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Planning Your Website

Creating your own website is easier than you think. But it requires spending a little time and energy planning exactly what you want your site to accomplish, look like and say. We're presenting this selection of short but helpful articles about planning a successful, star-quality website, to get help you started. With these useful tidbits, you'll have a better understanding of what goes into making a website, and will be one step closer to creating your own. Plus, you'll learn how Wix's website builder really is a dream tool – both for newbies and web pros alike.




Designing a Website

So you’re ready to design your first Flash website but you have no idea where to start. What color should your website be? Should you include animation? What fonts should you use? How should your site be laid out? Or, maybe you've already got your website started but would like to learn more about web design. The Wix team of Flash website designers has put together their tips to building great Flash websites. You've come to the right place. With Wix, there's no need to waste time on coding, or get stuck on technical problems and programming, even if you know how. Use Wix's free website builder to design a website the fun and easy way!




Writing Killer Content

You may already have heard the phrase “content is king". There is a huge amount of information on the Internet, and users have plenty of choices when deciding what sites to visit. That's why it is incredibly important to rise to the challenge of creating quality content that will interest your audience and give you a competitive edge.

Content is also one of the best ways to bring traffic to your site. Search engines find and list all of the websites with content related to the keywords a user enters. If the content on your page is strong and on-topic, then your users will have no problem discovering your site through search engines. And that, dear friend, is highly valuable.




Promote Your Website

So you've created a website, and now you don't know what to do with it. Remember the old philosophical debate – If a tree falls in a forest, but no one's around to hear it, does it make a sound? Well, if you've created an outstanding website, filled it with great content and tweaked the design until it's just right…but no one sees it, all your hard work was essentially for nothing. Don't let your website slip through the cracks of the World Wide Web. Read up on ways to promote your website, and get users to notice you in no time.




Wix illustrious team of web designers, writers, artists and search engine experts have pooled together their professional know-how to help you through your first steps of free web design. We’ve compiled a list of ‘how to’ articles covering a broad range of subjects and website types. Together with our ever growing list of free Flash templates you now have all the resources necessary to successfully design & promote your own Flash website like a pro! If you’ve written tutorials on relevant subjects and would like to share them with the wix.com community, send them over to maito@wix.com, we always welcome every contribution.
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