Wix

[Owen Densmore]

TL;DR: Anyone use Wix? How does it compare to WordPress and other CMSs? Seems nice.

I'm helping a non-techie group to build a website.

My first advice was to organize themselves around a workflow with Google or equivalent (groups, docs, chat/hangout, calendar and so on) and some other sage advice about "public services" (like the several blog/site services and storage like dropbox/google drive.)

But the obvious question about Content Management Systems (drupal, wordpress, wikis) came up. This particular site would likely be just fine with WordPress I think .. especially seeing that it was good enough for the Santa Fe Complex. 

But then Wix was mentioned .. and I'd never heard of it!  It looks interesting.

Have any of us used it? Is Wix a wise choice for a website?

   -- Owen

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[Russell Standish-2]

Is that the same Wix that is used to create Windows installers? I have
used that Wix, but can't imagine building websites with it.

Cheers

On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 09:22:00AM -0700, Owen Densmore wrote:

> TL;DR: Anyone use Wix? How does it compare to WordPress and other CMSs?
> Seems nice.
>
> I'm helping a non-techie group to build a website.
>
> My first advice was to organize themselves around a workflow with Google or
> equivalent (groups, docs, chat/hangout, calendar and so on) and some other
> sage advice about "public services" (like the several blog/site services
> and storage like dropbox/google drive.)
>
> But the obvious question about Content Management Systems (drupal,
> wordpress, wikis) came up. This particular site would likely be just fine
> with WordPress I think .. especially seeing that it was good enough for the
> Santa Fe Complex.
>
> But then Wix was mentioned .. and I'd never heard of it!  It looks
> interesting.
>
> Have any of us used it? Is Wix a wise choice for a website?
>
>    -- Owen

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[Sarbajit Roy (testing)]

I had a similar situation. I was recently advising some whistleblowing academic researchers in India's leading management institute who were pulling the chain on massive plagiarism and sexual harassment etc. and needed a online platform

We considered Wix, rejected it as too bloated, non-SEO friendly and overly graphic oriented.

It was a choice between a CMS like Wordpress and Drupal. Finally we opted for Drupal. The way we did it was like this.

Got them a free "Openshift" account on Rhcloud. (Its cloud hosted on Amazonaws). Installed Drupal with a single click. They also have 1-click Wordpress, Joomla, Jenkins and all that stuff,

Result.
http://ernet-iima.rhcloud.com

Then I booked (they are whistleblowers wanting to stay anonymopus) a domain for them and used CNAME etc redirects.

Result
http://iimahd-ernet.in/

Which essentially is a portal for the offending insititute's portal
http://iimahd.ernet.in/

Drupal allows, multiuser blogs, multi-user multiple forums etc and great fluid/responsive themes which display well across desktops to tablets to moibile devices. (Drupal has a learning curve).

Sarbajit

On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 9:52 PM, Owen Densmore <[hidden email]> wrote:

TL;DR: Anyone use Wix? How does it compare to WordPress and other CMSs? Seems nice.

I'm helping a non-techie group to build a website.

My first advice was to organize themselves around a workflow with Google or equivalent (groups, docs, chat/hangout, calendar and so on) and some other sage advice about "public services" (like the several blog/site services and storage like dropbox/google drive.)

But the obvious question about Content Management Systems (drupal, wordpress, wikis) came up. This particular site would likely be just fine with WordPress I think .. especially seeing that it was good enough for the Santa Fe Complex. 

But then Wix was mentioned .. and I'd never heard of it!  It looks interesting.

Have any of us used it? Is Wix a wise choice for a website?

   -- Owen

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