This is a re-post of a reply I sent to a forum support person in the Community Discussion Section . It seems to make sense that I post this as a request, here.
PREFACE : Please read the following in the nicest way. My intention here is to help WIX understand my request and not simply to complain or chew someone out. : -) I must also add that I have had quite a bit of invaluably-helpful assistance here in the forum from very professional, highly knowledgeable and generous WIX individuals and I am ever-so grateful for this forum and those people.
Background : I have a degree in Computer Engineering and have written 1000’s and 1000’s of lines of code in my 30-yr career. I was designing websites in the mid-90’s when one had to write everything by hand, and I was writing lengthy SQL code to interface with databases in the early 2000’s. My issues with WIX code is not fear of coding, I promise : -) I am trying to show you that there are huge holes in your resources/documentation and that you could likely greatly reduce your forum requests for help with just a few things. And many of your examples - though great examples - are isolated lines/a few lines of code that often do not show other imperative details of their use.
Good reference materials are essential and WIX has a large and thorough set of reference materials. Thank you. But a LOT of people learn through example. On my first pass working with WIX code, I found it really difficult to simply sit down and crank out a simple task in WIX code, from start to finish, without chasing numerous different threads in the forum, looking for examples (and if I’m having a problem… well…God help someone new to coding). A good part of what I found wound up being incomplete answers and reading reference materials that only show one line of isolated sample code rather than showing that one line placed in a scene where it is used… and maybe even show a handful of different ways it is used.
So much of the enormous amount of time I spent looking for answers could have been rendered unnecessary if there had been more-thorough sample site examples . And I am guessing the examples already exist…they just need to be published in the CODE section and labeled properly so they can be found – the importance of good labeling and descriptions of examples cannot be overstated!!!
I firmly believe that WIX could reduce the number of support requests through the forum if they published perhaps 8-10 multi-featured and complete - from start to finish - robust examples of the most common website scenarios that use code… and I mean robust.
I have walked through a number of your sample sites and, though there are quite a few of them and they are useful, many of them are inadequately labeled and what seems to be missing are big scenarios where many features are used at once. If examples like I am suggesting exist, then they are impossible to find. At least they have been for me. I have spent enormous amounts of time scouring this CODE support area and the user forum.
Just some thoughts. : -) I would be happy to speak with someone there on the specifics re: what I am referring to here, if you like.
Thank you again, most kindly, for your time and effort in answering our questions here.
Take care… Cynthia-
