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That’s right folks, you didn’t read it wrong, 1,000 Divi options have been added and all options have been made easier to use and easier to understand.

Elegant Themes have gone through every single Module, Row and Section and added: padding, margin, width, module alignment, item alignment, text alignment, rel attributes, background colours, background images, background gradients, background videos and more.

In total, 1,000 new options have been added, existing options have been improved and all options have been made easier to understand.

In this post I’ll take a look at the options that have been added, point out a few options that are easier to use and explain why options are easier to understand.
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Animations are a great way to grab and hold your visitors’ attention and Divi’s new advanced animations make it super easy to find the perfect animation for every location on your website.

The new advanced animations have seven animation styles (Fade, Slide, Bounce, Zoom, Flip, Fold and Roll), each animation style has its own advanced controls and animations can be combined to create stunning effects.

The advanced animation options have been extended to every Divi Module, Row and Section.
These new options have been consolidated into a slick new easy to use interface that allows you to customize every aspect of your animation.

In this post, I’ll introduce the new Divi theme advanced animations, take a look at the Seven Unique Animation Styles and their advanced controls and briefly look at combining Animations.
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If you’re anything like me, you’re always looking for improved Google PageSpeed scores and faster load times for your sites.

If you are, you’re going to love the latest release of Divi because it gives both improved out-of-the-box Google PageSpeed scores and faster load times for your visitors.

This update addresses various Google PageSpeed insights by introducing automatic CSS and JavaScript minification and combination, as well as additional request reductions that will decrease the size of your pages and speed up load times for your visitors.

In this post, I’ll introduce the various performance boosting modifications and then look at each of them in detail.
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Elegant Themes have just introduced “Product Tours For Divi” which will make learning Divi faster, easier and a lot more fun.

Divi product tours are dynamic, interactive tutorials that prompt users to perform real actions inside the builder and create their own layouts.

Divi already has fabulous Video and text documentation, but if you’re the sort of person who learns by doing, rather than watching and reading, then Product tours are for you.

The first Product Tour to be released is the “Introduction To The Divi Builder” with others scheduled to be released in the near future.

Product Tours are primarily aimed at getting new users up and running with Divi as quickly as possible, but existing users will find them just as useful.

And if you’re a website designer, Product Tours are a great learning aid to use with your clients.
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The latest release of Divi features a great performance enhancement that’s going to help your Divi websites load a lot faster.

Divi now supports static CSS file generation for the Divi Builder, the Divi Theme Customizer and the Divi Theme Options.

This means that custom design styles will no longer generate inline CSS but will serve static files, which consume less server resources and can be cached by your visitor’s browser.

In this post, I’ll take a look at the new Static CSS File Generation feature, explain why you get a double performance boost and show how easy it is to manage.
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