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The web design trends that emerge every year help expand design possibilities for designers and DIY users everywhere. More and more, asymmetrically positioned elements, bright colors, and font families traditionally used in print are being appreciated. In this post, we’re going to provide you with a tutorial that uses these elements. The design that we’ll recreate […]

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With WordPress and the right plugins, your website visitors have the ability to easily subscribe to all of your various content feeds or social channels. And you have the ability to demonstrate the value of those feeds or social channels in a fraction of a second by simply displaying the associated subscriber counts. This is […]

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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 the new YouTube live tools 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 the new YouTube live tools a…

Testimonials are, without a doubt, a vital part of every website selling products or services. They provide your website with the social proof and credibility people need to form a positive impression about your company and/or product. In Divi, we have the Testimonial Module that specifically helps you showcase testimonials in a beautiful way. However, […]

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Being a theme or plugin developer is a tough gig. Between WordPress updates, bug fixes, PHP version incompatibilities, and customer support, you have a lot to deal with. And don’t forget about the bunches of potential users who ask, is this Multisite compatible?  It’s a pretty common question, and it may not be something every dev has […]

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Want to reach more subscribers, fans, or prospects? Wondering how building a personal brand can help? To explore how to build and use a personal brand, I interview Chris Ducker. More About This Show The Social Media Marketing podcast is an on-demand ta…

Want to reach more subscribers, fans, or prospects? Wondering how building a personal brand can help? To explore how to build and use a personal brand, I interview Chris Ducker. More About This Show The Social Media Marketing podcast is an on-demand ta…

Overlapping is a useful technique that is often used to create unique web designs and layouts. And it is easy to overlap content with Divi. The basic concept involves adding custom margins and spacing to your modules, rows and sections in a way that positions them to overlap each other. You may have already noticed […]

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The Journey, a Social Media Examiner production, is an episodic video documentary that shows you what really happens inside a growing business. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX05lIIM-D4 Watch The Journey: Episode 20 Episode 20 of The Journey follows Michae…

Admittedly, online maps are rather straightforward. If you use a service such as Google Maps, you simply pick a location and embed the map onto your website. However, you can’t edit regular maps on the fly, and neither can your coworkers – which is often necessary for collaborative projects. That’s where interactive maps come in. […]

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Want to increase your YouTube subscribers? Wondering how to retarget YouTube video viewers with YouTube ads? In this article, you’ll discover how to create a YouTube remarketing campaign with Google AdWords. #1: Create Video Ads That Highlight Yo…

Want to increase your YouTube subscribers? Wondering how to retarget YouTube video viewers with YouTube ads? In this article, you’ll discover how to create a YouTube remarketing campaign with Google AdWords. #1: Create Video Ads That Highlight Yo…

Combining asymmetrically curved background with vibrant gradient colors is a design trend that grew in 2017 and keeps existing and growing in 2018. To help you follow that trend seamlessly in 2018, we’ve created five different background images that you can use on 1/2 column backgrounds in combination with column gradient backgrounds. Further down this post, […]

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Security is an important part of running any type of website. Unfortunately, it’s likely that someone will eventually try to get into your dashboard without your consent. It’s up to you to put up enough defenses so they don’t succeed. There are plenty of ways to protect your WordPress website. In most cases, you’ll want […]

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Worried that Facebook’s latest news feed changes will impact your video reach? Looking for tips to create videos that generate meaningful comments? In this article, you’ll discover how to create Facebook videos that generate the mindful int…

Worried that Facebook’s latest news feed changes will impact your video reach? Looking for tips to create videos that generate meaningful comments? In this article, you’ll discover how to create Facebook videos that generate the mindful int…

Designing a digital resource page with Divi is easy when you utilize the design elements of your layout to work for you. The visual builder has many helpful features that make this process rather enjoyable. But design isn’t everything. It is also important that your resource page functions. That’s why it is always a good […]

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Designing a digital resource page with Divi is easy when you utilize the design elements of your layout to work for you. The visual builder has many helpful features that make this process rather enjoyable. But design isn’t everything. It is also important that your resource page functions. That’s why it is always a good […]

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The single most asked question I see around the internet is some variation of What’s the best company for WordPress hosting? It’s nuts how often this comes up, but it shouldn’t be that surprising–there are so many options and choices out there, it’s almost impossible to not get bogged down. In many ways, the hosting […]

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Want to use more animated visuals in your marketing? Looking for affordable tools to create your own animated graphics? In this article, you’ll find three tools that create animated motion graphics for social media ads and posts. #1: Turn Images …

Want to use more animated visuals in your marketing? Looking for affordable tools to create your own animated graphics? In this article, you’ll find three tools that create animated motion graphics for social media ads and posts. #1: Turn Images …

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. This week Kenny and his team have created an engaging Design Conference Layout Pack. The enticing graphics and images […]

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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. This week Kenny and his team have created an engaging Design Conference Layout Pack. The enticing graphics and images […]

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Online marketing can be a pretty cutthroat world. There are just so many data points, metrics, analytics, and hard numbers that you have to deal with that it’s hard to keep them all straight and remember that data isn’t just data. It represents people. Real people. Your customers, in fact. When you were just a […]

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Do you use live video to sell products or services? Wondering how to grow an audience that will show up for your launch? In this article, you’ll discover seven live video tactics that will create a warm and engaged audience for your next launch. …

Do you use live video to sell products or services? Wondering how to grow an audience that will show up for your launch? In this article, you’ll discover seven live video tactics that will create a warm and engaged audience for your next launch. …

Divi has a lot of background features. You can add a solid color background, gradient, image, or video. The image is especially interesting because of Image Blend, where you can use the solid color or gradient as an overlay. One problem though is this doesn’t work on parallax. Another problem is video doesn’t have overlays […]

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One of WordPress’ best features is the thousands of plugins for you to choose from. Whatever functionality you want to bolt onto your site, there’s likely a plugin available to help you do it. However, the vast majority are in English only, which means options are limited for non-speakers of the language. To help bridge […]

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It’s that time again for our monthly Divi Showcase where we take a look at 10 amazing Divi websites made by our community members. Every month we showcase the best Divi websites that were submitted from our community and today we want to share with you the top ten websites for the month of February […]

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Social media marketing is crucial for today’s business, but having too many networks to manage and posting to each of them at the best times can be time-consuming. Fortunately there are several online services that allow you to manage your social media from a single dashboard. One of the most popular services is Buffer. Buffer […]

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Websites exist to make engagement between companies or individuals and their website visitors happen more easily and effectively. The most effective way for a website to indicate which action they’d like visitors to take is what’s called a Call to Action (CTA). When you combine CTAs with a nice design, you can get an even […]

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Feedly is a free service (with advanced premium features available) that gives you the power to conveniently organize and streamline information. This information (i.e. content) is sourced from the rss feeds of blogs or other online resources. While most commonly used as a free, well designed, and easy way to keep up with a user’s favorite […]

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Do you want to create more engaging and effective Instagram stories? Are you using all of the Instagram Stories features available to you? To explore how you can use the latest Stories features, I interview Sue B. Zimmerman. More About This Show The So…

Do you want to create more engaging and effective Instagram stories? Are you using all of the Instagram Stories features available to you? To explore how you can use the latest Stories features, I interview Sue B. Zimmerman. More About This Show The So…

With all of the powerful Divi features that have been released over the years, it is safe to say that some of them may have been overlooked (or ignored). Those of us who use Divi on a daily basis can occasionally get stuck in our Divi ways and need a little reminder of the new […]

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