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Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Teardrop Design | Graphic Design & Website Builder
The website builder was used to create this energetic and interactive designer website. Get inspired by fun Flash elements and link up to the artist's social networks.
Ike Sakaryan is the creative force behind Teardrop Design, a design agency specializing in web and logo design and promotion. He used Wix' website builder to create a site that expresses his unique identity and interactive approach as an artist. This is especially demonstrated on his site's Events page, which includes a call to action to emerging artists in the Montreal area to get in touch for a collaborative art show event planned by Sakaryan. An animated photo gallery on this page makes the event especially enticing.
Visitors to this site can wander through galleries of Sakaryan's work, as it is presented in a three-page mini gallery on the Portfolio page. An animated page arrow focuses the attention of visitors by pointing toward the matrix-style galleries. The inclusion of a small but powerful Flash element is found on several of this site's pages. A fluttering fly is on the Philosophy page, and a man paints an eye on the Service page, while standing on top of an erupting ball of fire. These dynamic elements inject a sense of playfulness and whimsical energy into the site, presenting Sakaryan as a creative, innovative and bold website builder and graphic designer. A slider gallery with rollover animation lies on the Press page, and includes images that link to design work the artist has done for clients. There are also links to social networks as well as the artist's blog, setting up a convenient segue to future interactions and business relationships. The overall result is a high-powered and unique work of art that effectively promotes this designer's services and causes.
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Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Milla Camargo Handbags | How to Make a Website
Ask Milla Camargo how to make a website, and the odds are she'll direct you toward Wix. The site she created to promote herself as a handbag designer beautifully illustrates the possibilities presented by Wix, allowing users to customize design elements freely in order to produce something unique, personal and professional.
Carmago's Flash website is divided into four mini-pages, accessed through menu tabs on the lower left-hand corner of the home page. Visitors can learn all about Camargo, her mother and the director of her handbag line on an About page, which includes photos of the three women as well. The Portfolio page leads visitors to a selection of three galleries, each arranged with thumbnail images for an easy viewing experience. Snapshots of various bag designs are shown in the Styles gallery, while the Catalogue and Events galleries have models wearing the bags at fashion shows and photo shoots. Each gallery contains a helpful link to the main Portfolio, making it easy to navigate between the various albums. A contact form widget is planted onto the Contact page for interested fashionistas, fashion editors, distributors and resellers can get in touch with this talented young designer. With a degree in Fashion & Design, Camargo clearly knew how to make a website to get her message across. Using Wix, she built a fantastic personal website to present herself as a professional designer.
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Monday, June 28, 2010
Architectural Visualization | Free Website & Portfolio
This free website and artist portfolio showcases the talent of 3D designer Farhan Ahmed. Browse through galleries of his dream-like architectural visualizations.
Farhan Ahmed filled his free website with stunning samples of his work as an architectural illustrator and 3D designer. On the homepage, visitors are presented with a photo gallery of images that expand when rolled-over. The colorful photos stand out against the black and white background and encourage visitors to delve deeper into the site.
The site contains a series of five mini pages, all of which are connected to a menu on the main page. This makes it easy for visitors to proceed throughout the site, remaining fully in control of their viewing experience. A music player widget was added to the site’s main page as well, providing a continuous flow of music throughout one's visit, adding a personal touch Ahmed's presentation of his work. Visitors can easily turn off the music by clicking on the player itself.
Each mini page is divided into two parts, separating textual and visual content into distinct sections. The effect is pleasing to the eye and allows a visitor to quickly process information in an organized manner. A thumbnail gallery of images is presented in the Portfolio page, providing visitors with optimal control over their viewing experience. The artist’s contact information is clearly presented on the last page of this highly professional and visually-inspiring free website.
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Sunday, June 27, 2010
Big John's Mountain Grill | Free Flash Website
This succulent free website has automated photo galleries and Flash animation. Take a juicy bite of this free Flash website and feast your eyes to fresh web design.
Big John's Mountain Grill used the website builder to create a mouth-watering, eye-catching free Flash website. With Flash animation, automated photo galleries, beautiful sliding page transitions and high-contrast text and logos, this website makes a powerful impression on its visitors and is an excellent tool for promoting and enhancing the restaurant's brand.
This free website sizzles not only for its visual appeal, but for its user-friendliness. The top menu bar on the main page has roll-over effects, causing the menu's buttons to change from black to orange. Clicking on a menu button causes the lower half of the page content to slide to the left. Easy-to-read text is accompanied by scrollbars, and the restaurant's own menu content is divided by meal onto three separate mini pages with a menu of their own. A photo gallery page includes a thumbnail menu, making it simple for visitors to grab a quick glimpse at Big John's grub. The Press page includes a spot for reviews and user comments which are added directly to the site through the Comment Form widget. All the information you would need is included on the Contact page, wrapping up one's visit to this impressive free Flash website.
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Thursday, June 24, 2010
Katrina Gelino | Graphic Designer & Website Builder
This sleek graphic designer website offers a compelling look at what Katrina Gelino has to offer her clients. Get inspired by the design details in this brilliant Flash website.
Graphic designer Katrina Gelino built a stylish, chic website with the free website builder that shows off her creative style and professional experience as an artist. The site is visually-based, allowing Gelino's work to speak for itself. The calming colors of the site temper the interesting combination of patterns and shapes of the cloud of menu buttons and logo. The sparkling emitters outlining the menu buttons also provide an attractive visual effect.
The site's inner pages are easy to navigate, and visitors can instantly return to the home page by clicking on Gelino's name, which remains firmly planted on the top left corner of the site. Clicking on the Portfolio page brings visitors to a series of galleries, connected to a menu bar. Minimalist page arrows make it easy to browse through images, and each new design appears to be slapped down with a Flash animated image of a hand. This whimsical element adds to the contemporary and innovative look that gives Gelino's designs an edge. Other interactive elements found on this site include the music player and contact form widgets, both easily added through the Widgets section of Wix's free website builder.
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Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Friends Like Us - Non-Profit | Website Builder
Website builder Wix was used to create this non-profit organization site. Make a donation and send a free Chemo Bear to a child battling cancer and spread the love.
A non-profit childhood cancer organization, Friends Like Us created a beautiful Flash website to spread their message of love and hope. The site is extremely user-friendly, with easy-to-read content and an intuitive link structure. Visitors can quickly learn what this organization does immediately upon visiting the homepage and reading a small amount of bold, breathable text. The whitespace surrounding the content and elements of this site contribute to its user-friendliness, as visitors can comfortably glide throughout the site's pages, clicking on links and learning about Friends Like Us' cause. Drawings of children smiling and dynamic Flash design elements provide a bright, uplifting tone to the site's web design.
Friends Like Us sends stuffed teddy bears, or ChemoBears, to kids with cancer. All of the information about these bears is found on a well-organized Chemo Bears section of the website. Hospitals, parents and donors each have their own page describing how to get involved. Heart-warming photo galleries encourage site visitors to donate. There are clear, bold links to Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and the Friends Like Us blog, with easy-to-identify icons. The PayPal widget found inside the Wix website builder enables Friends Like Us to accept donations directly through this Flash website.
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Video Game Artist Portfolio | Website Builder
This powerful artist portfolio showcases the talent of Lewis Walden. Explore 3D environments built by this master of video-game animation and design.
Deviant Environment is the virtual universe of Lewis Walden, a professional video and computer game artist and designer. He used the Wix website builder to create a site that serves both as an online portfolio and career overview. The relationship between the Flash animation of the site's background, and the 3D illustration of the artist's work, creates a powerful visual effect.
Visitors are invited to peer into the dark, intense world of this talented professional artist, as they navigate throughout the site's visual content. A small, simple menu bar is found on the lower left-hand corner of the main page, with an unobtrusive series of links that guide users through the site without detracting attention away from the visual content. Walden also uploaded logos of computer and video games that feature his work. Each logo connects to 3D videos from the games themselves, which Walden also uploaded through the website builder. Links to various social networks and the artist's blog complete this dynamic and impressive multi-media portfolio.
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Monday, June 21, 2010
Bobbi Jo Photography | Personal Free Website
This free website captures Bobbi Jo Kleckner's passion for photography and living life to its fullest. Take a stroll through galleries of keepsake photos and visit her blog.
Bobbi Jo Kleckner created a free website out of a deep passion for photography and living life to its fullest. Her site is filled with beautiful family portraits, artistic compositions, nature shots and wedding photos, each presented in a separate gallery marked with its own clear menu label. Site visitors can navigate easily between the various galleries, as well as individual photographs, which were assigned rollover effects. Hovering over a particular photograph causes the photo to freeze in motion, while clicking on the photo allows visitors to zoom in for a closer look. This also causes page arrows to appear on either side of the enlarged photo, for a more in-depth and controlled viewing experience.
This site has a vibrant sense of passion, creativity and positivity, presented not only by the bright and cheery family photos, but the fun combination of web design elements. The site's background and menu labels present an organic, DIY look, with images of loose-leaf paper, scotch tape and paperclips. There are inspirational quotes, photos of sunsets and strawberries, and images of cheerful artwork. There's a link to Kleckner's blog, and a contact form for visitors to easily get in touch and request photography services. It is clear that this free website was a labor of love, and Kleckner is able to add more photographs to her galleries with ease, using the website builder.
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Sunday, June 20, 2010
Maggie Cook Knitwear & Website Builder
This funky designer website is chock full of eye-catching design elements found in the free website builder. Shop for unique knitwear and get inspired by the original style of this Flash site.
As soon as you enter the online world of Maggie Cook, her creativity and unique design approach grabs your attention. With an array of visually-stimulating design elements, this Flash website was clearly built by someone with a strong sense of style. Animated clip art, page transitions and photo galleries presents a sense of movement to the site, offering a fresh and innovative way to present a collection of knitwear. Cook used the website builder to create a highly navigational site, with clickable buttons and links pointing to the site's various pages.
This pretty designer site allows visitors to purchase items by clicking on images of butterflies that link to Cook's online Etsy boutique. With comment and contact forms, fans of this creative designer can engage directly with the site by posting comments or sending messages to the designer herself. Visitors who fall in love with the fun and flirty look of this site can even contact Cook for web design projects. Links to other Cook-designed sites are found on the Boutique Web Design page. All of the butterflies, flowers, ribbons and lace found inside this website were added with just a few clicks inside Wix's website builder.
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Thursday, June 17, 2010
OWAH Wedding Coordinators | Make Your Own Website
The fun and flirty details in this event coordinator site show the freedom you get when you make your own website with Wix. Check out the
OWAH (Off Without a Hitch) Productions is an event coordination group that used Wix to make a website that sparkles with elegance and skillful design. The cheery blue-and-white color scheme with hot pink accents creates a fun and flirty feel, just perfect for brides-to-be, or anyone interested in gaining some expert assistance in planning the perfect event. The wispy, curvy pattern of the site's background is recreated on the site's internal pages in clip art, icons and typeface. All of this serves to provide a unified, branded look that contributes to the company's credibility and professionalism.
The content of this site is presented in an extremely breathable format, allowing guests to casually stroll through the site without feeling encumbered or overwhelmed. Other fun elements include rollover effects assigned to decorative spinning icons and animated photo galleries with thumbnail images. Clickable icons and links can be found on the Contact Us page, where visitors can connect to related associations featuring OWAH productions, as well as the company's blog, Flickr account, and social media accounts. Interested clients can fill out a Contact form to get in touch easily – another element easily added when you make your own website with free website builder Wix.
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Excelsior Comics Shop | Free Flash Website
This free Flash website is jam-packed with dynamic Flash elements and HTML widgets. Discover new games and comics from forum members, and make a custom order.
The designers of Excelsior Comics took full advantage of the latest design elements offered by Wix. Their free Flash website uses a dynamic combination of Flash design elements, and HTML widgets, resulting in a visually stimulating, highly interactive website. Despite all this excitement the site manages to retain a sense of organization and clarity with a menu-bar that remains visible on the top of the page's static content. Colorful clip art, photos, graphic icons and buttons add whimsical touches to the website's pages.
The site's inner pages are arranged in a book-like format, with pages that can be turned by clicking on their corners. Rollover effects have been assigned to Recommended Reading titles on several of the pages, causing text boxes to pop up with suggestions that will surely be appreciated by devoted comic collectors. With the new HTML widget found inside Wix's editor, a forum was embedded, making this free Flash website a hub of social interaction for comic fanatics. Fans can place special orders for specific comics via a custom-made Excelsior Standing Order Form, also made with an HTML widget. Other interactive elements of this action-packed site include links to eBay and Facebook, Excelsior's Twitter feed, a Google map and a comment form. The combination of Flash and HTML elements make visiting this site a memorable experience, as the playful and interactive features make visiting this website a fun activity in itself!
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Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Powerhouse Business Website | Flash Website Builder
Powerhouse used the Flash website builder to take their print cartridge business to the next level. Read all about their services and sign up for the mailing list.
As soon as you land on this Flash website, the dynamic color combination immediately demands your attention and refuses to let it go. With a black background and bold, brightly-colored titles, text and menu label backgrounds, the site conveys a powerful sense of energy. The site's content is neatly divided into an upper portion of static content, and a lower portion of dynamic content that shifts according to the menu located on the upper-left corner of the website. Packets of text are split into three columns on each page, making the content digestible and easy to read. Powerhouse also used the Flash website builder to create a link to a form for visitors to subscribe to a company newsletter. A contact form widget completes the package, and allows visitors to instantly send messages to Powerhouse, directly through the site. The design tools of the Flash website builder were put to good use in the construction of this visually compelling and information-rich site.
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Monday, June 14, 2010
Munkybuns Toys | Make a Free Website
Munkybuns used Wix to make a free website for its creative stuffed toy business. See what fun creatures are waiting for homes, or request a custom-designed Munkybun.
Cherie Michels, the creator of Munkybuns, used Wix to make a free website for her to showcase her hand-made creations and offer them for sale. The playful look of the Munkybuns sock toys is replicated in the design of the Munkybuns site. A dynamic collection of music, pictures, stories, buttons and colors, the Munkybuns website is a whimsical example of successful branding. The Munkybuns logo is found throughout the site, and its colorful image boldly stands out, against the site’s black background and white text. Circus-theme music plays in the background during one's visit to this spunky land of creativity and innovation.
One of the most playful elements of the site (apart from the Munkybuns creatures themselves, of course), are the photo galleries. Found on the site’s Collection page, each gallery has a series of thumbnail images with roll-over activation. This element of movement contributes to the dynamic look and feel of the Munkybun brand. Each stuffed toy is unique and hand-made, and the photo galleries offers visitors a taste of the variety of pattern designs, embroidery options, buttons, decals and more that can go into the construction of a Munkybun. Afterwards, a visit to the Pricing page is just a click away on the site's clearly-designed menu. There’s even a link to the Munkybuns "Sock Stock" - a Facebook page with photos of sock pairs from which customers can select for custom-designs. The Flash web elements of Wix were used beautifully here, to make a free website that promotes the cheerful world of the Munkybuns.
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Sunday, June 13, 2010
Daniela Huhurez Artist Website | Website Creator
This visual artist used Wix to create the perfect online portfolio. Take a virtual tour of her gallery and contact her to purchase a piece of artwork directly from the artist.
Daniela Huhurez used the website creator to design not only an online portfolio, but a full-fledged virtual art gallery. Each work of art is accompanied by a label indicating the title, size, date, medium and price of each work. A contact form enables interested art buyers to send a message directly to the artist, to inquire about a particular piece, place an order, or make a request for a commissioned work.
This highly functional site was crafted with several tools offered by the website creator. A menu bar guides visitors through the site, linking to various mini pages that organize the site's content. The home page displays a gallery of the artist's work, and navigation arrows make it easy for visitors to control the pace at which they view the gallery's multiple pages. Clicking on each individual work brings up a larger view of the piece, along with the work's label information. An accordion-style photo gallery is found on the Posters page, allowing visitors to scroll through posters of the artist's previous exhibitions, creating the same effect as one would have while browsing through posters in a real gallery or museum gift shop. The site's black and white color scheme is consistent with that of the artwork itself, creating a unified look. The result is a beautifully arranged, successful presentation of artistic talent.
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Thursday, June 10, 2010
Pascale Hares Art Director | Website Creator
Talented artist and designer Pascale Hares uses his own animated designs in his online portfolio site. Have fun exploring his cute, bold and quirky creations.
Pascale Hares used website builder Wix to collect his creations and deposit them in one convenient place. His online portfolio is obviously the work of a professional designer, with its high level of usability, expert usage of whitespace, experimentation with typography and original animation.
Visitors can learn all about this art director on the neatly arranged pages of his Wix website. Hares uploaded his own animation files with Wix's website creator, to make a site that celebrates his design talent. He uses images as buttons to display his work, and invites visitors to engage with his art directly. Everything is presented clearly, as Hares was able to combine his innovative love of design with an appreciation for function and usability. This artist made excellent use of the website creator, to build a portfolio that shows off his identity, experience and skills as a designer.
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Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Style-Hub | Flash Website Design
This celebrity stylist will help you beautify yourself from the inside out. Get inspired by her creative combination of patterns, clip art and images on her Flash website.
Style-Hub is the creation of Claire Todd, celebrity stylist and image consultant. An expert in all things design-related, she put the free website builder to good use in creating a site for her styling services. The home page's simplicity is enticing, and users are greeted with glistening stars that surround Style-Hub's logo. This use of animation draws visitors into the site's main content.
Each of the site's five inner pages presents a groovy combination of visual elements that are brilliantly arranged in a DIY-like manner. Todd's attention to detail is depicted by the stylish spattering of small clip art items throughout the site. The variety of objects adds a level of spunk to her web design. She smartly pulls it all together with easy-to-read text, the helpful placement of links, and clear menu labels. The creative combination of design elements demonstrates the flexibility of the free website builder, and the fashion-savvy mind who tied it all together.
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Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Sweet Station Bakery & | Make a Website
This bakery is promoting its business with a Flash website. Read their menu while scrolling through savory photos of delicious treats, and place an order.
Sweet Station Bakery & Café used Wix to make a website to showcase their culinary selections and put their business on the map. With a user-friendly layout and engaging Flash design elements, this site is built for success. All the information a user would expect to find is readily located with a clearly marked menu connecting to the site's inner pages.
This site makes excellent use of images and photo galleries. Users can browse through photos of the menu selections and indulge in a savory slideshow. The homepage has an image of a computer with the Sweet Station website on its screen - a cute and effective way to advertise the café's Wi-Fi. Visitors can easily find the hours of operation, and get directions with the Google map widget found on the Directions page. Wix provides the ingredients for this site's web design. The owners of Sweet Station mixed them all together and added their own content, to make a website that will put the frosting on their business success.
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Monday, June 7, 2010
Black & Bird Headband Design | Flash Website
Black & Bird created a Flash website with Wix for its After Dark collection. Order a custom-designed high-fashion headband through the online shop.
This website takes full advantage of the free website builder's ability to create a stylish and fully functional online store. The sultry and seductive look of the merchandise is replicated in the site's design elements, including the black background, pink text and a script typeface in the boutique's logo. There is a unified aesthetic that adds a solid element of branding for the Black & Bird name.
Using Flash to build this website was also a smart design choice. The rollover effects in the site's menu and photo galleries emphasize these items. The transition effects of the site's pages, or the way the pages flicker when a user clicks on a menu item, is a stylish design detail. The satin sheen of these custom-designed headbands is beautifully captured in the high-quality photo galleries of Black & Bird's web pages. Customers can browse through the different design options, and purchase items directly using the shopping cart widget in the Store mini page. The free website builder gave the designers of Black & Bird the tools and flexibility they needed, to express their unique style in the web design of their site.
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Sunday, June 6, 2010
Vanessa N. Model Portfolio | Free Flash Website
Free website builder Wix was used to create this professional modeling portfolio. Read a short model bio and sample some stunning photos on this Flash website.
Vanessa Nguyen used Wix to design her own online model portfolio. Her site uses a sleek, minimalist approach to web design, to create a professional look with a splash of impressive Flash elements. The black and white color scheme provides a sharp contrast to the images found in the site's photo galleries. The typography of this website contributes to its usability, with a highly-readable font that breathes easily, surrounded by whitespace.
Each page of this free Flash website is divided into two parts, with shifting mini pages on the right side and the site's static content on the left. On the homepage, a series of photographs alternate in a slow-moving Flash slideshow. A thumbnail gallery is used for the model's portfolio, allowing users to quickly spot photos and view their enlarged versions. Nguyen makes it easy for clients to get in touch and learn more, with a contact form widget and links to her Facebook profile and model directory. This free Flash website epitomizes how the Flash design elements offered by Wix can be used to create a user-friendly and visually impressive professional website.
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Saturday, June 5, 2010
Jaime Miller Wedding Photography | Flash Website
With free website builder Wix, Jaime Miller made a Flash website to promote her business. Visit this visually based site and become inspired by its creative use of Flash web design.
Jaime Miller created a website to demonstrate her talent and experience as a wedding photographer, and to provide a way for clients to get in touch easily. A menu bar is connected to a series of mini pages all of which are neatly and clearly labeled, making this site user-friendly. Visitors can easily locate Miller's basic contact information no matter where they are on this Flash website, as it is found at the bottom of her site's main page which remains seen from all inner pages.
In addition to its usability, the site is extremely visually appealing. The black and white photo in the background provides a sense of clarity to the color photographs in the site's Gallery page. There is a rotating gallery of images on top of a thumbnail gallery with rollover effects. Building a Flash website enabled this photographer to present herself professionally with impressive visual effects that are sure to catch the attention of her visitors. Getting in touch is easy with a contact form widget found on the Contact page, easily added from the widgets section of the website builder. Couples in need of a Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania or New Jersey wedding photographer can get all the information they need from this beautifully presented website.
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Friday, June 4, 2010
Studio 48 Photography | Make a Website
This photography studio used Wix to make a website that promotes their expertise. Browse through animated photo galleries and send a message with a contact widget.
The Flash website built by studio 48 showcases the variety of services offered by these talented photographers. With clearly marked menu labels, visitors can breeze through the site to learn about the different packages provided. Each individual package is described in depth on its own mini page on the right of the website, while the left area of this site remains in place. The studio's logo and location remain seen throughout the site, and make it easy for visitors to become acquainted with the studio's name and brand.
The site uses Flash design in an automated slideshow of wedding images that welcomes visitors on the Home page. This provides a quick and convenient sample of work done by this Minnesota wedding photographer. Other impressive Flash design elements are also contained in the site's Portfolio page. With an automated photo gallery, users are exposed to a beautiful series of photographs that seem to dance across the page, in a sleek and smooth movement. A contact widget invites visitors to interact with the website by sending e-mail messages directly from the site to the site owner. These photographers used the builder to make a website that visitors will love, and clients can rely on.
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Thursday, June 3, 2010
Marnie Alton Singer Website | Create a Website
Wix's free website builder was used by Marnie Alton to promote herself as a musician and express her personal style. Enjoy her star-quality talent by visiting this multi-media site.
Singer Marnie Alton took full advantage of the flexibility of Wix's free website builder. Entering this singer's website brings you to a world of creativity and personal expression. The Flash animation in this site makes it lively and entertaining – great attributes for a young singer's online persona. Listen to songs, watch music videos, read a whimsical artist bio and get connected to Alton's many online social networks. There is a wide variety of clip art, buttons and widgets that perform different actions when clicked or rolled-over. There is an animated photo gallery with sliding photos that grow to full size with just a single click. A PayPal button is found on the Store page of this site, allowing visitors to purchase Alton's album.
Marnie Alton is showing the world what she's made of, with Wix's free website tools. The effect is a playful interactive environment for fans to not only sample her music, but learn about her as an artist and a creative spirit.
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Wednesday, June 2, 2010
NorthShore Bude Backpackers Free Website
The NorthShore Bude Backpackers created a free website with Wix’s website builder. View photos of accommodations and get there easily with a Google map widget.
NorthShore Bude Backpackers is a place for travelers to seek refuge and comfortable accommodation while visiting Bude, England. The lodge’s website was created with Wix’s free website builder, and includes all the information a curious traveler would need. The site’s navigation is made easy with mini pages that are linked to a clearly-marked menu bar.
An About page provides information about the hostel itself and the Bude area. The text is arranged in a clear, highly-readable format, with a scrollbar for a user-controlled pace of reading. A slideshow gallery is presented next to the text, complementing the text-based content with pictures of surfers, rooms at the hostel and Bude sunsets. Visitors can learn more through a page with links to hostel review websites, traveler associations and local Bude attractions, as well as a link to the hostel’s Facebook page. More images can be found on the Gallery page, and a Contact page includes a contact form so that backbackers can easily get in touch with the owners without having to enter their e-mail accounts. There’s also a Google map pinpointing the precise location of the hostel. This easy-to-navigate free website offers travelers a way to get information quickly and effortlessly.
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Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Second Wind Interior Design | Make a Website
Ana Castanheira used Wix to make a website for her interior design company. View photographs of her work and read about her services on her Flash website.
Second Wind is the brainchild of interior designer Ana Castanheira. A former marketing professional, Castanheira knows how vital it is for a small business to make a website, in order to attract new clientele, to establish a sense of branding and to maintain customer loyalty. She succeeded brilliantly in designing a website that does just this. Second Wind’s site is extremely user friendly, and her clients are put at ease and made to feel accommodated. This website uses mini pages to separate the site’s content into sections clearly labeled with a menu bar.
The design talent of this entrepreneur is expressed in her online portfolio. The mood is set by Norah Jones' music as visitors begin to explore what's offered inside this Flash website. There are galleries of images showing beautifully decorated rooms, all of which are neatly presented with thumbnail menus. There is a solid feeling of organization, and one really gets the sense that this website caters to the experience of its visitors – important qualities for an interior designer to convey. Interested customers can easily contact Second Wind through a contact form widget. The personal elements in this website exemplify how designers can make a website with Wix, and include all their unique stylistic touches.
