WIX.comWeb Photo Galleries and Visually Interesting WebsitesDIY … It’s Easy to Do It Yourself
My initial objective was to share photos of a special community event.
Heroes On Horseback Salute
I evaluated … even attempted to use several alternatives including:
- PhotoShop
- HTML
- Dreamweaver
- 3rd Party Dreamweaver Templates
- flickr
My HTML designs were too bland. PhotoShop referred me to Dreamweaver. Dreamweaver referred me to Adobe?? to build a web gallery for Dreamweaver. I tried, but was frustrated by the process and disappointed by the outcome.
By searching the web I identified some Dreamweaver templates that looked interesting and attempted using them. No luck.
Responding to an interesting Tweet, I “won” a template from another designer. I attempted to follow its instructions. No luck.
flickr and Facebook offer only simple “album” type formats.
In addition I downloaded and tried several free trials and shareware packages. None of them inspired me to do more than create a few draft web pages.
I discovered Wix.com through a Tweet that arrived during my review of the software I downloaded. After a few days wrestling with that software. I went back to that Tweet and followed the link to www.wix.com.
To get started I …
- Watched an online video
- Made some test pages
- Selected a Template
- Tweaked Template Organization & Navigation
- Saved with Custom Name/URL
- Added Content
- Tweaked Layout & Feature Settings
Then I asked small number of people to review what I had created and give me some feedback. I collected their responses and modified the site as needed. Between Friday evening and Noon Sunday I completed my first Wix web photo gallery.
Since then I have created 6 additional Web Photo Galleries and Photo-Intensive Websites
Why?
- The introductory information helped me visualize what I could accomplish with their tool
- The GUI is intuitive.
- I experienced few technical glitches while building my site. Considering I was uploading photo files over a wireless connection to my home network … things went well.
- When I sought templates for different topics or themes, I usually found 2 or 3 that interested me. So, I feel the array of templates is good and Wix appears to add new templates regularly.
If you would like to see what I did with Wix, follow these links:
- Dog Photos … Dogs, Dog Shows, and Dog People
- Walking Keweenaw … Copper Country Sites
- Eye Delights … Nature, Animals, People, Places
- Reflections … a Theme
- Heroes on Horseback … BraveHearts Rodeo Event for Disabled Veterans
- Clear Lake Class of (circa) 1968 … An Informal Gathering
- 2011 Chicago Blizzard … Shots of Snowzilla
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Nothing but praise for Wix from me. I managed to create a bilingual website (the only site I could find that offered a bilingual facility with no catches) using their free tools and I am far from tech-savvy. My only gripe was that the font for non-English languages is restricted to Times New Roman or Arial, although a small price to pay for professional looking sites at no cost or at very low cost to use your own domain and remove the advertising.
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