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Divi, Bloom and Monarch – the ultimate combination
There are three things that you must have to create and promote a successful website.
You need a great looking modern responsive website that will grab and hold your visitors’ attention.
You need to simplify the process for your visitors to sign up to your email list, newsletter and special promotions.
And you need to make it easy for both you and your visitors to promote your content via social media.
When you sign up with Elegant Themes you get access to all of the above:
You get the Divi theme to create your website without touching a single line of code, you get the Bloom email opt-in and lead generation plugin to grow that list and you get the Monarch social media sharing plugin to promote, promote, promote.
I use all three on this website and in this post, I’ll explain what each one is, what it does and how to use them in combination.
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Elementor Shape Divider – a fabulous new feature
I spotted on Facebook that Elementor have introduced a new feature into their Page Builder plugin.
It’s called “Shape Divider” and it allows you to add cool shapes to the top, bottom or both of your Section backgrounds.
The first thing I did was to download the update, load one of their layouts, that has the feature enabled, and play around with it.
It’s quick and easy to use, it comes with eighteen different shapes, you can control the Shapes’ features and it looks absolutely fabulous.
The Shape Divider feature is available on both the free and pro versions of Elementor and in this post, I’ll take a closer look at what it is and how to use it.
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“Click” a stunning free Divi theme website template for Photographers
I see acts of generosity, kindness and sharing every day in the Divi community.
Help with Divi site problems, tutorials showing how to create special effects and lots and lots of free templates.
But this free Divi theme Photography template from Ali Asghar of Beans Web Design still made me stop and stare.
It’s called “Click”, it’s free, it’s a complete photography website, it comes with just about the best setup instructions I’ve ever seen and it looks absolutely stunning!
In this post I’ll run through downloading, installing and configuring “Click” and I’ll point out a few WordPress specific things that you have to do along the way.
If you’re about to start a photography website, or any site that uses image galleries and portfolios, then “Click” is the template you’ve been waiting for.
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Page Builder plugins and lightning fast themes
Most of us want two things from our websites: we want to be able to easily add content and functionality and we want them to be lightning fast.
Easily add content and functionality because most of us can’t code, beyond a little html and CSS, and we don’t want that to stand in the way of our creativity.
Lightning fast because we know that pagespeed helps with both visitor retention and ranking well in the SERPS.
What we really need is the combination of a drag-and-drop Page Builder and a lean, mean theme that has been designed with pagespeed in mind … so why don’t we do exactly that?
In this post I’ll show you how easy it is to combine a Page Builder plugin with a lightning fast theme.
It’s a combination that will give you both Page Builder functionality and fast load times and it also avoids the annoying issue of theme lock.
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Divi Builder Contact Form Module Vs Elementor Pro Form Widget
No matter what sort of website you’re running, I bet you’ve got at least one contact form.
Your form may be fairly simple with just Name, Email and Message fields or it may be all singing all dancing with Textareas , Dropdown lists, Checkboxes, Radio buttons and a Spam filter / HoneyPot field.
In the old days we had to turn to third party plugins to produce our forms but the modern Page Builders make it easy to create your own.
In this post, I’ll take a look at the form building capabilities of the Divi Builder Contact Form Module and the Elementor Pro Form Widget.
I’ll look at their features, check out their ease of use and I’ll recommend when to use each.
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