Hi. I've been on the endeavor during these past weeks of COVID-19 where everyone is under social distancing restrictions to explore different types of website providers such as Wix.com, Squarespace, WordPress and WebNode. I wanted to get a better grasp of their capabilities as well as their drawbacks, and compare them to the current Weebly domain. I hope each week to be able to tinker a little with each of the providers and write a review based on my experience. I thought I would start this week off with Wix. For each of the websites, I wanted to create an online portfolio/blog. Here is the link: https://quirkshare.wixsite.com/qwirk Wix is a website creation platform where users get to create their own webpage, very similar to how Weebly works. It was founded in 2006 and now has over 150M users. It allows you to creatively shape your website the way you want, with a large variety of templates to choose from to get started. This is an example of some of the templates you can choose from, anywhere from photography, travel, to online stores, and events. Wix is flexible. They also have the option of getting professional advise or hiring a designer to assist you with your site. I chose one of the blog default templates to start. It comes with a complex toolbar on the left which allows you to add a lot of features such as creating new pages, adding backgrounds, add text, images, buttons, strips, videos, social media, contacts, memberships and more. You are able to place the features wherever you want on the screen with lines and dimensions to guide you. It was literally like scrap booking where you could put the pictures and features wherever you want however you wanted. This can be both a blessing and a curse for some. Because the design capabilities are more diverse, moving things around and getting everything to align properly and centered can be frustrating. Unlike Weebly, you cannot allot space for content, so you literally have to highlight the entire bottom of the web page and shift it down in order to create space in the middle if you wanted to add more content. I only learned after much struggle moving things one by one that you could click a box and hit Ctrl on all the other pieces to move them together. For those short on time, this can often be a bit frustrating. Another thing I found quite irritating was once you chose the blog template, you could not make separate pages blogging about different topics as with Weebly. The content is the same but format and display can change so you could only designate the blog for one topic only. Here is the link: https://quirkshare.wixsite.com/qwirk
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