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Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Stephen Fitzgerald Panoramic Photography
This Australian native used Wix to make a free website to show off his breathtaking body of work, and to market himself as a professional freelance photographer.
A professional panoramic photographer, Fitzgerald used the tools and elements offered by Wix to make a free website with sleek, fully personalized web design. A black background illuminates eye-catching landscapes, seascapes and sunsets. Gorgeous shots are found inside photo albums that are easily navigated with page arrows placed right underneath the images. Text underneath each photo provides location information, and blurbs of artistic commentary.
This impressive and visually profound website’s inner frame is composed of a graphic representation of a sleek and shiny digital camera. The menu buttons are graphic images of Flash drives, adding a whimsical touch while complementing the technical nature of Fitzgerald’s artistic process. Visitors can read all about this very process in a Learn How section tucked inside the About page. A separate page provides detailed information about pricing packages, which visitors can scroll freely. The text on these pages was planted on a translucent background, causing the words to appear as though they are floating in a dreamy universe of light and color.
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Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Marcinho Albani Photography
Free website builder Wix was used to create this sultry and scintillating photography portfolio. Flip through photo galleries and get in touch with a contact widget.
Photographer Marcinho Albani made excellent use of website builder Wix. He successfully created a personalized digital space to host his photography work, making it easy for visitors to browse through his work and learn about the man behind the camera. A Flashy slideshow beckons visitors to the homepage to take a deeper look, offering glimpses of Albani’s edgy, gritty aesthetic.
Neatly organized mini pages are access through a horizontal series of links found on the bottom left hand corner of the homepage, making this site a pleasure to navigate. The menu links are composed of simple text in a handwriting-style font, contributing to the organic, DIY feeling of this funky Flash website. Guests can scroll through photo galleries brimming with hand-picked photographs, carefully arranged into three sub-sections according to subject. Artsy urban shots, vibrant commercial works and steamy model photos are all clearly presented on top of thumbnail menus that greatly enhance the browsing process. A contact form was added with the website builder, enabling interested guests to drop Albani a line without leaving the confines of his personal website.
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Monday, September 27, 2010
Val Tourchin Photography
This photographer used Wix to make a free website that captures his unique style. Roll over galleries filled with stunning portraits and urban snapshots and explore Tourchin’s talent.
The black background of this photography portfolio sets a dark, seductive tone to the professional work found within. A single photograph was chosen as the backdrop of the site’s homepage, an element effectively used to make a website with a visual emphasis. A menu bar at the top guides visitors throughout various mini pages of this free website, allowing visitors to easily browse through the artist’s personal statement, samples of work, pricing contact information. This feature was created with tools found in Wix’ free website builder, and were customized down to the rollover color effects of the menu buttons.
Tourchin uploaded his photographers directly to his free website and placed them inside separate galleries for each of his main subjects. Each gallery hosts a beautiful collection of photos with sleek rollover effects, making for a smooth browsing experience. Highly readable text on the Pricing page contributes to the usability of this free website, with scrollable black text on a white background. A single photo balances the textual content of the page, giving the eye a comfortable element to focus on. Val Tourchin successfully used Wix to make a website that expresses himself as a unique, talented and professional photographer.
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Sunday, September 26, 2010
Robyn Anne Shaffner | Design Portfolio
This free website showcases the talent of designer Robyn Ann Shaffner in all the right ways. Check out eye-catching graphics, Flash effects and user-friendly navigation.
The visual appeal of this free website grabs the attention of visitors within an instant of landing on the homepage. The designer’s name is prominently displayed in the upper-right hand corner, arranged in a creative manner with the words seeming to be hanging from the site’s upper border. Immediately one is exposed to Shaffner’s bold and innovative approach to design. The right side of the page hosts a colorful collection of boxes framing a sliding gallery of works by the artist. Clicking an image in the rotating gallery freezes the image, allowing the visitor to engage directly with the design. The vibrant use of color mixed with the Flash animation injects a playful energy onto the website’s main page, drawing visitors in for a deeper look. Basic information about the artist is provided on a minimalist About page, and a collage-like presentation of works are presented within the Portfolio section. Beautiful thumbnail galleries expose the versatility of Shaffner, allowing clients and colleagues to flow freely throughout an extensive body of work, arranged in a highly organized structure. A simple contact form widget lets visitors send messages to the artist directly through her impressive and brilliantly designed free website.
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Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Shea Rose | Musician Website
Shea Rose is a talented young singer who knows how important it is to make a website with its own unique style. Listen to tracks and download lyrics so you can sing along.
A force to be reckoned with, Shea Rose chose Wix when deciding how to make a website that would capture her unique spirit. The site opens up with a Flashy, graphic-style photo of the artist against an urban, stylized background. Right beneath is a music player where visitors can sample tracks off of Rose’s album. For a free download, users simply have to enter their e-mail into Rose’s mailing list, which was placed on her site with an HTML widget in Wix’ website builder. By providing visitors with a free download, Rose can build a database of fans and contacts right inside her site.
Rose’s many accolades are featured on her site’s Press page, including features in magazines and music blogs, as well as a spot in Queen Latifah’s CoverGirl campaign. Photos of Rose writing songs, and notes with lyrics scribbled across are some of the personal elements speckled throughout this site. A contact form lets visitors get in touch directly with the singer’s manager, with 3D reflection effects that make the form appear to be floating on a shiny, glass-like surface. When it comes to knowing how to make a website that is custom-built to impress, Shea Rose is star-quality.
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Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Neshama Living
This group specializes in health and wellness. See how the free website builder was used to create an eCommerce site with a clean, minimalist look.
The philosophy behind Neshama Living focuses on natural, healthy living. The simple, minimalist look of their website ties in nicely with this new-age, modern approach. Plenty of whitespace surrounds the site’s core contents, introducing site visitors immediately to the cleansing aura of Neshama products. Using the free website builder’s menu options, a menu on the left guides visitors to the site’s inner pages, and a series of eye-catching photos depict the essential ingredients to a healthy, well-balanced life. Social network icons are neatly lined up on the bottom of the homepage as well.
Delving deeper into the site exposes visitors to an information-rich resource, with content that flows through clear page navigation, and helpful page headers. At the heart of Neshama’s website is its Store. With the shopping cart widget found in Wix’ free website builder, visitors can shop for health-based products by clicking on images and adding them to a digital shopping cart, where they are kept until check-out. This eCommerce site was connected to the owner’s PayPal account enabling complete and easy transactions to be made. Concepts of purity, clarity and health are perfectly encapsulated within this attractive Flash website.
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Monday, September 20, 2010
Sproud | Graphic Design
This Dutch communications agency takes a modern, bold approach to design. Get inspired by Sproud’s ability to make a website that promotes its innovative, fresh style.
The creative spirit behind this design agency is boldly expressed by its ability to make a website that catches the eye and provide a unique, interactive experience. An ornate yet highly attractive Intro page welcomes site visitors with a visually pleasing array of seemingly random clip art and drawings. Rollover effects add a fun and quirky feel, and encourage engagement with the site’s design. The white background creates a pleasant, airy cushion to the dynamic variety of visual elements, so as not to overwhelm the eye. A purple and green color scheme strengthens the organized feeling injected into this otherwise vibrant and energetic page.
Clip art, icons and buttons link to the site’s inner pages, a set of five mini pages (including the impressive Intro page) connected to a minimal-style menu bar. A gorgeous gallery of artwork depicts Sproud’s talent in fields ranging from illustration to photography to logo design. Each specialty is arranged in its own photo gallery, with its own style of arrangement. Cute animation and fun icons were added using Wix, to make a website that attracts the eye, and useful widgets like a contact form and an RSS feed place Sproud a click’s reach from potential clients.
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Sunday, September 19, 2010
Petty Crux | Band Website
Website builder Wix was used to create a customized website for this rock n’ roll band. Listen to tunes, purchase fan gear, catch live Twitter feed...and win an iPod Touch.
This rock n’ roll band brilliantly used Wix to design a site that captures their edgy style, and presents them as professionals. A contest is featured on the homepage, to promote the band on Facebook. A link points to a page with full details, leaving the homepage clutter-free with an appealing image of the prize - a new iPod Touch.
The black and red color scheme is consistent throughout Petty Crux’ site, from the menu buttons, to the scrollbars. All of the elements were customized using the website builder, and the band’s logo was planted prominently on the home page, as a focal point. A large photo of the band is placed next to a music player that fans can click on for a sample playlist. Links to iTunes and Amazon make it easy for visitors to purchase Petty Crux’ album, or download a free sample.
The elongated layout resembles a MySpace page, and visitors can scroll down to discover a rich variety of elements such as a concert video playlist. There is also a mini-blog synched with Facebook, and live Twitter updates. A row of links can be found at the bottom of the page, leading to social networks and places to purchase Petty Crux music and fan gear. Inner pages easily added with the website builder offer a closer look at the band, with more music, events, fliers and a contact form.
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Thursday, September 16, 2010
Shannon Holm Photography
The contrast between light and shadow is featured throughout this site designed with the Wix website builder. Browse through Holm’s portfolio, and link to her blog.
This photographer used the website builder to design her online portfolio. She chose to create a dark atmosphere for her site by selecting a black, solid background. This design decision highlights the images in her photo galleries, and the light gray menu tabs found on the bottom of the site, providing all of these elements with a sense of clarity.
The Flash slideshow on the homepage displays selected works that alternate every few seconds, producing a sense of movement. The portfolio section of Holm’s site connects to a series of photo galleries with labels. Clicking on a gallery cover opens up a collection of photos linked with thumbnail menus. Navigating between the various galleries is done through a simple back to the main portfolio page. A dark photograph of the artist is included in her About page, with some text describing her passion for photography and background. Links to Holm’s e-mail, blog, Facebook and RedBubble account make it easy for fans and colleagues to get in touch with the website builder herself.
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Wednesday, September 15, 2010
James Reid | Graphic Design
A pair of free websites were created by this graphic designer, to illustrate his artistic diversity.
Graphic designer James Reid created two free websites to express his diverse styles - one simple, clean and minimalistic, the other dark, with a grittier feel and a more extensive body of work. The two portfolio sites are linked to one another through their respective homepages, making it easy for a visitor to get a taste of the artist’s diverse styles.
The smaller portfolio is extremely comfortable to navigate, with a word cloud of links on the top left corner of the main page. Work samples were divided by genre, each presented in a separate photo gallery accompanied by a circular thumbnail menu. Clicking on a thumbnail image results in the adjacent photo gallery to turn a page, giving site visitors a secure feeling of control. Rich, quick-paced piano music flows from a music player embedded within the site’s clean, white background, offering an audio accompaniment to Reid’s art. Other personal touches include rollover sound effects assigned to the menu text. For a deeper look at Reid’s body of work, explore both of his free websites that he built using Wix.
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Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Art.if.act Dance Project
This group of artists used Wix to make a website that promotes their performance art brilliantly. See what’s currently playing, and book your tickets to the next show.
A group of innovative and creative professionals, ADP used Wix to make a website that captures its unique spirit. A minimalist splash page welcomes visitors and sets the tone for what’s in store. An image of the ADP logo was added as a customized favicon, displayed in the browser tab. Clicking on a red “Enter” button leads you to the main site, where a set of links divides the site into clearly divided sections. Visitors can see what’s currently showing, and book a ticket directly through a shopping cart widget. A seating-chart image was uploaded, inviting guests to anticipate their view of the stage well in advance. Donations to this non-profit organization can be made by selecting a pre-set amount from a stack of bright, 3D-style buttons.
The amount of energy packed into this website, and the organized composition of it all is impressive. Music plays from a large, graphic music player on the About page, that is set to automatically play upon landing on this page. Photo galleries with rollover animation contribute to the site’s dynamic pulse. The black and white color theme unifies the site’s elements, and promotes ADP as a group of professionals. Photographs of dancers, musicians and actors are primarily in black and white, with the warm wood of violins and bold splashes of color serving as a focal point. These creative professionals used Wix to make a website that leaves visitors on the edge of their seats, wanting to experience more by attending a live show.
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Monday, September 13, 2010
Your Event Essentials | Caterers
With free website design found at Wix, these caterers demonstrate a dazzling level of event planning expertise. See exactly what they offer by visiting this fabulous site.
For a catering service, having an elegant website that demonstrates your attention to detail and business experience can go a long way in promoting yourself to clients and establishing a sense of trust. Using the free website tools at Wix, Your Event Essentials did just that. Their site is extremely comfortable to navigate, allowing visitors to freely explore what services and amenities are available, using photo galleries and neat packets of text. The pale pink background presents a pleasant, refined look which is complemented by the stylish transitions connecting the site’s inner pages. Flirty elements like clip-art with rollover effects were sprinkled throughout the site, adding a playful touch. Several of these animated pinwheels are found next to helpful navigation links which lead visitors back to the previous page, thus taking advantage of both aesthetic and functional qualities of Wix’ free website elements. Quotes offering client testimonials are the icing on the cake of this beautiful Flash website.
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Sunday, September 12, 2010
Smiles International | Dentistry
These dentists know how to make a website that keeps patients smiling. Take the fear out of going to the dentist with a visit to this beautiful and professional quality website.
This website was built for a dental practice, and is a powerful source of information for those in need of a new dentist. It’s clear that Smile International knew how to make a website with optimized site navigation, offering a clear presentation of all this dental practice has to offer. The clickable ACP logo prominently featured at the top of the main page, linking to the American College of Prosthodontists site, indicates Smile International’s membership - establishing that these dentists are recognized professionals. A slideshow of bright smiles and a gallery of before and after pictures provide visual testimony of the team’s dental expertise. Patients can even meet their dentists before booking an appointment by clicking on head-shots that connect to CV-like pages with credentials and brief professional bios. Additional pages introduce the entire Smiles International team, from the dental hygienists to the administrative staff.
The use of mini pages presents a clear and comfortable viewing experience, with a visually-pleasing division of static and dynamic content. Two menu bars - at the top and the bottom of the main page - make it easy to navigate throughout the site, without having to scroll up or down on a given page. All textual content is highly readable, with helpful headers, high-contrast text and whitespace separating the text from other page elements. Book an appointment through a contact form, and click the link to Google maps for directions to either of Smile International’s branches. When it comes to knowing how to make a website that promotes a business, these dentists are top-notch.
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Thursday, September 9, 2010
Paul Bosche | Personal Website
This actor used Wix to make a free website that presents his unique personality. Scroll through quirky photos and enjoy dynamic Flash transitions.
This guy is not shy when it comes to presenting himself in a public forum. An actor by trade, Paul
Bosche decorated his free website with quirky little elements that express his unique sense of
style and personality. The minimalist homepage has a black background, and an eye-catching
photo of Bosche, with piercing blue eyes, a bunch of tattoos…and bunny ears. The photo makes
an immediate statement about the man behind this innovative website – and his name is
conveniently presented right alongside it in bold, white block letters.
A set of links are displayed at the top of the site’s main page, with gray text that changes to
bright pink when rolled-over and clicked on. Devoted fans, curious casting agents and reporters
can learn all of Bosche’s vital stats with a simple click on the “info” tab. A photo album offers a
deeper look at Bosche’s versatility. Schedule him for a gig by reaching out through the contact
form. There’s even a Google map with fun wave-like animation, showing visitors a dash of
humor where you’d least expect it. Music playing a soulful ballad adds to the depth of this free
website and look inside an entertainer with a lot to offer.
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Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Samajesty Starr | Musician Website
A free website that announces Samajesty Starr’s debut album in style. Check out the assortment of interactive features, all serving one purpose: star-quality promotion.
Hip-hop artist Samajesty Starr created a powerful promotional website with Wix to promote his debut album, Face II Face. Packed with highly engaging features, this free website excellently portrays the raw talent and professional dedication of Starr. A music player embedded on the top left corner of the main page offers instant exposure to the artist’s work, which plays consistently through the site’s inner pages.
Sleek social media icons found on the homepage were customized to blend in with the site’s black and white color scheme. A mailing list sign-up form is also provided here. A slideshow gallery adds a sense of movement to the otherwise static homepage, creating a balance that is pleasing to the eye.
The music beckons visitors into the site, to take a deeper look at the man behind the voice. A well-written artist’s bio and a page with YouTube videos of performances let visitors learn more. The entire Face II Face album playlist is on the Music page, with samples added to a music player. An attractive “Buy Now” button was smartly placed right beside the playlist, linking visitors to a page where they can purchase Starr’s music. A Google Calendar lets fans stay updated on concerts, parties and promotional events.
Book Starr to perform at your own event, with a Booking Request form. But act quickly; the way this free website was built, Starr’s schedule is likely to fill up pretty quickly.
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Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Travel House Botswana
A travel agent Flash website bursting with clickable buttons, pictures, icons and text. Explore the destination gallery and book a flight directly, all from one convenient place.
Travel House Botswana offers everything for the world traveler, from beautiful destination galleries, to easy booking forms. The site has superior navigation, with plenty of clickable buttons, pictures, icons and text. Traveling around inside this Flash website is made even easier with a dual set of links found both at the top and bottom of the main page. Icons make it easy to instantly spot key information like telephone numbers, and the Skype name of these savvy travel agents.
Popular destinations are presented to site visitors in a beautiful matrix-style gallery. Clicking on an image brings up detailed information about deals specific to that location. From here, users can inquire about specific rates by sending a message through a contact widget. Bookings can also be made directly, with a customized form added to this site with a Wufoo widget. Drop-down menus inside the forms make it easy to select your country. For those who need help choosing where to go, a helpful link was included to Travel Eye – a travel search engine that helps users with their destination decisions. Stay posted for special travel deals!
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Monday, September 6, 2010
Our Backup Plan | Consultants
These marketing professionals knew how to make a website that’s built to impress. Listen to samples of their business writing skills, in music players with voice recordings.
A small business website crafted by marketing professionals, Our Back Up Plan used a dynamic color combination to immediately attract the attention of site visitors. The black background illuminates white and blue text, links, navigation buttons and even images, drawing users in even closer to the site’s offerings. This team used mini pages to divide their site into four neat sections, which users can freely navigate between, while the company’s logo remains firmly planted at the very top. This method of branding is subtle yet effective.
Our Back Up Plan demonstrates their expertise in knowing how to make a website, with a combination of visual and audio effects. In the Service section, each area of expertise has its own unique page, including an interactive slideshow gallery of brilliantly executed client sites, showing Our Back Up Plan’s web design experience. There is even a page where visitors can listen to the group’s writing skills, by clicking Play on music players with recorded radio ads. Subtle elements like sound effects were even assigned to each of the main menu buttons, simulating the sensation of pressing a real, physical button. Altogether, Our Back Up Plan promotes itself as a team of dedicated and experienced marketing professionals, who know not only how to make a website, but how to make it speak directly into the ears of potential clients.
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Sunday, September 5, 2010
Rock Paper Sugar | Sweets & Treats
This sweet website is filled with treats – baked, knitted & added with the website builder. Take a look at some gorgeous freshly made cookies, baby beanies and more.
Feast your eyes on homemade crafts, cookies and stationery all arranged in a neat little package of web design, using the Wix website builder. The pale yellow browser background beautifully sets the tone of this sweet site, and pleasantly frames the inner image-filled pages. Each page’s background is filled with a picture taken by the creator of the site, adding a highly personalized feel to the site’s initial visual impact.
Super-smooth page navigation was arranged with a series of links at the bottom of the main page, presented clearly to users the moment they land inside this site. Clicking each link opens up a unique page, where visitors can easily browse through brilliant photo galleries. Cookies laced with sugary icing, knit caps for babies in a variety of colors and an assortment of other fun treats can be browsed, and purchased through a link to Rock Paper Sugar’s Etsy store. A guestbook provides as a place for visitors to leave notes or their impressions of the site. A contact form lets you send a private message straight to the website builder who created this adorable and neatly organized small business website.
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Thursday, September 2, 2010
Progressive Daddy Nightclub & Restaurant
This vibrant nightclub used Wix to make a website with the same image. Enter either the Russian or the English version and immerse yourself in the latest addition to Moscow’s posh nightlife.
Deep in the heart of Moscow lies the Progressive Daddy nightclub and restaurant, a first-class establishment that used Wix to make a website in style. Filled with Flash effects, this site is as dynamic as you would expect a nightclub to be, complete with progressive music playing from an interactive iPod-style music player. Guests can see what’s on the menu at the club’s restaurant, and glimpse breathtaking views from the club’s riverside location, and catch galleries filled with images of Moscow’s hottest crowd of young-party-goers.
To appeal to an international audience, Progressive Daddy’s owners chose to make a website available in both Russian and English versions. Tourists and natives alike can easily navigate their way through the site’s lively atmosphere. There’s even a display of party posters used to promote past events at the club, arranged in an animated, carousel-style gallery. A map of the area makes it easy to plan a visit to this hot spot. Nightlife never looked so appealing.
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Wednesday, September 1, 2010
D.A.H. Photography
This free website was made by David Hollander, as a place to share his photographs. Travel to India and Japan by checking out his stunning photo galleries.
This site uses a minimalist approach to web design, with a simple black and white color scheme and a straightforward use of mini pages. The photographer David Hollander created a division between his site’s static and dynamic content, as his name remains in place on the left portion of the site, while the inner pages are viewed on the right side, connected to a menu of page links on the bottom.
Intricate design details from templates in India, and delicate patterns made by cherry blossoms in Japan, are all poetically captured inside galleries. Hollander created a separate gallery for his India and Japan albums, and customized everything about his galleries, from the frames of the images to their rollover animation effects.
As with all great artists, Hollander’s portfolio is a work in progress. He provides a peek of his latest work on a page titled “The New”, encouraging visitors to make a return stop to this luminary free website. Those thirsting for more can get in touch easily with a contact widget.
