Last week, Wix.com hosted our first learning workshop in New York City. In conjunction with Meetup.com, Wix organized over 20 designers, photographers and marketing professionals for a lesson on resumes and portfolio design.
Wix.com will be hosting many workshops in the near future on topics that include:
• Web design
• Graphic design
• Marketing strategy
• Business strategy
• New technology
• And more!
http://www.meetup.com/digitalcreatives
The next Wix.com/ Digital Creatives Meetup event will be Oct 28th, 2009
Our first ever template design contest has come to an end. Congratulations to everyone who participated! All of the sites submitted were incredibly well done. After much deliberation, we have decided upon our winners:
1st Place – Karen Keith, Karen Keith Designs 2nd Place – Simon Patterson, Design Communications 3rd Place – Loai Bassam, Designers TM
The winning templates were selected for their presentation of content, aesthetics, and ease of editing.
These templates and several other designer portfolios will soon be available for you in the Wix Create section!
We’ve just launched our first ever template design contest! Wix is looking for a few “designer portfolio” templates: sites that showcase web design work to prospective clients. You’ve got two weeks to get ‘em done- the contest ends September 8th, 2009, at 5pm EDT.
We’ve got some great prizes lined up including:
First Place: $250 CASH and a $50 gift card to Kid Robot [kidrobot.com]!
Second Place: $100 CASH
Third Place: $50 gift card to Kid Robot
The primary objective of this template is to promote a web designer and his/her work. Aesthetics should be the priority. Go for the “wow” factor! The first time someone opens the page, it should provoke excitement. Make sure the overall look of the site is eye catching as well. For all the guidelines, giveaways and details, visit the contest website.
Submitting is easy! Just send the address of your Wix template website to designers@wix.com.
You can also contact designers@wix.com with any questions you have… Oh, one more thing… Good luck!
We’ve been working hard to give you a beautiful way to set up shop on Wix – and now it’s live!
Setting up shop has never been so easy!!
We’ve had a lot of requests for an eCommerce solution on Wix. Well, we’ve been working hard to give you something great! Our new eCommerce widget is simple to use, beautiful to display and able to handle all of your selling needs.
We’ve also uploaded several new eCommerce templates for you – you’ll find them in Create. As usual, you can start from scratch or add the customizable eCommerce widget to an existing site and make it your own.
How to start selling online:
Open the editor (via your site or our new eCommerce templates) and go to Widgets > eCommerce
The eCommerce widget is a premium feature made up of 3 elements: product gallery, shopping cart and checkout button. You can take them apart and customize each individually OR work with all the elements together via “Stores”.
Go play with the Wix eCommerce widget in the editor. Then all you need to do is upgrade to the Wix eCommerce package and your ready to sell! If you have an existing upgrade, don’t worry, we’ll only charge you the difference when you upgrade to eCommerce.
We’d love to see what you’re creating with Wix eCommerce!
Be sure to drop us a line in the comments and share a link to your Wix sites!
After many long days and nights we’ve released NEW features into the Wix Editor!!!
Areas, contact forms skins & color customization, easier to use manage and expand, roll over and roll out mouse state behaviors, add your twitter feeds…All designed to make creating Flash websites and other web content simpler, faster and even more powerful!
And there’s more features coming soon! eCommerce shopping cart, upload/download documents, comments… Find it all out more in our latest release notes.
Austin, Texas – The HOW Design Conference came to a close today. Attendees reconvened for the last workshops and the closing keynote: Mark Randall, “Design Ignites Change”. We now look toward the future with the lessons learned this week; motivated, energized and full of new ideas.
As designers, we must find the order in chaos. We must visually express abstract ideas in a clear and compelling fashion. We must produce cutting edge work without losing sight of our intended audience. We must take risks, push the limits, and test our personal boundaries. We must keep the ideas we love, learn from the experience of others, and stay mindful of parts to repair. At the end of the day, one final product is displayed to the world. Make it the best it can be.
Wix.com has been proud to attend the HOW Design Conference this year. In the weeks to come, we will be showcasing the many talented attendees on our HOW Conference Wix Collective. Stay tuned!
Day 3 is coming to an end at the HOW Design Conference in Austin, Texas. Attendees have their last chance to view some incredible exhibits including the Type Directors Club, a showcase of award winning typographic design. Up-and-coming designers exhibit personal work at the HOW Conference Portfolio Review. The evening will wrap up with a ballroom costume party to Keep Austin Weird!
A highlight of the day was Cameron Moll’s “Good vs. Great Design” seminar which offered tips on how to effectively communicate messages while designing.
Vital information should be simple to read and easy to find. Use contrast to guide the eye. Test your work by “blurring” your site. Regardless of content, the center of attention should be clear. Take a look:
In Western culture, the eye naturally moves from top left to bottom right, an important point to keep in mind. By mastering contrast in design, you can guide the reader’s attention around your page and insure key ideas are noted and remembered.
Want to follow Wix.com at HOW in real time? Check us out on Twitter @WixDesigners.
It’s Day 2 of the HOW Design Conference in Austin, Texas. The afternoon temperature has dropped to a “cool” 101 degrees. The energy is still alive and well. Today, the classroom sessions began, featuring hour-long seminars on topics such as creativity, business, technology, and of course, design.
It’s a lot of information to digest and to avoid overload, we split our days between topics. Today we attended seminars on business, marketing, and freelance careers. Tomorrow we will explore creative trends and design theory.
A key takeaway today was learning ways to increase productivity by streamlining work flow. Clearly, experience increases performance rate, yet new technologies level the playing field by providing tools and techniques that yield professional results. Refer to the old adage “time is money” and you’ll see why it pays to invest in services that can give you a competitive edge.
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