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.

Release notes also available in:  Italiano – Francais – Espanol

P.S. You’ll also find how tos and tips for using the new features  (and old ones) in our newly evolved Wixpedia Help Center

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.

Wix.com is proud to offer solutions that make building a website faster and more efficient.

And now out for some Austin, Texas blues!

Austin, Texas – Graphic designers from around the country have gathered to attend the HOW Design Conference; a jamboree of educational workshops, keynote speakers, and design-minded sponsors.  The HOW conference is an annual summit organized by HOW Magazine, a leading trade publication for the design community.

As Day 1 comes to an end, there’s an energy in the eyes of each attendee…   an energy that calls to mind Freshman week of University.  Some have barely unpacked their bags before stuffing pockets full of business cards and hitting the conference floor.  Exhibitors are putting the finishing touches on their display tables and prepping their swag.  “Is this your first HOW conference?” one attendee asks another.  “Yes, it is, and it’s the most excited I’ve been about design in years!”

It’s sure to be a great week.

This year, Wix is attending HOW as both a student of design and service to share.  We will be reporting on the trade secrets learned in the workshops.  Furthermore, we will be hosting a fantastic initiative for all HOW attendees- The HOW Conference Wix Collective.  It will be a place on Wix where all attendees can share their conference experience.  Check it out:

http://www.wix.com/designer/HOWDesign

Last week Wix hosted a Banner Design Competition.  Wix Designers from around the world were asked to create banners promoting our free web design service.  Well, after hundreds of submissions…

We have a winner!!

Congratulations to theDEEPER Design Studio.
Here is the 1st Place Grand Prize Design:

For more info on theDEEPER Design Studio visit:

http://thedeeper.com/designstudio/
or the Wix Designers Directory

To everyone who participated:  Thanks for all your hard work!  Some were creative, some clever, some were cute and some were… well, see for yourself here!

Want to get more involved with Wix Design?  Email us at designers@wix.com

Are any of you Wix Designers up for $300 and eternal glory??

We’re looking for new banners for an online campaign.  We want them designed by our fresh, creative, and very talented Wix designers…  In other words – we want YOU to design for Wix!

Each banner that we choose wins $100, but one of you also has a chance to win the first-place grand prize of $300!

Feel free to send as many banners as you want.  If we use more than one of your banners, you’ll get paid for each separately!

The banners will promote our free web design service on sites related to graphic design, templates and such.

Contest begins:     NOW!
Contest end:         June 11th, 1:00pm EDT Sharp!

Please Email all submissions to: designers@wix.com.

Click here for the contest instructions… oh, and good luck!

Whether you’ve just created a business, personal, or social presence with the Wix.com web design platform, or you’ve been managing your premium site for a while, below you’ll find tips to take your creation to the next level.

In our ongoing effort to help you maximize your hard work we’ve created a 3 part series of articles filled with tips and tactics on how to effectively promote your site, increase visitors and make you all around, the talk of the town!

In this 1st post we’ll be focusing on Social Marketing – what marketers call “Conversational Marketing tactics”. For the non-marketers out there, marketing has switched recently to talking “WITH” the audience, not “TO” them.

Where traditional advertising methods such as radio, television, newspapers and magazines were about continuously broadcasting what the advertiser had to say to a very wide audience at fairly high costs, Conversational Marketing is about directly conversing and engaging with the audience. And the good news is: the cost of social marketing is the time and effort you invest in it.

Be Yourself. And Be Interesting

A great analogy to keep in mind along the way is “social media is one big party”. If you’re the boring person at the party, you’re probably not making a whole lot of friends. You want to be the person that people want to get to know, laugh with and listen to. People identify with people, not brands. This makes understanding your audience and their online usage trends extremely important and having fun even more so. Be yourself.

So what are the services that will build up your online notoriety, while making new friends along the way?…

Continue reading

A glorious day in Wixville – we’re pleased to introduce the most recent addition to the Wix family: the Wix Designers Directory.

The directory is a place for users seeking professional web design assistance. In it, they can find designers who have the skills, talent and experience to provide the ultimate service.

The whole initiative started after we received requests from regular Wix users who love the Wix platform but wanted to a professional touch. We listened and handpicked web designers who are using Wix: and viola! The directory was born.

Wix Designers Directory

We really believe that the users who want a helping hand and the designers that have what it takes will all benefit from this directory. And it’s also a giant step towards establishing a solid, groovy Wix community.

So how does it work?
Hop over to the directory and start browsing the different designers. You will find links to previous works they created with Wix, as well as a list of their offered skills.

If you want to contact one of the designers for professional designing services, just click on the Contact Now link on their business cards and send them a message. And you can both take it from there.

If you have any questions about the Wix Designers Directory, write us a quick mail to designers@wix.com.

We’re looking forward to hearing your comments about this exciting project!

We have a feeling you will be online tomorrow (Thursday, April 23), so why don’t you visit Dave Graveline’s website and hear a live interview with our CEO, Allon Bloch?

Allon will be a guest on Graveline’s “Into Tomorrow” online radio show and will discuss a few interesting topics related to Wix and web design.

The interview is scheduled for 04.30 PM, ET. You can visit Dave’s website and check out who else is on the lineup. The amazing image below will take you straight there:

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