Website design, layout, and ease of use in delivering service to customers are staples of overall Website rankings. But lurking in the background is the factor that more Website specialists are espousing – Website Speed and Responsiveness. So this posting will list the top Website Speed Test tools with an eye to free, speed of […]
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Divi is the major WordPressThemeBuilder software of Elegant Themes. But Elegant Themes did the unthinkable on the Divi Blog – a 30-page review of WordPress Alternatives in a breathtakingly frank discussion of the competitive environment Divi and WordPress find themselves in. Here is a distressed screen capture: What makes this overview compelling are three facts
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The broad move to low-code /no-code apps has changed how web development is done. The new emphasis is on fast delivery of highly customizable designs that can be quickly tested and performance optimized to meet rapidly changing business and client needs. Another review has looked at how hyper-automation and intensive business process analytics now pervade
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In the past five years, Low-code and No-code development platforms have taken significant market presence in Web development for Enterprise, Mid-Market, and Small-busineses. The immediate drivers are rapid and large-scale technical and business market changes as described by McKinsey, plus increasing reliability and security vulnerabilities and major changes in Consumer buying patterns and ongoing support
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Low-code and No-Coding-Required Web development tools have risen to the top of website design and delivery from small businesses to enterprise shops. Harvard Business Review and Forbes have described the driving forces in this profound change to how software development is done in business and government Instead of traditional top-down IT Projects with long time
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This post will explore the features of Elementor AI Elementor AI Overview Elementor AI Text Trial Installing software typically involves downloading the installation package and running the installer. Users may be prompted to select components, specify installation paths, and configure settings during the installation process. Configuration may involve selecting connection settings, data storage locations,
In cooking a great dish one has to cure with a whole range of treatments and embellishments that build up the flavour and taste of the product to a new level. Divi Builder since November 22 2022 has been going through that curing process with Nick Roach offering a series of monthly reports on progress
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Elementor has a problem, its widget library is too popular. There are over 120 Elementor add-on plugins available in the WordPress plugins directory Now this turns out to be a dual edge advantage for Elementor. First, users can find added help among the many add-ons making Elementor a more attractive WordPress ThemeBuilder buy. But there
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AI Writing and Music tools have an early and deep presence in savvy AI usage. And as a Yoast user in WordPress and Grammerly with Office being a constant companion one can say this scriber is not exactly a Wordcraft Virgin. But ChatGPT has suddenly inserted real muscle into the auto-generation of paragraphs, presentations, and
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The NewYork Times and Washington Post and other news/sports media are constantly confronted with the issue of what stories are to appear on their landing pages. This balancing act is further complicated by what media need to be used – images, videos, podcasts or even design objects . This is the same issue faced by
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Managing content in UISpace, the display on a landing page or mobile screen has always been a challenge. Now with AI Chatbots disgorging huge amounts of information the task is even more daunting. To manage such an overflow the classic editor worked well with the Shortcodes plugin So here is an example of a Toggle
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For the past half year, AI-Artificial Intelligence on the Web is everyhing everywhere and all at once – ask any SEO junky, social media designer, or frantic backend coder. But fortunately as a WordPress Designer and Developer I could safely ignore AI because it was constantly “arriving”. Truly, trying to get into AI incurred waits
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For 200 years Automation has been the major economic motive force throughout the Industrial Powered World This s a very short tiime span in Human history given the rise of agriculture and city states is took 1o-2o thousand years The key to Automation’s success is the the ability to adapt new proesses and machinery that
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Our last Buffalo WP Meetup reported in as being packed with cheerful help. The February 2 2023 meetup took a thoughtful turn as major questions got discussed in a surprising turn of events. It started innocently enough with Spokane’s Mark Noder citing an updated Gutenberg roadmap and strategic direction statement in January 16th 2023 by Josepha,
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Four years ago I did a review for a client on what were the major dedicated VPS-Virtual Private Server options. It is important to identify a dedicated server because that means you are the only user of the server and have access to its IP, transcode, and password so you can customize the hardware and
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Having attended the January Buffalo Meetup and gotten some good advice about email tools, it seemed a natural to try out the nearby Rochester NY meetup and see if the crew their could supply some insights on how to speed up response time for the mobile side of websites – particulary Woo Commerce. Well low
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Despite scheduling just five days before Christmas, The Toronto WordPress Group’s Lets FixIt meetup had a strong turnout with many interesting websites and problems. The Big No surprise, Woo Commerce was often used but also the source of difficulties – there were two consistent vilains: First, image optimizaion was the source of hard, concrete Woo
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Readers of this blog will have seen since the beginning of this year a steady stream of pleadings for better stability from Elementor Builder. The most recent review, just a week ago, noted the continuing problems with flexbox, template code, and the debilitating collisions/conflicts with Elementor’s own 3rdparty addons that take hours if not days
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As always we start off with a look at some CSS Help Tips and Tutorial Resources which will be reviewed with special attention to attendees recommendations for CSS websites chock full of at the start of the Meetup. This is aalways a helpful start off point into the CSS World. So without further todo –
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Testing Elementor Flexbox Again Elementor introduced Flexbox in version 3.6 in late 2021 but by March of 2022 it presented a lot of bugs for users. Given that Flexbox as seen in the first YouTube tutorial is designed to provide advanced layout features while delivering faster UI response time- it is viewed a s vital
