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Customizing Your Wix Site

Wix offers more than one way to customize the look and feel of your website, such as a drag-and-drop editor and tools that suggest layouts for you.

1 Learn the concept

Wix offers more than one way to customize the look and feel of your website, such as a drag-and-drop editor and tools that suggest layouts for you. This lesson explains the best way to use each and how to keep your design clean and consistent.

A checklist for customizing a site builder siteCUSTOMIZATION CHECKLISTUse two or three colors across the siteUse one heading font and one body fontAlign elements to the same gridCompress images before uploadCheck the mobile layout separately
Consistency makes a site look professional.

2 See it in action

  • Set site-wide colors and fonts first.
  • Use the editor to adjust layouts and spacing.
  • Keep your design simple and aligned.
  • Check mobile view separately.

Worked example

Fixing a mobile layout

Problem: on a phone, the heading overlaps a photo.

Fix: open the mobile editor and reduce the heading size and stack the photo below.

Check: view on a real phone.

Result to look for: readable text and easy-to-tap buttons.

3 Study an example

Example scenario

A business sets its colors and fonts once, then adjusts each page. The pages look consistent because the site-wide styles are defined first.

4 Apply it and download

  1. Choose your colors and fonts.
  2. Adjust one page's layout.
  3. Check it on mobile.

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