their own websites. The App Market is great, the templates are attractive and the pricing is ok. WIX really shines when you move out of the Artificial Intelligence into the Advanced Editor and I cannot recommend highly enough you SHOULD do this.

If your still not sure, try it for free, if you like it then upgrade to the new plans available later.

WIX Recommended for:

• Cutting edge templates, ready-made designs
• You need lots of flexibility customizing your design
• You want to add Apps easily

WIX Is NOT recommended for:

• Large online shopping stores
• Blogging
• Email Addresses
• Complex website with 30 or more pages

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