Postach.io vs Wix
When comparing Postach.io vs Wix, the Slant community recommends Postach.io for most people. In the question“What are the best solutions for a personal blog?” Postach.io is ranked 12th while Wix is ranked 20th. The most important reason people chose Postach.io is:
Use your Evernote app notes as content for your blog. Just add a "published" tag to your note and you're done.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Blog using Evernote
Use your Evernote app notes as content for your blog. Just add a "published" tag to your note and you're done.
Pro Markdown support
You can write using Markdown syntax on Postach.io.
Pro Good themes
Well-designed themes, more than you would expect for a lightweight solution.
Pro Familiar to Evernote users
It's based on a tool you probably already know well and use a lot. No need to go anywhere else.
Pro Customizable themes
You can change the look and layout of your blog.
Pro Custom domain support
Postachio.io allows for using your own custom domain.
Pro Multimedia support
Any media file you can use in Evernote, such as images, audio, video can be used in Postach.io.
Pro Comments system
People can leave comments on your blog via the Disqus comments system.
Pro RSS feeds
People can subscribe to your blog using RSS feeds.
Pro Functionality can be extended with community plug-ins
Wix has an add-on store, called the App Market, that includes community developed bits of functionality (such as comments, calendars and integrations with third-party services) that you can add to your site. The store includes both free and paid add-ons.
Pro Straightforward drag & drop interface
There's a selection of elements you can choose from in the sidebar that you can drag and drop into the page and edit. There are common elements such as text, images and buttons as well as less common elements such as blog or online store. All elements can be adjusted to some extent to fit your needs. For example, you can change things like the font, weight and style of text and even crop, adjust colors and apply filters to images.
Pro Personalized templates
Wix comes with various kinds of templates based on the users genre and needs, ranging from personal, blog, club, portfolio to commercial.
Pro Wix Code lets you add custom code and backends to your WYSIWYG site when needed
This means you can add custom interactions and API's to your site when needed, but do most of the editing in a GUI. This helps you avoid the need to redo an entire site if you need custom interactions. Also dead easy to connect a database and have dynamic components based on CMS updates.
Pro Great support
Cons
Con Generated html is very bad
A lot of duplicated css, a lot of absolute positioning.
Con Hard to migrate away
There isn't an option to self-host the site, but neither should there be a need to.