(EMAILWIRE.COM, June 02, 2010 ) New York, NY - Wix is acknowledging the needs of one of its largest member communities with the creation of the Wix Photography Blog. The free website building software has been available on the web since 2006, and has since then attracted nearly 4 million users worldwide. With its drag and drop interface and free web design elements, Wix makes it easy for users to customize a Flash template, or design a site from scratch.
The software is extremely popular among photographers, and there are dozens of free photography website templates to choose from at Wix. Users
Users can customize the design elements of these templates including photo galleries, menus, colors, comment forms, shopping carts and more. Visitors to Wix photographer websites can send messages to the site owners, post comments and purchase photography services directly from the site.
The new Wix Photography Blog helps photographers power up their portfolios. In addition to practical tips on using Wix to design a photography website, the blog offers several promotional opportunities for photographers to show off their work, and get in touch with members of an already extremely active online community.
On the Wix Photography Blog, users can submit their photography websites for review by professional designers, and receive expert feedback on their sites' structure and layout. Wix users can also submit work for the blog's "Photo of the Day" category, and have their work featured on the blog itself. Weekly "Photographer Zoom" posts include a brief bio of a featured Wix photographer, in the form of a questionnaire modeled after the Inside the Actors Studio series. Links to the featured sites will also be included in these posts.
Blog comments allow members to exchange ideas, share knowledge and expertise, gain inspiration and socialize with like-minded Wix users. The links provided to featured artists' sites are valuable promotional tools.
Editor-in-chief Talya Fuksman is enthusiastic about the possibilities this blog provides for Wix users: "We created Wix Photography as a place for photographers to gain inspiration and learn how to improve their sites, not just from Wix but also fellow photographers and designers. Additionally, the blog provides a platform for users to gain exposure to the online community and showcase their work on a much larger scale. It's a very exciting opportunity for newbies and seasoned pros alike, to drive more traffic to their sites and generate new leads. "
Anyone interested in becoming a guest blogger is welcome to apply on the blog. Writers with inspirational examples of photography and/or web design can get full credit and exposure to their websites by contributing posts to the blog.
Wix headquarters are in New York, with satellite offices in Tel Aviv. The company released the beta version of its free website builder in 2008. Wix is funded by Bessemer Venture Partners, Mangrove Capital Partners and Benchmark Capital.
(EMAILWIRE.COM, June 02, 2010 ) New York, NY - Wix is acknowledging the needs of one of its largest member communities with the creation of the Wix Photography Blog. The free website building software has been available on the web since 2006, and has since then attracted nearly 4 million users worldwide. With its drag and drop interface and free web design elements, Wix makes it easy for users to customize a Flash template, or design a site from scratch. 
