Fortunately, there is Wix. Their incredibly popular website builder features a drag-and-drop interface for creating amazing, interactive websites. It provides a large selection of trendy layouts, graphics, fonts and widgets which you can add to your design with the click of a button. Below, I’ll show you how to get started with this fantastic tool to build your own custom website that is both stylish and highly functional. You’ll learn how to customize elements using Color, Effects, Animations and Behaviors, and I’ll show you a unique techniq for creating interactive images to help promote products, services or pages of your site.

Preview of Final Results

Getting Started

Head over to wix.com and signup for a free account, which will give you full access to all three of the Wix website builders (they do Facebook pages and Mobile sites too!) Once you login for the first time, launch the website builder to view the template library. You may find it helpful to sit through the “2 min Demo” linked in the right corner before continuing.

Step 1

There are several pre-made designs to choose from, but for this exercise, we will use the Blank Template. These templates offer the most flexibility in terms of having a design in mind. Once you learn the basics of the builder, it is often faster to build from a blank page than replace and re-work existing content.

Entering the blank template, here is our workspace. Get acquainted with the options available in the top toolbar and, if it is your first time in the website builder, you may want to quickly browse through the Help topics available in the lower-right. You can return to them anytime in case you get stuck along the way.

Step 2

Click on “Settings” and then click “Appearance.” Set your desired Site dimensions by typing a number into the Width and Height box. Your site dimensions determine how large the background area is, or more technically – how large the Flash movie is. I have chosen 1680 for my width to target the majority of desktop monitors. Anyone with a larger monitor will see a border  – so set it to a color that best matches your background by clicking the “Replace” button.

I have also selected Fit to Width here, because I want the site background fill the screen as much as possible.

Step 3

Drag your Main Page to the center and position it near the top – but leave enough room for a “header,” which is the area at the top of your website which holds your logo, navigation and any other elements you want to have always visible. A vertical line will appear, called a smart guide, to help you find the absolute middle of your workspace.

To assist with sizing your page area, click the “Show Rules” button in the top toolbar. My page area in this demo is 900 pixels wide and 764 pixels tall. If you don’t get it perfect now – don’t worry. One of the great things about Flash is the ability to scale the page content and drag it around anytime to adjust it perfectly for the design.

Step 4

Add your background by clicking on Background > Master Page. I chose the polka-dots background from the Wix library, but you can upload your own if you choose. Make sure it is large enough to accommodate your chosen Site Dimensions!

Step 5

Add your logo by clicking on Add > Pics. You can upload your own image as I’ve done here, or choose a pre-made one for now. When using your own graphics, the larger the image, the better it will look. Re-position and scale the logo by dragging the re-size handles, and then click it and choose “Change Frame.” All images will appear with the default frame when added to your workspace. The Change Frame option allows you to customize the frame or, as in this case, remove it by clicking on the “No Frame” option.

To give the logo a little flair and help draw attention, you can add animations using Effects. Click the logo to select it, then click “Effect”s in the Photo options panel. I chose the Contour Emitter, set to “Sparkle-big.” Experiment with the Speed and Amount to get the look you want.

Step 6

Before we add a navigation bar, we need some pages. Click the Add Page button in the right-hand page manager. Here you are offers several more page layouts you can choose from to speed up page creation, but none of them quite fit our design, so choose the Blank Page at the bottom. Add three more pages: “about,” “contact” and “shop.”

To add the navigation bar, click Add > Navigation > Menus. Select any menu to add it the workspace. You’ll notice it looks nothing like my demo. This is where the fun of styling comes in!

Step 7

To get the look in my demo, you can access the extended library of styles by clicking on the menu and choosing “Change Skin.” You will also see a tip for how to customize menus. I recommend reading through it – it will only take a minute.

From the Replace Skin box that appears on the right, scroll down to the “Flat Pill” style and select it. Now, click on “Color” in the Menu settings box. You will see three options appear, one for the background color, “BG Click” or active page and the hover color. For the background color, select a color from the color picker, or enter an HTML color code. I’ve chosen a hyacinth pink color for my main color by first selecting the hot pink and adjusting with the color sliders. This color will now appear in the custom color bar for all elements you choose to restyle, helping you keep things uniform.

Select the BG Click to set it to the same color as your main BG, and BG Mouse Over to set it to black.

Step 8

Our menu still needs some styling on the text. Click “Format Text” in the Menu options panel, choose a font, font size and color for each link state. I chose Androgyne, set my normal states to white, and chose my pink color swatch for the hover.

Drag to position your menu above your Main Page on the right side. By default, the menu appears squished together. Click the resize handle to adjust the width. To adjust the space between buttons, click the “Settings” option in the Menu panel. To rename or re-arrange your pages, click “Manage.” I have chosen to use lower-case letters here as they provide a more informal and chic feel.

Step 9

Click on “Home” to ensure you are working on the right page, then click the Main Page element and choose “Change Skin.” Select the “Rounded” option to give the corners a softer touch. Add your three main images by clicking Add > Pics to upload and select. Remove the frame on each and drag them into the home page. The page will turn yellow and give you a “Drop Here” tag to indicate the image is linked to the page. This is important, as images that are not properly inserted into the page will appear to overlay the entire page group. When properly inserted, your images will also take on the same edge as your page.

Position and scale your images so they fill about 2/3 of the page.

Step 10

To create our cool content introduction roll-overs, we will need three navigation buttons which can be added by clicking on Add > Navigation > Buttons. Choose the “Simple” style – an animated button will distract from the roll-over content we will be creating. Use the techniques you’ve already learned to style, scale and position each button under the images.

Format the text using a smaller “body” font. I have chosen Qlassik, setting my button text at size 13 and using capital letters to help the text stand out more.This complimentary font is easy to read and looks good at any size.

Step 11

To introduce our brand to visitors, lets add a tagline and a short paragraph. Click on Add > Text > Titles and choose the first option to place the title into your workspace. Double-click to edit it and set your font, font size, color and content. Since Androgyne is my chosen heading, I have selected it for my tagline and set the color to my pink swatch. Drag to position your tagline in the bottom area of the Home page.

Continue to Add > Text > Paragraphs and choose the black “Simple Text.” Format it with your content, using the Qlassik font at size 15. To make it more comfortable to read, click the little up arrow to increase the Line Spacing, or type “5″ into the Line Spacing box of your text options bar:

Step 12

The text area is looking a little bare. Click on Add > Clip Art > Animations and choose the Talk Bubble. By default, the color isn’t right. You can change the color of any element through the Effects option in the element’s option panel.

Click on Effects and choose “Tint.” Click the color swatch to choose your main color and ensure the transparency is on full (slide the slider to the right or enter “1″ in the Transparency field.)

Position your icon next to the tagline, using the resize handles to scale if needed.

Step 13

Click on Add > Navigation > Buttons and choose a Flat Pill button. This will serve as your call-to-action for your shop or other important sub-page. Use a short, simple link phrase, such as “shop now,” “learn more” or “read more.” To link it to a page, click the button and choose “Link.” Click the Page button, then click the Select Page button to choose the page to link to.

Style the button to match your main navigation buttons, and position it in the lower-right of your text area.

Tip: If your elements are overlapping each other in the wrong order, you can select the element, right click and then choose “Send Backwards” or “Send Forwards” to arrange how elements are stacked. For elements such as link buttons, choose “Bring to Front” to ensure they are always on the top-most layer where visitors can interact with them.

Step 14

To finish off our layout, we need a footer. The footer bar is a perfect place to put elements like copyright text, secondary links, social network or share buttons, or anything else you want to always be visible. Click on Add > Page Parts > Area and choose “Round.” Drag the shape below your Main Page to position and resize it into a bar shape. Style the Area by clicking on the “Color” option. To remove the border, select the “Outline” option and reduce the Opacity to 0.

Using what you’ve learned so far, add some text elements such as the copyright and phone number using the “Titles” element.

Step 15

Click on Add > Clip Art > Icons and type “Facebook” into the search field. Choose the round icon, then drag it into your footer bar and scale it down. Use the “Tint” effect you learned in Step 12 to change the color to white. Repeat this step to add other social network icons line Twitter or LinkedIn. You can also upload your own custom icons and scale and position them in the same way.

To link each icon to your social profiles, click on the icon and choose “Link.” Individual words or text elements can also be linked by highlighting the text and clicking the link icon in the text bar at the top.

Step 16

Now that we have our main layout complete, we can create the roll-over effects on our main images. This is achieved by creating three duplicate “home” pages, each with a different content area over one of the images. To get started, hover over the drop-down menu arrow on the home page in your Page Manager and choose “Duplicate.” This will add a new page to the bottom of your page list. Double-click to rename it to “slide1″ to make it easier to keep track of what’s what.

Repeat this step to create two more “home” page duplicates, named “slide2″ and “slide3.”

Step 17

Click on “slide1″ in the Page Manager to set it as the active page. Click on Add > Clip Art > Shapes, select “Basic” from the left menu and choose the Circle. Drag it into the page and re-size it to fit over the image, leaving a little space on either side. Remember to make sure you get the “drop here” message so this circle only appears on this page.

Change the circle color to your main color and reduce the Opacity to about 70% by using the Color option in the Shape panel. Finish by clicking Add > Text to add titles and text to the circle. For my demo, I used separate white “Simple Text” paragraphs for the top content and bulleted list so I could position them properly. For the link, I used a text title, set to my main heading font Androgyne, and linked it to the “about” page.

Finish by adding a shine or sparkle to the edges using the Contour Emitter effect you learned in Step 5. To keep the circle from appearing to pop in too harshly, click on “Animations” and choose “Fade In.” This will give the circle a more elegant entrance.

Step 18

Click on “slide 2″ in the Page Manager and repeat the last step to add and style a circle with some text content. Don’t forget to set the circle Animation and Effects.

Step 19

Click on “slide3″ and add your circle, style it, and set the Effect and Animation. Click on Add > Widgets > Contact form and choose the “DIY Round.” Place and scale the form inside the circle, then style it with the Color option in the Contact Form options panel. To set an address to receive inquiries, click on “Email” in the options panel and enter your email address. Finish by adding some titles.

Step 20

To get these slides to appear when visitors hover over our main image link buttons, we will use a Behavior. With “slide3″ still selected, click on the first link button below the first image (which I named “all natural ingredients”) and click “Behaviors” in the Button options panel. Select “Go to State On Roll” and select “slide1.”

Repeat this process to link the second button to “slide2.” Since we are on “slide3″ already, we do not need to link that button, as it would just cause the page to reload.

Click on “slide2″ in the Page Manager and proceed to set the Behavior and link for buttons 1 and 3. Repeat for “slide1″ to set the Behavior and link for buttons 2 and 3.

Tip: You can preview your progress anytime by clicking the “Preview” link at the top of the page. With the “home” page clicked, preview your site now to verify your slides appear properly when you roll over each button with the mouse.

Step 21

You may have noticed that adding the extra slides has added links to the navigation bar that we don’t want to show. Click the “home” link in the navigation bar to select the menu and choose “Manage.” Click the “Hide” link next to your slide pages to hide them in the navigation menu.

Step 22

The website builder lets you customize everything down to how your pages behave when you navigate between them. Page transitions create cool effects similar to a slideshow and can really super-charge your design. Click on your Main Page element and choose “Change Transition.” Select “Slow” and choose the “Dotted” transition. This transition blends perfectly with the overall circle theme of the site. When building your own page, choose the transition that best compliments your theme, brand or attitude.

Conclusion

Use the techniques you’ve learned to add text, images and widgets to your remaining pages. I’ve provided a few design tips below for your inspiration.

Tip 1: Avoid scaling your titles and text boxes whenever possible. Use the “Format Text” option to set your font size instead. This helps you keep your titles and body text uniform throughout the site, which looks more professional.

Tip 2: Stack shapes and slideshows, as seen on my “about” page, to style your own frame for your images. When working with slideshows, don’t forget to add a title and description to each image. It never looks good to have the filename appear as the title!

Tip 3: You can create a simple online shop in the free website builder using a Matrix gallery and PayPal buttons, found under Add > eCommerce. For my demo, I chose the round gallery skin and styled my PayPal buttons to match my navigation buttons. To quickly duplicate an element, simply click it and hit Ctrl+C, then hit Ctrl+V to paste a copy. This will save you the trouble of styling each button individually!

Tip 4: Use Shapes, Animations, Icons or a custom graphic to create a unique place-marker when using the Google Map widget. Before placing the graphic, right-click it and choose “Bring to Front” to ensure it sits on top of the map. Click on “Settings” in the widget’s options panel to set the type of map to display. The demo is set to “Terrain” which is the same as “Physical” if the Map Type buttons are enabled:

Tip 5: Experiment! The website builder gives you complete control and creative freedom over designing your website. By combining the tricks learned in this tutorial with the inline Help and some trial and error, you’ll be designing like a pro in no time.

To learn more about Wix, or to get notified when their amazing new HTML5 builder goes live in the coming weeks, visit their website here.

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When Should You Use a CMS?

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When Shouldn’t You Use a CMS?

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When Should You Hard-Code Your Website?

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So, the Verdict is…

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The web is the most popular and most competitive medium in which most organizations today are using because it is very accessible to many users globally. If you want your enterprise to get high recognition from numerous internet surfers, you need to hire a business that will offer you all the needed services that a competitive enterprise requires. One of the most famous company that gives E- commerce services is known as Magento. What makes Magento ecommerce stand out from others is that it has an open online application source and this merely signifies that any individual can enjoy utilizing it.

What Makes Magento Development extremely popular?

Magento development has been deemed as the top most used E-commerce application platform online from the time it began in 2008. With its professional and systematic management approach, you can easily carry out all needed functions in order to give the best customer service including processing your customers’ orders and payments. Magento Ecommerce provides a user friendly interface and a well-organized platform for all your goods and services.

Now, other than the quality of their service, there are other more causes why Magento development is highly suggested for serious online business owners and here are a few of them:

? Modified and Personalized solution

All firms do not choose a similar requisite when it comes to advertising or possessing equal purpose. Magento do not just offer a reliable Ecommerce solution but including a SEO Services as well as web designing. When these three services are utilized hand in hand, they can make a large and good impact on your enterprise. A personalized SEO service can drive traffic to your website. A web design that is optimized and eye-catching can absolutely aid make your site appear specialized and will get many customers to buy your products. And lastly, a personalized Ecommerce solution can assist create your customer experience the very best, while at the same time making it simpler for you to carry out all types of functions to make your enterprise a lot more manageable. macone#$17

? Quick to adjust

Magento Web development offers another great element that has several and simple to adjust features for website owners. Multi-currency support, quick search options, multiple images of products, product comparison of the same classes, free shipping choices, guest checkout and many more are the other features given. With their flexibility, you can customize your website’s to enhance its efficiency. You can use multilingual proficiency; use some of the most famous social networking sites, and use an account management system. These features assure the uniqueness of your website.

Yes, some of you might have already figured out what kind of service we’re writing about here. ManageWP is a service that allows you to manage all your WordPress websites from one single dashboard. What does it mean?

Lets quickly run over the main features:

• Firstly, that means that you no longer have to remember all logins and passwords for your sites or keep them in long spreadsheets. With ManageWP dashboard you can access all your websites with one click.
• Performing an upgrade of WordPress, plugins and themes across all of your sites is easy as clicking one ‘Upgrade all’ button. You can also install plugins and themes to multiple sites at once, from a variety of sources (your favorites list, WordPress.org, your computer or any URL).
• You can backup all your sites from ManageWP dashboard at any time or restore a previous backup. ManageWP can backup both your entire website or just the database. You can also set automatic scheduled backups.
• ManageWP allows you to set up a new, fully loaded, WordPress site in minutes. Or use ManageWP’s clone tool to clone any of your existing sites from one domain, subdomain or folder to another.
• With all sites under one roof, doing bulk operations becomes easy. Whether you want to post an article to multiple sites, manage your blogroll links or add users, ManageWP allows you to do it effortlessly across any number of sites at once.

How does it work? Do you have to provide them with all your passwords? The answer is no. Access to your site is governed by the ManageWP Worker plugin that you install directly onto your blog. That means that the only password ManageWP stores is the one needed for their central dashboard. So lets get started and take a deeper look into this service.

Features

Dashboard

Once you’ve installed the plugin and linked your website with ManageWP you can access all the features it offers. The dashboard is clean and easy to use. Plus it looks just like your casual WordPress dashboard so you don’t have to worry about adapting to a new and unfamiliar platform.

In the main view you can see which plugins or themes have an update available, below there are post revisions aka post autosaves and spam comments. You can also view the recent comments and posts. In the top right there is a pageview statistics graph and scheduled backups below it.

Manage Plugins & Themes

ManageWP dashboard allows you to instantly and simultaneously install themes or plugins for all of your websites. You can also opt to Activate plugins after upload. Looking through all the plugins is also made easy. In my opinion, the only drawback is the plugin horizontal layout so you have to scroll the window quite far if you’ve got a lot of plugins installed.

Backup

With ManageWP, you can set up scheduled backups to Amazon S3, Dropbox, your own server, any external FTP or an email address for all of your blogs with just a few clicks. You can choose between daily, weekly or monthly backups. Note – this feature is only available for the professional and business pricing plan.

Migrating/cloning sites.

This feature comes in handy if you need to setup a new network of identically modified websites. The theme and all plugins are installed automatically so you don’t have to spend time setting up every blog manually.

Bulk Actions

ManageWP allows you to bulk add/export websites, create new pages, posts and links for all of your websites.

It’s pretty clear with the pages and posts – although I don’t see a good reason why one would like to publish the same post on several blogs, the function does it’s job. Again you’re given the default WordPress text editor so there’s nothing unfamiliar to master.

The Bulk add users feature is bloody useful if you’re willing to add a writer for a set of blogs. You can find this feature under the Users section.

Note – all the bulk features are only available for professional and business pricing plan.

Self-hosted version

ManageWP also offers self-hosted version which allows you to run the service on your own dashboard. Self hosted allows you to have an unlimited number of blogs, host everything on your server and add your own features. It’s created for companies and organizations managing hundreds or even thousands of websites and is currently available only as Enterprise license.

Pricing

ManageWP will be offering three pricing plans where the price then depends on the number of websites you’ll manage (you can choose from a range between 10 and 500). The pre-order is launching on December 6th. All users that sign up now will receive a 30% life-time discount on any hosted service plan that they pre-order for as long as they maintain their service.

• 30 day free trial so you can test the service before paying for it.
• Free plan which allows you to use the Standard features for up to three (five, if you refer some friends) websites.
• Annual plans, and you will get two months free when you sign up for these.

Below you can see the pricing plans for 10, 100 and 500 websites.

10 websites

• Standard: $7/month
• Professional: $21/month
• Business: $42/month

100 websites

• Standard: $40/month
• Professional: $120/month
• Business: $240/month

500 websites

• Standard: $70/month
• Professional: $210/month
• Business: $420/month

Interview

Since this series focuses on the startups we wanted to ask a couple of questions to the founder of ManageWP Vladimir Prelovac.Vladimir Prelovac is the the CEO of Prelovac Media, an internet company located in Belgrade, Serbia. Besides ManageWP he’s also written a book on WordPress plugin development and created other stunning services and plugins.

1. There aren’t many alternatives who can compete with ManageWP. How did you come up with the idea of ManageWP?

As with most good ideas, it was a stroke of luck and a hint of opportunity. A friend of mine was rambling about how he had trouble managing his blogs, and I suddenly realized there is nothing like that available for WordPress, which is, after all, the world’s biggest internet publishing platform. The world needed something like ManageWP, so I decided it was time to make it.

2. As far as I understand ManageWP began in 2010. Why did it take so long to finish beta testing and establish a fully functional service?

ManageWP is an extremely complex piece of software. What makes it unique is that we really tried to make it run smoothly on literally thousands of different server configurations that WordPress would run on. That was our biggest challenge. Scalability was also an important focus for us — some of our users are managing thousands of blogs. But knowing that ManageWP can load data from 1800 websites in less than two minutes… it makes it all worth it.

There is also a list of spectacular features that we are pushing to integrate into ManageWP. Some startups, for example, are satisfied with only offering backup solutions for WordPress. But that functionality is only a tiny piece of the overall picture. Backup features are critical — and something we pride ourselves in offering — but it is only one piece of the 23 major features currently offered by ManageWP, with many more on the way. And with all the great ideas coming in from our beta users, we know that the value we can provide will continue to grow.

Another thing is that we had to ensure that ManageWP would work with services that WordPress users already deeply value. That’s why ManageWP now integrates with Google Analytics and AdSense. And that’s why we already have plans in place to integrate with SEO and uptime monitoring tools in the near future.

And then there is the fact that WordPress is constantly evolving. Adjusting to all the changes is a challenge unless you are willing to work hard to adjust to those changes. Thankfully, our team put in the effort to adapt. So that’s why it all took almost a year and a half to arrive at this point. (And the ride is not over yet!)

Ultimately, our goal is to create a dashboard so useful, so powerful that people will no longer need to log into their WordPress websites or other services. They will be able to log into ManageWP, and everything that the user needs to effectively manage their WordPress sites will be all right there at the user’s fingertips.

Above you can see a screenshot from Wayback Machine with the ManageWP website in 2010.

3. You’ve established a flexible and nice scheme where instead of following a strict milestone schedule the users themselves suggest the ideas you then consider. How did you come up with this method and has it brought the desired results?

Yes! I believe this is one of our strengths at ManageWP. Many of our features were suggested by our users, and that makes it a much more personalized experience for them and for us. After all, nobody could ever have a perfect vision of a product (except maybe Steve Jobs), so it was very important that we listened to our users early on in the development process. We already have around six or seven different ways for users to send us feedback, and I read all of it. The best ideas are sent off to the team for development.

Above you can see a screenshot from ManageWP Google group where users can suggest ideas which then are sent for consideration.

4. Since our series is about successful and fresh startups could you comment on ManageWP from this perspective? How has it grown as a project?

There are different ways to measure the success of a startup. At ManageWP, and from the feedback we have received, it would seem that we created a truly useful service that solves a problem that many people share. Some of our users were excited to learn when we intended to charge for ManageWP, but for the past 12 months, all we wanted to do was focus on creating a genuinely useful product.

And I think that is the most important thing — in order to keep the team passionate and the users interested, you need to have a great product.

5. Your blog says that the number of websites managed by ManageWP has hit 50 000. How do you feel about these results and what are predictions for the future?

Well, looking at numbers like these is always exciting. We hit 50,000 websites near the end of September, but we now manage over 80,000 WordPress blogs. So, when you put it into that perspective, you get really excited as you can see that your product is making a small but measurable change in how the internet works.

Somebody once said that the best way to predict the future is to invent it.

By having a clear vision of where we want to go and by keeping our customers happy, inventing the future is exactly what we are doing. It also helps when we are working with a strong and thriving publishing platform in WordPress. So, all things considered, I am very positive about our future.

Above you can see a screenshot with the exciting announcement.

6. Could you share some of your tips/business principles for others out there willing to make a successful startup?

There are couple of principles that I believe will make any startup’s journey easier:

First is that you need to have a cool product, one that you strongly believe in and you will want to use on your own. This also makes it so much easier to justify putting most, if not all, of your own time, money, and heart into it. You have to realize that there will be many hurdles along the way, as with all things in life, so you better have an idea of what you are doing and why you are doing it.

Second is to launch the beta as soon as possible. This allows you to start listening to your users and getting feedback. They will give great ideas on how to improve your product… for free!

Third is to not create a startup that relies on external funding to succeed. We are completely bootstrapped, which most likely forced us to create a significantly better product than we might have if we were basking in investment money. It motivates you to perform.

Fourth is the speed — making efforts to optimize your application and interface like crazy. Users have never been as impatient as they are today. Also, intuitiveness: the less the users needs to think, the better. You really need to watch other people use your product. You will be surprised by what you will discover.

Do the above things, and people will be drawn to your efforts and will help you to succeed.

Conclusion

ManageWP indeed is an amazing and one of the most useful services for WordPress. It’s also a great example of a fresh startup success story. You should definitely check out the free trial if you are running multiple WordPress websites.

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