Breakdance 2 vs. Divi 4 (&5?) - Almost Inevitable Tutorials by PK
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- čas přidán 12. 09. 2024
- With the new Breakdance coming out, I decided to try it against Divi. I haven’t used Divi since 3.27 and moved on to Oxygen builder when Divi 4 came out. Now that Divi 5 is getting near release, it could be a bit unfair to Divi to compare a new beta Breakdance against an older (mature?) version of Divi, so I tried some parts with Divi 5 beta as well.
To be fair, I haven’t used Divi in a while, and even when I did, I used the builder on the backend as a layout tool and wrote all the styles in CSS. So I’m not the best at using the builder.
The rules are simple: no html layouts, minimal CSS, no third party addons.
The challenge: Modify a pre-built layout to match the client brand and build a woocommerce shop.
Watch the video to see how I do with Divi 4 and some 5 beta, and how I do the same with Breakdance 2.
All the timestamps are in the pinned comment below, so please feel free to jump around.
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** Intro **
1:10 - The Rules
2:57 - The Challenge
4:02 - The Sample Brand & Objective
6:40 - Warning comment about the Divi section
** The Divi Section **
8:10 - Using Divi
9:10 - Start with Home, loading the layout
11:05 - Adding a "global" Google font
13:55 - Adding a "global" custom font
22:00 - Now to apply it everywhere, including buttons
25:20 - Changing styles on more modules
28:40 - What to do with the footer? Save to library?
31:40 - Let's try that in Divi 5
33:55 - Copy / paste module style
34:20 - What happens to the previous layouts? Try another page
35:55 - Global fonts are gone now?
36:50 - Try to save footer again, got stuck
38:50 - Try again, refresh
40:10 - Backend builder check
42:40 - One last check of global settings on Divi 4
44:15 - Divi conclusion
** The Breakdance Part **
44:23 - Let's go to Breakdance, start with adding fonts, customize
47:50 - Colors
50:05 - Loading pre-built layouts
50:47 - Editing heading style
51:40 - Editing the hero section
52:25 - Copy / paste styles
53:35 - Custom design preset with buttons
56:40 - Editing design presets
57:55 - Shop archive page
1:00:30 - Breakdance conclusion
** Conclusion **
1:01:30 Conclusion
As a person who worked with Divi for a long time (before BD), I have to say that it would be fair if you knew Divi at least a bit. You can use global settings as a preset, for example. So you set every setting for H1, H2, H3, body, links, etc. only once for the whole page. This is just an example. So you can work a lot faster with Divi as well.
But I totally agree. Breakdance is much smoother and speeds up the whole process enormously.
Thanks for the video!
Hey there, thanks for the comment. I've been told on a FB comment that there are presets, and I've gone back to check and tried to get it to work, and ended up screwing things up a bit more haha Unfortunately, even though making some presets as default, that seems like it works best when building fresh, and not as good when loading a layout and expecting it to be on brand. However, yes, I should/could have dug deeper and should have known about it.
I made quite a bit of money from Divi. However, I started losing my fascination with it during the Divi 4 era. The front end builder to this day still has frustrating inconsistencies and glitches. I find myself needing to edit in wireframe more often than I should.
The workload for creating custom modules also more than doubled after Divi 4. Plus there is no native support for flex and grid. Even Divi 5 won't release with that, apparently.
In a word, I will def be picking up Breakdance once I get back into web work. Plus, it's a newer market with plenty of opportunities for recurring revenue from relevant products 😂 Thanks for the video!
Hey Terry! Same here, but apparently there have been some improvements in D4 that I missed in the video haha had quite the discussion on that
Looking forward to seeing you around more in the web design communities!
I have to agree - I find myself spending far less time fighting with Breakdance, than I do any other builder.
Thanks for the comment. Yeah, it's been pretty smooth sailing so far.
Thanks for the video,
BD is the best for WP but it has some bugs and issues we hope they will fix them
I hope so too!
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