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I needed to put a web site together, nothing complicated, just some pages with graphics and text, a menu, and used a product walled Wix. I have seen it advertised on UK TV so I gave it a go.
It was very simple to use, registered with Google, has the ability to add keywords for other search engines (according to Wix Google doesn't use the Keyword tag).
Any edit and save is followed by a 'do you want to publish' dialog. Adding an email was simple, and uses googlemail as the inbox.
For someone who works at the opposite end of IT, in the Kernel, having a simple and effective tool with a flat learning curve was a godsend.
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Munchies_Matt wrote: having a simple and effective tool with a flat learning curve was a godsend.
You would not have written that if you knew what 'Wix' means in my beloved language.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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now you have to tell us! 
(and it had better be good :P )
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10 seconds research (OP's home site is de so we're talking about German) and 5 seconds on google reveals "wix" is german slang for onanism (you might have to google that too  ).
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And now he has found a 'Quote: simple and effective tool with a flat learning curve
'. 
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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From the Wikipedia article of a similarily named comedy movie:
Quote: refers to German "Wichser", wanker
Do you, by any chance, have a BMW?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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OK. And no, I dont have a BMW.
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I could have arranged that. In no other place will you encounter more of them on the road. Even prototypes that are being tested.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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So the Wix advert that I always skip at the beginning of each youtube video actually is good advertisement ?
I'd rather be phishing!
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I need to subscribe to different channels then...not only are most of the videos preceded by a wix advert the video is sponsored by them too so the "content creator" needs to find some way to steer the video such that they talk about wix in the video too *sigh*
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you could just learn html
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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I know HTML well enough but this tool is easier and quicker.
As I said, I specialise in a different IT sector, I dont want to have to learn anything new tp put a simple web site up, and this tool worked for me.
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Its the greatest thing ever !
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Well, that is quite a statement. I can think of any number of things much much greater than HTML.
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Not if you wish to remain the master of your own domain.
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I really enjoy waiting a second for four or five typed characters to appear  Everything is sluggish !
Also, secondary windows, like the Property Browser, and Error Window, once docked and set to auto-hide do not persist those settings: so, dammit, I have to reset them again, and again. This is an i7-7th laptop with 16gb of DDR4, and an SSD, and previous versions of VS 2017 were not slow like this.
I've filed reports on these demons, and have received feedback that the issues have been "triaged." That ain't helpful ... if you know what triage in medicine is, you know why the word alone has no meaning.
I do hope you are not sharing this nest of miseries !
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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Not those particular ones, but VS2017 has a number of irritating bugs. Mine periodically kills half my keyboard, so only the alphanumeric keys do anything - no backspace or enter or delete or arrows. Weird. I have to close the project and reopen it and all is back to normal. Plus a few other irritating idiosyncrasies. That said - I do quite like ti on the whole.
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I also hast the 'partial-keyboard' issue... Never investigated really, however...
Also have DLL locking problem, but I'm pretty sure, that the solution and the internal dependencies are declared somehow wrongly... Not investigated either...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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BillWoodruff wrote: and have received feedback that the issues have been "triaged."
That means they printed it in hard copy to be signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighters.
They are still at the signing phase though, because they need specific orders to send them in.
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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You are kidding I'm sure - they have authority to sign them? 
Anyway, doesn't it have to be on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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well said !
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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BillWoodruff wrote: and have received feedback that the issues have been "triaged."
That means they've evaluated and duplicated the issue(s), and have assigned it/them a priority level in the "to-be-fixed" queue.
This is both good and bad. They recognize there's a problem (good), and that they may or may not fix it (bad).
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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By "and that they may or may not fix it" you mean, of course, "which they will then ignore." (I know I shouldn't be such a pessimist, but you know, experience...  )
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