When comparing Wix vs CargoCollective, the Slant community recommends Wix for most people. In the question“What is the best website builder for a portfolio site?” Wix is ranked 5th while CargoCollective is ranked 7th. The most important reason people chose Wix is:
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.
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Pros
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
Pro Has a built-in video player
Websites built with CargoCollective can use the custom built-in video player. This means that there's no need to upload your videos on Youtube or Vimeo if you want to put them on your portfolio.
Pro Cloud-based image storage
Pro Requires only minimal CSS and HTML knowledge to configure
You can also configure templates to make your website look the way you want it to. For this, it's only required that you know a little HTML and CSS, nothing too advanced.
Pro More than thirty templates available
You can choose between 30+ pre-made templates before building your portfolio website.
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.
Con Dated templates
Con Unpleasant sign-up process
