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Just wondering if anyone has used them to make a site? Basicly its a wysiwyg web page creation software and web hosting package thats free to use.... but with some paid for parts.
I have a technophobe mate that has asked about it as he wants a site for the shop his wife has.
 
If your mate and his wife are both technophobes, than I'd suggest using a web designer/developer to produce a site.
 
eeyore said:
Just wondering if anyone has used them to make a site? Basicly its a wysiwyg web page creation software and web hosting package thats free to use.... but with some paid for parts.
I have a technophobe mate that has asked about it as he wants a site for the shop his wife has.
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the paid for parts include using your own domain name, and that is a big one. So you will end up paying a decent sum.

If it's photography site why not look at Zenfolio or SmugMug to get you started?
 
Not me its a shop my mates wife runs.
Judt wondering what the service is right
 
I had one. They are lovely looking, easy to make websites particularly suited to someone who wants to remain anonymous and never be ranked by google. Also, they quickly become a pain to update/edit when you have a lot of content like photos.

For reasons above I would strongly recommend looking into an html site (wix is flash or html5). If it's for a shop then you want to be found and also be able to add more e-commerce functionalities and most importantly be able to make updates yourself - not be reliable on the webdesigner to do it for you. I would look into wordpress, if they're technophobes then you can get someone design it for them and teach them how to use the content management system.
 
yanovitz said:
I had one. They are lovely looking, easy to make websites particularly suited to someone who wants to remain anonymous and never be ranked by google. Also, they quickly become a pain to update/edit when you have a lot of content like photos.

For reasons above I would strongly recommend looking into an html site (wix is flash or html5). If it's for a shop then you want to be found and also be able to add more e-commerce functionalities and most importantly be able to make updates yourself - not be reliable on the webdesigner to do it for you. I would look into wordpress, if they're technophobes then you can get someone design it for them and teach them how to use the content management system.
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This.
Wix are awesome if you want a small site to point people at. For most things you want in a commercial website, they're completely useless.
 
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