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Wix blogs 101: Image sizing, video & the social share image

May 6, 2019 by Val Cline Leave a Comment

Wix blogs are fun and easy to use with just a few tips

If you have a Wix blog, you have a tonne of graphic, layout and design tools you can use for free! And I think it's one of the most enjoyable platforms to work with when you want to be creative.  It's a fun platform to use and I'd like to make it as easy as possible for you to get straight to the fun stuff.
The following tips are important to understand for your work to shine in the online world.

Image sizes for Wix blogs

I often recommend that you choose an image size that displays well on social media, at least for the social share image and often this image is the first image you place on your blog post at the top of the page.
In the video above I used the current recommended Facebook size as my blog image size here which currently is 1200 x 630 pixels, but 940 x 726 works well too. If you want to create a Canva template for your Wix blog images all you have to do is create a template with "custom dimensions".
After you click "Custom dimentions" you just enter in the width and height of the image you want to create.
NOTE - when you pick an image straight from the Wix Free Image Repository within Wix, you don't have to resize the image as Wix does a nice job of that for you if you don't make it smaller after you place the image on your blog.
Click on custom dimentions in Canva to create a Wix blog image template
More from WIX here:
https://support.wix.com/en/article/sharing-a-single-blog-post-on-social-media-in-the-new-wix-blog
https://support.wix.com/en/article/recommended-image-sizes-for-the-new-wix-blog

Adding video to your Wix blog

Adding video is easy with Wix.
If you want to add a video you uploaded to your YouTube channel all you have to do is paste the share link into your post after clicking on the video icon.  Furthermore, if you want to upload a video to WIX directly from your computer, you can do that too. Just click the video icon and upload the video as you would an image and add that where you want it to appear on your blog.

Beware, Wix allows a limited amount of video uploads per plan.

The paid Combo Plan is what most new service-based entrepreneurs have and it's the most affordable paid plan that Wix offers. It's perfect for most things in my opinion but if you want to upload a lot of video to your Wix site you will need to upgrade. This is another reason why I recommend that you upload your videos to YouTube where you can take advantage of the free storage and any social traffic back to your website.
So, with the Combo plan, you can upload up to 30 minutes of video (10 minutes maximum per video) and that's it. And you can increase this limit by upgrading your plan. Additionally, I've got a link here with more info direct from Wix:https://support.wix.com/en/article/increasing-your-video-hours-in-wix-video

The social media share image for each Wix blog: AKA the cover image

The social share image is the image people see in social media when your blog is shared. In a Wix blog, your blog cover Image will be used when your blog is shared. You can edit your cover image in the Wix blog "Post Settings":
Wix blog change your cover image
Wix blog change your cover image
 
If you don't specify a cover image in the Post Settings, Wix will just use the 1st image in your Wix blog post.
Wix also uses the Cover image as the thumbnail image on your blog landing page. 
 

What if you change your cover Image after you publish your blog?

This can happen. 
If you add text to your cover image you might notice a type-o or maybe you want to change the image from one to another after you publish your blog. You can do this, however, the Social Share image attached to this post might not update across social media and when the next person shares your blog post, the old image might still be used.
Here's how to fix that!
 
Take the link for blog post and pop it into the following tools to see how social media will display the post. You can do this before you publish if you want to double check that your image looks okay.
This is particularly helpful when you decide to include text on your image. But you can do this after you publish your post as well if you change the original image after the blog is published.
 

Social media debugging tools

Each social media debug tool is a little different and some offer more detail than others.
You want to check that your blog post is pulling the most up to date information for the description, title and image you created for it.  Some of these tools will show some or all of this information. After you paste your blog link into the tool you may have to refresh the tool until you see the updated information.
These tools will "clear the cache" and that just means you are telling them that you've changed information and that they can't use what they have "on file" for you. You are telling them to fetch the updated info ;-)
Facebook debugger
Twitter Card Validator
Pinterest Debugger
LinkedIn Post Inspector
 

Other things to be aware of when dealing with Blog images

And this is something you will notice when you test your blog post links in the social media debuggers above.
 
If you decide to place text on your image, and that text is the title of your blog post:
  • Also, create a text version of the title for the post
  • Leave lots of room around the text so it won't get cut off when shared
  • Look at the image on your mobile device and if it's too small to read, consider changing the text or removing it

That's it!

If you have a Wix blog -congrats. They are pretty easy to use and give you lots of fun features. With a few tips, you can get down to creating your posts and sharing your expertise in no time.

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How to organize and easily find your favourite images in WIX

April 30, 2019 by Val Cline Leave a Comment

Never go hunting for that image you liked again!

Wix is pretty easy to use and has a tonne of amazing features, but like anything, it's not perfect and in the past, it was a pain to hunt through their free images for the one you used a month ago but decided to swap for another.  And taking advantage of the many beautiful FREE images that come with a WIX subscription is fun!

Graphic and design elements are something Wix goes above and beyond with.  Wix offers more variety and options for free than any other platform I can think of. You can actually design within WIX, with lots of free icons, illustrations, photos, vector graphic elements and more. You can manipulate the design and graphic elements as if you were inside a full on graphics app. But I digress.

Wix Image Repository
A tiny example of the free image repository within Wix

My point is that anyone who is using Wix might very well want to play with their images a lot because they can.

It's natural to want to play around with all the image options Wix gives you but in the past -it was a pain to re-find images you used in the past or keep track of image ideas for future needs.

Now we have "bookmarks" and folders to help us organize images.

What you need to remember when organizing your images within WIX

1) FAVOURITES - "Star" all WIX FREE images you like when you find them if you want to easily locate them again later. They will be saved under "Favourites" in your Image Admin. If you forget to do this you will have to hunt for them again.

2) FOLDERS - Can be created for organizing images you uploaded from your computer. You cannot create your own folders for the WIX FREE images, or for Favourites.

However...

3) All purchased stock images from within WIX AKA Shutterstock - Will be placed automatically into a folder -where all purchased images can be found easily. All FREE WIX images can be at least "saved" when you star them -and these will all be visible under "Favourites".

4) You can "FAVOURITE" or "STAR"  ALL IMAGES! -but you can't yet organize your favourites into folders -so this section can get very big. I recommend that you organize your own uploaded images and icons into folders and that you do not mark them as FAVOURITES -and only use the FAVOURITES section for images you can't save to your own folders and those are the WIX FREE IMAGES, ILLUSTRATIONS & ICONS.

Lastly -don't forget to make a habit of STARing or FAVOURITEing any WIX FREE image you like BEFORE you use it as you might forget -and have to then hunt for it later.

Here's to using the tools that help you get things done, where you are today

As you may or may not know, I'm not a tool snob. In fact, I can plainly see why we have a variety of website platform choices today. They serve real and worthy purposes. I am not pro or con Wix, Squarespace or WordPress.

What I am is practical and experienced enough to know why each of these tools has its merits. And I'm not the only one by far who can respect Wix for what it does and who it serves.

If you have a Wix website there's certainly a lot to explore and more every month seemingly.

If you'd like to talk to me about website platform options I'm always happy and willing to give you my thoughts on each of the above and others.

You can email me questions and I will respond. Or you can grab some time to talk on the phone. Either way, I'm always happy to discuss this topic.

Until next time,

Val


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