Wix.com – Wikipedia

Wix is an online SaaS type platform that allows you to create websites in HTML5 (the tool was until then in flash ^{[ first ] , [ 2 ]} ) and their mobile version.

The company, whose headquarters are in Tel Aviv, Israel, also has offices in Dublin in Ireland, New York, San Francisco and Miami in the United States, in Dnipropetrovsk in Ukraine, Vilnius in Lithuania, Sao Paulo and Santana de Parnaíba in Brazil, and in Beer-Sheva in Israel. Wix is ​​among its investors Insight Venture Partners, Mangrove Capital Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners and Benchmark Capital ^{[ 3 ]} .

List of main shareholders at October 18, 2019 ^{[ 4 ]} .

Wix allows its users to create HTML5 sites only from a visual interface and without touching the source code. This type of intuitive visual editor is known under the acronym Wysiwyg. Many features to develop your site are offered by WIX, but also by external developers in l’App Market platform ^{[ 5 ]} . In particular, you can find applications to connect your Wix site to Google ADS, Mailchimp, Spotify or Amazon.

Founded in October 2006 Par Avishai Abrahami, Nadav Abrahami et Giora Kaplan, Wix Obtient Son Premier Investissement En January 2007 .
In December 2010 , Wix offers its publisher in Spanish, followed by the version in Portuguese, in French ( February 2012 ), in German ( August 2011 ), in Polish ( December 2011 ) one an an Italy ( January 2012 ). ^{[ Ref. desired]}

Over the years, the sites and blog creation platform has increased the number of its possibilities.

In April 2011 , the platform becomes publisher for mobile sites and then mars 2012 , it allows the construction of HTML5 sites ^{[ 6 ]} ;

The November 5, 2013 marks his entry to Nasdaq ^{[ 7 ]} . Wix Hotels ^{[ 8 ]} is launched in August 2014 and the platform Wix Music In 2015.

Wix also opens its ecosystem to the various professional partners by launching the Wix Marketplace ^{[ 9 ]} Thus, many WIX specialized service providers are highlighted by categories: SEO, Web Design, Coding … They allow WIX users to build and promote their site.

In 2016, a new ADI publisher (Artificial Design Intelligence, literally translated: artificial design intelligence) was set up. This tool based on artificial intelligence allows the automated design of a website, from a simple questionnaire ^{[ ten ]} .

In 2018 the platform launches ascend by Wix (CRM type software), then Corvid by Wix in 2019, which gives the possibility of managing databases. The Corvid tool is newly baptized Velo in 2021 to avoid confusion with the Pandemic of COVVI-19 ^{[ 11 ] , [ twelfth ]} .

In 2020, Wix unveiled the Editor X, a tool for professional designers, with better management of responsive design ^{[Ref. necessary]} . The Editor X directly competes with solutions like Webflow.

In May 2021 Wix launched an improved new version of its publisher, notably offering more facilities to modify the mobile version of a website. Wix launched in July 2021 in beta version the possibility of developing its application and integrating it directly on the Play Store (Android) and the Apple Store (IOS) ^{[ 13 ]} .

Among the main competitors of Wix.com are WordPress, Jimdo, Weebly, Silex (Free), Shopify, Squarespace and other hosts and sites for creating sites.

In October 2016 The company was at the heart of a controversy linked to the use by WIX of the WordPress code under GPL license ^{[ 14 ]} In response to this, Avishai Abrahami, the CEO of Wix, published an answer on the official blog explaining which open source code had been used and how Wix shares in return with the open source community. ^{[ 15 ]} However, he was later pointed out that Wix’s collaboration with the open source community was not sufficient or equitable in the words of the LPG license, which requires that the code from its elements be published under an identical license. ^{[ 16 ]}

In 2018, Lebanon justice decided to block all Wix sites on its territory, this decision seems to be dictated by political reasons ^{[ 17 ]} . The problem is recognized by Wix which points to the responsibility of Lebanese FAI ^{[ 18 ]} . All users based in this country cannot therefore visit websites hosted by Wix, except using a VPN to bypass this blockage.