Sunday, January 19, 2014

Wix Websites - Over Promise and Under Deliver

There is always a problem with template sites. The key word here is templates which can limit create vision.  Wix is a story of over-promising and inevitably under-delivering. Beautiful templates are ultimately undercut by a lack of structure and limitations in custom data base expansion.

Wix is a drag and drop website. This can cause problems. For example, the “snap to grid” button is a must for anyone using the editor. Snap to grid is a smart tool that can accurately guess how you’d like elements to align. If it’s turned off, you will end up inches from your monitor trying to line up items perfectly. Not fun and an inevitable pain with a true drag and drop editor that Wix smartly fixed.
Another annoyance with true drag and drop editors is with element ordering on a page. For example if you have a paragraph with an image below it, it can be a hassle to add new text to the paragraph because the text will overlap the image:

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