Thursday, 25 June 2015

Wix vs Wordpress

  

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In this post, I will be discussing both the positives and negatives of both Wix.com and Wordpress.com. I used both websites to design and create a website for both an existing and made-up band.


Both websites have a very easy method of being able to customize and recreate the layout of the website you are creating. Here are 2 screenshots of how the customization menu is layed out on each website:

WIX                                                                                   WORDPRESS
                       

In my opinion, the Wix customization menu is much clear than Wordpress', but both do an equally good job. However, the Wix menu is more vibrant and more clear, as it is more simplistic, and overall I think is more attractive to look at. The Wordpress customisation menu however takes you onto a separate tab, which includes a variety of different options to choose from. This is a far greater number of choices to edit your page, which makes Wordpress better in this respect than Wix. 



WORDPRESS



This page too includes multiple choices, including colour changes. Both websites are able to do this, but in my opinion Wix has a much easier and simple way of changing and choosing new colours. Wix brings up all the colours which are clearly labelled and easy to identify, which makes it very easy to change and try out new colours. Wix also does this automatically and on the same page at the time, whereas Wordpress, you have to save and apply the changes, then it has to refresh the page, therefore it is more time consuming. One major problem I had with Wordpress, is that I found it very difficult to change colours of specific things, whereas in Wix, it was incredibly easy to change the colour of anything I wanted, making it very specific and more personal to me and my idea of what a website should look like. 




WIX                                                              WORDPRESS






















Additionally, with Wix I was very easily able to add example tracks of the existing artist from the website Soundcloud. All I had to do was change the embed code, then it was done. I found this option unavailable with Wordpress so I did not include any of these tracks in the website. 





However, on Wordpress, there is a huge number of themes available to pick from, more than Wix. These are mainly free, but there is a few which are available to purchase. 


In an example of a direct comparison, I included a gallery of pictures on both websites that I created. In the Wordpress website, there are only three pictures which have no effect or personality to them. However with Wix, I was able to customise the gallery with ease, and I managed to create a 3D gallery which has cool animations to change the pictures. 

WIX


WORDPRESS


My overall opinion about these two website designer websites, is that I think Wix is far more easy to use as it is very simplistic, and is very easy to customise and change anything you want about every aspect of the template. However, Wordpress is also fantastic as it has a huge variety of theme options to choose from, and there are more customisation options available to use. If I had to choose between the two, I would preferably want to use Wix to design any websites in the future. 

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