Instructify

BY BILL FERRIS

Just because you don’t know web design doesn’t mean you can’t have a nice-looking website. Wix lets you create a Flash-based website from one of their many templates, or build a site from scratch. Here’s a sample site I made in about five minutes. Wix templates allow you to create sub-pages, upload photos, and incorporate animations into your design.

You could use Wix for digital portfolios — several of the templates are geared toward showcasing creative work, which would be perfect for an art, photography or journalism class. Since it lets you design sites from scratch, it might be a good starting point for a web-design or multimedia class.

Don’t discount the idea of using Wix for a school or class website, either, if you don’t have one, or the one you have sucks. Yeah, it would be from a template, but would you rather have decent-looking boilerplate or custom-made crap?

With a tool as powerful as Wix, surely you can find some use for it. Sign up for a free account and start playing around with it.

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