The New Wix Editor 2022 & the NEW Sections Element • How to Use Sections on a Wix Website
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- Опубликовано: 20 июл 2024
- Have you looked at your Wix Editor lately?? If you have a Wix website, sooner or later your Wix Editor is going to be converted into the New Wix Editor 2022 with... ta da (!!) "sections". What the heck? What happened to strips? And if you don't know what I'm talking about at all and you haven't even been using strips - listen up.
The worst thing you can do is build a Wix site right onto the "page background". Designers know you need to build on strips (you can move them if you want to, save them, use them on another site, whatever...) Well, now there's another layer - another building block - called SECTIONS.
How do you use SECTIONS on a Wix website?
You lay down a section (basically an advanced strip) and lay strips on top of the sections. Watch the video of a very basic overview of how they work and I'll go into more detail in coming videos! xo
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First let me preface this by thanking you for WIX Website Building Tutorials that are clear, concise and very easy to follow and practically apply. There is a real demand for your WIX Instruction. I myself am looking forward to the release of the video series you mentioned where in you will film 5 minute segments on all of the WIX Website Building topics. Being armed with this information is vital to your subscribers and viewers like myself who are new to WIX and website building. I have a WIX VIP Website and account and frankly I am lost. That stated your content is needed and appreciated. Will try to keep future comments shorter and more succinct.
Thank you so much for the feedback - I'm very grateful for it. My idea for creating these tutorials came from the number of clients who have come to me with a site that they've tried and failed at building just because there is really no visual and live human explanation of how to do all these detailed things. : ) Thanks again - and I don't believe anyone really needs the VIP account. Next time your account comes around for renewal you can probably downgrade it for a cheaper account and lose nothing.
thanks for this one, helpful to review these changes, agree with starting from scratch, good to see i'm not a control geek!!!
Hi Birit, I had to pop into your comments to tell you that your videos gave me the guts to build my website on Wix. I started out very intimidated, even after watching Wix tutorials. Your videos were the key that unlocked my confusion. I'm actually figuring it out! I'm thrilled because my current website is on Podia and frankly, I'm not proud of the way it looks. Podia sites are static-looking stacks of rectangles. I'm loving my Wix site already and am super excited to publish. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I appreciate you and your videos so much!
Thank you so so much for the feedback. I love making them. I moved countries this year, so took a bit of a break but am going great guns now. What would you like to see? What do you need to know about? : )
@@biritsimonsen good luck with your upcoming videos. Making them is a lot of work. Regarding what I’d like to see, I’m presently getting stuck with two things - making pages that look fine for desktops but that look awful when I click to phone view. It feels daunting and like I’m actually building two sites and not just one. Next are the predetermined section sizes for text. They’re so narrow and look constrained, even when I shift the layout. I looked at your site and like the way you have a navy blue section with text that goes wider than the ones I see in my editor. I can’t figure out how to do that and would love some guidance. Thank you!
@@RunAgainRover Perfect. My next video on sections/strips/columns will show you all about how to get the text further toward the sides of the site. It should be out within the week. I'm also working on a full series about mobile formatting. It's a task many people have issues with. (And it's really not hard!)
Can't wait to see it,@@biritsimonsen!
Wow another fantastic amazing super great video info and analysis from absolutely the best channel on RUclips. Thank you and keep the great videos coming
Excellent! You explained this very well, thank you,
WOW. Thank you. Very easy to understand and follow. I do have a question. I'm so confused about the guidelines. Obviously they are the type "safety" but then so many designs have type and are far outside the guidelines. Many of the strips have images and type extending way passed the guidelines. When I did that, items were clipped. Can you tell me how do I know when it's ok and when it's not? PS I'm desperate to need help on the mobile layouts. It seems so widgy. Very difficult to get it just right. Thanks for any tips. I will surely be watching your tutorials. Clearly well done.
Hi there. Thanks so much! Have a look at this video about columns - ruclips.net/video/mw0v1wtQI-I/видео.html. It talks a lot about gridlines and how to get your content out towards the sides of your site without losing it when it's on smaller screens. I'll talk more about this soon! I know it's confusing. When I first started with Wix they didn't have columns and you really just had to keep everything towards the middle. It's muuuuch better now. : ) You do always need to be checking your site on different-sized screens to make sure it looks good everywhere. That's part of my design process.
@@biritsimonsen THANK YOU SO MUCH for your response. I look forward to your videos to take my skills to the next level. Building websites is harder than it seems...isn't most things. So much to think about, even for a seasoned Adobe user.
@@biritsimonsen Thanks!
This is great for changing colours and fonts in a section, what I need to know is how to add functionality. What's the relationship between pages, , the various kinds of pages, sections, and adding functionality e.g. booking to sections . How to use the Site Pages and Menu thing? after 10+ hours with Wix this is still a mystery...
Just about ready to bail on Wix, maybe I could do what I need to do with Google sites.
Hi again! I do plan on doing a complete overview of the Wix editor in the near future. That should really help with everything you mention.
@@biritsimonsen Awesome! How about we do it live on a Zoom and you walk me through it? I promise I’d be a good student and less grumpy
Hi there: I'm trying to add a news section to my site, but I don't see it offered in my selections. Do you know where I can find it?
off the topic, may i know which recording software you used for making this video? loving the circle shape video of yours
Hi there! I used Loom for this video. I believe it is the free version as well. I find Loom a little blurry, so I've been trying Ecamm Live out (you can see this is my most recent video) and I really think the quality is better. Loom is terrific for making quick videos for clients and that's what I started out using it for. Super easy to use.
Fantastic video!!! I thought I was going crazy. I am not a web designer by any stretch but Wix allowed me to put content out there for a niche tax arena. Now I cannot change any of it easily because the Editor named all my individual pages as a Section. On the toolbar they had that four inward pointing arrow icon that I used all the time, and as you stated ... poof ... gone ... and so is my ability to change my website. Is there a workaround for that?
Hi there. Thanks so much! : ) Do you just see sections now or is it strips on top of sections in your site? I promise you can still move them around and edit your site. We just need to figure out what the elements are so we know how to move them.
If I try to edit one page, the entire page is designated as a "section" and if I want to insert something between two text boxes, for example, I have to move all the individual elements down, insert my new element and then adjust them up because I moved them too far. On some pages I have a lot of elements.@@biritsimonsen
I found this very helpful. Thank you! But, consider slowing down a little...
Thanks for the video, but didn't strips act just like sections in the old editor? I could click the zoom out button and rearrange my strips just like the new sections??? Thanks.
In the old editor, there were just strips, of course. No sections. The strips behaved very much like sections do now. Even to the point where you could put a strip within a strip.
What strips do that sections cannot do:
- Strips can have margins (Sections are always site-wide and always just one background per section)
- Strips can have columns adding all sorts of design possibilities
What can sections do that strips cannot:
- Sections are easier to reorder than strips were (they used to kind of stick together sometimes)
- Sections can act as anchors. You can link a menu tab to a Section for example
- Sections can have their own URL (this is very cool). If you right-click on the Section name label you can customize the Section URL and link to it from anywhere (social media for example, or in an email campaign)
Sections have been around for a long time now and I'm really used to them. They still irritate me a little while formatting on mobile, but overall they add design capabilities and that's always a good thing. : )
tutorial needed - how to convert current website to new format without destroying everything especially music download and sales
Old websites should automatically be shifted over to the new editor without any issues. Having said that, I have heard other designers say they've had issues with this. All my old sites are still in the old editor for the most part and I'm surprised it's taking so long to move them. But, this is a good thing - it means they are working out the bugs. So, the answer is - do nothing for now. Let the site switch over on its own and you likely will have to do nothing to "convert" it. It will be automatic. Certainly, music downloads and store setup will not be affected.
I'm having trouble adding scrolling effects to a strip when i attach it to a section. I just get the option of fade in, fade out and none. Where can i find parallax etc?
Hi there. Be careful as to what you have selected. If you are only seeing the fade in/fade out options you likely have selected the section and not the strip. Make sure there is a blue border surrounding the strip and a blue "Strip" label in the upper left hand corner. Then you will see the parallax options when you click on the animation icon. Another option is to right click over this area and look for "Overlapping Items" in the box that pops up. This will give you a list of everything that is on your web page at that point in order and you can select strip from there. Hope this helps!
HI Birit! I am a very newbie and just started a site yesterday for a client. I found that I wanted to do the strips in order but whenever I add a new blank one, it shows up at the top. I try to drag it down but it just stays. Is there a way to fix that or should I start from scratch again and pick a themed strip and alter it/them? I love your videos and I am now a subscriber. I am so new at Wix that I can't complain about anything...yet. LOL. Thanks for your knowledge and videos that I am going to binge-watch!
First of all, thanks so much! Second of all... hmm... That's not normal. Glitches do happen, but not all that often. Questions: 1. When you say the new blank strip shows up at the top do you mean that it's all the way above the header, or just below the header? and 2. Are you on a site that has the new sections on it or not? Let me know! : )
@@biritsimonsen Hi Birit. I just went to try to figure it out. OMG...I know it is something simple. Okay, so I have a skinny header bar with the 'about us, home etc" at the top. Under that, I have a picture that spans across the site. The next strip has a texture image I put in and in this strip is 4 boxes-2 above, and 2 below with some copy under them. Under that texture/4-box content, I have put more in that strip by changing a block of it and coloring it blue and have put more text and 3 boxes of images. NOW, under that is where I want to add my new strip to add a strip of images to span across and then put a photo of the owner over the picture but I just keep trying to add that strip and it only shows up at the top and won't move down. After that I want to put a map under that. Thanks for helping me out. Much appreciated. I am going to play on it now.
I just noticed that the top box / strip is called a 'header' while the next box with all the work I did, is called the 'footer'. Why would they make the footer as the 2nd strip?? Going to see if I can copy this strip and change it later. Wish me luck!😄
@@florak1087 Time for a quick call to Wix Support. Go to www.wix.com/contact and follow along the prompts until you get to "Request a Callback". Put in your telephone number. The callbacks usually happen within 15 minutes. The support person will be able to see your website page and will help you figure it out. Honestly, the support is great and easy to access. Let me know what happens!
@@florak1087 Sounds like you have just designed in the header and footer of the site and have no sections or strips in between. You need to create a section/strip in between the header and footer and move all your work in there. As mentioned, you should just call Wix and get them to help you with this. You'll save a ton of time! : )
Do you know why and how to remove massive white space below the footer, some pages have this and most don't . How do your remove the white space below and how do you shorten the page? so the footer is at the base with no white space.
This happens to users every once in a while. Usually, it's because there is something (some element) that is behind or stuck below the footer. Honestly, rather than driving yourself nuts trying to figure out what this is, I'd just get a callback from Wix and have their support fix it for you. It's really easy to get support on the phone (surprisingly). All you do is go to www.wix.com/contact and go through the prompts until you get to a point where it says "request callback". Then request a callback. They usually get back to you in about 10 minutes (sometimes startlingly quickly!). They can access your site and fix it for you over the phone and tell you what it is so it doesn't happen again. Best of luck!
@@biritsimonsen Thanks and will contact them opposed to looking online to fix it with no results, Thanks 😀
PLZ HELP when I add a banner to the section it doesn't add the whole photo and I can't find any information on the sizes of the sections to prevent this!!
Gah! Sorry, I just saw this comment. Are you still having issues?? And what do you mean by "banner". Do you mean a strip or?
Question please. I am new at wix. I started making a site with a template but ended up doing my own thing. My issue is that my whole home page duplicates on every page instead of just the top menu. I see it's all under header section.
How do I separate it? Or do I have to start over on a blank template. If you have a video that would be great.
Hi there. I would not start all over. I would add a section BELOW the header. Then, I would copy and paste all the content that is currently sitting in the header section into the new section you created (make sure it is not in the footer either!). Then I would delete all the content that is in the header that you don't want there. So your sections would be Header/Section/Footer. Hope that helps!
@@biritsimonsen Thanks, I'll give it a try.
@@biritsimonsen Yay! that worked. Thank you very much I've spent hours trying to fix that.
@@karengollihue1702 Oh good! So happy to have helped! : )
is it true that everything outside the dotted lines will not show on the viewers' screen? if so lots of your content will not be visible.
Yes, that is true, but there are so many workarounds to this. When you add strips and columns on the strips, you can place your content further out to the sides of your site. And you can layer strips and manipulate further where you place the content. I like to minimize my browser window on my desktop so that I can drag the size of the window back and forth with my cursor and see how the content rearranges on a smaller and larger screen. Almost 100% of the time I reach a solution I'm happy with. I don't feel I have to keep content down at the center of the website (like you had to about a decade ago). I'll outline these workarounds further in an upcoming video!
Can u delete a section? And then reset your own sections? I have an old Wix website and it created sections for me and they are not in the right places. I can’t move them where I need them to be.
Yes, you can delete a section. Go to the little vertical quick action bar over at the right side of the section you wish to edit. I talk about this at 9:46 in the video. Not only can you rearrange the sections, but you can also delete sections here. If you click on the ... you will see that option. You can also recorder/organize sections here. I'm not sure what you mean by "reset". Hope that helps!
@@biritsimonsen Many thanks for your video. When sections are deleted the strip also goes. I unfortunately deleted all of my content in an effort to get everything lined up. I starting all over, but still can’t get the strips to line up with the sections. I just keep deleting sections and starting over. The up/down (strip resize arrows) don’t seem to work.
@@YogiCecily Okay, a couple of things. First of all, if you delete content there are a couple of ways to get it back. One, which is pretty obvious, is the back arrow buttons. The other is called Site History. At the very upper left corner of your editor, right next to the word Wix, there is a "Site" tab. Go in there and you will see "Site History". In site history, you can go back to any version of your site. You can look back and see what your site looked like before any time you clicked Save and you can restore previous versions of your site. It's all logged by date and time. So, that's always an option. Here is the Wix Support page for Site History: support.wix.com/en/article/viewing-and-managing-your-site-history
Yes, strips are attached to the sections they sit on. I'm not sure what you mean about being unable to size the strips. I can just drag them wider or narrower. And what do you mean about them not "lining up" with the sections?
When I am building a site and moving around large blocks of content sometimes I copy and paste the content on a blank hidden page just so I don't lose it if I delete it. So I would create your strips and then put duplicates of them on a blank hidden page. That way if you delete the section you can just get another copy of the strip to try again. Hope that helps! : )
I’ve deleted a section and there is a blank white area that still remains. I’m afraid to publish thinking it will stay in the template. Suggestion?
It must be another section or part of a section. There is nothing underneath a section. There is no "page background" anymore. I would try to drag upwards whatever is below the white area.
@@biritsimonsen that fixed it!! Thank you so much!!!
@@JimHornEntertainment Yay! My pleasure. : )
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I absolutely hate the new editor and so do all of my clients. I will be moving all of my sites off of WIX. The fact that I was forced to use the "new editor" resulting in hours of work and complaints from nearly all of my clients that now administrate their own sites that I created for them.
It's really just a bit of a learning curve and the addition of "sections" is the main difference. Honestly, I've been using it for about a month now and I'm totally used to it. Moving all my sites off Wix would be a much bigger hassle! If I were you I'd give it a chance before taking that big step. All editors (Weebly, Shopify, GoDaddy - even WordPress) evolve. They are trying to make a better product, not drive you nuts. And they can't just let all the users decide which version of the editor to use. That would be like everyone getting to choose a different version of the iPhone updates for an indefinite time. That's why we all update our phones when asked. : )
@@biritsimonsen - Thanks so much for your response. I have to admit, after working on several of my sites over the past few days, I have come to realize that I hit the panic button. I had just spent nearly 6 hours trying to repair damage done when the site rolled over to the new editor, without warning. I can now say that I have no intention of moving any of my sites from WIX, and will in future, hold my tongue when faced with something I have not yet given a full chance.
@@biritsimonsen Agreed, but these changes create massive delays in promotions. We’re loosing weeks and months of potential selling time. The only option is then to start spending money on hiring an outsourced designer just for a small change.
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Sections have ruined Wix for me, before it was so easy to use and it was free, that's why I constantly used it. But, now that they've added this disgusting, difficult feature I have left Wix. I now pay to make my websites as sections have just complicated something that used to be so easy. Why change something if it's not already broken, Wix? Just why.
I've heard through the grapevine that this change was made to facilitate making the sites more responsive across all devices in the future. We just can't see it yet. Also, there are some advantages to being able to switch sections around and copy them that strips didn't offer. I've been using them for a while now and I'm used to them - as you would be as well. Don't give up on Wix, it's a terrific platform (they do not in any way sponsor me to say that - I truly believe it). You want complicated - try Editor X or Velo! : )
@@biritsimonsen I've recently tried Wix again, as much as I prefer the old version I can now navigate through Wix decently with the addition of sections.
Wix sucks