Hello, I am Douglas Maclachlan & this is my Blog Assignment for Unit 9 in the class IT214. This is not meant to be an actual blog, but rather it is a work for school submission.
Blog Posts
My New Blog 3/30/2019
The Setup
Initially, I used a site on Weebly and created the blog there. After about 2-3 hours of tweaking it, I found that I needed to have a domain, or pay for them to use it. This was a disappointment for me. So I came to Wix as I had never used it before. Setup was not too challenging, although I would prefer a setup where I can actually CODE rather than drag and drop elements to create the layout of the page.
The Changes
These are the following changes which I made to the layout/template after signing up with Wix. To the right, you can see what this initially looked like.
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Changed order so About comes before Blog in the menubar.
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Changed background to a dark grey from white.
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Changed content background to a light blue.
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Removed all stock images.
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Changes Site Name to my own name.
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Centered the site name.
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Moved menu to the center below the site name.
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Removed Social Media Bar
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Capitalized About in the About title heading.
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Changed font and size of About text.
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Changed and added About content.
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Added picture of myself.
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Added contact information.
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Set header color to match the page color.
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Changed main page text to describe the blogs purpose.
My Conclusion
Wix is a great site, and creating the content is fairly easy. However, it is not something I will continue to use. I would prefer to find a responsive blog layout and design the page myself from scratch. I think the editor for sites like this are clunky and often overwhelming. I prefer to do as much work as I can via a plain text editor.
Overall, I think a site like Wix is great for someone that wants a quick and easy site with a lot of customization. However, someone who truly wants control may want to look elsewhere.