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Signed up with Wix - Huge Mistake!!

  • 19-05-2016 08:08PM
    #1
    ruaille buaille
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 123 ✭✭


    Just spent weeks making a website on Wix. Was really happy with it so paid for the subscription for a year and made it go live. Only then when I tried to load my new website found that it timed out when loading or else spent absolutely ages trying to load! :(
    Tried to contact Wix but no joy. I dont have any videos or anything major on the website. Its fairly basic, mostly text with a few pictures. Is there anything I can do? Im thinking of scrapping the whole thing and making a new one on Wordpress. Would that be faster? Absolutely gutted because I was happy with the way it looked. Is there any way of transferring it to some other host?


Comments

  • #2
    S.M.B.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,383 ✭✭✭S.M.B.


    What's the link?


  • #3
    callaway92
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,214 ✭✭✭✭callaway92


    Hardly something to do with not having compressed images on the site, is it? There's a load of sites that will compress your images for you.


  • #4
    ruaille buaille
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 123 ✭✭ruaille buaille


    serenityyoga.ie
    The images I have are from Wix so they wont let me save them etc. so I cant compress?


  • #5
    Kavrocks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,347 ✭✭✭Kavrocks


    Loads fine for me, in about 3-4 seconds.


  • #6
    duffman13
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,274 ✭✭✭duffman13


    ruaille buaille wrote: »
    serenityyoga.ie
    The images I have are from Wix so they wont let me save them etc. so I cant compress?

    Just checked on my phone and the website seems fine, some overlapping on two pics on the homepage but everything else works fine, all links etc.


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  • #7
    ruaille buaille
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 123 ✭✭ruaille buaille


    Thanks a million for checking. It seems to be working ok on mobile but really slow on the pc. I checked on my work computer and home laptop. I compressed the images that I could such as my logo although I feel that lessened the quality? I also had a slideshow which I deleted. Maybe that helped?


  • #8
    daymobrew
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,677 ✭✭✭daymobrew


    ruaille buaille wrote: »
    The images I have are from Wix so they wont let me save them etc. so I cant compress?
    You can download them though their T&Cs may not allow you.

    Here is the full photo of the yoga pose. You made a cropped version.


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