[Closed] Wix Website builder

It’s actually ok.

Rachel

I made a nice enough site with Wix... Got me a couple of jobs 🙂

How do Wix sites fair when put through:

https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/

And:

agetest.org/ ?

Actually it's very smooth and easy to use. That said, having used it for three businesses, the hamsters in the servers seemed to get older than with other hosts. Therein lies the problem, in that you cannot export a site written with Wix to another host - you are, effectively, locked in. Cue redoing sites in WordPress, I'd recommend looking either at Divi or Elementor as systems (themes) as easy to use as Wix but without the hosting issue.

That said, I am just a reasonably computer literate chap who needed a few simple sites, others will have a much more professional and experienced view

Even a computer literate fool like me managed to make a website. The work is in progress but here's the first draft.

http://www.stricken-macht-gluecklich.at/

Any comments are appreciated as I don't really know what I'm doing.
I'm working on the online store. Does anyone have any recommendations on how to accept payment? I would rather not use Paypal if possible.

Wix is trying to get me to use Stripe for credit card payments. Does anyone here have any experience of it? Any good or horror stories? Or should I be look at using some other payments systems?

We take payments via stripe and PayPal (Squarespace site), we've had no issues over the past 10 months and stripe is half the commission of PayPal.

Interesting, c_d, what you say about Stripe. One of my sites uses a booking engine (Team Booking) that can integrate with either PP or Stripe. Having read woeful comments on trying to get hold of Stripe customer service and the payment delay (between client and passing money to you) I ended up sticking with PP, but would love not to. Any comment on either of these two concerns?

Use both Stripe and Paypal for an NGO. Both work just fine but we had PayPal suddenly lock our account for a few months because they didn't like one of the countries we worked in (this was a Trump executive order). They were ok to deal with but couldn't unlock our account. Then one day they suddenly unlocked it again without any explanation. Similarly when someone started using our site to test stolen credit cards by making test donations there was nothing they could do apart from help us reverse the transactions but I least I could contact them. Stripe hasn't been any trouble yet. I still like PayPal as everyone knows them so there is a trust there.

Moral of this is use both or even more if you can. We had to scramble to get something temporary in place when PayPal locked us out, it would have been better to have a second up our sleeves already

Could anyone recommend a water mark system for my website photos? I really haven't got a clue as to what is good and what isn't. Cheers.

Having read woeful comments on trying to get hold of Stripe customer service and the payment delay

I saw those comments too and actually posted on here for advice, the consensus was that as long as you don't expect lots of disputes it's fine. We've not had one e problem in 10 months, payment to us is delayed by a few days but it's not an issue for us.
One annoying thing is that all transactions that day get grouped in to one payment to us, we need to work around to then do the bookkeeping in Freeagent.

"Could anyone recommend a water mark system for my website photos? I really haven't got a clue as to what is good and what isn't. Cheers."

Interested in the answer to this myself.

One thing you can do (that won't stop people taking screenshots etc, but will stop them quickly lifting the image), is disable right click on image so it just says "Copyright iolo" or whatever. You need to add the Right Click Protext app, which you can find via the help centre.

I'm currently building a Wix site for myself. I'm finding it all very intuitive and am liking the results, though do have a good think about how you want to structure it etc before you get started, as its time consuming to change lots of things later on.

Wir means w*no in German. I have nothing else to add...

Edit... When I built a website I used jimdo. Was user friendly enough for a complete techno phobe like me to use

W*nk