![]() ![]() If you can’t wait for the full review go here to see what 2.5 hours of work got me. So I decided to try Wix and see for myself if the path to creating a website similar to the one I saw involves blood sweat and tears, or just a few mouse clicks and creativity. If ten minutes have passed and I’m still struggling the darn thing? Adios… trash time. If within that time I get to like the interface and the outcome then I’m in. I have my “ rule of ten“ whenever I try new software I give it 10 minutes of grace. If the interface is user friendly, and the application offers the right features then the software will be a success. My experience taught me that to produce and maintain rich websites the webmaster interface is the most important criterion for any website building software. Having said that, nice output is not enough. Finally, an application that looks smart and generously featured, and not a toy or a website built by an amateur that took a two hours HTML course… That’s why when Udi showed me Wix for the first time and told me that it’s actually free, I got instantly curious. Some of them were too limiting with what you could do, some loaded with bugs, and some cost way too much to be worthwhile. Occasionally I stumbled upon applications that allow you to build a whole website “in a second” and all the ones I’ve evaluated were, with due respect, thrown to the trash. Let’s face it, not everyone can afford paying thousands of $$$ for a website, and so I was asked many times by friends and tight budget customers to recommend an inexpensive, quality solution for self creation of websites, “but it has to be nice!!” they always said… Online Site Creators So, the business grew… I got more experienced and advanced nevertheless I realized that building a website remained a complex and time consuming task, which is of course priced respectively… Google is god, you know… After building some websites for my photography business and blogs I began to get requests from colleagues and people who visited my websites to build ones for them too. ![]() Years have passed, I learned to build “real” websites, with Databases, easy content updates – and most important – search engine friendly. Have you ever tried to build a website? I remember the first time I tried… It was many years ago, somewhere in the late 90’s but I still remember it involved some online clumsy page builder and two full evenings wasted on disappointing attempts to create something that will at least come close to what I had in mind… Eventually I gave up. So taking a small step aside form DIY, I asked Ron Uriel, a leading commercial photographer to take them for a test drive. The engine behind their flash galleries and SEO optimization caught the geek sides of me. For a long time I’ve been impressed with the technology at Wix (our sponsors).
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