Task 1
With the advent and rapid development of the Internet, many new opportunities have opened up to users, including the ability to communicate. Now you can discuss different topics in forums and get valuable tips, talk about yourself on the blog, find old friends through social networks, and more.
A much wider field of activity opens users to having their own site. This is an opportunity to express yourself, your hobbies, your job, your company. But creating even a simple website design or functionality requires a basic knowledge of HTML and JavaScript, image processing skills, and web document placement on Internet servers.
Today, it is quite popular to use site designers that provide tools for creating sites without proper foundation. Existing services have their own features and benefits, but one of the best projects in their field is the free Wix.com service.
Wix.com is a functional website builder from scratch that will be a great help for users who are not experienced in creating web documents. The whole process is simple, easy and intuitive - with Drag and Drop you can easily drag and drop web page elements, and a selection of settings will help you modify the basic template according to the task of the site.
For beginners, Wix.com provides help and training support to help you create your own site. You can ask questions in the forum.
The main page of the site lists the main features:
- Use of the designer does not require programming knowledge and other special skills, the provided tools allow you to develop Flash or Html5 site of various complexity.
- Hundreds of unique designs for different project formats (from portfolio to business card site) or option to create a site from scratch.
- Creating mobile sites, Facebook pages or blogs.
- Many settings for changing images, colors and fonts of the site provide the ability to change the basic template.
- All elements of the web page are easy to edit, move and customize.
- Support for SEO options for search engine indexing.
- Basic Designer Options are free. Fees are provided to extend the functionality of the site.
Step 1: Register and choose a template
In order to use the Wix.com constructor, you need to go through a simple registration procedure, with only an e-mail and password. Then the user can immediately create a site by selecting the appropriate theme:
Wix.com offers a wide variety of themes for design: from photography, design, art to business, services and restaurants. Each theme contains professional templates, broken down by category. For example, the Music and Entertainment theme includes site templates for actors, theater, cinema, dance, events, musicians, and more. Often, the patterns overlap in different categories.
On the same page, you can organize your designs separately with Flash and Html5, as well as view the latest or most popular works. Near each layout there is a "Browse" button that lets you see what a future internet project will look like when it's finished.
If the user wants to apply their own design, there is a Blank option where you can select the layout of the elements and menus on the future site, the rest of the elements are added manually.
STEP 2. Edit and customize the template
After selecting the basic layout for the site, you need to click the "Edit" button to proceed with making your own changes to the finished design. The constructor enters edit mode, with many options and settings for the user.
You can change the finished template in one of the following ways:
Click on the item that needs change.
Use the left side menu, which consists of four items. Each item contains submenus that can be switched and edited.
The left side menu has four items:
Pages - Options designed to work with site pages. They can be moved, edited, added and deleted. The hierarchy of pages is supported as a random menu. You can also specify META data for each of the pages on the site.
Design - options allow you to change the background of the site, the colors, and fonts.
Add - a section with widgets that can be placed on a web page. These include text, photos, galleries, media, forms and lines, buttons and menus, social networks, e-commerce and applications.
Customization - here you can set a site address, add favorites, set SEO parameters for search engines, customize statistics.
Below is an example of how to change options in the selected template. Three different windows with parameters are opened at once - first general, then detailed.
Installing widgets does not require programming knowledge, plugin installation, etc. In the appropriate menu item, select the appropriate widget and simply drag the item to the page. Depending on your settings, the widget may be displayed on one or all pages of sites.
Features that are not in the constructor can be added using HTML code. But even without that, there are enough elements available for a standard full-fledged site. All elements of the page are provided in customized settings.
Step 3. Finish. Own domain and premium rates
To the top of the Wix.com editor are buttons to save changes and view created pages. Publication allows you to host a site on a server and make it accessible to all Internet users. Because Wix.com is free, therefore, a domain address restriction has been introduced that looks like:
http: //your_login.wix.com/site_name
This is certainly not the best solution, so it makes sense to connect your domain to the project. Unfortunately, this will require you to switch from a free account to premium rates. There are several paid offers on Wix.com:
Benefits of a paid account
- Obtaining a quality, fully customizable design.
- Added an administrative page with settings and the ability to modify the content of the site easily, just without specific knowledge.
- There is SEO functionality and many useful widgets.
- You can do the site support yourself or contact Wix.com Technical Support.
- As a bonus for premium rates, the domain is provided free of charge. Coupons are also available for advertising on Google and Facebook, which is important for starting your own online business.
Wix.com offers great deals for web developers. You can become a partner and make money from the income you get from your own site. For creative people, they offer a designer Wix.com. They get access to the Wix Pro Directory where the service administration directs clients looking for contractors.
Work order
- Check out Wix.com. You can use a different constructor to do the job.
- Choose a theme-appropriate template and create a full website in 3-4 pages.
- See the administrative panel.
- Edit texts, pictures, headings, background. Site Language - English!
- Add / remove existing services to the site.
- To publish a site on the Internet.
The contents of the report
- Name and purpose of laboratory work.
- Provide domain name, title and short description of the site you created
- Screenshots of the sequence of creating a site with a brief description of each of the steps.
- In conclusion, evaluate the usability of the constructor and the administrative panel.