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Wix is a free website builder that allows anyone to build a website. It includes professionally designed website templates and offers full customization. Create galleries, slideshows, blogs and much more. Redirect your SVSU web space to the Wix hosted site.
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Wix is a free website builder that allows anyone to build a website. It includes professionally designed website templates and offers full customization. Create galleries, slideshows, blogs and much more. Redirect your SVSU web space to the Wix hosted site.
Step One
- Go to the www.wix.com.
- Create a wix account, or login to an existing one.
- View this Wix help page to get started creating your website. Explore their articles to get a more in depth look at what you are interested in and for answers to any questions you may have.
- Click on save to save the site, and customize the domain name
![The URL for the domain reads https://username.wixsite.com/example. From here you can edit the text that reads example to personalize the site name.](https://svsu.teamdynamix.com/TDPortal/Images/Viewer?fileName=36e0e3f1-269c-49da-a30d-39943b4fc7df.png)
- Click done, and then publish.
- Now it is time to link the site to your web space.
Step Two
To connect it to your SVSU web space follow these steps.
- Save the file linked in this article, named index.html, to notepad.
- On line 5, where it says "yourwebsite.com" change that to the domain name of your wix site starting after the double backslash.
- Save this notepad file as a new file titled index.html, index.htm, welcome.htm, or welcome.html.
- On your computer, go to vdrive.svsu.edu and log in.
- Navigate to your public_html folder by going to Home Folder > public_html.
- Once you are in that folder, upload the notepad file you edited earlier.
Step Three
Now, when you go to www.svsu.edu/~(your username here) it will automatically open to the website that you have created!