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The author illustrates how easy it is to be clueless about how long things should take with his parenthetical about how trivial it is to make a Wix website. Yes
by tobr 7y ago
The author illustrates how easy it is to be clueless about how long things should take with his parenthetical about how trivial it is to make a Wix website. Yes, you can get the “used sailboat” class of website in Wix in an hour, but that’s probably not what you need or had in mind. The fact that the tool seems to do so much of the work for you will arguably just make the expectations even more unreasonable.
- onion2k 7y agothat’s probably not what you need 99% of Wix users need a website that's just a big phone number and street address that gets indexed in Google. A "used sailboat" is exactly what they need.
- tobr 7y agoThat's only true if you assume that 99% of Wix users are Wix users because they correctly picked a simple tool for a simple need. But that's a tautology. The problem I describe arises when someone looks at Wix, gets the impression that it is a tool that magically makes it trivial to create a great website, and then assumes they can get the yacht they have in mind for the price of a used sailboat. Most of the work involved with creating a good website isn't technology, but rather strategy, writing, design, and other things where Wix won't help you or even gets in the way.
- verinus 7y agoor the are Wix users because thats all they want to pay for. If I tell sombody that a full custom site costs idk 20 times more than a Wix site they might not want to pay for that.