WordPress vs. Wix

WordPress vs. Wix Website designing

Wordpress Review:

The set up and initially getting started with the program was quite complicated and when I left the website and went back onto it a few days later I found it difficult to find my saved work.

There were many different templates to choose from on the website so unfortunately, within the hour that we had to try and set up a home page I spent most of my time trying to chose which template I wanted to use.  The one downside to the software was that a lot of the templates had to be paid for and so there was quite a limited choice between the free ones. 

When trying to add images and text to the homepage a lot of error messages kept on coming up on the screen.  This may have been down to the fact that I had little experience with using the website so it was a case of trial and error, however, the software was rather hard to come to terms with and in the class I wasn't the only one who appeared to be struggling with it on the day. Images that I tried to add were continuously blurry and adding test to the page was a lot more complicated as you had to type what you wanted into the sidebar and couldn't just type it straight into the page.

After an hour, this is the homepage that I finally came up with.  There isn't much there as I found the software overly confusing and complicated.  Obviously if I decided to continue using it, over a certain amount of time I would come to grips with it, but for the hour we were given to try and work out how everything works I struggled to understand.

Wix Review

The Wix website was a lot easier to set up that Wordpress and the choice of templates was a lot more.  Furthermore, the templates were put into different categories and due to the fact I was making a website for a musician I just looked into the music category and found what I wanted.  The choices were also a lot more versatile and there were a lot more free ones available to use.

I decided to look into Carrie Underwood, who is a country singer.  The adding of images and text was a lot easier to do as you just had to click on the existing image/text and then press 'change image/text' and you could just add text straight away on the page without having to fine some other way around it.  Moving text and images around was also very simple as it was just a click and move format. 

I managed to pretty much create an entire homepage with the hour that we were given in class, including links to other websites to buy tickets for the concerts that I was advertising on the homepage.  I didn't really come across any problems when try to create those links as it was all very straight forward and basically took you step by step on adding them in, it was very hard to go wrong, even for me who isn't usually very good with learning how to use new websites.

Creating links to Facebook, Twitter and google+ pages was very simple as you just had to click on the slogans at the bottom of the page and then this image popped up and you just had to add the html code in the small box and a link was automatically created.

As you can see I had a lot more screen grabs when using this website because I managed to do a lot more in the time that we were given.

Overall I would much rather use Wix when creating the websites for the bands that we will be doing as I found it a lot more straightforward and easy to use.  From the moment that I set up my account in Wix, to going back and continuing working on the website everything was easy to do and I came across hardly any problems in the creating of my homepage.