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Microsoft Office 365 subscribers can now make use of <a href="http://www.wix.com/" target="_blank"> Wix.com </a>  to launch a website directly from within the Office 365 platform.
Wix, <a href="/the-winner-of-the-2014-peoples-choice-cms-award-for-best-website-builder/" target="_blank"> winner of the 2014 People's Choice CMS Award for Best Website Builder </a> , is one of the world's most popular website builders, and was recently <a href="https://www.websitebuilderscritic.com/website_builders/reviews/wix/" target="_blank"> featured on Website Builders Critic </a>  as a recommended product for those with no website building experience. The cloud-based platform boasts hundreds of high quality templates, a simple drag-and-drop design system, and an array of useful apps.
In addition to having access to Wix within the Office 365 platform, subscribers who currently host a domain with Microsoft will also be able to automatically connect the domain to their site built on Wix.com.
<h2>Wix To Fill The Void, Empower Businesses</h2>
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This news comes as Microsoft pulls the plug on its “Public Website” feature on SharePoint Online. The feature is no longer being offered to new Office 365 customers, while existing customers may only have access to it for the next two-years.
This Wix integration then, will fill the website building void being left within the Microsoft platform.
Avishai Abrahami, the Co-Founder and CEO of Wix, made these comments:
<blockquote>“Both Microsoft and Wix share the common vision of enabling small and medium-sized businesses to access and utilize cloud technology to operate all aspects of their business. Wix simplifies the website and mobile site creation and management processes, all critical for any business today, by providing enterprise class functionality to every business, no matter how small. Through Office 365, we are excited to provide even more business owners with an easy and affordable platform on which to create, manage and grow their business online.”</blockquote>
According to Eric Mason, the Wix Director of Strategic Marketing Communications, Office 365 users will have access to Wix “immediately”.
The full press release regarding this exciting piece of news <a href="http://globenewswire.com/news-release/2015/02/04/702998/10118512/en/Wix-Announces-New-Microsoft-Office-365-Capabilities.html" target="_blank">can be found here</a>.
Visit the <a href="http://www.wix.com/" target="_blank">Wix website</a> for more information about their platform, and of course, be sure to explore more of <a href="/products/wix/" target="_blank">Wix via our CMS Directory</a>.

Microsoft Office 365 Subscribers Now Have Wix Website Building Power

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Today, I'm going to present the winner of the 2014 Critics' Choice CMS award for Best Website Builder.
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This is always a difficult award to choose but this year, we're giving it to the one website builder that has achieved the most in 2014. With a huge number of improvements and a laser focus on improving their product and adding new feature sets, we've determined that this year, the most deserving website builder is none other than Wix.
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Wix has done amazing things this year with their focus on adding features such as <a href="/wix-adds-ecommerce-stores-to-its-online-website-builder/">e-commerce stores</a>, a <a href="/wix-announces-freemium-booking-engine-wixhotels/">booking engine</a>, <a href="/microsoft-office-365-subscribers-now-have-wix-website-building-power/">Office 365 integration</a>, and more, they've done more than any other website builder this year when it comes to focusing on improving their brand.
Congratulations to Wix on their win. Check them out in our directory here: <a href="/products/wix/">Wix</a>

2014 Critics' Choice Award Winner - Best Website Builder

<a href="http://www.wix.com/" target="_blank">Wix</a> has announced its very first verticalized solution in the form of WixHotels.
The announcement was made during a conference call set up to discuss the company's Q2 14 earnings.
WixHotels is a complete booking engine that is fully integrated into a Wix website, aimed at hotel and B&amp;B owners specifically. In keeping with Wix's user-friendly ethos, WixHotels is code-free, simple, yet feature-packed.
As Wix's first solution dedicated to a particular industry niche, this announcement of WixHotels is a significant milestone in Wix's history.
<h2>Codeless, Commisionless &amp; Comprehensive</h2>
The WixHotels booking engine allows users to manage room inventories and comes complete with pricing, booking, reservation and payment management capabilities.
WixHotels, a complete booking engine that is fully integrated into a Wix website. Wix’s core products answer the needs of all business verticals, and with its new verticalized solutions, the company is extending its offering to more deeply address the niche needs of specific industries.
While many travelers today research hotel rooms via online booking websites, most of them visit the hotel’s website before actually booking. Furthermore, travelers are booking their reservations directly on hotels’ websites at an increasing rate, making an appealing website with an integrated online booking engine essential for a hotel owner’s business.
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Before WixHotels, hotel owners were limited in their options to take and manage reservations to either integrating expensive and complex booking systems or offering rooms via third-party booking websites. Of course, these solutions usually included hefty commision rates.
WixHotels offers a complete booking engine that is fully integrated into a Wix website for hotels, B&amp;Bs and vacation rentals. This code-free product makes it simple to build and maintain the room inventory complete with pricing, booking, reservation and payment management capabilities. Available through the Wix App Market, WixHotels is not limited to reservations made through the website.
Through their Wix dashboards, hotel owners can easily add reservations made elsewhere and manage their entire room inventory – all under the same digital roof. WixHotels is also fully optimized for mobile devices, enabling potential travelers to book a room on the go, from any device.
Upon the announcement of WixHotels, Avishai Abrahami, Wix Co-Founder and CEO, had this to say:
<blockquote>“Wix offers a robust and comprehensive platform for all business owners. Our new verticalized strategy lets us build on this solid foundation by adding more layers and enhancements that cater to the specific needs of each industry.
WixHotels is the first release designed for a specific vertical. It frees hotel owners from relying on third party vendors who charge a commission, turns a hotel website into an engine for driving growth and creates a hub for managing all aspects of a hospitality business.”</blockquote>
WixHotels beta version is free, and like other Wix products, it will become a freemium feature upon its full release.
Sign up to create your <a href="http://www.wix.com/" target="_blank">free Wix website today</a>.
Also, you can explore more of <a href="/products/wix/" target="_blank">Wix via our CMS Directory</a>.

Wix Announces Freemium Booking Engine, WixHotels

Wix has unveiled a <a href="http://www.wix.com/wix-lp/bookings" target="_blank">new and totally free app</a> to help service providers of all kinds take automatic bookings via their Wix website.
CMS Critic recently toured the Wix offices, getting to see the <a href="/new-wix-editor-brings-simplified-code-free-web-design-to-the-masses/" target="_blank">brand new Wix Editor up close and personal in the process.</a> Last year, Wix was voted in as the <a href="/the-winner-of-the-2014-peoples-choice-cms-award-for-best-website-builder/" target="_blank">Best Website Builder of 2014</a>.
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Lets take a look at how this new app works.
<h2>24/7 Bookings</h2>
<a href="http://www.wix.com/wix-lp/bookings" target="_blank">Wix Bookings</a> allows bookings to be taken 24/7, automatically syncing with Google Calendar to keep everything in order across devices.
As soon as a customer makes an appointment, you'll both receive an email notification. Plus, automatic reminder emails will be sent to keep both you and your clients in the know.
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The Bookings App works within any <a href="http://www.wix.com/website/templates">Wix template</a>, meaning that any business should be able to make use of it.
Wix Bookings is indeed a good idea, and it looks well put together, too. Essentially, it allows for passive bookings with no real effort needed after installation and configuration. Plus, its free.
<h2>Another One</h2>
Wix Bookings is yet another useful app produced directly by the Wix team.
The <a href="http://www.wix.com/app-market/" target="_blank">Wix App Market</a> is filled with a wide array of functionality boosting tools. But perhaps more impressively, <a href="http://www.wix.com/app-market/made-by-wix" target="_blank">the section dedicated to apps built exclusively by Wix</a> is, in its own right, extensive.
From <a href="/wix-shoutout-goes-live/" target="_blank">WixShoutOut</a> to <a href="/wix-announces-freemium-booking-engine-wixhotels/" target="_blank">WixHotels</a>, the Wix team has outdone itself with the sheer amount of quality apps and vertical solutions that they have produced. That's one thing I've always admired about the platform; there's plenty of extra home-grown functionality.
To find out more about Wix Bookings, <a href="http://www.wix.com/blog/2016/01/take-bookings-get-payments-247-with-the-new-wix-bookings-app/" target="_blank">check out the official announcement</a>.
Also, you can explore more of <a href="/products/wix/" target="_blank">Wix via our CMS Directory</a>.

Wix Bookings App Goes Live

<a href="http://www.wix.com/" target="_blank">Wix</a>, the hugely popular website builder, has released <a href="http://www.wix.com/lphtml/shoutout" target="_blank">Wix ShoutOut</a>. Their first implementation using their recently announced <a href="http://globenewswire.com/news-release/2014/05/15/636828/10081896/en/Wix-Announces-New-WixHive-API-Mobile-Sonic-Technology.html" target="_blank">WixHive API</a>.
ShoutOut is an integrated newsletter app, allowing small to medium-sized businesses to reach out to their customer and client base without the need to include third-party services.
Using Wix ShoutOut, users can quickly piece together beautiful newsletters containing updates and promotions, before sending them to their email list.
As always, Wix are keeping things simple, by housing Wix ShoutOut inside the Wix backend, so users can manage their newsletter campaigns with ease.
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Users can choose from pre-designed newsletter styles, add their content, specify the email addresses they wish to include, and then hit send. Not only will that newsletter reach the recipients inbox, but it can also be shared on social media. Plus, each style maintains its beauty across all devices.
The release of ShoutOut will certainly make small to medium-sized businesses take notice. ShoutOut is precisely the kind of feature which businesses need to create, manage and grow their presence online.
Wix users can now access the ShoutOut app by going to “My Account“, “Manage and Edit Your Site” and then “Add Business Apps“. Wix ShoutOut can then be found and added quickly and easily.
To try Wix ShoutOut, sign up to create your <a href="http://www.wix.com/" target="_blank">free Wix website today</a>.
You can also explore more of <a href="/products/wix/" target="_blank">Wix via our CMS Directory</a>.

Wix ShoutOut Goes Live

Design agencies are in high demand, as just about everyone needs to maximize their digital footprints these days. But not everyone possesses the technical skills or composition know-how to create a visually stunning, intuitive, and search-visible site. This is where agencies come into play.
Fortunately for agencies and their clients, there are several web design platforms that make the task straightforward, efficient, and even (gasp) a good time.
The right site builder must also give agencies the flexibility to build and scale over time as well. So that limits the playing field.
WordPress is often the first tool that comes to mind. However, this platform can be unnecessarily complex, buggy and expensive. 
What most agencies need is a feature-rich, easy-to-use, powerful yet intuitive platform to work with. Choose one with too few features, and you’ll soon hit growth limitations; too many, and you’ll get dragged down by undue chaos and confusion. So let’s stick to the middle of the road.
To help you separate wheat from chaff, we are going to analyze three of today’s best website creation platforms. Hopefully, this will help you identify the one best suited for your growing agency’s needs.
<h2>Duda</h2>
Like many site creation suites, <a href="https://www.duda.co/">Duda</a> is a platform for creating fully optimized multi-screen websites. <a href="/duda-website-builder">Duda</a> is well-suited for small and medium-sized businesses, as this is their primary audience.
<a href="/duda-website-builder">Duda</a> offers a myriad of beautifully-designed templates, a drag-and-drop interface, eCommerce options, and a plethora of elements for design agencies to work with for budding brands. And using Duda helps streamline site development. As the site puts it, “digital publishers on Duda average more than a 50% drop in website build times.”
This is a bold claim for agencies looking to optimize production and site turnaround times. And Duda has a lot to offer in this realm.
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Firstly, Duda’s white label options enable agencies to create a fully immersive, customized experience that screams of professionalism. This includes compelling options for custom login screens, custom color and logo implementation features, and other branding options. Duda also offers user migration and “content injection” options to help migrate existing sites over to its platform. It also features one-of-a-kind templates that can be automatically pre-populated with clients’ business information.
On the communications front, Duda’s white label features provide automatic email generation components that present clients with site stats, analytics, and onboarding instructions for their accounts. Additionally, the content collection form makes it easy to send clients data sheets that include instructions on how they can send exactly what is required to build a stunning website.
What helps makes Duda a premier option for agencies is its rich team collaboration and client management options. Through this builder, users can generate unique dashboards for clients, enabling varying roles and permission levels based on their technical prowess; this includes potential access to publishing and editing permissions, eCommerce enablement, developer access, and more.
<a name="_GoBack"></a> What is particularly outstanding is that Duda supplies agencies with a custom widget builder. This enables brands to not only integrate third-party services, but to build unique, native widgets for clients. This feature can help agencies provide massive customization value to client builds.
And of course, Duda has developer capabilities for HTML/CSS/JavaScript integration, automatic SSL certification (for white label dashboards), and gives a remarkable amount freedom of freedom for SEO optimization.
<h2>Squarespace</h2>
<a href="https://www.squarespace.com/">Squarespace</a> is one of the more popular website builders on the market today, and with good reason.
Like Duda, Squarespace features stunning, mobile-responsive templates that are eye-catching and polished. 
This platform gives users various styling options to help customize websites and give them a more branded look. Like the previous platform, Squarespace enables users to tailor their site’s appearance without having to dive into coding languages; this greatly simplifies the processes for designers. Though, if a client requires it, coding can be applied for a more customized destination.
When compared to Duda, however, Squarespace is less intuitive; this can slow things down and cause frustration. 
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Squarespace is lacking in scalability, and SEO is minimal too. Furthermore, integration features for Google Analytics and Search Console, Facebook retargeting, and other necessary marketing elements are hidden within the platform’s Advanced Settings and need to be added using the Code Injector tool. This isn’t exactly client or novice coder-friendly, but at least these features do exist.
When a brand expands their offerings, clients are likely to request the implementation a variety of third-party apps or extensions to enhance functionality. This is where the platform falls epically short of the mark as new features must be rolled out by Squarespace.
Another drawback for Squarespace is its responsiveness. While the site claims to tout fully responsive designs, the site’s contents can often shift when viewed on mobile devices. This means that users are likely to not have complete control over their sites’ appearance, which can certainly be problematic for agencies, as clients demand certain levels of uniformity and professionalism.
But Squarespace has a solid audience for many legitimate reasons. Functional, beautiful sites can be built in a small fraction of time, and updates, articles, images, videos and blogs are a synch to create and publish. 
The tool makes integration with other platforms like MailChimp, Gmail, Facebook, and oodles more marketing and social interfaces a snap – they know how to play well with others. It’s a very, very good option if ease and speed are your agency’s priorities.
<h2>Wix</h2>
<a href="https://www.wix.com/">Wix</a> is another popular option, but it has its own set of pros and cons too.
This platform boasts over 500 templates done by professional designers, making custom designs a breeze. These come pre-populated with content, meaning that designers merely need to replace the existing assets with their own materials. 
The platform’s drag-and-drop builder makes site assembly a snap. Wix also features a new AI-based system that will automatically create the first draft of a site for its users. 
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On the downside, Wix makes switching site designs a significant effort. If you opt for another design later down the road, you will need to re-insert your content all over again. It’s essential to feel certain about a template before diving in. This can be quite problematic for agencies seeking to optimize their efficiency as clients may want to apply a different template later in the process, ultimately creating a massive slow-down in production.
This also doesn’t lend to simplicity when a brand scales and needs to re-format a customer’s offerings. 
Wix is also not all that SEO friendly. This is the single most prevalent issue brought up by Wix users; there are many observations that SEO is not a strong suit, so it requires you have your own SEO expertise to ensure you are not forgotten by Google’s algorithms. Again, this can create significant problems for less technically-inclined clients. 
If you have your own SEO expertise, however, Wix can be a stellar option for newly-minted businesses and those who need a stunning site with intuitive versatility. 
The Verdict
You know what your agency really needs to get a sophisticated and impressive site up and running. Narrow your focus to these three excellent offerings and find the one that fulfills most of your business’s needs. 
Choose the one that will enable your company to turn professional websites around the fastest, and that will allow you to scale with minimal issues.

How to Choose the Best Website Building Platform for Your Agency

<a href="http://www.wix.com/" target="_blank">Wix</a> users have been spoilt for choice this month, thanks to the popular website builder unveiling a whopping 50 new features.
As one of the world's leading website builders, Wix offers a user-friendly interface and a huge range of templates to help individuals and companies create simple, good-looking, and functional websites.
These 50 new features have been, “specially developed to help grow your business”, and so I'm sure Wix's 46 million-strong user base will want to get to grips with what's new.
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<h2>From ShoutOut Newsletters to Mobile HTML Editing</h2>
From amongst the long list of tools, apps and templates listed by Wix, you'll find the following new Apps:
<ul>
<li> ShoutOut Newsletters: Send beautiful newsletters to your audience and increase customer engagement. You can also share eye-catching updates, news items, promotions and more.</li>
<li> Visit Virtual Tour: Give your website visitors a tour of any location with an interactive, 360° view.</li>
<li> Poll Generator: Add a fully customizable, mobile-responsive Poll to any webpage in seconds.</li>
<li> POWr Mailing List: Manage your email subscribers, collect user information, and grow your audience with this easy-to-use, fully-customizable Mailing List signup app.</li>
<li>Google Events Calendar: Organize your schedule and share important events with visitors directly on your site.</li>
</ul>
And those are just the tip of the iceburg. Further new features include mobile HTML editing to resize and reorder elements in your mobile site, store product image zooming, mobile page hiding, new button designs and much more.
Not to mention, Wix users can enjoy browsing through a over 30 new templates relating to business, sports, entertainment and food.
The full list of 50 tools, apps, and templates <a href="http://www.wix.com/lphtml/june-features?" target="_blank">can be found here</a>.
Sign up to create your <a href="http://www.wix.com/" target="_blank">free Wix website today</a>.
Also, you can explore more of  <a href="/products/wix/" target="_blank"> Wix via our CMS Directory</a>.

Wix Reveals 50 New Tools, Apps & Templates

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Ahead of a <a href="http://investors.wix.com/eventdetail.cfm?EventID=150924" target="_blank">scheduled Wix conference call and webcast</a> to announce their 2014 third quarter financial results, <a href="http://www.wix.com/" target="_blank">Wix</a> has unveiled two notable upcoming releases; WixStores and WixJet.
Wix was recently crowned the winner of the <a href="/the-winner-of-the-2014-peoples-choice-cms-award-for-best-website-builder/" target="_blank">People's Choice CMS Award for Best Website Builder 2014</a>. Chosen to be covered in detail over at <a href="http://websitebuilderscritic.com/" target="_blank">Website Builders Critic</a>, Wix has solidified itself as one of the world's leading website builders after just a year of being a public company.
Along with their financial reports and some general business updates, two announcements have caught the eye. Let's take a look at them both.
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<h2>WixStores: Cohesive eCommerce</h2>
First up, Wix have confirmed that they are set to release a brand new eCommerce solution, WixStores, before the end of 2014.
With a completely redesigned software architecture, WixStores will give online merchants the ability to create beautiful online store with typical Wix ease.
A full set of store management tools like payment processing, inventory management, shipping and more will be bundled, along with a superior mobile and social commerce experience.
WixStores is designed to integrate seamlessly with other components of the Wix platform, including Wix ShoutOut, contacts database and App Market offerings. When combined with these products, WixStores will enable online merchants to create, manage and grow their online business from one cohesive environment.
CEO and Co-Founder of Wix, Avishai Abrahami, had this to say upon the announcement of WixStores:
<blockquote>“I’m excited to announce that we will soon be launching WixStores, a completely revamped e-commerce product. When designing WixStores, we focused on the needs of online retailers and came up with a complete solution that provides a visually appealing store front that is seamlessly packaged with advanced back-end tools. With the other products released this year, ranging from CRM database capabilities to e-mail marketing tools, we have created an ecosystem – an end-to-end online solution for the needs of small business owners everywhere.”</blockquote>
<h2>WixJet: The Need for Speed</h2>
WixJet is set to speed up the web. Or at least, the Wix-powered web.
The speed of a website is now more important than ever. This is true when it comes to SEO as most know, but it's also vital when it comes to brand credibility and general conversion rates.
Traditionally, it has been the big boys of the Internet who have been able to fine tune their websites for speed. SMBs, freelancers and startups on the other hand, have had to make do with the available tools on the market, many of which are clunky pieces of software.
Wix though, has now decided to bring that speed-induced goodness to the masses, by unveiling a new technology that promises to load Wix websites faster than an estimated 95% of the websites on the Internet. That's pretty fast.
This proprietary advancement, “WixJet” was developed by Wix using <a href="http://facebook.github.io/react/" target="_blank">Facebook’s React JS technology</a>. It constitutes a complete restructuring of the platform’s codebase, enabling Wix user websites to run faster than ever before.
You can find out more about WixStores and WixJet by tuning into the <a href="http://investors.wix.com/eventdetail.cfm?EventID=150924" target="_blank">scheduled Wix conference call and webcast</a>, due to be held on November 5th 2014 at 8:30am Eastern Time.
Check out the <a href="http://www.wix.com/" target="_blank">Wix website</a> for more information about their platform, and of course, be sure to swing by <a href="/products/wix/" target="_blank">Wix via our CMS Directory</a>.

Wix Announces WixStores & WixJet Amid Latest Financial Results

It's always been pretty simple to create a blog with Wix but with the release of Wix ADI (Artificial Design Intelligence) it just got a whole lot easier. Let's take a look how easy it is to create a blog using Wix ADI.
Before you get started, you'll need a Wix account which you can get for free by <a href="https://www.wix.com/" target="_blank">signing up</a>.
Once you have a Wix account, log in and click on Create a Website.
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You will then be asked what type of website you'd like to create. Click on Blog.
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Now you'll be asked if you wish to use the standard Wix editor or Wix ADI. Choose Start with Wix ADI.
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Now it's time to tell Wix ADI what type of blog you want to create so it knows what to build for you. For the sake of this tutorial, I'll choose Food Blog.
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You'll then be asked if you need any of the optional features. If you do, click yes and next. If not, click no and next.
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The next optional step will be to enter address information. You can skip this or fill it in if you like.
Then it's time to upload your logo and fill in your social media information, etc.
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Click next and the Wix ADI will launch, getting ready to build your website.
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Once you click Start you'll be asked to choose a style that appeals to you.
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Once you've chosen a style, the Wix ADI will begin creating your home page.
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Once it's done, you'll be shown the initial version of your new website.
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Now that you have the initial design, you can tweak to your needs. Click the play icon on the bottom right and the ADI will walk you through the rest of the creation process!
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I won't walk you through the rest as it's pretty self-explanatory and differs based on the individual users. Enjoy the process and feel free to leave me a comment below to let me know your thoughts!
If you haven't signed up for Wix yet, <a href="https://www.wix.com/">get a free Wix website of your own</a>.

How to Create a Blog with Wix ADI (Artificial Design Intelligence)

<a href="http://www.wix.com/" target="_blank">Wix</a>, one of the world's most popular website builders, has launched a campaign called <a href="http://createthestars.com/" target="_blank"> CREATE</a>, which aims to light up the sky of New York City for one starry night.
Wix – the <a href="/the-winner-of-the-2014-peoples-choice-cms-award-for-best-website-builder/" target="_blank">winner of the 2014 CMS Award for Best Website Builder</a> – has invited people from around the world to create and dedicate their own stars using unique Wix.com design tools. After creating a star, users can dedicate it to someone special before dragging and dropping it into a virtual sky, contributing to the creation of a collective star-field.
This star-field can be seen by anybody attending the CREATE event on November 1st 2014 at New York’s Madison Square Park. There, attendees will have thee unique experience of creating stars and shooting them up into the New York City night sky.
<h2>Celebrating Web Design Freedom</h2>
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/29708-1.jpg" alt="CREATE wix" />
The CREATE campaign launches as part of Wix's collaboration with agency of record Silver + Partners, and ties directly into the company's mission to enable anyone to easily create a professional online presence, exactly the way they want.
Selected to be among the website building elite over at Website Builders Critic, Wix powers millions of websites for individuals and small businesses across the world. CREATE is just one of many great Wix ideas.
Avishai Abrahami, the Wix Co-Founder and CEO, made these comments regarding the project:
<blockquote>“Simplifying the web creation process is what Wix is all about. We give our users an advanced, code-free platform, and we're constantly blown away by how incredibly creative they get when there are no tech or design barriers to limit them.
The CREATE campaign celebrates this freedom. Wix.com lets you create anything online, and now, by simply dragging and dropping elements, you can even put stars in the sky.”</blockquote>
The Wix powered CREATE customization tools allow you to choose from a wide range of start shapes, sizes and colours. A caption of 140 characters can then be added before completion.
To create and dedicate your star, head over to the <a href="http://createthestars.com/" target="_blank"> CREATE website</a>.
Also, be sure to check out more of <a href="/products/wix/" target="_blank">Wix via our CMS Directory</a>.

CREATE Powered by Wix Set to Light up NYC

The <a href="/the-cms-awards-what-they-mean/" target="_blank">third annual CMS Awards</a> have come to a close, having attracted more nominations and voters than ever before. Thankfully though, the results are probably my favourite part!
For the 2014 People's Choice CMS Award for Best Website Builder, participants selected the industry's “big three” website builders to battle it out. <a href="http://www.wix.com/" target="_blank">Wix</a>, <a href="https://www.squarespace.com/" target="_blank">Squarespace</a>, and <a href="https://www.weebly.com/">Weebly</a>.
It is with great pleasure that I announce the 2014 People's Choice CMS Award for Best Website Builder goes to:
<a href="http://www.wix.com/" target="_blank"><img style="max-width:220px" src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/wix-.png" alt="Wix" /></a>
<a href="http://www.wix.com/" target="_blank">Wix</a> was triumphant over two worthy competitors, as <a href="https://www.squarespace.com/" target="_blank">Squarespace</a> came in as runners-up, with <a href="https://www.weebly.com/" target="_blank">Weebly</a> trailing closely behind.
<img style="max-width:250px" src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/10733526_801171129939789_151468802_n.jpg" />
Congratulations to everyone at <a href="http://www.wix.com/" target="_blank">Wix</a> on their big win!
If you aren't familiar with Wix and would like to learn more, read our <a href="http://www.websitebuilderscritic.com/website_builders/reviews/wix/" target="_blank">Wix Review</a> on our new site, <a href="http://www.websitebuilderscritic.com/"> Website Builders Critic</a> where you can find <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/websitebuilderscriti" target="_blank">Wix video tutorials</a> and more.

The Winner of the 2014 People's Choice CMS Award for Best Website Builder

When it comes to sharing your images on your website in the form of a web gallery, the CMS options for managing the same are many. Whether you wish to create an online portfolio, or simply want to share some photos, choosing the ideal CMS for your web gallery goes a long way in effectively managing the gallery! In this article, we bring to you some of the best known CMS options for web gallery management.
<h2>Zenfolio</h2>
Zenfolio allows you to create beautiful galleries for your photographs with an easy to use and incredibly powerful platform. Features include a portfolio style home page, customizable slideshows with music, custom page elements, photo blogging, scores of themes, pre-built pages that you can choose from, mobile optimization (for tablets and phones, multiple user accounts and much more. There's even an e-Commerce component should you choose to sell your photos for a fee.
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Website: <a href="https://en.zenfolio.com/">Zenfolio</a>
<h2>Wix</h2>
Wix is a website builder but it has some amazing functionality for managing picture galleries as well. From sliders to full galleries for your photos, you are sure to find a way to showcase your pictures. The advantage to using a hosted solution such as the one that Wix offers is the speed at which the site loads. With a hosted solution like Wix, your site will not be bogged down with media.
Here's an example of one of their templates:
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/f772689190b08068bff2c0c6dd8db184_wix_mp.png" alt="wix" />
Website: <a href="http://www.wix.com/" target="_blank">Wix</a>
<h2>WordPress</h2>
There are numerous themes available for creating amazing galleries with WordPress. Here is a list of direct links to places where you can find some amazing gallery / photo based WordPress themes and Plugins:
<ol>
<li>Photocrati is one of the most advanced gallery centric setups for WordPress you can find – <a href="https://www.photocrati.com/demos/" target="_blank">Try the demo</a></li>
<li>Themeforest has a wide selection of gallery / photo based WordPress themes – <a href="https://themeforest.net/category/wordpress#content" target="_blank">Visit Themeforest</a></li>
<li>Enigma by RocketTheme has an amazing gallery plugin – <a href="https://demo.rockettheme.com/joomla-templates/enigma/" target="_blank">Check it out</a></li>
<li>ElegantThemes has a ton of amazing themes and you get every theme they have for one price (less than $50) – <a href="/elegantthemes" target="_blank">Check them out</a></li>
</ol>
<h2>Coppermine 
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Coppermine is one of the most popular web gallery CMS based on PHP scripts. It employs a MySQL back end. It is highly customizable by means of plugins and seems to be a perfect choice for creating a photo blog or image gallery online.
Website: <a href="http://coppermine-gallery.net/" target="_blank">Coppermine</a>
<h2>Zenphoto 
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Zenphoto is arguably the most popular CMS when it comes to sharing images. The goal behind Zenphoto is simple: web gallery management! The interface is sleek and wonderful, with separate tabs for configuring the different components of your gallery. Further more, Zenphoto is supplemented by numerous templates and plugins (including some that feature integration with a WordPress blog).
Website: <a href="http://www.zenphoto.org" target="_blank">Zenphoto</a>
<h2>Piwigo</h2>
If you prefer having a gorgeous theme or template for your gallery (who doesn't, by the way?), Piwigo might just be the right CMS for you. With numerous themes and plugins in its arsenal, Piwigo is a popular open source CMS for web gallery management. It is packed with features, and just in case you are still looking for a web host, Piwigo.com also provides web hosting!
Website: <a href="http://www.piwigo.org" target="_blank">Piwig</a>o
<h2>Gallery</h2>
Gallery is an open source web based photo album organizer. Gallery gives you an intuitive way to blend photo management seamlessly into your own website whether you're running a small personal site or a large community site.
Website: <a href="http://gallery.menalto.com/" target="_blank">Gallery</a>

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Users of the popular platform Wix will be pleased to know that improvements to Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and connections to third-party tools and networks has been introduced through advanced meta-tagging.<a target="_blank" href="http://www.wix.com/">Wix</a> is a user friendly website builder which boasts over 46 million users across 190 countries.Meta-tags allow your Wix website to Header code supported services include  <a target="_blank" href="https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35659">Google Webmaster tools</a>,  <a target="_blank" href="http://www.bing.com/webmaster/help/how-to-verify-ownership-of-your-site-afcfefc6">Bing Webmaster Tools</a>,  <a target="_blank" href="https://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards">Twitter Cards</a>,  <a target="_blank" href="https://en.help.pinterest.com/entries/22488487-Verify-with-HTML-meta-tags">Pinterest Verification</a>,  <a target="_blank" href="http://www.alexa.com/siteowners/claim">Alexa site owner claim</a>, and many more.Wix have put together a straightforward video to guide you through the process of adding these header codes to your Wix website: <h2>What are Meta-Tags &amp; What Can They Do For Me?</h2>If you don't know what meta-tags are for, it might be worth your while to find out, simply because of the benefits they can bring.As Wix recently <a target="_blank" href="http://www.wix.com/blog/2014/05/meta-tags/">detailed in their advanced meta-tag announcement</a>, there are two types of meta-tags – Ownership Verification and Rich Media Experiences. Let's take a brief look at what both of these terms mean.<h3>Ownership Verification Meta-tags</h3>Search engines like Google and Bing along with other services offer added benefit to website owner who can prove they own certain website. One way you can do this, is using meta-tags.For example, verifying your website with Google via meta-tags – as shown in the intstructional video above – gives you access to extremely important metrics: your site’s traffic sources, the keywords which drove traffic to your site, how your site ranks for different keywords, and statistics about how Google indexes your site.Similarly, adding a Bing site verification meta-tag to your website header means that Bing will be able to index your website, giving a healthy SEO boost.<h3>Rich Media Experience Meta-tags</h3>Meta-tags don't just expose you to hidden benefits and administrative tools. They can also greatly increase search engine optimization and broader marketing efforts in a more direct way.One example which you might have heard of, is the Google Authorship. Adding a Google authorship meta-tag changes the way your site will appear in Google's search results page. Adding this tag enhances the way Google displays your content: your name, photo and author byline will prominently appear next to relevant search results.<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/meta-tags31.jpg" alt="Wix Google Authorship" /> To learn more about the different types of supported Wix meta-tags, and how to use them, visit the Wix Learning Center. Alternatively, you can <a target="_blank" href="http://www.wix.com/">start your totally free Wix website today</a>.Be sure to explore more of <a href="/products/wix/">Wix via our CMS Directory</a> too.

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