For all of the creativity as well as the flexibility available with WordPress, there are certain times and circumstances when everyone needs a little help. After all, one of the beauties of using WordPress is not only the freedom and ease-of-use to create a professional-looking website, quickly and inexpensively. Sometimes, however, good ideas that are both attractive as well as effective are nhard to come by. This is when vendors who offer prepackaged designs come in handy. One of the most popular among these is Elegant Themes, which offers a huge number of options in website designs. Unfortunately, when you have been looking for options to use for your website, even the packaged products offered by Elegant Themes can begin to look, well, all alike.
No Right or Wrong
When you begin to look at the options available to you in creating your WordPress website, it’s critically important to remember and understand that there is no right or wrong in determining your choices. Everything is on the table. The most important thing to remember when creating your website is that you are the supreme commander of what you finally arrive at for your website. And that’s a good thing since your website represents you and your business. The key to making your website as effective as it can be is in exploring all of the options available to you and finding the design that best represents your business.
The good news in this is that there are lots of options available to you. One of them is probably just for you. Even as easy as WordPress is to adapt to so many different uses, there are still more ways to augment your creativity with the drag and drop page builders available that have become so popular for use with WordPress users in the past few years. In fact, the availability of these page builder packages should hardly be a surprise.
With these website building tools practically anyone can create a webpage that is both stylish and professional-looking. Not only that, but anyone who can click a mouse can use the user-friendly interfaces to make copy and designs like a pro. This ability results in pages that are created quickly and with literally no professional know-how.
Page builder websites are nothing new. Various versions of them have been around for years. These include Visual Composer and many more. And although Visual Composer is still widely used, the market has become much more competitive. This is good news for users since this competitive market has created not only more and better websites that offer outstanding tools, but they are more competitive in price as well.
Another important point to be made about these websites is that although there are great similarities such as the designs themselves, differences often include how they work and how users can interact with them. This makes all of these websites popular, attracting a different user with different abilities. This gives users the upper hand in determining what website to use based on how they think they interact with the tools.
Regardless of what you might be looking for in a website builder, there are basically two distinct attributes to look for when you select the best one for you. These are:
Interface
Of prime concern to most users of website builder tools is the interface, or the methodology made available that allows them to work with the software. This is a valid concern since the ease it takes to accomplish your tasks is made easier or harder with these tools. Theoretically, the easier it is to interact with the software, the easier it will be to build your website.
Modules
As important as the interface is to users, the modules you work with directly to create your website is the bottom line since these are the elements you will use to create your final website. WordPress, as easy as it is to use, still has a relatively steep learning curve, which is why so many users look forward to working with the website builders, since they most often make working with WordPress much easier and without the learning curve.
What follows is a short list of the most popular website building programs and a brief description of each.
Visual Composer
Mentioned in this story earlier, Visual Composer is the best selling website builder on the market today, and for good reason. Not only is it the best-selling tool out there, but it is economically priced and is very easy to use. It is also packed full of many tools that are very compatible with a range of devices.
Visual Composer offers more than 45 (it changes all the time) content modules that users can choose from, and they can be mixed and matched however you desire. You can name practically any visual tool you wish to enhance your text, and Visual Composer probably has it. This includes grids, tables, widgets and much more.
If the basic version of Visual Composer doesn’t have enough for you, you can always buy the expanded version, which has 50 more modules you can use. Visual Composer does not use a point-and-click interface. Instead, it has a short code system that allows you to accomplish your tasks by inputting codes.
Divi theme
Elegant Themes has become successful over the years by concentrating their efforts on an all-inclusive toolbox of designs. In the past few years, however, they have chosen to go in a different direction, refocusing on just a few key products. The result has been Divi theme, which is centered on WordPress themes and plug-ins.
Today, Divi theme is one of the best-selling WordPress plug-in programs available on the market today. As a stand-alone builder programs, it is one of the best on the market today. It includes more than 46 modules that feature everything from tables to sliders, to optin forms and much more.
Elementor Page Builder
Since it was released in 2016, Elementor has made a huge splash in the web builder market by offering high quality click and drag features in a low-cost toolbox. Elementor is different from most other website builders in that it has a colorful and easy to use interface that is easy to understand and keeps users on track to accomplish their tasks without going beyond the frontend. Elementor offers 28 design elements that, unlike other programs, works with those of other design builders. As a result, Elementor allows users to mix and match not only what Elementor offers, but what others could add as well.
The Elementor interface is easy to use and to download. This ability allows you to forgo most of the other work that other programs demand before you can get started on your work. There are even 20 premium templates to help you get started quickly and easily.
Themify Builder
Themify Builder is another excellent website builder program that employs user-friendly, drag and drop tools for constructing a website. It has a lot of tools that allow you to build from the frontend or the backend. Themify Builder features pre-built layouts you can use to set the general theme of your website, then personalize it to your own tastes.
Themify Builder also offers such features as video backgrounds, animations, maps, sliders, and much more.
Themify Builder offers 16 basic themes as well as nine add-ons that allow you to customize your website further.
ThriveThemes Content Builder
This is a high-quality frontend drag and drop website builder that features an especially easy to use editor. If you are looking to do online marketing, ThriveThemes Content Builder might be just what you need with all of its unique features, including landing and sales pages, opt-in forms, video embedding, and much more.
MotoPress
is another page builder that uses drag and drop technology to make your pages look the best they can. The MotoPress plug-in also allows custom post types. After you launch MotoPress, a specialized interface comes alive and gives you six different catagories with 20 modules including grids, maps, widgets and more tools.
Page Builder by SiteOrigin
This is a drag and drop page builder that is free to use and will let you create multi-column and multi-line pages.
Six widgets are included in Page Builder to get you started. You can even download it for free at Word Press.org to take advantage of all those features as well.
Live Composer
Live Composer is another free drag and drop page builder that is totally free of charge to use. One of the unique features of Live Composer is the main menu located at the bottom of the page that gives you the tools to style your page, add modules, and add and subtract templates. Live Composer has a very short learning curve, so with only a brief familiarization you will be able to perform all kinds of functions with it within minutes.
Live Composer has 30 content modules that include sliders, post box, galleries and much more.
Page Builder Sandwich
This is a frontend editor that allows all sorts of customization possibilities and building tools.
If you are tired of your creativity being limited by the capabilities of your website builder, Page Builder might be just the thing for you. The only noticeable real limitation of PageBuilder is the limited number of module options available to users, but for those that are available, there are many customization options. there aare only a dozen modules with this package, but the ones that are available include just about everything, including tables, newsletters and support widgets.
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