Hey Divi Nation! Thanks for joining us for the next installment of our weekly Divi Design Initiative; where each week, we give away a brand new, free Divi Layout Pack from our design team to you. For this week, Kenny and his team have created a beautifully polished…
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Semantic Versioning: What It Is, Isn’t, and Why You Need It
Most of the software you use releases new versions often, usually identified by an associated version number. The system is called ‘ semantic versioning’ and it enables you to track development progress. What’ s more, if you work with WordPress, you can definitely benefit from good semantic versioning practices. In…
How to Create Hover Sections with Divi’s New Sizing & Overflow Settings
Using Divi’ s new draggable sizing options do not only help you create highly responsive websites, but they can also really help create unique interactions. By playing around with these options, you can customize any website you’ re creating and customize your page structures to meet current design trends. In…
Git Push: Deploying WordPress from GitHub to Your Web Host
GitHub, and Git in general, intimidate a lot of people. However, this type of distributed version control software is a must in any developer’ s toolkit. Moreover, knowing how to use GitHub and deploy code from it to your WordPress web host can make for a much safer…
How to Design Reflections for Images and Text in Divi
Designing reflections for images and text is a classic design technique that can be used to spice up the content of a web page. And, Divi makes it easy to create these reflections right from the Divi Builder without having to use a photo editor. In this tutorial, …
Is Your Business Ready to Hire Remote Workers?
My dad worked from a home office for years, long before it was common or popular to have a commute as short as the hallway. He turned my brother’ s old bedroom into an office, and he outfitted it with everything he needed. It was fully functional, stocked with…
How to Transform Multiple Elements for Abstract Hover Effects in Divi
As you already know by now, Divi has a ton of design settings that allow you to create unique hover effects for any Divi element (sections, rows, or modules). Usually, a hover effect is isolated to just one element. For example, if you add a transform rotate property…
Kinsta Managed WordPress Hosting: An Overview and Review
Kinsta is well-known among managed WordPress web hosts. While it’ s more expensive than almost every other provider in the field, it also claims to offer better performance to all of its customers. The real question is whether those claims hold up in practice. In this article, we’ re going…
Using Transform Translate vs. Negative Margin with Divi
It’ s no secret that Divi comes with a ton of options. And sometimes, some of these options might seem to deliver similar outcomes. It’ s important to know the difference and how and when to use them. Negative margin and transform translate are two of those design options that…
Why Being Resilient is Essential to Success
The day my boyfriend moved his furniture out, a week after I’d ended our six-year relationship, my Mom called as I was curled up on my temporary makeshift couch of two oversized pillows pushed together. “I’m okay, ” I said. “Oh, I know you’re okay, ” she replied. “You’re strong…
Using Divi’s New Height & Width Options to Create Responsive Design
Although they’ re usually not the first thing visitors notice about your website, width and height CSS properties help keep your website together and looking awesome. And now, with Divi’ s new draggable sizing options, you can literally control every element’ s width, max width, min height, height and max height…
What is WebAssembly? And Can It Speed Up Your Site?
WebAssembly is a really cool project that compiles other code languages so that they can run in the browser with JavaScript. It is significantly faster than many of its competitors. It lets more data-and-processing-heavy sites run more smoothly and quickly than otherwise possible. In this article, we’ ll take…
How to Create Floating Modules that Collide in 3D Space in Divi
It is always fun to explore new designs that are possible using Divi. And today, we will be using Divi to explore 3D space! Technically, we will be exploring how to design floating modules that look like they are colliding in 3D space. This design will work well…
A Marketer’s Guide to Keyword Stemming (and Not Keyword Stuffing)
When I started writing content ten years ago, this type of sentence was the standard: “ Splash Down water park is one of many things to do Poughkeepsie NY.” Sometimes we’ d spell “ Poughkeepsie” wrong to account for typos. Writers would include “ things to do Poughkeepsie NY” 10x in…
Get a FREE Calligrapher Layout Pack for Divi
Hey Divi Nation! Thanks for joining us for the next installment of our weekly Divi Design Initiative where each week, we give away brand new, free Divi Layout Packs from our design team to you. This time around, Kenny and his team have created an amazing Calligrapher Layout…
Customer Loyalty and Customer Satisfaction: The Only Guide You’ll Ever Need
Let’s get right to it: loyal customers are more valuable to your business than not-yet-acquired or un-loyal customers. Well-executed customer loyalty programs pay themselves back over time. Unfortunately, a lot of brands set up loyalty programs and convince customers to sign up, but they don’ t see any results….
How to Create a 3D Sign Post with Hover Effects in Divi
We all know that a good website makes it easy for visitors to find what they are looking for quickly and efficiently. And, it always helps if you can make your content more engaging. In this tutorial, I’ m going to show you how to design a 3D sign…
Using Kanban for WordPress Development
Are you a “wipe the slate clean” person? How many times have you said you’ll start fresh on Monday, or the first of the month, or in the New Year? Here’s a secret: it never works. You can’t really ever wipe the slate clean, nor should you want…
Divi Plugin Highlight: Divi BodyCommerce
Divi BodyCommerce is a third-party plugin for Divi that gives you control over your store’s design from the product page to the checkout page and everything between. It’s designed with conversions in mind and gives you full control over your store’s design using the Divi Builder. When a…
How to Make a “BuzzFeed” Quiz That Drives Traffic, Leads, and Sales
BuzzFeed needs no introduction, and neither does its quizzes. This is far from the only website that uses quizzes for marketing purposes, but its approach really stands out. BuzzFeed’ s quizzes are fun and visually striking, and they get a lot of traction on social media. That means there’ s…
How to Create a Scroll Gallery Mockup with Divi’s New Overflow Options
Looking for a creative way to display images on your website? Make sure you keep on reading because, in this post, we’ ll show you how to create a scroll gallery mockup using Divi’ s built-in options only. Concretely, we’ re going to turn a section into a mockup and have…
Using Disney’s 12 Principles of Animation in Your Next Web Design Project
At the exact moment I’ m typing this, my office has 17 Disney something-or-others on the walls and shelves. Seventeen. Even I’ m surprised. As much as I love all-things-Disney, the magic created through the 12 principles of animation escapes even me as I watch one of their movies. And…
Best Divi Child Themes for Consultants
Consulting is big business online and every consultant needs an amazing website. Divi is a great choice for consultant websites as there are plenty of professionally designed layouts and child themes to choose from. In this article, we will look at the 16 best Divi child themes for…
The 4 Bad Personality Traits That Can Help You Do Your Job Better
We all have an idea of what the perfect worker looks like. They’ re usually polite, on time, responsible, and productive – a potent combination. However, there are also a number of so-called bad personality traits. On the surface, they’ re considered ‘ negative.’ However, they can actually be an asset…
Download a FREE Book Preview Divi Landing Page Layout Including Anchor Links & CTAs
Whether you’ re selling a physical book or an e-book, having an effective landing page for it can do wonders. You can approach this landing page the traditional way, or you can turn it into a book preview landing page. A book preview landing page allows people to read…
Headless E-Commerce: Everything You Need to Know
While there are many plugins available to turn your WordPress site into a fully-functioning online store, they can potentially take a toll on your site’s performance. A ‘headless e-commerce’ solution – that separates your site’s front end from its e-commerce functionality – can help. This guide will provide…
How to Create an Expanding Sticky Menu on Hover with Divi
Every week, we provide you with new and free Divi layout packs which you can use for your next project. For one of the layout packs, we also share a use case that’ll help you take your website to the next level. This week, as part of our…
Splice Video Editor: An Overview and Review
Video is a valuable form of content for social media. Unfortunately, creating quality videos is usually a long process that involves moving mobile footage to a desktop app for editing. However, mobile editing is on the rise. Apps such as Splice Video Editor make it possible to efficiently…
Get a FREE Food Bank Layout Pack for Divi
Hey Divi Nation! Thanks for joining us for the next installment of our weekly Divi Design Initiative; where each week, we give away a brand new, free Divi Layout Pack from our design team to you. For this week, Kenny and the design team have created a fun…
What is Technical Debt and Can You Avoid It?
If you’ re in software development, you are going to have to deal with technical debt at some point. So to answer the question in the title… no, you can’ t avoid it. However, there are steps you can take to minimize its effects and make sure it doesn’ t get out…
