I love this time of year. The leaves are turning (well if you’re in the Northen hemisphere),
the weather is cooling and it’s almost time to dress up and eat tons of candy!

As part of our Halloween celebrations, we’ve uploaded a ton of new images, flash, and other Halloween-esque content to the Wix editor.
If you want them fast, simply search for “Halloween” in the clip art and animation galleries.

Use them to easily transform templates lurking in Create into your personal Halloween ecards, MySpace comments and more.

Trick or treat, and of course,
Happy Halloween!

Fresh from Wix.com, you’ll find simple beautiful apps waiting for you on the Wix editor. Find out more below, and don’t forget to check out your special offer!

For a live demo of our news apps and to take advantages of your special offer hit:
http://www.wix.com/upgrade/LatestApps

Latest Apps:

2 Types of Page Flip Books:

Now you can effortlessly create books with that cool page flip effect in minutes. To make a book with purely pictures, hit the Wix editor under Widgets > Photo Albums. To fill your book with text, vids, pics and more, go to Widgets > Mini Page and select a book from the Mini Page gallery.

Google Maps:

Make it easy for your users to find you. Easily add maps, driving directions and more to your sites with Google Maps for Wix. You’ll find this feature in the Widgets section of the Wix Editor.

Your Special Upgrade Offer:

We’ve launched Wix Premium Upgrades and there’s a special offer waiting just for you.

But be sure to Upgrade your Wix site before November 15th so you don’t miss out.

P.S.

Our new features and offers are driven by your feedback!

So don’t be shy, let us know what you think: feedback@wix.com.

We didn’t quite break the 200 meters sprint world record, but it’s been a big week at Wix. We just uploaded a new version of the Wix editor and over the next week you’ll find a stack of cool new features!

Finally, *cue drum roll* Wix offers you… UNDO (& redo)

What’s more, our latest version means Wix is now twice as fast! Check out your Wix creations online to see the difference

Of course, we’re still in Open Beta so there may be some hiccups over the weekend. If you discover a bug, please let us know: support@wix.com we’ll be working around the clock to solve it.

New Features Already Online:

• Make your own background from your pics, set any media item as Background
• Rulers & Transform you can easily design with precision
• Update your Account settings: change your password and user name
• Import Contact Lists from gmail, yahoo, hotmail & AOL
• Now you can apply effects and behaviors to groups
• Embed Videos from Metacafe & 5min as well as YouTube

Thanks for being part of the Wix evolution, and stayed tuned for more new features in the coming weeks!

Happy Creating,

Wix Team

We’re proud to announce the first Wix Website Design Contest, together with Webappers blog.

The contest is very simple. All you have to do is use Wix to create a website.

The website should promote a small business like a hotel, a restaurant, a spa and so on.

Contestants can use any content available on Wix or content that can be uploaded to Wix, as long as it’s flash.

Wix creative VP Design, Yonatan Saragosi, will choose 5 final contestants, and the Webappers’ community will vote on the best design and choose the winner.

First prize is $700. The runner up will receive $300.

The contest begins today and will take place until June 27^th, 2008.

For more details and for registration, see here

Here’s a glimpse of our editor, showing the flexibility and speed of website creation with Wix.