Framer vs Wix

Introducing Skills: Teach the Framer Agent to design more like you and your team

Framer introduces Skills, a new feature that lets teams capture reusable design guidance and connect it directly to the canvas, components, and styles in their projects, enabling the Framer Agent to produce more on-brand work.

How to build a lead generation tool with Framer Agents

We built the AEO Scanner and Stack Score with Framer Agents. Each gives visitors a useful result and our team better context for follow-up. You can use the same setup for other lead generation tools.

Framer Marketplace Changes Spark Creator Controversies

A Framer template creator documents ten recurring controversies around the Framer marketplace from 2023–2026, recounting personal experience selling templates since April 2023 and describing platform changes that affected discoverability and creator workflows. Key moments include the August 2023 release of an HTML-to-Framer Chrome extension, a 2024 marketplace redesign that removed the 'New' section and search, lengthy manual template review processes, perceived favoritism toward top creators, and Framer's 2026 decision to open the marketplace to self-published templates without prior review. The author urges creators to provide feedback to Framer, to focus on audience-building and niche products, and to treat marketplace upheavals as cyclical rather than terminal.

• Article author Danny Sapio reports selling his first Framer template on April 7, 2023 and now has seven templates on Framer.
• In August 2023 Framer released an HTML-to-Framer Chrome extension that allowed copying website sections into Framer as editable layers.
• A 2024 Framer marketplace update removed the 'New' section and the search bar, which creators say hurt template discoverability.

Base44 Launches Base Code, Helping Teams Collaborate and Ship Faster

Base44, a Wix company, has launched Base Code, a new product aimed at helping teams collaborate and ship faster. This is the latest in a series of product launches and updates from Wix and its subsidiaries, including the integration of native Google Ads campaign management and the launch of Symphony by Wix.

Shopify launches Canvas AI site builder

Shopify has introduced Canvas, a new AI-powered site builder that lets merchants create and customize online stores through chat with its AI agent, Sidekick. Canvas renders changes in real time, showing the actual code and enabling full interactivity testing across screen sizes. It presents the store as a cohesive visual workspace, allowing merchants to view, edit, and develop pages without deep coding knowledge. Sidekick can directly access theme files, make coordinated changes, and validate its own work, having already handled over 25 million theme changes in H1 2026. Initially, Canvas lacks support for third-party themes, app blocks, and translations, and is desktop-only, but Shopify plans to expand its capabilities. The tool will roll out gradually, with the existing editor remaining for now, and aims to make e-commerce more accessible to non-coders.

• Shopify launched Canvas, an AI-powered site builder and design interface that lets merchants create stores via chat.
• Canvas uses Shopify's AI agent Sidekick to make real-time changes to the store's actual code and theme files.
• The initial version lacks third-party theme support, app blocks, translations, and is desktop-only.

Wix Investors Can Lead Securities Fraud Lawsuit by September 22

Rosen Law Firm and Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP remind investors who purchased Wix.com Ltd. (NASDAQ: WIX) securities between February 19, 2025 and May 12, 2026 of the September 22, 2026 lead plaintiff deadline in the class action lawsuit, Yappi v. Wix.com Ltd. The lawsuit alleges that Wix and certain executives made false or misleading statements about the competitiveness, performance, costs, and benefits of its AI products, including overstated commercial benefits and understated development and promotional costs. Events cited include the Q1 2025 earnings miss, the June 2025 acquisition of Base44, Q3 2025 earnings showing increased costs, analyst downgrades, and Q1 2026 earnings revealing business softness, causing significant stock declines. Investors with losses exceeding $100,000 may seek to lead the case.

• Lead plaintiff deadline is September 22, 2026.
• Class period: February 19, 2025 to May 12, 2026.
• Allegations include overstated AI product competitiveness and benefits, and understated development costs.