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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...

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...