From the course: Build an Ecommerce Site in 30 Minutes with Shopify, WooCommerce, Squarespace, and Wix

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Customize a template for your design

Customize a template for your design

Now that we've selected a Wix template, it's time for the fun part, which is customizing it. We're in the admin for our site and you can get to the template from setup to website. And then click "Edit Site". This is the Wix website editor, and if you want to know if Wix is right for you, it's probably going to come down to this editor. This is how you'll edit many things on your site, from the layout and colors to adding new pages and adding new media. This is essentially your live site. You can move things around, you can adjust things, but you can't click on the buttons while you're in this editing mode. Up top, we have a page selector. This lets us navigate between different pages so we can see the home page, a product page, and a regular content page like an FAQ page. We can also view our site on mobile and on desktop. For many websites, over 50 percent of the traffic comes from mobile. So as you're designing your site, make sure that it also looks good on mobile. On the left…

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