The free Wix plan is a great way to try out Wix and for some people and/or situations (temporary events, community groups, etc.), it may be the only website presence you'll ever need. You can add a free Wix website to your cart directly from this page. Beginning your building journey with a Wix free website is a great way to get started on your business website and familiarize yourself with the platform before committing to a paid plan. You can upgrade your free site to a paid plan at any time, which unlocks premium features like the ability to use a custom domain of your own, removal of Wix ads from your site, increased storage and eCommerce functionality if you choose a Business plan. Upgrading also allows you to make use of important marketing integrations such as Google Analytics.

These are not different products, but two “modes” available with all plans – including the free plan!

Wix Editor: The classic choice that provides the greatest long-term flexibility for updating and customizing your website.

Wix AI Builder: Expedites the process by doing the heavy lifting to create a fully functional, ready-to-go site in minutes.

You can start building your website with AI on a free Wix plan. If you wish to connect custom domains, enable online payments, or access additional features, you'll need to upgrade to a Premium Plan.

Yes! Wix is designed to make it easy for non-technical people to create their own website without any coding knowledge or web design experience. Wix offers a user-friendly drag-and-drop website builder that allows you to choose from hundreds of professionally designed templates and customize them to create your own unique website.

The website builder includes a wide range of tools and features to help you create your website, including the ability to add text, images, video, and other media to your page, as well as tools for creating contact forms, social media buttons and more. Wix also offers built-in SEO features to help your website rank higher in search engine results.

In addition to its website builder, Wix offers a variety of resources to help non-technical users create and maintain their websites. These include tutorials, articles and a support centre that provides answers to common questions.

Yes, you can design a website with Wix without knowing how to code. Wix is a user-friendly website builder that allows you to create a professional-looking website without any coding knowledge or web design experience. Wix offers a drag-and-drop interface that lets you customize pre-made templates or start from scratch, adding text, images, video, and other elements to your website.

While you can design and launch a website with Wix on your own, you may choose to hire a developer if you have specific needs or want to customize your website beyond what Wix’s tools offer. However, hiring a developer isn’t necessary for most users.

Wix provides two excellent ways to start your website design, depending on your preference for speed versus control: the Wix AI Builder or a Designer-Made Template.

Option 1: Starting with the Wix AI Website Builder (Recommended for Speed)

The AI Builder is revolutionizing site creation by giving you speed without sacrificing control.

• Personalized Creation: The tool uses a chat interface to understand your needs and preferences (like design style and required features), automatically creating a personalized website for you.
• Full Flexibility: You can either fine-tune the site the AI created or regenerate a completely new one. Every part of the AI-generated site is fully customizable within the Wix Editor.
• Continuous Innovation: Wix is continuously adding more AI capabilities to enhance your building and management experience

Option 2: Selecting a Professionally Designed Template

If you prefer a visual starting point with maximum initial layout control, you can select from Wix’s wide range of designer-made templates.

• Categorization: Templates are categorized by industry, style, and features, making it easy to find one that suits your needs.
• Customization: Templates are fully customizable. You can easily change the layout, colours, fonts, and images to match your brand and style.
• Inclusions: Each template include pre-designed pages (home, about us, contact) and features like image galleries and blog post layouts, which you can modify or delete.

Tip: When choosing any starting point, consider your website’s purpose and audience. Use the AI Builder for speed and comprehensive starting points or select a template for familiar category-specific layouts.

Wix supports a wide variety of site types, including eCommerce stores, service businesses, blogs, and portfolios. You can also build specialized sites for events, restaurants, photography, music, fitness, hotels, online programs/courses and more!

Yes, Wix websites are designed to be responsive, which means they will automatically adjust to display correctly on different devices, including desktops, tablets and smartphones. This means that your website will work on mobile devices and will look and function properly regardless of the screen size.

When you design your website in Wix, you can preview how it will look on different devices by using the "Mobile Editor" feature. This allows you to see how your website will appear on a smartphone or tablet and make any necessary adjustments to ensure it looks and functions properly.

While your website may be optimized for mobile devices, it's important to keep in mind that it may not look exactly the same on a mobile device as it does on a desktop. Some design elements, such as text size and layout, may need to be adjusted to fit smaller screens, and some features may be presented differently.

The Wix AI Website Builder uses a conversational chat interface to generate a personalized, fully functioning website in minutes. We broke down the process for you into simple, customizable steps:

Step 1: Start the AI Chat

• Action: Log into your Webnames’ account (or create a new free account) and navigate to your dashboard where you’ll find where to access your Wix website. Choose Create New Site, then select Create with AI.
• Purpose: This launches the AI Chat Assistant, which begins gathering information from you to create your site profile.

Step 2: Answer the AI's Questions

• Action: Chat with the AI, providing detailed answers to a series of questions about your business, goals, and style preferences.
• Key Details to Provide: What type of website you are building (eCommerce, Blog, Portfolio etc.), who your target audience is, and any specific goals (e.g. generate leads, sell products etc.).
• Result: The AI Assistant uses this information to build a profile, choose an appropriate site layout, write initial website copy, and install the relevant Wix business apps (like a booking form or online store).

Step 3: Review and Refine the Design

• Action: Once the AI generates your initial website draft, you can refine its key elements directly.
• Refinement Options:
• Theme: Change the colours and fonts to match your brand style. You can also click shuffle these colours for variations.
• Layout: Adjust the structure of the site or click Generate New Layout for a different design variation.
• Text & Images: Update the AI-generated text and images to ensure they are accurate to your business.

Step 4: Customize in the Wix Editor

• Action: If you want more control, click Continue to Editor to access the full drag-and-drop customization features.
• Purpose: This is where you can fine-tune every detail, add more AI-generated sections (like a new “About Us” section), or integrate specific elements, giving you full creative control over the final product.

Step 5: Connect Your Domain and Publish

• Action: Once you are satisfied with the design and content, connect your custom domain (requires a paid plan) and click Publish. (For those on a free plan, you would just click Publish and Wix generates a domain name for you that will look something like: yourwebsitename.wixsite.com.)

Wix AI Website Builder significantly speeds up the website creation process, creating a fully functional website customized to your specific needs in minutes. You collaborate and interact with the AI site builder to provide direction and feedback along the way, experimenting with various themes, layouts, and more, until your website reflects your vision.

Note: A premium plan is required to connect a custom domain or enable online payments.

Personalization is at the heart of Wix’s AI Website Builder. Your website is crafted according to your preferences, guided by the information you provide while interacting with Wix's AI chatbot. After you have reviewed your site and made sure that it meets your requirements, you can continue to fine-tune the layouts, themes, and more using additional AI tools until it matches your vision precisely.

Wix integrates a comprehensive suite of AI tools across the Editor and your Business Dashboard to help you customize, optimize, and grow your site without needing to hire a designer or copywriter.

We've categorized these tools by function:

Tools for Designing With AI:

• AI Website Builder: Have a quick chat with Wix’s AI, answer questions about your business needs and priorities, your brand’s vibe, your vision and goals, then watch your website come to life in just minutes!
• AI Text Creator: Write unique, on-brand content for any part of your site, from “About Us” sections and detailed service descriptions to blog post outlines and FAQs, based on a simple prompt.
• AI Section Creator: Need a new section (like a testimonial slider or a contact form)? Describe what you need, and the AI will instantly generate a customizable page section complete with relevant design and placeholder content.
• Theme Assistant & Layout Switcher: After generating your site, use AI prompts to instantly change the entire site’s colour palette, font suggestions, or shuffle section layouts to find the perfect structure.
• AI Portfolio Creator: Helps you organize bulk uploaded media for portfolios by clustering images and suggesting titles and descriptions for projects.

Wix Image Studio:

• AI Image Creator: Generate completely custom, unique images for your website and marketing materials by simply describing what you want.
• AI Image Editor: Get your images looking exactly the way you want with these AI-powered editing tools:
• Auto Background Remover: Instantly isolate a subject from its background.
• Object Eraser: Use AI to select and remove unwanted items or elements from your images.
• Image Enhancer: Automatically improve image resolution and clarity for a professional look.
• Extend Images: Use AI to intelligently expand the boundaries of an image to fix awkward framing.
• Upscale Resolution: With just a click of a button you can improve the quality of your images..

Run & Scale Your Business:

• AI Product Descriptions (eCommerce): Generate multiple, unique, and compelling product descriptions for your online store from just a few key details about the item.
• Product Recommender: Suggests products to customers based on their browsing behaviour to increase upsells and cross-sells
• AI Site Chat: Provides 24/7 automated customer services by answering common visitor questions using your site’s content, improving user experience and lead capture.
• Astro (AI Assistant): A conversational assistant that lives in your dashboard, helping you manage business tasks, pull analytics reports, and find ways to grow your site.
• Kleo (AI Marketing Agent): This assistant analyzes your business data and goals to proactively generate a personalized marketing plan. It creates ready-to-use content for social media, email campaigns, and Google Ads.
• AI Blogging Tools: Use Wix’s powerful AI blogging tool to create complete blog posts for you, including images and keywords, in your brand’s tone.
• AI Email Generator: From a simple prompt, generate fully designed email campaigns for any marketing intent.
• AI SEO Meta Tags Creator: Generates search optimized suggestions for your page titles and meta descriptions, improving your site’s click-through rate (CTR) in search results.
• Auto-Generated Trailers: Repurpose your videos by creating 30-second trailer versions, perfect for posting on social media.
• AI Social Captions: Create engaging social media posts, complete with relevant hashtags.
• AI Visibility Overview: Provides insights into how your site is performing across major AI platforms like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity.
• Wix Benchmarks: Provides insights by comparing your site’s sales and traffic data against similar sites.
• AI Google Ads: Generate optimized titles, descriptions, and keywords for your Google Ads campaigns.

An eCommerce website is an online platform that provides the means to exchange goods and services for payment. It is built to connect shoppers to products or services. On the most basic level, they provide everything a customer needs to shop online.

1. Choose a domain name for your store that represents your brand. Make it short, easy to remember and something that is SEO (Search Engine Optimization) friendly so that you will show up organically in search engine results.
2. Choose the best eCommerce Wix plan that will suit your business needs. You have 3 options to choose from: Core, Business, and Business Elite. Look carefully at each plan and think about what your future needs may be and if the plan will allow you to grow your business the way you want.
3. Use either the Wix ADI or the Wix Editor to design your website. With the Wix Editor, you have over 120 designer-made eCommerce templates to choose from.
4. Add the products you want to sell. If you're selling tangible items, you'll want to have high quality images of your products. You can opt to hire a photographer to do this for you, or there are many product photography tutorials on the internet that you can use to help get the quality images you need.
5. Connect to payment providers and set up shipping rules. With Wix, you can activate Wix Payments to instantly start accepting all the major credit/debit cards, alongside digital wallets and other popular forms of payment. Wix Payments also lets you manage your entire business from one place, whether you're looking to review orders or schedule your payouts. With Wix, you can run your store in Canadian currency, add retail sales tax like HST/GST/QST/PST, control sales tax by province, add real-time shipping rates from Canada Post, automate emails after purchase and ensure compliance with Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation.
6. Set up shipping and delivery. While offering a variety of payment methods will help you convert shoppers, an outstanding shipping and delivery experience will help bring them back to you and refer you to their friends.
7. Publish your eCommerce site and start attracting customers!

The marketing suite includes features like:

• Lead Capture Forms: This tool allows users to create different kinds of forms like quizzes, registration forms, and job applications.
• Automated Marketing Tools: These automation tools allow you to d things like send automated emails and chat messages, create tasks, notify teammates, and more.
• Chat: This allows an open, direct channel of communication between business owners and their site visitors. Both the design and settings of the Wix Chat can be customized.
• Inbox that allows you to view and respond to messages from many different channels like the chat, forms and social media pages. (Note: social media accounts are accessed through app integrations.)
• Built-in SEO Tools
• Google Business Profile Integration
• Social Media Tools that allow you to create posts and publish them across platforms.
• Coupons and Discounts
• Marketing integrations like Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel, CAPI, Google Tag Manager, and others.

A site collaborator or contributor is someone that the Account Owner has invited to work on a site. The Account Owner can add teammates (collaborators or contributors) to their account, and assign them different roles, permissions and access levels.

Wix offers a robust suite of built-in tools, including powerful AI features, to help you optimize your website and improve your visibility in search engine results and AI Overviews.

Foundational Steps:

• Conduct keyword search by identifying words and phrases that people are searching for when looking for websites like yours. Use these keywords throughout your website’s content, including page titles, meta descriptions, and body text.
• Publish high-quality content that is valuable to your audience. Use relevant keywords and incorporate them naturally into your content.

Harnessing AI for SEO Authority:

Wix's AI tools simplify complex optimization tasks and helps you generate high-quality, relevant metadata.

• AI Meta Tags Creator: This tool automatically presents three optimized suggestions for title tags and meta descriptions based on your existing page content. You can further refine and tweak these suggestions to perfectly match your desired keywords.
• AI Text Creator: Use AI to generate fresh, compelling, and SEO-friendly text for your website content. This ensures your content is high-quality, valuable to your audience, and naturally incorporates relevant keywords.

Using Built-In Optimization Tools:

Wix provides essential features for fundamental, on-page SEO.

• Custom Page Settings: Ensure you use unique and descriptive page titles and meta descriptions for each page of your website. These snippets accurately reflect your content and appear in search engine results.
• Header Tags: Use head tags (H1, H2, H3, etc.) to structure your content and make it easier for search engines to understand the hierarchy of your information.
• Image Optimization: Use descriptive filenames and Alt Text for all your images. This helps search engines understand your visuals and improves your website’s overall visibility.
• Internal Linking: Link to other relevant pages within your website to help search engines understand the structure and hierarchy of your content.

Monitoring Performance with the Site Inspection Tool:

The Wix Site Inspection Tool allows you to see how search engines view your pages and is crucial for identifying and fixing technical issues.

• Running an Inspection: You can generate a report for any page on your site to see its current indexing status and check for issues.
• Understanding the Report: The report provides detailed insights, including Indexing Status, any Site Errors found, and a Page Content Analysis to ensure you’re following best practices. This allows you to track your performance and make necessary adjustments to your SEO strategy.
• Submitting a Sitemap: Submitting your sitemap to Google Search Console (which Wix helps you do) ensures that search engines can easily crawl and index all of your website’s pages.

No, you do not need a separate hosting plan or SSL certificate if you use Wix to build and host your website. Wix provides web hosting and SSL certificates as part of its all-in-one website builder platform.

When you create a website with Wix, your website is automatically hosted on Wix's servers, which means that you do not need to purchase separate web hosting with Webnames. Wix also includes an SSL certificate with both plans, which helps ensure that your website is secure and encrypted.

Wix's SSL certificate provides HTTPS encryption for your website, which is important for protecting sensitive information such as passwords, credit card details, and other personal data. This is especially important if you are running an online store or collecting customer information through your website.

There are some important advantages, especially if you’re already a customer, of getting your Wix plan through Webnames. An important benefit is having all of your website services (Wix, domain name(s), business email, etc.) integrated and manageable from your Webnames account under a single login. When your services are consolidated and can be accessed in one convenient location, both security and efficiency are increased by reducing logins, passwords and authenticator verifications. Also, you have the added benefit of support for all of your online services between our Webnames customer support team which can assist you with everything from your domain name to tier-one Wix support, in addition to being able to access Wix customer support.

You can use a custom domain with your Wix website by connecting it to your website through your Webnames account. We offer you the option to purchase your domain directly through Webnames, or you can connect a domain that you have purchased through a different registrar.

Go to your Wix Plan Overview Page.
Click the Manage Plan button.
In the Connected Domain section, select a domain from your account, or choose to connect to an external domain that is registered elsewhere.

We do not charge any additional fees for connecting a custom domain to your website, but you will need to pay for the domain separately, either through Webnames or another domain registrar. The benefits of purchasing your domain through Webnames though is that all your billing and renewals will be housed in the same spot, making it easier to manage.

To get a personalized email address that matches your domain, you will need an email service provider. Webnames email hosting allows you to create custom email addresses with your own domain name, such as yourname@yourdomain.ca. This way you can have a professional and consistent online identity that reflects your brand and business.

Webnames email hosting also offers many benefits, such as:

• Secure and reliable email service with 99.9% uptime guarantee
• Spam and virus protection to keep your inbox safe
• Access your email from any device with webmail, IMAP or POP3
• Sync your email, contacts, and calendars across multiple devices
• Support for multiple email clients such as Outlook, Thunderbird and Apple Mail
• 24/7 customer support from Webnames experts

Another advantage of using Webnames email hosting is that it is hosted in Canada, which means your data is protected by Canadian privacy laws. So, if another country came to us and asked to get access to our servers, we would politely decline their request. You can learn more about the benefits of hosting your email in Canada.

Wix customer support is available in more than 10 languages, including English, French, Dutch, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, and Turkish. 24/7 customer support is only available in English with French language support available daily from 6AM-10PM UTC.

You can use any domain name that you wish for your Wix website, however if you are a Canadian business, a .CA domain offers some advantages.A .CA domain signals to search engines like Google that your website and/or business is Canadian. This can be beneficial as it may help your website get prioritized in search results for Canadian searchers searching for businesses like yours within Canada. There is also greater availability in .CA than .COM which can make it easier to find a memorable domain name that can help create a strong brand identity.

You can track and analyze your site's performance directly within your Wix dashboard using the built-in Wix Analytics tool. To access it, go to your site's dashboard and click on "Analytics & Reports." Here, you can view key metrics like visitor count, traffic sources, popular pages, and user behaviour. For more advanced tracking, you can integrate Google Analytics (or a similar tool) by adding your GA4 measurement in Wix's "Marketing Integrations" settings. This allows for deeper analysis and campaign tracking beyond Wix's native tools.