Creative hero sections make websites memorable and special. This polaroid hero section design evokes a sense of vintage wanderlust. By using column transform options, the polaroids can be arranged in any way you want, as if they were spread on a table. You can...
Email signatures may seem insignificant, especially with more prominent branding elements in play, but they can make a big impact on how professional your brand appears to subscribers. Plus, creating your custom signature with a tool such as WiseStamp can even boost...
Borders and Background images continue to be popular design assets when building websites. Using the right background images can add personality and style to your site without having to spend time and money on custom graphics. And borders are helpful for adding...
A brand identity kit is essential to the success of any company, both online and off. There are two main purposes of a brand identity kit: 1) For clients and followers to recognize a brand easily; and 2) As a set of rules for content creation. If you are here it’s...
Divi is an excellent theme for musicians and anyone providing musical services. Fortunately, you don’t have to start from scratch when making your music-focused website with Divi. In this article, we’ll look at 7 Divi layouts for musicians to help you get a head start...
Being a web professional means your day is filled with software that does everything from cutting screencaps into pieces to streaming videos on a second monitor. Because of the multitude of apps we use over the course of a work-week, the smartest move we can make is...
Do you want to know more about running ads on Amazon? Wondering what advertising options and services Amazon offers? To explore what marketers need to know about advertising on Amazon, I interview Brett Curry on the Social Media Marketing Podcast. Brett is CEO of OMG...
Adjust Content On Different Devices, Swap Content On Hover And Enjoy Native SRCSET Support Creating Responsive Websites Has Never Been Easier Today we are excited to introduce Responsive Content and Hover Content to Divi, including native SRCSET support for responsive...
Image markers are a great way to showcase a product’s special features. In this post, we’ll show you how to create image markers using a text module and a vertical divider. Thanks to the transform settings inside the columns, an image marker can be placed anywhere you...
What is a white paper? Is it an extra-long blog post? An ebook in PDF form? A promotional tool to sell a product? Not quite. White papers have a purpose, format and style that are all their own. Today, white papers are used by marketers to go in-depth on a topic – any...
Do you work with a social media team? Wondering how to create a social media content approval process? In this article, you’ll learn how to set up a workflow to manage, schedule, and publish pre-approved social media content. #1: Share Social Media and Brand Assets...
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 ongoing Divi design...
Let us be frank. The simple answer to can you still make money blogging today? is absolutely, 100% yes. The better answer, however, is it depends or even sure, if you work really hard. Don’t let that reality discourage you. In fact, we are starting out that way to set...
Are you struggling to get great results from your Facebook ads? Wondering if you’re making mistakes that are hurting your campaigns? We asked some of the industry’s top Facebook advertising experts to share the mistakes they see most often and how you can avoid making...
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 an elegant Cake Maker...
You’re acing this interview. You showed up early, you didn’t spill coffee on your shirt and you remembered to print out a fresh copy of your resume. Not only are you totally qualified for this position, but you’ve even made the interviewer laugh. Then you’re asked a...
Ever wish you could post to Instagram directly from your desktop instead of your mobile device? Did you know Instagram is rolling out this functionality? In this article, you’ll learn how to schedule and publish posts to Instagram via your desktop without any...
Sharing video previews on your website can increase interactivity and help visitors understand your products and/or services better and faster. Now, on the Elegant Themes website, we’ve taken on this approach for ourselves and created a straight-forward click video...
Sketch is a digital design app that you can use for a number of projects, including icons, prototyping and wireframing. (There are some things you can’t do with Sketch, too, such as heavy 3D rendering.) Many people use Photoshop for these types of design, and Sketch...
One of the best things about building a site with Divi is that each building block is packed with design options. Every module, column, row, and section contains design settings for both the default and the hover state. This opens the door for triggering multiple...
Journalists get asked the same question over and over: “How do I get a story in the news?” The answer is: you can’t. Or, you can’t force a media outlet to cover your story. Usually, the process includes pitching a journalist, ideally one you already have a...
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Social Media Marketing Talk Show, a news show for marketers who want to stay on the leading edge of social media. On this week’s Social Media Marketing Talk Show, we explore what marketers need to know about changes coming from...
Divi is an excellent theme to build websites for fitness businesses. Thanks to the Divi community, there are lots of fitness child themes for Divi to build websites for gyms, blogs, stores, trainers, and lots more. In this article, we’ll look at 11 fitness child...
Whether a client asks for a retro-futuristic design for their new site, an organization is promoting a STEM event in their local community, a science-fiction author requests a sleek book cover, or a new research firm needs a cutting-edge website to match their...
Do you want to create superfans for your business? Wondering how to develop the kind of connected community that elevated your brand? To explore how to develop superfans who will gladly evangelize anything for you and your business, I interview Pat Flynn. Pat is an...
Divi’s new column filter settings can be used in many creative ways. In this post, we’ll show you how to blend one main row background image with column content. We’ll add different color gradients to the modules and a column “screen” blend mode to create a stunning...
One of the most common types of plugin on the WordPress.org repository is the form builder. From Gravity Forms, Caldera Forms, Ninja Corms, Contact Form 7, and so on, the choices that you have are nearly endless. However, not all form builders are created equal. Each...
Animated Scroll buttons have a simple yet important job of grabbing a users attention and leading them down your web page. These type of buttons are normally found above the fold so that a visitor can simply click the button without having to scroll to the next...
InVision Studio is a prototyping and animation tool that lets you create advanced, vector-based screen designs fast thanks to flexible layers and an infinite canvas. It’s considered one of the best high-fidelity prototyping tools out there. With InVision Studio, you...
Looking for a fun way to engage people on social media? Have you considered using memes in your marketing? In this article, you’ll discover how your business can use memes to engage and connect with people. 4 Reasons to Include Memes in Your Social Media Content In a...
Whether we are preparing a meal or designing a website, the ingredients alone will not guarantee a tasty dish or a beautiful site. It is how well we combine those elements together that makes all the difference. In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to combine...
The customer journey is the process that your customers take when interacting with your company. It starts at the beginning, when they first learn about your company, and goes through to the end, when they complete your ultimate goal, like making a purchase or...
Want to learn more about the professional traits of your website visitors? Are you using LinkedIn’s Website Demographics tool? In this article, you’ll discover how to use LinkedIn Website Demographics to reveal useful information about people who visit your website....
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 a vibrant DJ Layout Pack...
Ask the Egghead, Inc. Awarded by Clutch.co for Position Among Top Performing Developers in Massachusetts At Ask the Egghead, Inc., we pride ourselves on our work, our employees, and most importantly our customers’ success. Our dedicated, client-oriented team is not...
Underhanded sales tactics are nothing new. Experiences salespeople know all the tricks to convince you to make a purchase, and some approaches are sneakier than others. For example, the use of ‘weasel’ words can imply something that isn’t the case, which could leave...
Are you wondering which Facebook ad placements you should choose? Looking for some guidance to improve your ad performance? In this article, you’ll find a guide to all of Facebook’s advertising placements and discover how to edit your placements to deliver the best...
Since Divi’s new sizing options have come out, we’ve created a few tutorials that show you how to create hover reveals. In those tutorials, the hidden content was placed vertically. In some cases, however, you might want to create a horizontal reveal instead. In this...
Founded by Alexander Adam, Gravit Designer is an HTML-based application for designing high-quality vector graphics. Corel acquired Gravit Designer in mid-2018, adding it to their portfolio of applications for digital media. You can create an assortment of projects...
Creating a spinning menu wheel on hover is a fun way to showcase helpful links on your website. This would be a great way to provide multiple calls to action in a header to direct users where they need to go. And it would also be a cool sub category menu for your...
Hello to our beautiful Divi community! July has come to an end, and it’s been a jam-packed month! We’ve been super busy onboarding new groups and supporting current groups. Our theme this summer is consistency. Summer months can be slow for folks in our industry, but...
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Social Media Marketing Talk Show, a news show for marketers who want to stay on the leading edge of social media. On this week’s Social Media Marketing Talk Show, we explore details of the FTC settlement agreement with Facebook...
Online radio has been popular for many years and now it’s easier than ever to create your own radio station. Of course, it’s also easy to embed your radio station’s stream into your Divi website. In this article, we’ll look at how to create a streaming radio station...
As professional writers, we all have deadlines and clients expecting good work from us. But sometimes the words just don’t flow as fast as we want them to and it’s hard to be as efficient as our schedules require. Thankfully, there are some tested and proven...
Do you want to create successful LinkedIn ad campaigns? Wondering how to get started with LinkedIn ads? To explore how to succeed with LinkedIn ads, I interview AJ Wilcox. AJ is the world’s leading LinkedIn ads expert and author of LinkedIn Ads Demystified. He’s also...
Team pages are often underestimated. Before purchasing a product or hiring a service, many users navigate to team or about pages to get a better idea of the company and the people behind it. If your team page leaves a positive first impression, it could lead towards...
Sketch is a vector-based tool used for desktop and mobile UI design, mockups and prototypes, and today it’s considered an industry standard. You can also edit and manipulate photos with Sketch. Sketch is so user-friendly that you can learn it fast even if you’ve never...
Divi’s new column options have brought a ton of new design possibilities to our workflows. They help unite multiple modules without having to touch any single line of CSS code. In this post, we’re going to turn columns into pricing plans using Divi’s built-in options...
Podcasting is attracting a lot of attention. In 2019, the podcast advertising is projected to exceed $470 million dollars. A lot of people see that number and want their share of it. They start a podcast, make fantastic content, but the dollars don’t roll in. Like...
Want better results from your Facebook ads? Looking for ways to optimize your ads? In this article, you’ll explore five free Facebook tools to help you improve your Facebook ads’ performance. #1: Facebook Creative Hub Tool The creative you use in your Facebook ads has...
The new Divi global defaults update helps you apply certain designs styles to elements throughout your entire website. It saves you time, helps you keep an overview of your website and style each global setting the way you’re used to it; inside the Divi Builder...
Once upon a time, marketers would spend all of their time creating and sharing promotional campaigns only to wonder if they even worked. Traditional marketing efforts were often un-trackable. You could form a shaky connection between marketing and how well the company...
Want to improve your engagement on social media? Wondering how to keep the conversation going with your followers? In this article, you’ll discover how to get your audience to engage with your social media posts, videos, and live videos. The 3 Rules of Social Media...
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 Donut Shop Layout Pack...
It’s a common belief that flexibility is the same as being unrestrained, that to be creative you also have to be unbridled. To complete a project, though, especially one that’s as intricate as web design, creating structure can actually give you more flexibility. You...
Do you want to improve your organic Instagram content? Looking for an Instagram content marketing guide to follow? In this article, you’ll find out how to plan, create, and optimize Instagram content for your business. #1: How to Establish a Content Theme for Your...
It’s that time again for our monthly Divi Showcase where we take a look at 10 Awesome Divi websites made by our community members. Each month we showcase the best Divi websites that were submitted from our community and today we want to share with you the top ten...
If you are looking for how to get sponsored, you likely rely on donations or sponsorships for funding. And making sure that you are asking the right way is integral to your success. You must make sure that you lead your sponsors to the decision to hand you their money...
There are lots of nonprofit organizations across the globe. Just about every one of them needs a well-designed website to tell their story and receive donations to help their causes. Divi is an excellent theme for nonprofits such as charities. Fortunately, you don’t...
Work-from-home can mean a lot of things. Work-in-your-pajamas, work-when-you-feel-like-it, work-when-the-rest-of-the-world-is-sleeping. However you approach a remote work lifestyle, it has to be dependable and organized in some way so management can depend upon and...
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Social Media Marketing Talk Show, a news show for marketers who want to stay on the leading edge of social media. On this week’s Social Media Marketing Talk Show, we explore Twitter’s newly enhanced and improved conversation...
In one of the latest Divi updates, we added some pretty amazing controls to columns in the builder. It’s now easier than ever to create column overlaps. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to create a testimonial section with three overlapping columns using Divi’s...
Sometimes, one image just isn’t enough. In some cases, two photos can create one much better composition. In this tutorial, I’ll teach you how to blend images in Photoshop. We’ll look at how to make creative compositions with textures as well as double exposure...
Is YouTube video part of your marketing plan? Want more people to find and watch your videos on YouTube? To explore how to get your videos discovered on YouTube, I interview Tim Schmoyer. Tim is a YouTube expert whose channel has 500,000 subscribers. He hosts the...
Most companies will need to showcase services on their website to their visitors. And one way to showcase services above the fold is to use a slider. This allows you to highlight each service one by one, but the downside is that the user will have to navigate back and...
We’ve all been there. That moment when we stare at the screen, our fingers on the keyboard, and the words just aren’t flowing. They aren’t even making an appearance. A lot of the time the feeling is short-lived and after a cup of tea or a chat with a friend, we’re...
I believe communities are essential for businesses. When I heard Mark Zuckerberg say, “Groups are at the heart of the experience” at the 2019 F8 conference, I wondered, “What’s Mark’s real objective here?” Today, I’d like to explore whether marketers, creators, or...
When you decide to create a one-pager, the navigation user experience becomes entirely different. Although people aren’t meant to leave the page, you do want to make their stay user-friendly. That’s why most one-pagers use in-page anchor links. You can place these...
Knowing how to crop in Illustrator seems to be a bit of a confusing topic for new Adobe Illustrator users. It’s not surprising, due to how in older versions before the Creative Cloud, there was no easy cropping option apart from clipping masks. Thankfully, the newest...
Wondering how to create an effective social media strategy? Looking for a current, proven guide to follow? In this article, you’ll find a step-by-step plan for developing a social media marketing strategy that really works—all based on modern marketing principles. How...
Divi’s text and list style options are a common feature available within most Divi Modules. This opens new opportunities to design creative content and list designs within modules (like the toggle and accordion module) that were previously only possible within the...
There’s a high chance that if you’re reading this, you work on a computer for most, if not all of the day. Even if you don’t, there’s still a high chance you’re looking at a screen of some kind for the majority of the day. And that makes you tired. More specifically,...
Want better Facebook ad conversions? Wondering how to write compelling Facebook ad copy? In this article, you’ll learn how to write Facebook ad copy that improves your conversions. #1: Use the “So That” Statement The most common Facebook ad copy mistake I see is...
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 a stunning Cyber...
Helping kids with their homework at a tutoring center. Catering in mid-August heat for a senior citizen’s summertime luncheon. Topping sundaes with all the fixings at a group home’s ice cream social. For all of the time, patience and hard work required, volunteering...
Do you advertise on Instagram? Wondering how to get better conversions on your Instagram Stories ads? In this article, you’ll learn how to optimize your Instagram Stories ads placements. How Instagram Stories Ads and Instagram Feed Ads Differ Unlike a static image or...
The way you display contact forms on your website can definitely help increase conversion rates. Besides creating beautiful and user-friendly contact forms, you can also approach it in a more targeted way. In this post, we’ll show you how to create one design with...
“Open source” is a term that’s typically used with software, and it means that the code is accessible to the public and that anybody can inspect, modify, enhance, improve and share it. Source code isn’t commonly seen by us computer users; instead, it’s what developers...
Lifestyle websites provide a wide range of content that includes blogs, shops, and even services. They need a wide range of designs to meet their content requirements. Divi has lots of child themes that are great choices to build any type of lifestyle website. In this...
Despite being one of the more varied careers out there, the term marketing has become almost a buzzword among online businesses and brands. Depending on who you ask, their marketing strategy might not even share aspects with yours. One of the biggest misconceptions...
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Social Media Marketing Talk Show, a news show for marketers who want to stay on the leading edge of social media. On this week’s Social Media Marketing Talk Show, we explore YouTube revenue opportunities for channels, learning...
Creating pop out service descriptions on hover can be an effective way to inform and engage users with additional information. Much like a tooltip, these pop out descriptions will reveal more info about your service on hover. But with Divi, you have the full suite of...
Websites and apps have all sorts of visual elements that have to coexist – buttons, columns, icons, images, lines, media and typography. All of those elements need a canvas (the blank web page), and that canvas needs blank space, i.e., negative or white space. The...
Could your business benefit from a dedicated community? Wondering where you should build your community? To explore why building community and groups is essential for marketers, I interview community-building expert Gina Bianchini. She’s the former CEO and co-founder...
Subtle interactions and hover effects can be useful for creating an eye-catching CTA (Call to Action). The trick is to use effects that make your CTA more attractive and intuitive so users are more likely to take action. And since the end goal of most CTAs is clicking...
Think back to a time when you had so much control and discipline you surprised yourself. Maybe you woke up every morning at the crack of dawn or you stuck to a fitness regime for months. Maybe you quit smoking, started cooking or put your foot down in a toxic...
Throughout all the design trends, footers remain essential. People have gotten so used to them, which in turn makes them highly user-friendly. They help visitors organize their stay on your website and navigate to the precise page they’re looking for. With Divi, you...
Sometimes the traditional YouTube or Vimeo embedded player isn’t what you need. Maybe you are running a membership or media site, or maybe you have any of a thousand other reasons you don’t want your videos uploaded to a major platform. Or maybe you just don’t like...
Are you selling products on Instagram? Wondering how to create Instagram posts that interest shoppers? In this article, you’ll discover four ways to showcase and promote your products on Instagram. First, Attract an Audience That’s Likely to Convert To have success...
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 ongoing Divi design...
If you arrived here wondering how to make a GIF with Photoshop, it’s probably because the video you uploaded to your website was slowing down the loading time. Well, you’ve come to the right place. In this guide, we’ll show you how to make a GIF in Photoshop from...
Is your video marketing working? Could you be making mistakes that are hurting your results? We asked top industry experts which video marketing mistakes they see most often and how to avoid making them. #1: Losing Video Viewers Due to Lengthy Intros The biggest...
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, our design team created a brand new Eye Doctor Layout...
Storytelling is the thing that sets brands and products apart from their competitors these days. Your brand probably already uses storytelling in your marketing in some way, but it might not be conscious. You focus on the user and the customer. You tell them what...
Wondering how to take your Facebook advertising campaigns to the next level? Looking for ideas to improve your Facebook ad conversions? In this article, you’ll discover seven ways to scale your Facebook ad campaigns. #1: Make Small Salary-Like Bumps to Facebook Ad...
A lot of company websites out there share a preview of their approach at some point. When creating an approach section, you can handle it in the traditional way, or you can try to add more interaction to it. If you’re looking for a way to make the second option...
How do you know an idea is great or terrible without testing it? Wireframing, mockups and prototyping are necessary parts of digital design. Visualizing your concepts lets you simulate your designs, try out different user experiences and test various user journeys and...
Divi is an excellent WordPress theme for websites about entertainers and entertaining. There are several well-designed child themes available across the web that was professionally designed to give you a head start on your next Divi entertainment website. All you need...
These days, it’s rare to see websites that don’t promote themselves using multiple channels. You can use social media, traditional online ads, email marketing, and much more. The more channels you implement, the better returns you’re likely to see – but measuring the...
