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Time to Divi Up! A Guide to Divi Builder and Divi Cloud | Brandom.ca

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Time to Divi Up! Here's a broad to advanced guide to using Divi Builder and Divi Cloud the way working site builders do: to build fast, stay consistent, and reuse your best work across projects. I’ll start with Divi Builder fundamentals and workflow, then show how Divi Cloud slots into that workflow for storage, sharing, and scaling. Brandom.ca uses Divi Builder and Divi Cloud extensively. 1) Divi Builder in a nutshell Divi Builder is a visual, front-end page builder for WordPress. Its content hierarchy is simple: Sections → Rows → Columns → Modules . You place modules (text, images, buttons, forms, etc.) inside columns, arrange those within rows, and group rows into sections. That hierarchy governs spacing, responsive behavior, and design defaults, so it’s worth internalizing from the outset. ( elegantthemes.com ) Divi lets you switch between a fully visual editing mode and Wireframe View , which shows a clean, block-based structure of your layout (handy for large or complex p...

Web Design Expansion | InnerWebSolutions.com | Brandom Digital Marketing

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So today is a big day, in the Brandom world!  We would like to introduce Inner Web Solutions back into the web design community. Even though Inner Web Solutions is our child company, they are far from a new company.  InnerWebSolutions.com started back in 2004, when web design was still in its infancy. They were originally a big player in Newfoundland and had entered the top 20 SERPs for Canada in 2007. Inner Web Solutions in Saskatoon. Now centered in Saskatoon, IWS will have a focus on developing WordPress websites and handling some of our workload on that end. They will specialize in developing websites with the Divi Theme. Inner Web Solutions & Divi. Divi Builder is part of a family of design and marketing products by Elegant Themes .  Their library includes some of the most highly-functional products on the market today. Divi Builder is a visual drag-and-drop website builder for WordPress that allows users to create custom websites without needing to write code....

Custom Websites, like Way Custom.

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  Custom, like Way Custom – Websites So using Divi Builder is awesome. Overall, this is a great theme with a ton of appeal. One thing I've noticed though is that when creating a custom website, and by this I mean without the structure of a template, things can be tricky at first. The first thing that I found when creating a 'from-scratch' website is that it can be difficult to find that initial foundation of consistency. This was mainly due to what I would consider a 'hidden' global section. Global Sections – Divi Builder. The premise for using global sections, such as headers and footers is such that you can edit once and update all. For example, if you have 50 pages all with the same global footer, you can edit one of these footers, and it would automatically update on all of the other 49 pages. Pretty convenient. There are instances, though, where a global header can be hidden in the sense that it does not show in your builder as a 'global...

Effects Can Affect Effectiveness [Yeah, I did that] | Web Design For The User

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Effects Can Affect Effectiveness in Web Design. The attributed role of effects in web design can vary depending on the various roles of those who interact with a website. Designer. The designer is that person who may, at times,  stretch the threshold of what is 'too much' in respect to effects.  There are various factors that can affect a designer's usage of effects which I will explain below: The young designer :  as a young designer, you find it very hard to separate your passion for design from the outside world (from the opinions of the outside world).  For those who take on the design profession, their work sometimes become extensions of themselves.  Designers can be very protective of their work. With that said, a young designer can often times become intoxicated with the visual appeal of effects without considering the functional applications of the effects Mix this predisposition with a healthy portion of adolescent, closed-mindedness and you might have ...