Wix.com Releases New Website Design Treats in Time for the Holidays
Start-up Wix.com recently unleashed a series of bold changes to the look and feel of its powerful online editor. Changes include a sleeker GUI and new design features.
Online, December 21, 2010 (Newswire.com) - Wix is a free online user-friendly platform for creating your own website. Built with a powerful drag & drop interface, Wix' editor lets you make your own website without the need to code. Wix' website builder is putting professionals and newbies alike in full control of their web presence. The value for small businesses, freelancers, entrepreneurs, non-profit organizations and creative professionals is huge: an opportunity for powerful, customized promotion.
Once a user breezes through a no-fuss sign up window, the creative process begins. A rich variety of full customizable templates give users a jump-start, with pre-designed page layouts, site design and navigation. There is also the option to build from scratch and customize as you go.
A new Add Bar inside the website builder simplifies the process of building one's site, with a more intuitive arrangement of items users can pick and choose to place inside their websites. Users can more easily locate and add text, buttons, photos, galleries, animation, video, widgets and so on from the new and improved Add Bar. A fresh batch of icons guides visitors through the Add Bar's many elements.
New visual effects were added so now users can further customize their site's elements for even more professional looking design. Pattern Overlay allows users to place pattern effects over photos in a variety of styles. Animated Glow creates a dramatic, eye-catching shimmer effect, great for making headlines pop. All achieved with the click of a button.
Wix Founder & CEO Avishai Avrahami describes the latest product enhancements as part of the company's pledge to deliver the "WOW" effect: "Our goal is to give our users inspiring, professional-quality web design, and making it as simple as possible to incorporate it onto their own websites. With these latest features, Wix is bringing quality web design, even closer to the average online user," says Avrahami.
Keeping with the holiday spirit, a ton of new Christmas-themed animations were also added to the stock of free animation files users can add to their sites, whether to add a seasonal element to an existing Flash website, to create holiday promotion landing pages, or to make a festive party invitation.
Highlights include an animated snowfall scene, a graphic interpretation of Santa on a sleigh, and sparkling ornaments dangling on strings. Like all design elements in Wix, these animation files are free for users to incorporate into their Wix sites as they wish.
For a look at all that Wix has to offer, sign up for a free user account to gain access to the free website builder.
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Wix.com was founded in 2006 and currently provides free website hosting to over 6 million use websites. The company is funded by Mangrove Capital Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners and Benchmark Capital. Wix offices are located in New York, San Francisco and Tel-Aviv.
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