Wix lets amateurs and professionals create beautiful Flash websites using its interactive WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) interface. With so many Flash templates to choose from, Wix users can create websites in many different themes. Creating a Flash website is free with Wix, however, Premium plans are available for extra features and support.

Sign Up for an Account at Wix.com

Step 1

Launch your Web browser and navigate to Wix.com.

Step 2

Sign up for a free Wix account by clicking on the "Login/Sign Up" menu item on the top-right of website. A window will appear with two tabs: Login and Sign Up!

Step 3

Click on the "Sign Up!" tab. Enter your email address and password, then click on the "Sign Up!" button on the bottom right. You will be directed to a page which reads "Welcome to Wix.com. What do you want to do next?"

Create Pages for the Website

Step 1

To create your first page after signing up, click on the "Create" menu item in the middle of the page.

Step 2

Choose a template from a list of categories on the left pane, or click "Blank Website". For this article, I am choosing a "Blank Website" template.

Step 3

The Wix Editor window will appear separately from your current page. You can watch the demo on creating a Flash website or click on the "OK" button to remove the demo.

Step 4

In the Page Manager screen, click on the "Add Page" button. A "Page Group" screen will appear on the right below the Page Manager. An "Add Page" window will appear with a list of page layouts on the left and a preview section on the right.

Step 5

Select from a list of page layouts: About, Services, Contact Us, Site Content, Galleries, Portfolio, Multimedia, Feedback and eCommerce. Each of these layouts has additional sub-layouts to choose from. Clicking on a sub-layout will let you preview the layout on the right of the screen. Click "OK" on the bottom right after deciding on a sub-layout.

Step 6

Edit the layout that you selected. If the layout contains text, click on the text box and select "Edit". Then, edit the text. To create a link to the text, select "Link." If the layout contains a photo, click on the photo and choose from one of these functions: Change Photo, Change Frame, Crop and Link. If the layout contains a video, click on the video and choose from one of these functions: Manage Videos, Change Skin, Add Menu, Settings and Effects.

Step 7

To create another page to the website, repeat Steps 4 through 6.

Create a Menu for Your Pages

Step 1

In the "Page Group" screen, click on "Add Menu" to create a menu linking each of your page to a menu item.

Step 2

The menu will appear on the bottom of the page. Resize the menu by dragging its borders. Move the menu to the desired location of the Web page by dragging the menu.

Step 3

Change the skin of each menu item by clicking on the item and selecting "Change Skin". Change the color of the menu item by selecting "Change Color." Change the style of the text of the menu item by selecting "Format Text."

Publish Your Website

Step 1

Click on the "Publish" button on the top right of the editor. A "Publish" screen will appear.

Step 2

Enter the name of your website in the "Name your Wix" text box. If your website name has spaces, Wix will replace them with hyphens in the website URL.

Step 3

Click on the "OK" button on the bottom right.

Step 4

A window which reads "Congratulations! Your website is online!" will appear with the URL of your website. The website URL will take this format, www.wix.com/username/websitename, where username is the email address that you registered earlier without the domain extension and websitename is the website name that you entered previously without spaces.

Step 5

Click on "Go" to view your live website in a separate tab or window.

Skill: Moderate

Tips
Make sure you enable pop-ups on your Web browser so that the Wix editor will have no problem appearing as a separate window.

Warnings
Flash websites are not search-engine friendly.

Resource
Wix.com: Home [http://wix.com]