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# AWD CMS vs Wix

> Wix is a canvas for building a site from a template. AWD is a page you keep true by clicking on it. Which job are you hiring for?

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# AWD CMS vs Wix

Wix is a canvas for building a site from a template. AWD is a page you keep true by clicking on it. Which job are you hiring for?

## What Wix is

Wix is one of the biggest website builders. You pick a template and arrange a page on a drag-and-drop canvas in the Wix editor. There is a market of add-ons for extras, and an AI site builder to get a first draft. It hosts the site for you, and most of the work happens in the editor, which is a separate view from the published site.

## What AWD CMS is

A website whose editor is the live page. You click the words and type; you drag sections; you add pages from the menu. A guide builds the first version one section at a time, and an AI copilot drafts and rewrites on the page. Every page checks itself for search and for readers with a disability, and says what to fix. It is built for the person who has to keep the site true, on whatever device they are holding.

## What you see first

Wix opens on a dashboard: a list of set-up tasks, and thirteen sections in the menu beside it. The site itself is a button away. AWD CMS opens on your own page and asks one thing at a time.

![AWD CMS after pressing Start free: a blank home page in the editor, with a box over it asking, step 1 of 9, what the business is called.](/screenshots/awd-first-screen.webp)

*AWD CMS, the first screen after Start free: your own page, and one question. Screenshot taken 26 October 2026.*

![Wix’s dashboard for a new site: a welcome, a list of five tasks to set up the business, and a menu of thirteen sections down the left.](/screenshots/wix-dashboard.webp)

*Wix, the dashboard of a new site: a set-up list, and thirteen sections in the menu. The site itself is behind Design Site. Account name blurred; a sale banner cropped off. Screenshot taken 26 October 2026.*

## Where you edit

In Wix you select a part of the page, then reach for a toolbar, a panel or its AI. In AWD CMS you click the words and type.

![The AWD CMS editor on Green Lane Gardens, the sandbox’s made-up business, with the banner headline selected for typing and a writing tip under it.](/screenshots/awd-editor.webp)

*AWD CMS’s editor, on the sandbox’s made-up business: click the headline and type over it. Screenshot taken 26 October 2026.*

![The Wix editor on a site its AI built for a made-up bakery: the banner selected, toolbars across the top and down the left, and the Aria AI panel.](/screenshots/wix-editor.webp)

*Wix’s editor, on a site its AI built for a made-up bakery: select a part, then use the toolbars or ask Aria. Account picture blurred. Screenshot taken 26 October 2026.*

## Side by side

## When Wix is the better choice

When you want to design the site yourself, freely, from a very large choice of templates. Or when you need an online shop with many products, bookings, or a members area with its own app. Wix gives you more to build with, and a bigger market of extras than a small tool ever will.

## When AWD CMS is

When the site’s job is to say what you do and stay true, and the person keeping it true is not a designer. Click-and-type editing on the live page, on a phone, is the difference between a site that gets fixed today and one that waits for a quiet afternoon.

Prices for the other tool are on its own site and change; ours are on our Pricing page. Nothing on this page is a quote from a customer of either.

## Decide with the editor in your hands

The sandbox needs no account. The demo builds a site in front of you.

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