Free Website Development Software (Part 4)
“Wix” is another popular free web development platform used by millions of cloud users worldwide. The Wix platform gives you the freedom to design, manage and develop your website however you want. More than 180 million people worldwide have chosen Wix to create a free website. With a small budget and no in-depth technical knowledge, when choosing a free website development platform, you will definitely pay attention to Wix.
The free name of your website that you get: username.wix.com/name
Advantages:
- Easy to use. No technical knowledge of site code development is required.
- Ability to start building for free. We think it’s really great that you don’t need credit card information to test Wix.
- Free website hosting. Wix is a self-hosted platform, so you don’t have to pay separately for hosting a website.
- 24-hour customer service.
- Unlimited number of pages and quite flexible Page builder.
- In terms of functionality, it is one of the strongest free website development tools. Lots of features and hundreds of modern eye-catching design templates: Choose from over 500 templates (100 of which are free) from 70 categories and experiment with fonts, color schemes, slide shows, galleries, and video backgrounds. Each template is fully edited using the design authoring tool on this platform.
- More than 300 applications (including many free applications) in the Wix App Market that you can easily integrate into your website, e.g. you can easily use integrated marketing and customer management tools to increase sales and conversions.
- 500 MB of free website space.
- SSL certificate provided.
- Created website automatically optimized for mobile devices. With Wix Mobile Editor, you can easily customize your site for different screens.
- Excellent search engine optimization. With Wix SEO Wiz, you get a personalized SEO plan to make it easy to find in search engines, e.g. Google.
Disadvantages:
- Wix offers a free plan with limited connectivity and limited storage.
- The free URL is quite long, making it quite difficult to remember.
- Wix offers a free plan with the Wix subdomain. In order to connect your domain (eg: elnis.lt) you will need to choose the “Connect domain” plan, which costs 4.50 € per month, and of course you will still have to purchase the domain itself (https://www.serveriai.lt/, https: //www.iv.lt/, https://www.domenai.lt/ or others). With the Wix Combo plan (8.50 € / month), you get a free domain.
- All Wix plans give you an SLL certificate, but you need to install it yourself, which can be difficult.
- Wix advertising is highly visible in the footer and header. Free and Connect domain plans will display Wix ads on your site. Ads are not limited to paid combo or unlimited plans.
- Traffic limit 1 GB / month.
- Pricing of e-commerce plans starts from 17 € / month.
- Moving your website from Wix to another platform is quite complicated. It will be necessary to recreate everything from scratch.
You can find a free website development tool at https: //www.wix .com /
