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Interview - Easy life... store your layouts in the cloud with Andrew Palmer
So, go back 20 or so years and building websites was hard, and I mean really hard... You had to use tables and it took hours to make things line up.
Then along came CSS and suddenly the work got a little easier. Then the CMS was born and we could all begin to create websites that could present different things at different times. However, making these websites look good was another frustration. You had to learn the complexities of the WordPress templating system and figure out what you needed to amend in multiple locations to get your posts and pages looking great.
Then a few years back the Page Builders came about. The offered the chance to point-click-drag-save your way into great looking pages. If you spent time with your Page Builder of choice you could get great results really, really fast.
Now let's put aside whether or not you think that Page Builders are the 'correct' way of creating your layouts, and let's just accept that many people think that they are, we now have a new dilemma!
Page Builders meant that we could create sites faster, and we could also save our creations. We could save the templates for use within the same site and we could save them for use in other WordPress websites. This process is a little fiddly. You need to save the output file somewhere, put it in a folder on your PC with some naming structure so that you remember something about it's purpose, and if you're really diligent you might even take a screen shot of what the layout looks like and drop that in the same folder too. You can then find them at a later date and upload them to the other projects that you're working on.
So we're not complaining. Run through those 20 years and things are so much better than they were. But, being the technologists that we are, what we've got now is never good enough. We want it to be more easy.
Make I introduce Andrew Palmer and his
Page Builder Cloud... He felt your pain. He knew that the process of saving layouts needed improving and he jolly well went and did it!
Page Builder Cloud is an easy to use cloud based way of saving your layouts so that you can reuse them on any website that you're working on.
So the workflow goes like this...
- working on website A you suddenly realise that you've created a masterpiece. This needs to be saved to use at a later date
- install the Page Builder Cloud plugin
- click 'save to cloud' - this erm... saves the layout to the cloud
- you go to website B and think to yourself... remember that fantastic layout that I created on website A... I wish there was some way that I could put that on this website which I've called website B
- you install the Page Builder Cloud
- you find the fantastic layout and click a button and there it is
- you finish the project early because of all the time that you've saved saving layouts and go to the pub
See, now you get it. It saves you time!
But you're thinking... how will I find my layouts because this cloud saving plugin just saves them? Well it does more than save them. You can add categories to the, like modern, forms, landing page or website A. This makes them easy to find.
But remember that before I talked about grabbing screenshots. That would be a nice feature wouldn't it? Well, that's baked into this plugin too. It takes a scrolling screenshot so that you can even see what the layout looked like.
Your life is complete!
What does it work with? Pretty much all the Page Builders out there:
- Beaver Builder
- Elementor
- Divi
- Brizy
- Oxygen
- Pootle Press
- Visual Composer
- and more...
They have even begun work on making it so that you can save a layout from one Page Builder and then import it into a different Page Builder, and whilst this is still a work in progress, it's great that they are giving this a go!
Now you need to take a seat. Website A and website B are both complete in super quick time. You see the benefit of the
Page Builder Cloud and you want to know how much this is going to cost. You sat down right...
$99 per year, or $299 for the lifetime deal... For all that. You know what I'm going to say next...
Mentioned in this episode:
Page Builder Cloud
Elegant Marketplace
Layouts Cloud
