Building a Website

Although I have created websites before, I have never used the Wix platform before. After signing up with my email address and creating a password I looked at various templates. I chose one which seemed suitable for showing off illustrations and drawings, as well as photographic and video work. 

Wix.com 'splash' or 'entry' page

Creating account with Wix

The first thing I did was to change the text on the headings. I personalised the text so that it was MY name. Another change to the headings I made was altering 'photography' to 'gallery' etc. Of course, I also chose different fonts for the lettering. For example, I wanted a simple sans-serif font for the main heading. Something less fancy and more modern looking than the default font on the original template.

Then I began to clear the template site pages of the images already uploaded, replacing them with my own work. I used the 'add' icon on the left and chose add either 'Image' or 'Text'. See screen shot below.

Adding an image via the left hand menu

Using the cursor (pointing hand) I had to resize the images and place them carefully. I found using the rulers (these are found on the tools pull-down menu) very useful. Please see the screen-grab below. 

Using rulers to align image with text

Finally I pasted some new text on the 'biography' page and hit the preview button.

Adding text to the Biography page

So far, I have found Wix to be very easy to use, though it takes time and patience. Overt the coming weeks I will experiment with different designs and page content. The first result is available at: https://marksmith886.wixsite.com/mysite.