Website (Wix)

Wix

Our website is built in Wix. To edit, go to wix.com.

Wix plan and cost

Our plan is Business VIP.  We have a three-year account. Plan ID a8f96bd; renews 12/14/2025 (should get that on our calendar, and we need to update the form of payment, probably to NG's Paypal; currently it's on an expired credit card from Barb). We paid $1472.62 including $86.62 in tax on 12/14/22 for that 3-year plan (Premium Plan Business VIP). 

In addition, we are paying about $300/year for the email marketing "Core" plan. Email marketing is documented here. These are the plans, with what we have in bold:

• Free: 200 emails per month

• Essentials: 500 emails/month; remove Wix branding; schedule emails in advance

• Core: 5000 emails/month; also send emails from multiple email addresses; share emails in web view with a custom domain URL

• Advanced: 1,000,000 emails/month.

Questions

• How many emails have we been sending?

• Can we get the discounted rate for nonprofits? See this article! As of 12/10/25 our Techsoup membership status is "Requalification Pending". We have a DIY membership with Techsoup.

• On 12/28/19, we communicated by email with Wix; they said we could get a free Combo Premium Plan for a year with the option of extending for 2 years. A higher level Premium plan costs the regular amount. I wrote back 12/29/19 saying I purchased a more expensive plan. I must have made that decision based on what features we needed.

Wix plan options December 2025

The "Business VIP" plan is an older plan, per the internet.

"Your plan for your site navigationgames.org will automatically renew on Dec 14, 2025 for 1472.62USD"

Edit access

To give someone ability to edit the website, go to Settings > Roles & Permissions.

Members, Subscribers and Contacts

Accessed via the Wix Dashboard > Customer Management. There are All Contacts, people who subscribed to our newsletters, people who volunteered, people who sent in a request for information for a program, and Members. 

Events

We have free and paid public events that are managed in Wix.

We separate upcoming orienteering from upcoming social events on our website. This is managed in the Wix website editor. The old https://www.navigationgames.org/upcoming-events should redirect to https://www.navigationgames.org/orienteering-events - and it is filtered to only show events that have been tagged with category "orienteering".

The page https://www.navigationgames.org/social-events is filtered to only show events that have been tagged with category "social events".

IMPORTANT: when you create an event in Wix, you need to give it one or both of those categories now, for it to show up!

Online Programs

Starting in 2025, we plan to use Wix's Online Programs capability to deliver self-paced and synchronous education content. Our Wix subscription that will support the key features of this (collecting payment and registering participants). The features offered are really useful for us. Eg require they watch a given fraction of a video; quizzes; self-paced with the option of adding some scheduled classes they attend online. We can have each program be paid or free, and we could use this to help in training NG staff and volunteers on program delivery or operational aspects of Navigation Games. You can collect badges from completing courses.

More details:

BB proposes we use the Wix platform’s “online program”: 

I compared this to Google Classroom. The editor is clunkier and slower in Wix, but Wix has more features that we can use:

• Course Builder: Supports text with links, videos, audio, PDFs, quizzes (multiple choice, open-ended), assignments, and certificates. 

  • You can view quiz answers from one participant at a time, or export in spreadsheet form.

  • You can require that they view the video. You can set a required percentage and enable autoplay if you have multiple videos. You can customize the cover photo.

• Monetization: We can collect payment through Wix, which we already have set up, for the course. You can also have a program be free. You can control its visibility.

• Content dripping and other ways to control when they receive and complete the material. It can be scheduled or self-paced.

• Automations so when they complete a step, you can trigger something, such as an email or updating google sheets (!). So we can do EEC (Email education) through this platform.

• Certificates and badges

• Can integrate live classes and events.

• Community: Includes features for building online communities for students, fostering discussion and interaction.

• Live Events: Allows hosting of live lessons through the Wix Events app.

• Mobile App: Provides a dedicated mobile app (Spaces) for students to access courses and communities.

• Marketing Tools: Integrates with Wix's marketing tools, including email marketing and SEO features, according to Wix.com.

Note that in order to allow participants to join the program, the site has to be “upgraded” — we should check whether we can have participants join before finalizing our plan to use Wix!

To set up programs:

• Set up individual programs in wix.com. Remove the test program that I set up previously.

• In the editor, go to “Site Pages and Menu” then “Site Menu”. Click the 3 dots to the right of Program List and change to visible.

Google Domain

We purchased our domain from Google domains; it expires 1/10/2028. Update 1/10/24: I have set it up to auto renew around January 10 every year. It will be billed via Nav Games paypal account tied to our CSB bank account. This can be changed at domains.google.com. Also on 1/10/24 I added Maija as a user with full permissions to manage the domain. 

We do have privacy protection. We have custom DNS set up. We kept our domain provider as Google and connected it to Wix.  Wix reference on how to do this. 

Squarespace is the registrar of record for the domain (it changed over from google domains in 2024 I think). 1/10/24 I created a listing on google. We have access to Google Ads (ads.google.com) with $500 free postings, and Google Analytics. I stopped before creating an ad; presumably that can be picked up again.