Jan 14
Until today your free Wix creations came with a text footer.
We received a lot of emails asking us to create something more visually pleasing…
…So we did! And here it is:
Happy creating and keep your feedback coming, we’re listening!
January 14th, 2009 at 8:05 pm
I don’t like the new footer, it takes away from the design of my website. Please consider going back to something more simple like what you had before.
Disappointed,
Katrina
January 14th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
Hate the new footer.
January 15th, 2009 at 8:21 am
new banner is really bad. Listen to your customers on the forums…
January 15th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
Feedback coming your way…
http://forum.wix.com/showthread.php?t=1550
January 18th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
Hi Everybody,
I appreciate your feedback.
We have created the new footer for two reasons:
The first and major reason is that it is part of our effort to keep Wix free of commercials.
The second is that we got complaints about how the old link looked from Wix users.
Most free website builders have ads all around the website that you build, and we really are trying to find ways to keep Wix free of such ugly ads.
We also placed the banner below the website and not on the top of it, for the same reason: to protect the quality of created websites as much as possible.
If someone can offer a better banner design, creating a better balance between promoting Wix to the users website, we will be happy to consider it instead of the current banner. So if you are a designer, please let us know if have a better solution.
We will also try to create a better design ourselves to make it looks better with more websites.
Cheers,
Avishai
Co-CEO, Wix.com
February 20th, 2009 at 5:07 pm
I know I’d appreciate that. If you did decide to keep the new footer, could you at least remove the tab?
February 20th, 2009 at 5:09 pm
…and the intro loading thing that says “Wix.com”.
February 20th, 2009 at 5:13 pm
Still, I am grateful for the fact that Wix is free, and that it doesn’t cost an outrageous price to upgrade. I’ve been reading in the forum about how bad people think the footer is, and I thought I’d say I’m grateful.