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PB101: L01 - Choosing the Right Page Builder
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ส.ค. 2024
- Before we start learning, we must get on the same page about the term "professional."
What is a professional web designer? What is a professional page builder? Do these things actually exist? Is there a fundamental distinction between "professional" and "non-professional?"
Is it true that any page builder can be a "professional" tool as long as it's used by a professional?
Should you just choose the page builder that gives you the warmest fuzzies on the inside and is the "easiest" to get started with?
Should the project dictate the builder you use?
We will clear all that up in this video and quickly cover the 20 fundamental features a page builder should have to be considered a professional page builder.
Warning: Some people get very caught up in their feelings whenever this topic is discussed. You must go into this course with the least amount of emotion possible. We're not talking about your family members - we're discussing web design tools.
If you truly want to hone your craft and work to a high standard, you need to know the limitations of specific tools and why some builders are much better than others.
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I have learned to become a true front end dev because of the principles that you have taught. Occasionaly I have to work with clients that use the "other" builders, and even then the principles I learned helped me. I can debut, problem solve, and struture websites correctly. Looking forward to this training!
Can not praise enough that i found you 3 months ago! You're just the best coach in the WP-space. Nobody needs candid sugarcoating!
Build to a standard - scalability and maintainability. I'm here for all of this. Thanks for calling it out.
I'm an amateur slowly trying to become a professional and this is coming at the perfect time.
Welcome aboard!
They protect their ego and project emotional stress (trauma)
And use this given topic to do so. Very irresponsible and socially unintelligent. Pulls "everyone" down and potentially triggers others.
Very good tutorials, a godsend. Appreciate it immensely.
I'm a monkey in front of a keyboard so I really need all of this.
How you've built your own website reflects your competence and talent. It's just so damn good.
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Kevin, your photography analogy to professional page builders was awesome! Very unique and perfect explanatory model for the meaning of professional! Again, you were born to teach brother! Thank you for your highly educational content that is sourly needed in the world of page builders 🙏
My web design sales coach convinced me that it doesn't matter what page builder you use as long as you get results for business owners.
Maintainability and scalability is far from sexy but it's up to us to show the value of what we do to our clients.
From now on, I'll follow the best practices for my own sanity and for my clients' peace of mind.
Thank you for your teaching. Today I spent a couple of hours setting up my Bricks blueprint site. I am ready to go! I'm looking forward to your next video. Help me become a professional like you.
Thanks Kevin. I fully agree with your advice. Page builders are just the tools of the trade. We as the professional web designers must stick to professional standards and workflows, which can be different for different people but they will have the same solid foundation.
Tools come and go, may be tomorrow some other tool comes forward that does the job more professionally. So, we should always be open minded to accept that something better is available than what we use now.
Keep up the good work.
Watching this video inspired me to make the jump to Bricks Builder. I was using Elementor for 3 years and feeling all the time many things we're missing. The slowness, the bloat on the page with the constant feeling of hitting walls in terms of what could be done was despairing. Also was sensing the more the content grew the thougher was to mantain the website. One month ago, I did the jump and you're videos we're the lighthouse to get out of that doomed land. The transition was so much easier that what I antecipated. My website became 5x faster and many walls falled showing new possibilites. I'm excited again with building and Page Building 101 was definetily essential to the transition. Thank you Kevin
Kevin, you have earned your way to the top of many peoples' lists of instructors, myself included. I am blown away by the breadth and depth of your knowledge and the non-patronizing tone. Thank you very much for making this course available for free.
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Kevin's web design course is a revelation! His expertise in CSS and design principles is evident in each lesson. I've gained valuable skills and confidence to tackle any web project!
I'm not a professional... yet, but will be because I am following KG. Awesome Kevin, if they can't stand the heat.... Please keep up the awesome work. I have learnt so much already. The funny thing is, the more I learn and understand, the more I understand how much I don't know. Thanks again
"The funny thing is, the more I learn and understand, the more I understand how much I don't know. " - this is so true
The analogy really makes sense. It's using the right tools AND knowing the fundamentals that makes you a professional.
I have subscribed to very few TH-cam channels, and this is one of them. This channel is a gem
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100% on point and perfectly explained! 👍🏼
I've been in this industry for over 25 years. To be honest I'm here for the ride, but I enjoy your videos and fully expect to be surprised and expect I'll learn something too. A good start.
This course literally changed my life ❤ thanks Kevin
I love your way of coaching and teaching style, it really makes me feel to strive to become a better website developer. I have faced these problems in my growth to professionals. I joined already inner circle. Thank you Kevin👍
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love this as always, Kevin, so glad to found your channel 1 years ago, thank you!
Thank you for taking the time to create these videos! We need this information; I love builders. I literally own them all 😂 but there are page principles I forget sometimes. You, the inner circle ⭕️, have reminded me of the basics. Professional page layouts, easy customization, + scalability.
Thank you very much for this.
I was just on the ledge to jump from Elementor to Bricks.
But my workflow is based on Elementor and it's already shaping a solid course, so I think it's best to keep on mastering Elementor and the current workflow, then moving to Bricks.
It feels like I'm going against some of what you've said in the video and, if I had gotten to this video when it was released, I surely would have chosen Bricks from the very beginning instead, but now, considering the moment my business is at, I think it's all about mastering the processes as they're as of now, also considering Elementor checks most of the boxes you presented at the necessary features part.
Still, the full-scope functionalities Bricks offers, along with the lifetime deal, compels me so much to hurry the move..
I would say that’s a mistake. The sooner people ditch elementor the better. It’s holding you back.
@@Gearyco I too think it would be better to get into Bricks instead.
But this is just not feasible for my business at the moment... Right now I can't afford to stop the workflow, learn lots of stuff again to then implement a new process into the workflow or to rework the whole thing and only then get business back on the move, since every process, project and client demands my full attention. I know I have to delegate stuff, but it's how it is right now.
Maybe it's me doing something wrong, I know it's way too broad to point out what, but if you have any advice, it will be useful.
Thanks anyways, I have learned tons with your videos
I was waiting for the words Divi, elementor and wix ... I think I heard you whisper them during the 20 things all page builders should have.
Btw - your content has inspired me to aim for professional output in everything I do. Thank you
I’m excited for the next episode. These are fire 🔥 and gem. You’re one of the best, Geary!
I appreciate that!
Just finding your channel and this course and I’m very excited to have found it! I am in process of getting a business off the ground, and we are going to need our site to work in a very specific way in order for our plan to work. My entire experience is a short stint using squarespace but I knew that it would be highly likely that something like that or wix simply wouldn’t have the capabilities we’re looking for. So thank you! I’ll definitely be signing up for your newsletter and I’m looking forward to learning from you
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Great Video Kevin 🎉!
You were very happy in every word. Thanks for sharing this content!
I am a fan. I listen, I learn and I am a better professional for it. Keep up the good work, Kevin!
Awesome! Thank you!
Looking forward to dive into the course. This video made my choice even easier to move myself up to the next level
Like in any profession. You need to know the basics. If I do not know how a combustion engine works, you can't run a professional car repair shop even if you would use the best Snap-On wrench there is. If I do not know what flex and CSS-Grid and so on is and how it works, I can not be a professional web designer regardless the tools I use. A page builder should just be a helper for accomplishing things that you otherwise would have to develop yourself. But you need to know what's under the hood -pun intended. In the past we used Elementor even for big projects (250k up). But the more we use it, the more we realise, it is not a professional tool and never will be. Page loading times up to 6 seconds (first paint). Really not professional. So, we're about to change.
I think Kevin just insulted my family members lol @11:15
That's it! Mic drop 🎤🤝
I hate the tool I'm using now, but I won't name it. I'm looking forward to learning.
This will stand with whether you are willing to jump to Pro or not! Like a workout, it needs courage & time. I hope for the best, Thx Kevin.
I think you need A Pro agent to manage your comments/Replies now ^__^
The new sound panels help a ton, great upgrades, sort of looks like you got yourself a new Sony mirrorless camera too, maybe the vid quality just seems better on this one.
Sound panels and cam have been up for months now. Same setup in all recent videos. It’s a Canon R6.
You are a really great teacher.
A "professional" according to your definition will not use a page builder. And he will charge millions. ;)
I started creating websites as a non-developer with Elementor pro, because the page builder was the easiest to use.
Gradually I learned HTML and CSS and noticed the problems you mention in the videos.
I also tried Webflow briefly and it's a great tool, but it wasn't GDPR compliant.
Then when I used Oxygen it was really an eye-opener to see how good a page builder can be. Since I need dynamic data and as a non-developer I can't (yet) deal with ACF and because of the uncertain future, I don't want to use Oxygen anymore.
For Dynamic Data I use JetEngine because it is more understandable for me and the support is really outstanding.
Fortunately, two main JetEngine plugins are compatible with Bricks, so I will use Bricks in the future.
I just hope that Bricks will switch to annual pricing because otherwise the business model might not be sustainable, just like Oxygen.
Thanks for the awesome videos and especially for the 20 criteria!
Can't wait for L02!
Good points, thank you Kevin !
Smashed it 😍
Love it :)
Can’t wait for you to dive into the nitty gritty of Bricks and ACSS! 😉
This likely won’t involve ACSS other than the lesson on frameworks
18 mins of introduction and icebreaking.
It must start to hurt you that the concept are hurting people feeling for understandable reasons.
And you really want them to understand that you truly mean well.
Thank you for your hard work Kevin.
Truly appreciated your effort to move people up the scale.
This guy is the Jocko of Wordpress; or, more accurately, the Moses to lead us out of the desert that has become WP design workflow, and into the Promised Land. When he talks about "Signal vs. Noise" at the end here, that's the effin truth. He's really the only signal I've found in WP design land. Lot's of great guys on the dev ops side; but on the design side, it's a desert .... until now. Follow the signal.
11:20 "I'm not insulting your family members" hahahah that made me laugh really hard. There is just so much truth in this sentence because people can get so upset about a simple disagreement as if it's something personal.
Great!!!! Thanx!
Maybe you could have shown these 20 fundamental features in a bullet list for the viewers?
You will see all of these things in the course. There is a separate video that lists them and goes into detail on each one on my channel. just search for “20 features“
Waiting for next lesson, like to be a professional 😁
Totally agreed 👍 but let's use Canva
Where does Shopify and ecom platforms fall under professional tool vs amateur tool
I haven't used them extensively, so I don't know. But, Shopify violates my rule of "don't build businesses on other people's land."
Question: I watched a tutorial from you, explaining the difference between sections, containers, and a div block, and I also watched a Webflow tutorial on the same topic suggesting that they are all basically divs. If they are all divs, then what does it matter whether they are named separately like in Webflow and Bricks, or are just named containers like in Elementor? If you can address this in the forthcoming videos that be great.
They are different. Very high level: a section is labeled such in HTML, therefore it is not a div. One could argue that a container and a div are the same because they both carry the div tag in HTML (in Kevin's example), but where they differ is in what they do out of the box in the builder. These differences save time in development. A container in Elementor vs Brick/Webflow are very different when it comes to what they do out of the box and the output on the front end. For example in bricks, if you add a container to a blank page and inspect, you see 1 div (with a class = container that gives it some pre-established styling) in Elementor you will get multiple divs outputted which is not semantic HTML.
They’re all boxes but different types of boxes for different purposes. I’ll explain in this course soon.
Sorry to be such a pain, I'm using the try for free Bricks Builder, and when I visit the theme settings I get no settings at all. In your video you have tons of settings. Is this because I'm using the try'l version or is it a special theme I needed to load?
Not sure. I’ve never used that before.
@@Gearyco Are you using a theme with the Bricks you are using to demo the training? Where do all of the Theme settings come from ?
Will you be using different page builders for this course? If so, which ones will you be using?
I will randomly demonstrate certain concepts in different builders, primarily to illustrate key differences.
I have already learnt many things from you. But that's quite heart breaking that I couldn't signup on your forms just because of location. (Pakistan)
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I have to say, you hurt my feeling. Shitting all over my favourite builder like this... well anyways... I'll stay with Bricks. :D JK ... you got me hooked like with your every single video.
I was a total noob using elementor not even knowing a single thing but I'm learning on the go with you and have to say. Every page I make is uncomparable to the previous one. And it feels great and it's thanks to you and your tools like ACSS.
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FIRST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Keep it up Kevin
Legend!
Hopefully the next lections will be less yaddayaddayadda iphone photo. Don't let this lesson hang alone too long... and if you talk about 20 points of anything it could be useful to show them in writing. 🙃
You don’t have to watch.
@@Gearyco obviously. But when I like it I tell you also.
do you ever talk about security? My bricks website have been infected due to a hole in bricks.. ?!?
Not really, but there are plenty of threads in the bricks group on how to fix that
@@Gearyco thanks, and yes I found it and saved my life (or rather my websites :-) ).
My question was more general and addressed to you: you teach us lots of precious things about webdesign and would like to ask you if security aspects is not in a certain way part of what you intend to share with us. just a question
I forgot to ask, when will you post the next lesson?
There is no set schedule. I am creating the course as I go.
Excited for this course. I am actually surprised it is even free tbh. I hope this series is great and that he's got an even more detailed course that we can buy that is using a real course platform, that'd be epic.
If you want all the 201+ content, join the Inner Circle. Courses aren't always the best way to learn. Once you know the fundamentals, it becomes more about spot learning rather than doing more courses.
@@Gearyco I can testify to the brilliance of the Inner Circle in terms of learning, help and support.
@@Gearyco what is 201+ contents?
@mehdi That's just the number of videos / tutorials in the InnerCircle ⭕
@@mehdimoradi603 its the next tier up of learning.
I feel like I've already covered the 'section' module after yesterday's live stream. 😂
There’s more!
Lets do this
Actually, photography is a good example, but let it be said, the person behind the camera takes the picture, not the camera. Having the right perspective, right "frame" you want to freeze on camera makes a photographer a professional. And most photos today getting retouched in Photoshop, Camera Raw and so on. Nobody uses their photos was they being taken. Remember old times, when there was no digital camera existing, the photographer had to use all their brain cells to think before shoot.
So with this being said, a web developer picks the builder matching his knowledge. Sadly, that is not often helpful if you had known better before. And it matters individual what you want, do want to improve, do you just want to play around, do you have a business with what you do. Only if you asked this yourself, you know where you belong and want to go for the future.
Photographers used to manipulate photos all the time in a dark room.
@@Gearyco Yes, like dodge and burn. But this is little to the options Photoshop offers today.
@@PicSta True, but what we have as a result is very stunning photography because the pros are even better once they manipulate their photos. IMO. It's all just art. We're just looking at enhanced art now instead of raw art. There's a great place for both.
@@Gearyco I agree, and we can leave it as said :) IMO, perfection lies in the imperfection. Because only the blemish makes it something special. Maybe not adaptable to web design ...
Microsoft FrontPage!!!!! Don't be dissing my baby 😂
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I use elementor pro but I think, its time to change to bricks but I need wait for crocoblock(lifetime licence) to they create plugins for bricks.
Why? Most of us don't use Crocoblock. Why would you need to at any cost?
They already supporting Brinks
@@foofourtyone yes but not every plugin
@@Joe-ss9cr Because, I dont know any way to do thinks.
Still missing your interview with Louis 😅😂
I’m still waiting for him to show.
The film should be short "Take what you want but not Oxygen" :)
Not sure what you mean.
@@Gearyco I don't know either.
Simply talking about some common sense that most of us are missing.
Cliffhanger
Gosh you are ranting. And rightfully so. Guess this course is not for a lot a people.
I know you're a true professional but the term you have used throughout the video doesn't make sense. You're talking about becoming a professional 'Web Developer', not a 'Web Designer'. Design starts with UX & ends with UI. It has nothing to do with how you're building the website
Yeah it does … you have to learn to use the terms clients use. Clients consider everyone a web designer.
The industry is literally called “web design.”
@@Gearyco I get your point. It was kinda misleading for people that know the difference. And you're making videos for the same people, not the clients
I respectfully disagree with your point of view. Kevin's video clearly and concisely gets to the heart of what we need - I don't care what you call it, "dev" or "designer," it doesn't matter, we are the ones who create the website. The way we build the website will directly create the result that the UI is the visual part (what they see on the screen) and the UX is their experience when browsing.
P vs M
In his 18-minute video for 17 minutes, he keeps saying professional page builder, not professional page builder, professional page builder, not a professional page builder 🥲
Seems like an exaggeration. But, if you don’t like it, you don’t have to watch.