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Wix: Make a Quick and Easy Professional Website for Free

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Overview

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Make web design easy. Create a beautiful, professional Wix website in about 1 hour using Wix's powerful free tools.

Are you more interested in running your business, pursuing your hobbies, and exploring your passions than fussing over your website? 

This course was created especially for busy entrepreneurs, authors, artists, do-gooders, non-profit organizations, volunteers, and hobbyists who just want to focus on doing their work, NOT on the million and one steps it takes to design and run a good website.

It's for complete beginners with zero web design experience as well as those with little to no web design budget at all.

This quick and dirty course will show you how to:

  • Make stunning and professional-looking websites the quick and easy way in about 1 hour using free online tools
  • Know how to plan a web site and make images web-ready and high quality
  • Take your regular logo and put it on a transparent background in four minutes or less
  • Be up and running fast using the most essential and useful tools in Wix
  • Get a birds-eye view of the design process from concept to final product

In this course I'll show you step by step how I created a website for the non-profit organization, PK Rabbit Rescue. I start from the very beginning and show you the most essential and important features of the Wix dashboard and interface.

I'll show you how to get started making posts, pages, and managing all aspects of your Wix website so that by the end of the day today you can already add a new skill to your CV or resume and be easily running your own website ASAP.

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I'm a practicing award-winning multimedia artist and a former tenured Associate Professor of Digital Media and Program Director of Film & Digital Media at The American University of Rome (2006-2016). I'm currently an Associate Professor of Digital Media at American University of Myanmar in Yangon, Myanmar (Burma). 

Since 2000 I've been teaching students all over the world using my tried and true custom approach (turning complex information into something simple, memorable, easy-to-understand in as short amount of time as possible) to ensure that you get the most important, relevant, and useful information that can be applied immediately.

New bonus lectures and resources will continue to be added and timely design advice will be provided in the discussion forum. I love to help and always respond to inquiries and discussions ASAP.

Empower yourself by taking in this easy to follow Wix course and join our growing learning community! Enroll now and let's get started building your stunning new website today.

Syllabus

  • Introduction
  • First Thing's First: Get Your Website Ideas, Text, and Images In Order
  • Organize Your Content and Fine Tune Your Ideas
  • Making Images Ready To Use on the Web
  • Set Up a Wix Account and Choose Your Template
  • Setting Up Your Logo on Your Home Page
  • Extra: Put Your Logo on a Transparent Background in 4 Minutes Or Less
  • Saving, Setting Your Wix Site's Name, and Customizing Your Home Page Slider
  • Working With Text and Adding Links in Wix
  • Make Sure THIS Crucial Information is On Your Homepage
  • Get Your Image Galleries in Shape and Finalize the Homepage Text
  • Adding Services or Events
  • Add Your Social Media Links to the Site's Footer Bar
  • Edit the Mobile Version of Your Wix Site and Hit Publish
  • Fixing Up the Menu and Adding a Blog to the Site
  • Editing and Formatting Blog Posts in Wix
  • Setting Up Your Contact Form and Page
  • Adding Animated Effects to Images
  • The Final Wrap Up and Important Last Things You Need to Know Before You Go
  • Extra: 5 Easy/Free Tools For Making Web Images, Animation & Video
  • Extra: Remove Text or an Object from a Photo FREE (and fast!)
  • Thanks for Taking This Course!

Taught by

Kristen Palana

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