We’re exited at Wix today. After a lot of hard work Wix.com has a new design all designed in Wix of course!

New thing

Old thing

The new design is more than a cosmetic one:
You’ll still find all the sections that were there before, though they may be easier to find with our new navigation structure.
And in the coming weeks you’ll also find some extra surprises and offerings, too!

Stay tuned and looking forward to your feedback

Amit

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

In the past few days I was busy with trying to build all kinds of widgets for bloggers using Wix, and I thought it would be great to share them with you (our users). Got ideas for new widgets? comment about them here, lets try to do them as well…

1. The “where i am” widget (see here, my personal one ) As you can see, I just took all kinds of icons (we will supply Wix icons to known Social networks and services very soon) and linked them to the right place. The fun thing is that you can:

• Customize the way your widget looks like (colors, effects, sounds)
• Fit the size of the widget to your blog/profile/whatever…
• Add more icons to your widget the moment you join a new service (and you will!) and the Wix will be updated wherever you embedded it.

2. Sport widget: your favorite players, your favorite groups, you can embed it into your profile and change it following the changes in real life… (see example here )

3. Countdown widget: you’ve got a big campaign coming up? are you starting a new project that you want people to notice? are you planing to launch a new album? new song? new something? why not let Wix promote it?Or simply put: comment to your friends with Wix-countdown widgets, and it will update everyday or every time you want it to (use it as banner, newsletter…) you can see how the Anarchist Music Project A.N.A use it in MySpace press here.

Written by Amit knaani, Amit@wix.com