Web Content Management Design Spring 2023

Wix Home Page

History

Wix was founded in 2006 by Avishai Abrahami, Nadav Abrahami and Giora Kaplan.  According to the Wix website, the idea was born on the beach while they were building a website to be the basis of another start-up idea. They realized that this would be difficult and then came up with the idea to build a platform for anyone to create there own site without any coding or design skills.

Requirements

Wix is not very specific on their requirements, but they do list their supported browsers. The ones for desktop are below:

• Google Chrome (version 92 and above)
• Safari for Mac (version 14 and above)
• Microsoft Edge (version 100 and above) 
• Firefox (version 91 and above)

Wix also lists their supported browsers for mobile:

• Google Chrome for Android
• Google Chrome for iPhone
• Safari (version 14 and above)
• Facebook in-app browser (for example, when you click a link inside of the Facebook app).

Hosted or Self-hosted?

Wix is a CMS that includes the hosting. You do not need to find another host.

Cost

There are a variety of plans for Wix which range from $16-$59 per month. In addition to basic website plans, Wix also offers ecommerce plans.

User Base

There are over 200 million people that use Wix as a CMS.