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BUILDING A SERVICE WEBSITE
Blue-Collar Businesses & Tradesmen
THE WIX WEBSITE BUILDER
Wix is a DIY drag-n-drop website builder that has been around
since 2006, and is now one of the most advanced yet easiest to
use platforms for DIY website building out there.
Scroll down to the resources section below the guide to find the
Wix link.
The Research
There are a number of website building platforms that have been
launched since the Internet began. At the beginning, most of
them created websites that were limited, poorly coded, and you
could tell one when you saw one. But all these platforms have
come a mighty long ways since the days where the only sites
worthy of being called professional were hand coded by experts.
At the beginning stages of writing this guide, I asked myself how
feasible it was to write instructions for another person on how to
create their own website. I remembered back to my early days
in my design career, and how frustrating and time consuming
it was to learn the software and the process. These days I use
a combination of Wordpress, a well-developed theme, and an
advanced page builder plugin to do what I do.
However, it took me years to master the technology and there
is no way I could teach someone else how to do this within the
scope of this guide. Even if I could, I know the readers of this
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