schanteldwl – Avada Website Builder https://avada.com For WordPress & WooCommerce Mon, 28 Oct 2024 09:46:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 8 Avada Studio Content Blocks For Web Design [Collection 28] https://avada.com/blog/8-avada-studio-content-blocks-for-web-design-collection-28/ https://avada.com/blog/8-avada-studio-content-blocks-for-web-design-collection-28/#respond Mon, 28 Oct 2024 09:46:15 +0000 https://avada.com/blog//

Avada Studio is an expansive library of multi-use content blocks professionally designed to speed up your web design workflow. In addition, Avada’s intuitive interface makes it easy for you to live preview any content before importing directly into your content with a click.

The Avada Studio is, by design, a creative resource for anyone building a website with Avada and is intended to give you a head start when creating website content and layouts.

Newly Released Studio Content Blocks

This collection showcases the most recent content blocks released by our team and follows from this previous article [COLLECTION 27]. All content is ready to import into your website with a click of a button.

It is essential to note that you are not limited to how and where the content can be used within your Avada website with each content item being very flexible and ready integrate into your layouts.

Containers

Columns

Forms

Post Cards

Studio content is neatly organized into a range of categories making it straightforward to search through, view, and then import into your workflow.

The Benefits Of Prebuilt Content

Studio content is prebuilt for anyone creating a website with the Avada Website Builder. All content is effortlessly customizable and intended to integrate into your website content and layouts seamlessly.

  • Prebuilt website content for any purpose

  • Mobile-friendly across all devices

  • Professionally designed to save you time

  • Dashboard previews for seamless imports

  • Online Studio website for live previews

How To Get Started

Accessing and importing prebuilt content is straightforward if you are already using Avada for your website, and it is done via the WordPress Dashboard. We encourage you to take look at this detailed help file and video explaining how to use the Avada Studio.

If you are new to WordPress and want to explore the power to build a successful website with the Avada Website Builder and prebuilt content, you can do so here.

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8 Avada Studio Content Blocks For Web Design [Collection 27] https://avada.com/blog/8-avada-studio-content-blocks-for-web-design-collection-27/ https://avada.com/blog/8-avada-studio-content-blocks-for-web-design-collection-27/#respond Fri, 11 Oct 2024 13:39:32 +0000 https://avada.com/blog//

Avada Studio is an expansive library of multi-use content blocks professionally designed to speed up your web design workflow. In addition, Avada’s intuitive interface makes it easy for you to live preview any content before importing directly into your content with a click.

The Avada Studio is, by design, a creative resource for anyone building a website with Avada and is intended to give you a head start when creating website content and layouts.

Newly Released Studio Content Blocks

This collection showcases the most recent content blocks released by our team and follows from this previous article [COLLECTION 26]. All content is ready to import into your website with a click of a button.

It is essential to note that you are not limited to how and where the content can be used within your Avada website with each content item being very flexible and ready integrate into your layouts.

Templates

Containers

Columns

Post Cards

Studio content is neatly organized into a range of categories making it straightforward to search through, view, and then import into your workflow.

The Benefits Of Prebuilt Content

Studio content is prebuilt for anyone creating a website with the Avada Website Builder. All content is effortlessly customizable and intended to integrate into your website content and layouts seamlessly.

  • Prebuilt website content for any purpose

  • Mobile-friendly across all devices

  • Professionally designed to save you time

  • Dashboard previews for seamless imports

  • Online Studio website for live previews

How To Get Started

Accessing and importing prebuilt content is straightforward if you are already using Avada for your website, and it is done via the WordPress Dashboard. We encourage you to take look at this detailed help file and video explaining how to use the Avada Studio.

If you are new to WordPress and want to explore the power to build a successful website with the Avada Website Builder and prebuilt content, you can do so here.

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10 Avada Studio Content Blocks For Web Design [Collection 26] https://avada.com/blog/10-avada-studio-content-blocks-for-web-design-collection-26/ https://avada.com/blog/10-avada-studio-content-blocks-for-web-design-collection-26/#respond Tue, 24 Sep 2024 09:58:36 +0000 https://avada.com/blog//

Avada Studio is an expansive library of multi-use content blocks professionally designed to speed up your web design workflow. In addition, Avada’s intuitive interface makes it easy for you to live preview any content before importing directly into your content with a click.

The Avada Studio is, by design, a creative resource for anyone building a website with Avada and is intended to give you a head start when creating website content and layouts.

Newly Released Studio Content Blocks

This collection showcases the most recent content blocks released by our team and follows from this previous article [COLLECTION 25]. All content is ready to import into your website with a click of a button.

It is essential to note that you are not limited to how and where the content can be used within your Avada website with each content item being very flexible and ready integrate into your layouts.

Templates

Page Title Bars

Columns

Elements

Icons

Off Canvas

Mega Menus

Studio content is neatly organized into a range of categories making it straightforward to search through, view, and then import into your workflow.

The Benefits Of Prebuilt Content

Studio content is prebuilt for anyone creating a website with the Avada Website Builder. All content is effortlessly customizable and intended to integrate into your website content and layouts seamlessly.

  • Prebuilt website content for any purpose

  • Mobile-friendly across all devices

  • Professionally designed to save you time

  • Dashboard previews for seamless imports

  • Online Studio website for live previews

How To Get Started

Accessing and importing prebuilt content is straightforward if you are already using Avada for your website, and it is done via the WordPress Dashboard. We encourage you to take look at this detailed help file and video explaining how to use the Avada Studio.

If you are new to WordPress and want to explore the power to build a successful website with the Avada Website Builder and prebuilt content, you can do so here.

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Avada Campaign: Deconstructing a Prebuilt Website https://avada.com/blog/avada-campaign-deconstructing-a-prebuilt-website/ https://avada.com/blog/avada-campaign-deconstructing-a-prebuilt-website/#respond Fri, 13 Sep 2024 08:33:55 +0000 https://avada.com/blog//

Say hello to Avada Campaign. This Avada prebuilt website is ideal for beginners, marketers, professionals, and anyone in between. Avada Campaign can be imported at the click of a button and is highly flexible. Every aspect of the prebuilt website is easily customizable, and it can be adapted and branded to suit any business model or venture using the Avada Website Builder.

In this article, we will explore the header, footer, and homepage layouts that make up the overall website structure to explore how the Avada Website Builder is used to create successful websites. The Avada Campaign article is a part of a deconstruction series and is the follow-on article that explores the Avada Vape prebuilt website. It is important to highlight that Avada gives you total design freedom to create unique layouts for your website that work, with the only limit being your imagination.

Overview

Styling and Features

Creating a style guide for your website will prove to be invaluable in the future. A style guide will help you to address usability, the user experience, design consistency, and online trends in an organized and consistent manner.

The Avada Website Builder has a vast array of features and styling options; however, you do not need to use all of them for your website, and this is where your style guide comes in. Decide upfront which styling options align with your brand and which design features are needed to make your website stand out.

Performance & Optimization

Optimizing your websites for page load speed can be a seemingly complex subject because so many different facets affect how fast a page loads. It can range from the server’s speed to the options and settings selected, right through to the type and amount of content and even the size of the images added to the page or post.

The Avada Performance Wizard

The Performance Wizard takes the guesswork out of how to best optimize your Avada website. To get you started you are presented with a step-by-step interface that will guide you through the process.

Performance Wizard Start Screen

What is important to note is that you should build your website first before running the Performance Wizard. Creating your website’s structure, placing design elements in situ, and formulating content ensures that the system has something to work with when searching for recommendations at each step of the process. The recommendations provided are for options that can be disabled or enabled to enhance overall performance.

  • Features
    Disable any features not used on the website, thereby reducing the amount of code that is loaded.

  • Avada Icons
    Scan your website for information about icons that are being used. You can also disable unused icon sets and discover how to optimize existing icons.

  • Avada Fonts/Typography
    Check which fonts are being loaded on your website and then optimize how those fonts are served. Fewer variants will mean fewer requests and, therefore, faster loading times.

  • Avada Elements
    Scan your website to discover which Design, Layout, and Form Elements are not used on the website. Disable unused Elements, thereby reducing the amount of code that is loaded.

  • Optimization
    Optimize how the website’s CSS and JS assets should be enqueued. These options can have a significant impact on the performance of the page load. However, some of these options can also break functionality if you use a caching plugin, so proceed with caution.

Above The Fold Optimization

“Above the fold” is the part of a webpage that is immediately visible on your desktop or mobile screen without scrolling down. Traditionally, this digital real estate is where most would choose to display attention-grabbing headlines, important sales/marketing content, images, and even slider plugins as part of the page’s hero.

Above The Fold Optimization

The rate of content delivery for a website, and in particular the perceived speed experienced by the end-user on a mobile device, is at the heart of Google’s Core Web Vitals. Thus, passing Core Web Vitals inevitably leads to a delicate balance between good SEO, attention marketing, and page load times for a website owner.

To assist you with managing your website’s performance and optimization, our team introduced purpose-built tools and features for Avada that can make it possible for you to fine-tune your website’s performance on mobile & desktop.

Generate Critical CSS

Critical CSS is a convenient performance feature. You can enable Critical CSS by going to the Performance Wizard > Optimization tab. Once it has been enabled, you can access the Critical CSS page from the WordPress sidebar at Avada > Critical CSS or Maintenance > Critical CSS from the Avada Dashboard. Both take you to the Critical CSS page to generate Critical CSS for both pages and posts.

Critical CSS

Critical CSS is the CSS necessary to style the above-the-fold content. When generated for a page, it will be loaded into the page head, and the rest of the CSS styles moved to the footer, resulting in less render-blocking and a faster page load time.

Resources

Even with all of the performance options provided, Avada plays a lesser part than you might imagine when it comes to site optimization. Websites running Avada as the primary WordPress theme can be configured to optimize the layouts and structure that can lead to vastly improved page load scores. Still, ultimately, user content will principally dictate how fast and efficient your website will perform according to Google Core Web Vitals.

Color Palette

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The color palette selected for the Avada Campaign prebuilt website is a set of monochromatic colors, as seen above. If you would like to change the Avada Campaign color palette, this can be done within the options panel, as explained in this help file and video.

Color increases brand recognition, and it can influence people in how they feel about a website. Colors produce different emotions in people, making it essential to choose the right colors for your website. The balance of white space, contrast, and well thought out color schemes are vital elements of good web design. If you have not already decided on your brand colors, choosing a color palette for your website can be confusing. However, using a handy tool like the Adobe Color Wheel or any of the myriad of app choices online, you can undoubtedly make this task effortless.

We suggest checking out HubSpot’s article on color theory.

Typography

Website Typography can be more important than you realize, from your brand and user perspective to your website’s overall look and style. It is often underrated and is, in fact, an art form and technique in itself. The following HubSpot guide to website typography will give you some great insights into the do’s and dont’s choosing which fonts work best for your Avada website.

The Avada Website Builder has a vast array of Typography controls, options, and font selections to make your job easier. See this detailed help file and video to get you started.

Below are the fonts used for the Avada Campaign prebuilt website:

Headings

H1, H2, Font Family: Outfit
H3, H4, Font Family: Outfit
H5, H6, Font family: Outfit

Body

Font Family: Outfit

We suggest checking out HubSpot’s article on The Ultimate List of Web-Safe HTML and CSS Fonts.

To Get Started You Will Need The Following

To get started with the Avada Website Builder and to create your ideal website, there are a few things that you will need;

Recommended Plugins

What are recommended plugins, and do you need them? In short, it is not the end of the world if you choose not to install and activate the plugins used with any particular Avada prebuilt website. Let’s take the Avada Campaign prebuilt website as an example:

It is created as a WooCommerce focussed site, and therefore the WooCommerce plugin should be installed and activated at the point of installing the prebuilt site.

If you decide not to install the WooCommerce plugin, the full site will still be imported, but the eCommerce aspect will not be active. The following plugins have been used with the Avada Campaign website:

WooCommerce

The Events Calendar is 100% design integrated with the Avada WordPress Website Builder. The Events Calendar plugin offers a Pro version as well as a Free version. If you only want to use the Event Calendar plugin’s core features, then the free version will suffice. However, if you would like to receive premium events plugin support and additional features, then you can purchase the Pro version.

If you decide not to install the The Events Calendar plugin, the full site will still be imported, but the this aspect will not be active.

The Events Calendar

World-Class Support And Resources

Many facets set the Avada Website Builder apart from the competition. None more important is that Avada is not reliant on 3rd party builders and tools to deliver a stable and seamless website building experience. No waiting for external developers and toolset creators to deliver the next update for your theme. We take pride in the fact that Avada is 100% maintained, evolved, and developed according to strict WordPress and PHP coding standards. Avada gives you peace of mind and guarantees that what you have to work with will always be ahead of the latest industry requirements.

What is a Prebuilt Website?

Simply put, prebuilt websites are complete websites that have been designed and built to fit an industry niche. Each website comprises pages, posts, content layouts, images, or various media types representing or showcasing an online presence for a target audience or business type.

Avada prebuilt websites and prebuilt content layouts (individual page or post content, layout sections, Call-to-actions, etc.) are carefully crafted by our talented team of designers to give you, the Avada user, a way to save time when prototyping a new website.

Avada’s prebuilt websites are a fantastic resource for creativity and inspiration. They will make web design a more efficient and productive process for beginners, marketers, and professionals alike. Here are some essential facts:

  • They are created to save you time when building a new website.
  • A prebuilt website can be imported with a few clicks.
  • Each prebuilt website is mobile and SEO friendly.
  • Each prebuilt website is entirely customizable to suit your project and branding needs.
  • You can white-label any prebuilt website for client work.
  • Prebuilt websites are included with your purchase of the Avada Website Builder.
  • Each prebuilt website is optimized for performance.

Fast One-Click Install

Importing any Avada Prebuilt Website is as simple as clicking a button, with pre-import selections making it highly flexible. You can choose to import a full website (more than 109 to choose from) and parts of any other and anything in between. Choose pages, posts, portfolios, images, sliders, theme options, widgets, or uninstall as you prefer.

Avada Prebuilt Website Import

Website Structure

A page or post structure is divided into four main sections: the Header, the Page Title Bar, Content, and the Footer. With the Avada Website Builder, you can independently edit each of these sections to create super flexible and stunning layout designs.

Below is a list of the Avada Campaign pages and posts that have been prebuilt just for you. Once installed, you can change all aspects of each Layout, and at any time, add new pages to suit your online business needs.

Explaining Layouts & Layout Sections

Before we look at the specific Layouts on the Avada Campaign prebuilt website, the first thing to understand is the Layouts and Layout Sections’ architecture. You can think of Layouts as a container for the page content. In contrast, the actual content comes from the various Layout Sections. There are four Layout Sections on a page – the Header, Page Title Bar, Content, and Footer Layout Sections.

There is a default Global Layout, and any Layout Sections added to that will be shown on all pages of your website. There are Conditional Layouts with conditional logic to determine how the Layout will be used.

You can make as many Layouts and Layout Sections as you like, and you can use the Layout Sections in multiple Layouts. But you can only use a specific condition on a single Layout, so the theme knows which one to use.

See Understanding Layouts & Layout Sections and Understanding Conditional Layouts for more info.

Avada Layout Sections Legend

Explaining WordPress Pages vs. Posts

Website pages are allocated for static content such as your website’s homepage, about, contact page, and so on, and are timeless entities.

Website posts are allocated to blog content listed in reverse (newest to the oldest) chronological order and are timely. Older posts are archived based on month and year. You can also create content for custom post types or CPT. In Avada, an example of this is the Portfolio post type. Check out this detailed WordPress article for more information.

What Can I Change? Is the Design Flexible?

The Avada Campaign prebuilt website is exactly that, prebuilt, for you. If the design and style suit your website needs, you can use it as a starting point, and you can change as much or as little as you need to.

The most obvious details that you will want to change at first is the website’s wording, titles, color scheme, and images. You can choose to leave the overall layouts as is or Drag and Drop to rearrange the content’s order. Further to that, you can add or remove any of the Design Elements to fine-tune your preferred business narrative. In short, you can change every single aspect of the prebuilt website’s Layout and content.

Editing a page’s content and layouts is done using the Drag and Drop live editor or using the traditional back-end method. The first image below shows the Live visual Drag and Drop editor is used to edit the content:

Live Editor

The image below shows the traditional back-end method is used to edit the content:

Back-end Editing

A Side By Side Comparison (Builder vs. No Builder)

We have created a side by side point of reference that illustrates the differences in building a website using the Avada Website Builder to design custom Layouts vs. not using The Avada Website Builder and only using predefined options. The latter will allow you only to build a basic site, in comparison.

Exploring The Homepage Layout

Website pages are allocated for static content such as your website’s homepage, about, contact page, and so on, and are timeless entities.

Website posts are allocated to blog content listed in reverse (newest to the oldest) chronological order and are timely. Older posts are archived based on month and year. You can also create content for custom post types or CPT. In Avada, an example of this is the Portfolio post type. Check out this detailed WordPress article for more information.

The Header

For the Avada Campaign prebuilt website, the Header was created using the Avada Header Builder and is set globally across the website. This means that every page and post will use the same Header layout without any further conditions set. For example, you can change this if required by creating a unique Header layout for different pages or posts.

Avada Campaign Header

The Page Content

The content part of the homepage, the area between the Header and Footer, does not use a page title bar. You can change this page’s content in an infinite number of ways to best suit your business marketing and brand requirements.

Page and Post content is structured using Container and Column Elements, and if required, Nested Columns. Check out the help file links below for detailed information and videos explaining what they are and how to use them:

  • What are Containers, and how to use them? Read more here.
  • What are Columns, and how to use them? Read more here.
  • What are Nested Columns, and how to use them? Read more here.

The Hero

Avada Campaign Hero

Instead of using a traditional image slider, like the Avada Slider or Slider Revolution, as the above-the-fold hero section, this prebuilt site uses a Container with a Background Image. The container is structured using one 8% width Column for spacing, one 38% width Column holding a Button Element, a Title Element, a Text Block Element, and a Nested Columns Element.

Simply put, nested columns are columns within columns and this Nested Columns Element is structured with one 1/1 (100% width) Column holding two Button Elements.

This is followed by one 58% width Column holding a Nested Column Element. The Nested Columns Element is structured using one 1/1 (100% width) Column holding an Icon Element, two Text Block Elements, a Title Element, and an Image Element.

Political Banner

Avada Campaign Political Banner

This section was created using a Container structured with one 1/4 (25% width) Column holding an Icon Element and one 3/4 (75% width) Column with a Background Image, holding a Button Element and a Title Element.

Manifesto

Avada Campaign Manifesto

This section was created using a Container with one 2/5 (40% width) Column holding a Title Element and a Nested Columns Element and one 3/5 (60% width) Column holding Text Block Element and Button Element.

The Nested Columns Element is structured with one 1/6 (16.67% width Column holding an Icon Element and one 5/6 (83.33% width) Column holding a Title Element.

Missions

Avada Campaign Missions

This section was built using a Container with one 1/1 (100% width) Column holding a Text Block Element and a Title Element.

This is followed by three 1/3 (33.33% width) Columns, each containing an Image Element, a Section Separator Element, and a Nested Columns Element. The nested columns are structured with one 1/1 (100% width) Column holding an Icon Element, a Title Element, a Text Block Element, and a Button Element.

News Ticker

Avada Campaign News Ticker

This section was created using a Container with one 22% width Column holding a Title Element and one 78% width Column holding a News Ticker Element.

About Us

Avada Campaign About Us

This section was created using a Container with two 25% width Columns collectively holding three Image Elements, with one 4% width Column for spacing. This is followed by one 46% width Column holding two Text Block Elements, a Title Element, a Button Element, and a Nested Columns Element.

The Nested Columns Element is structured with two 14% width Columns each holding an Icon Element and two 30% width Columns each holding a Title Element and a Text Block Element.

Video

Avada Campaign Video

This section was created using a Container with a Video Background and one 3/5 (60% width) Column holding an Icon Element, a Title Element, and a Text Block Element.

Join Our Campaign

Avada Campaign Join Our Campaign

This section was created using a Container with one 1/3 (33.33% width) Column holding a Title Element, one 1/2 (50% width) Columns holding a Text Block Element, and one 1/6 (16.67% width) Column holding an Icon Element.

This is followed by one 1/1 (100% width) Column holding an Avada Forms Element. The Form Builder is very flexible and allows you to create many types of forms that you can use on your Avada website. For any form that you create, you can add them to a page or post as a single instance or you can set the form to display globally across the website, which then allows you to manage one form. If a form is showing on all pages, for example, and you edit the form, the same changes show across all form instances.

Events & Volunteer Banner

Avada Campaign Events & Volunteer Banner

This section was created using a Container with one 60% width Column holding a Title Element, a Text Block Element, a Post Cards Element, a Separator Element, and a Button Element, as well as one 8% width Column used for spacing.

This is followed by one 32% width Column holding two Nested Columns Elements and an Image Element. Each Nested Columns Element holds one 1/1 (100% width) Columns collectively holding three Text Block Elements, two Title Elements, an Image Element, and a Button Element.

News Articles

Avada Campaign News Articles

This section was created using a Container with two 1/1 (100% width) Columns holding an Image Element, a Title Element, a Text Block Element, and a Post Cards Element.

This is followed by one 40% width Column holding an Image Element and one 60% width Column holding a Post Cards Element.

Call-to-Action

Avada Campaign CTA

This section was created using a Container with one 3/5 (60% width) Column holding two Text Block Elements and a Title Element and one 1/3 (33.33% width) Column holding a Button Element, a Text Block Element, and a Title Element.

A website footer aims to help visitors by providing appropriate information and navigation options at the bottom of website pages. Website footer design is underrated and more valuable to your website than you may think and is essential to the overall end-user experience. Three key points stand out, namely:

  • A footer should provide a website visitor with additional choices. If you want people to sign up for your mailing list, view a product demo, or contact you, inviting them at the end of a scroll is a compelling call to action.
  • A footer should create a path for continued engagement by including navigation links to products, services, or other parts of your website.
  • A footer can access essential information like ways to contact your company and customer services, privacy statements, and potential legal disclaimers.

For the Avada Campaign prebuilt website, the Footer was created using the Avada Footer Builder and this particular Footer content and Layout is set to display globally across the website. This means that every page and post will use the same Footer layout without any further conditions set. For example, you can change this if required by creating a unique Footer layout for different pages or posts. Let us take a closer look below:

Footer Content

Avada Campaign Footer

The Footer section is created using a Container holding multiple Columns. These Columns contain Title Elements, Text Block Elements, Menu Elements, Image Elements, an Avada Form Element, and a Social Links Element, with the use of Dynamic Data Options to display the website information.

In Summary

There are 109 Avada prebuilt websites to choose from, with more being added regularly. Our amazing design team created these prebuilt websites as a way to give you a head start when building your next website.

You can change the styling, Layouts, content as much or as little as you need to quickly adapt any individual prebuilt site to suit your chosen niche. Get started with the Avada Website Builder today and launch your business online; Fast.

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10 Mobile-Friendly Websites Built With Avada And WordPress https://avada.com/blog/10-mobile-friendly-websites-built-with-avada-and-wordpress/ https://avada.com/blog/10-mobile-friendly-websites-built-with-avada-and-wordpress/#respond Fri, 16 Aug 2024 07:12:57 +0000 https://theme-fusion.com/?p=735871

Designing and building a new website can seem complex, yet it is a lot simpler than you may think. Where do you start? Which platform would best suit your brand delivery and workflow?; these are common questions many people ask.

Look no further than Avada! As the #1 selling WordPress theme on the Themeforest marketplace for over 10 years, Avada offers a powerful and versatile platform for building your website. With its intuitive visual front-end design and editing tools, you can create beautiful websites quickly and easily.

Avada is a Website Builder for WordPress with flexible and intuitive website design tools that will empower you to create websites of any style. And the best part is that no coding knowledge is required. Whether you are a beginner, a marketer, or a professional, Avada will give you the confidence to manage your online store stress-free.

The 10 websites that are showcased in this article are popular prebuilt websites downloads. Avada’s prebuilt content and websites are fully customizable and adapted to suit any website type. Also, feel free to check out these 15 best Avada Corporate websites.

Overview

Avada Marketing Consultant

Avada Marketing Consultant

Avada Business Coach

Avada Business Coach

Avada Interior Design

Avada Interior Design

Summary

To get started designing your ideal website, there are a few things that you will need;

These prebuilt websites are designed as a way to give you a head start so that you will save time. You can change the styling, Layouts, and the content as much or as little as you need to quickly adapt any individual prebuilt site to suit your chosen niche. Get started with the Avada today and launch your business online; Fast.

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Avada Vape: Deconstructing a Prebuilt Website https://avada.com/blog/avada-vape-deconstructing-a-prebuilt-website/ https://avada.com/blog/avada-vape-deconstructing-a-prebuilt-website/#respond Thu, 01 Aug 2024 08:43:18 +0000 https://avada.com/blog//

Say hello to Avada Vape. This Avada prebuilt website is ideal for beginners, marketers, professionals, and anyone in between. Avada Vape can be imported at the click of a button and is highly flexible. Every aspect of the prebuilt website is easily customizable, and it can be adapted and branded to suit any business model or venture using the Avada Website Builder.

In this article, we will explore the header, footer, and homepage layouts that make up the overall website structure to explore how the Avada Website Builder is used to create successful websites. The Avada Vape article is a part of a deconstruction series and is the follow-on article that explores the Avada Portfolio prebuilt website. It is important to highlight that Avada gives you total design freedom to create unique layouts for your website that work, with the only limit being your imagination.

Overview

Styling and Features

Creating a style guide for your website will prove to be invaluable in the future. A style guide will help you to address usability, the user experience, design consistency, and online trends in an organized and consistent manner.

The Avada Website Builder has a vast array of features and styling options; however, you do not need to use all of them for your website, and this is where your style guide comes in. Decide upfront which styling options align with your brand and which design features are needed to make your website stand out.

Performance & Optimization

Optimizing your websites for page load speed can be a seemingly complex subject because so many different facets affect how fast a page loads. It can range from the server’s speed to the options and settings selected, right through to the type and amount of content and even the size of the images added to the page or post.

The Avada Performance Wizard

The Performance Wizard takes the guesswork out of how to best optimize your Avada website. To get you started you are presented with a step-by-step interface that will guide you through the process.

Performance Wizard Start Screen

What is important to note is that you should build your website first before running the Performance Wizard. Creating your website’s structure, placing design elements in situ, and formulating content ensures that the system has something to work with when searching for recommendations at each step of the process. The recommendations provided are for options that can be disabled or enabled to enhance overall performance.

  • Features
    Disable any features not used on the website, thereby reducing the amount of code that is loaded.

  • Avada Icons
    Scan your website for information about icons that are being used. You can also disable unused icon sets and discover how to optimize existing icons.

  • Avada Fonts/Typography
    Check which fonts are being loaded on your website and then optimize how those fonts are served. Fewer variants will mean fewer requests and, therefore, faster loading times.

  • Avada Elements
    Scan your website to discover which Design, Layout, and Form Elements are not used on the website. Disable unused Elements, thereby reducing the amount of code that is loaded.

  • Optimization
    Optimize how the website’s CSS and JS assets should be enqueued. These options can have a significant impact on the performance of the page load. However, some of these options can also break functionality if you use a caching plugin, so proceed with caution.

Above The Fold Optimization

“Above the fold” is the part of a webpage that is immediately visible on your desktop or mobile screen without scrolling down. Traditionally, this digital real estate is where most would choose to display attention-grabbing headlines, important sales/marketing content, images, and even slider plugins as part of the page’s hero.

Above The Fold Optimization

The rate of content delivery for a website, and in particular the perceived speed experienced by the end-user on a mobile device, is at the heart of Google’s Core Web Vitals. Thus, passing Core Web Vitals inevitably leads to a delicate balance between good SEO, attention marketing, and page load times for a website owner.

To assist you with managing your website’s performance and optimization, our team introduced purpose-built tools and features for Avada that can make it possible for you to fine-tune your website’s performance on mobile & desktop.

Generate Critical CSS

Critical CSS is a convenient performance feature. You can enable Critical CSS by going to the Performance Wizard > Optimization tab. Once it has been enabled, you can access the Critical CSS page from the WordPress sidebar at Avada > Critical CSS or Maintenance > Critical CSS from the Avada Dashboard. Both take you to the Critical CSS page to generate Critical CSS for both pages and posts.

Critical CSS

Critical CSS is the CSS necessary to style the above-the-fold content. When generated for a page, it will be loaded into the page head, and the rest of the CSS styles moved to the footer, resulting in less render-blocking and a faster page load time.

Resources

Even with all of the performance options provided, Avada plays a lesser part than you might imagine when it comes to site optimization. Websites running Avada as the primary WordPress theme can be configured to optimize the layouts and structure that can lead to vastly improved page load scores. Still, ultimately, user content will principally dictate how fast and efficient your website will perform according to Google Core Web Vitals.

Color Palette

#23f878
#05ad48
#ecf5ea
#23f878
#05ad48
#ecf5ea
#23f878
#05ad48
#ecf5ea

The color palette selected for the Avada Vape prebuilt website is a set of monochromatic colors, as seen above. If you would like to change the Avada Vape color palette, this can be done within the options panel, as explained in this help file and video.

Color increases brand recognition, and it can influence people in how they feel about a website. Colors produce different emotions in people, making it essential to choose the right colors for your website. The balance of white space, contrast, and well thought out color schemes are vital elements of good web design. If you have not already decided on your brand colors, choosing a color palette for your website can be confusing. However, using a handy tool like the Adobe Color Wheel or any of the myriad of app choices online, you can undoubtedly make this task effortless.

We suggest checking out HubSpot’s article on color theory.

Typography

Website Typography can be more important than you realize, from your brand and user perspective to your website’s overall look and style. It is often underrated and is, in fact, an art form and technique in itself. The following HubSpot guide to website typography will give you some great insights into the do’s and dont’s choosing which fonts work best for your Avada website.

The Avada Website Builder has a vast array of Typography controls, options, and font selections to make your job easier. See this detailed help file and video to get you started.

Below are the fonts used for the Avada Vape prebuilt website:

Headings

H1, H2, Font Family: Sofia Sans Semi Condensed
H3, H4, Font Family: Sofia Sans Semi Condensed
H5, H6, Font family: Sofia Sans Semi Condensed

Body

Font Family: Sofia Sans

We suggest checking out HubSpot’s article on The Ultimate List of Web-Safe HTML and CSS Fonts.

To Get Started You Will Need The Following

To get started with the Avada Website Builder and to create your ideal website, there are a few things that you will need;

Recommended Plugins

What are recommended plugins, and do you need them? In short, it is not the end of the world if you choose not to install and activate the plugins used with any particular Avada prebuilt website. Let’s take the Avada Vape prebuilt website as an example:

It is created as a WooCommerce focussed site, and therefore the WooCommerce plugin should be installed and activated at the point of installing the prebuilt site.

If you decide not to install the WooCommerce plugin, the full site will still be imported, but the eCommerce aspect will not be active. The following plugins have been used with the Avada Vape website:

WooCommerce

World-Class Support And Resources

Many facets set the Avada Website Builder apart from the competition. None more important is that Avada is not reliant on 3rd party builders and tools to deliver a stable and seamless website building experience. No waiting for external developers and toolset creators to deliver the next update for your theme. We take pride in the fact that Avada is 100% maintained, evolved, and developed according to strict WordPress and PHP coding standards. Avada gives you peace of mind and guarantees that what you have to work with will always be ahead of the latest industry requirements.

What is a Prebuilt Website?

Simply put, prebuilt websites are complete websites that have been designed and built to fit an industry niche. Each website comprises pages, posts, content layouts, images, or various media types representing or showcasing an online presence for a target audience or business type.

Avada prebuilt websites and prebuilt content layouts (individual page or post content, layout sections, Call-to-actions, etc.) are carefully crafted by our talented team of designers to give you, the Avada user, a way to save time when prototyping a new website.

Avada’s prebuilt websites are a fantastic resource for creativity and inspiration. They will make web design a more efficient and productive process for beginners, marketers, and professionals alike. Here are some essential facts:

  • They are created to save you time when building a new website.
  • A prebuilt website can be imported with a few clicks.
  • Each prebuilt website is mobile and SEO friendly.
  • Each prebuilt website is entirely customizable to suit your project and branding needs.
  • You can white-label any prebuilt website for client work.
  • Prebuilt websites are included with your purchase of the Avada Website Builder.
  • Each prebuilt website is optimized for performance.

Fast One-Click Install

Importing any Avada Prebuilt Website is as simple as clicking a button, with pre-import selections making it highly flexible. You can choose to import a full website (more than 109 to choose from) and parts of any other and anything in between. Choose pages, posts, portfolios, images, sliders, theme options, widgets, or uninstall as you prefer.

Avada Prebuilt Website Import

Website Structure

A page or post structure is divided into four main sections: the Header, the Page Title Bar, Content, and the Footer. With the Avada Website Builder, you can independently edit each of these sections to create super flexible and stunning layout designs.

Below is a list of the Avada Vape pages and posts that have been prebuilt just for you. Once installed, you can change all aspects of each Layout, and at any time, add new pages to suit your online business needs.

Explaining Layouts & Layout Sections

Before we look at the specific Layouts on the Avada Vape prebuilt website, the first thing to understand is the Layouts and Layout Sections’ architecture. You can think of Layouts as a container for the page content. In contrast, the actual content comes from the various Layout Sections. There are four Layout Sections on a page – the Header, Page Title Bar, Content, and Footer Layout Sections.

There is a default Global Layout, and any Layout Sections added to that will be shown on all pages of your website. There are Conditional Layouts with conditional logic to determine how the Layout will be used.

You can make as many Layouts and Layout Sections as you like, and you can use the Layout Sections in multiple Layouts. But you can only use a specific condition on a single Layout, so the theme knows which one to use.

See Understanding Layouts & Layout Sections and Understanding Conditional Layouts for more info.

Avada Layout Sections Legend

Explaining WordPress Pages vs. Posts

Website pages are allocated for static content such as your website’s homepage, about, contact page, and so on, and are timeless entities.

Website posts are allocated to blog content listed in reverse (newest to the oldest) chronological order and are timely. Older posts are archived based on month and year. You can also create content for custom post types or CPT. In Avada, an example of this is the Portfolio post type. Check out this detailed WordPress article for more information.

What Can I Change? Is the Design Flexible?

The Avada Vape prebuilt website is exactly that, prebuilt, for you. If the design and style suit your website needs, you can use it as a starting point, and you can change as much or as little as you need to.

The most obvious details that you will want to change at first is the website’s wording, titles, color scheme, and images. You can choose to leave the overall layouts as is or Drag and Drop to rearrange the content’s order. Further to that, you can add or remove any of the Design Elements to fine-tune your preferred business narrative. In short, you can change every single aspect of the prebuilt website’s Layout and content.

Editing a page’s content and layouts is done using the Drag and Drop live editor or using the traditional back-end method. The first image below shows the Live visual Drag and Drop editor is used to edit the content:

Live Editor

The image below shows the traditional back-end method is used to edit the content:

Back-end Editing

A Side By Side Comparison (Builder vs. No Builder)

We have created a side by side point of reference that illustrates the differences in building a website using the Avada Website Builder to design custom Layouts vs. not using The Avada Website Builder and only using predefined options. The latter will allow you only to build a basic site, in comparison.

Exploring The Homepage Layout

Website pages are allocated for static content such as your website’s homepage, about, contact page, and so on, and are timeless entities.

Website posts are allocated to blog content listed in reverse (newest to the oldest) chronological order and are timely. Older posts are archived based on month and year. You can also create content for custom post types or CPT. In Avada, an example of this is the Portfolio post type. Check out this detailed WordPress article for more information.

The Header

For the Avada Vape prebuilt website, the Header was created using the Avada Header Builder and is set globally across the website. This means that every page and post will use the same Header layout without any further conditions set. For example, you can change this if required by creating a unique Header layout for different pages or posts.

Avada Vape Header

The Page Content

The content part of the homepage, the area between the Header and Footer, does not use a page title bar. You can change this page’s content in an infinite number of ways to best suit your business marketing and brand requirements.

Page and Post content is structured using Container and Column Elements, and if required, Nested Columns. Check out the help file links below for detailed information and videos explaining what they are and how to use them:

  • What are Containers, and how to use them? Read more here.
  • What are Columns, and how to use them? Read more here.
  • What are Nested Columns, and how to use them? Read more here.

The Hero

Avada Vape Hero

Instead of using a traditional image slider, like the Avada Slider or Slider Revolution, as the above-the-fold hero section, this prebuilt site uses a Container with a Background Image. The container is structured using one 2/3 (33.33% width) Column holding two Title Elements, a Text Block Element, and a Button Element.

Banner

Avada Vape Banner

This section was created using a Container with one 1/1 (100% width) Column holding a Title Element.

Categories

Avada Vape Categories

This section was created using a Container with two 1/2 (50% width) Columns collectively holding a Title Element and a Button Element. This is followed by one 1/1 (100% width) Column holding a Post Cards Element.

More Information

Avada Vape More Information

This section was built using a Container with one 3/5 (60% width) Column holding two Title Elements and a Content Boxes Element. This is followed by one 2/5 (40% width) Column with a Background Image.

Latest Products

Avada Vape Latest Products

This section was created using a Container with one 1/1 (100% width) Column holding a Section Separator Element and two 1/2 (50% width) Column collectively holding a Title Element, a Text Block Element, and a Button Element.

This is followed by three 33.20% width column each containing a Post Cards Element and two 1px Columns for spacing on either side of the middle column

More Information

Avada Vape More Information 1

This section was created using using a Container with one 1/1 (100% width) Column holding a Section Separator Element. This is followed by three one 28% width Column holding an Image Element, a Title Element, and a Text Block Element; one 35% width Column holding an Image Element; and one 36.33% width Column holding a Title Element, a Text Block Element, and a Button Element.

Banner

Avada Vape More Information 1

This section was created using a Container with one 1/1 (100% width) Column holding a Title Element.

More Information

Avada Vape More Information 2

This section was created using a Container holding two 1/2 (50% width) Columns, The Left column holds a Title Element, and a Text Block Element and the right column has a Background Image.

This is followed by three 1/3 (33.33% width) Columns each containing an Icon Element, a Title Element, and a Text Block Element.

A website footer aims to help visitors by providing appropriate information and navigation options at the bottom of website pages. Website footer design is underrated and more valuable to your website than you may think and is essential to the overall end-user experience. Three key points stand out, namely:

  • A footer should provide a website visitor with additional choices. If you want people to sign up for your mailing list, view a product demo, or contact you, inviting them at the end of a scroll is a compelling call to action.
  • A footer should create a path for continued engagement by including navigation links to products, services, or other parts of your website.
  • A footer can access essential information like ways to contact your company and customer services, privacy statements, and potential legal disclaimers.

For the Avada Vape prebuilt website, the Footer was created using the Avada Footer Builder and this particular Footer content and Layout is set to display globally across the website. This means that every page and post will use the same Footer layout without any further conditions set. For example, you can change this if required by creating a unique Footer layout for different pages or posts. Let us take a closer look below:

Footer Content

Avada Vape Footer

The Footer section is created using a Container holding multiple Columns. These Columns contain an Image Element, six Title Elements, two Separator Elements, three Text Block Elements, a Menu Element, an Avada Form Element, and a Social Links Element, with the use of the Dynamic Data Options to display the website information.

In Summary

There are 109 Avada prebuilt websites to choose from, with more being added regularly. Our amazing design team created these prebuilt websites as a way to give you a head start when building your next website.

You can change the styling, Layouts, content as much or as little as you need to quickly adapt any individual prebuilt site to suit your chosen niche. Get started with the Avada Website Builder today and launch your business online; Fast.

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Are you looking for the best Portfolio website for WordPress? Or do you want to rebrand your existing website? Avada is a Website Builder for WordPress with flexible and intuitive website design tools that will empower you to create websites of any style. And the best part is that no coding knowledge is required. Whether you are a beginner, a marketer, or a professional, Avada will give you the confidence to manage your website stress-free.

The 10 websites that are showcased in this article are popular downloads in the Avada Portfolio category. Avada’s prebuilt content and websites are fully customizable and adapted to suit any website type. Also feel free to check out these 15 Corporate websites.

Overview

Avada Digital Agency

Avada Digital Agency

Avada Marketing Consultant

Avada Marketing Consultant

Avada Interior Design

Avada Interior Design

Summary

To get started designing your dream website there are a few things that you will need;

These prebuilt websites are created as a way to give you a head start. You can change the styling, Layouts, content as much or as little as you need to quickly adapt any individual prebuilt site to suit your chosen niche. Get started with the Avada today and launch your business online; Fast.

With your purchase of Avada, a host of resources are available for you to take advantage of. Resources include access to 109 professionally designed prebuilt websites, 450+ individual Avada Studio prebuilt content blocks, 200+ tutorial videos, 600+ help files, and a 24/7 world-class support team to assist and guide you.

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Are you looking for the best Education website for WordPress? Or do you want to rebrand your existing website? Avada is a Website Builder for WordPress with flexible and intuitive website design tools that will empower you to create websites of any style. And the best part is that no coding knowledge is required. Whether you are a beginner, a marketer, or a professional, Avada will give you the confidence to manage your website stress-free.

The 15 websites that are showcased in this article are popular downloads in the Avada Education category. Avada’s prebuilt content and websites are fully customizable and adapted to suit any website type. Also feel free to check out these 15 Creative websites.

Overview

Avada Business Coach

Avada Business Coach

Summary

To get started designing your dream website there are a few things that you will need;

These prebuilt websites are created as a way to give you a head start. You can change the styling, Layouts, content as much or as little as you need to quickly adapt any individual prebuilt site to suit your chosen niche. Get started with the Avada today and launch your business online; Fast.

With your purchase of Avada, a host of resources are available for you to take advantage of. Resources include access to 109 professionally designed prebuilt websites, 450+ individual Avada Studio prebuilt content blocks, 200+ tutorial videos, 600+ help files, and a 24/7 world-class support team to assist and guide you.

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Avada Portfolio: Deconstructing a Prebuilt Website https://avada.com/blog/avada-portfolio-deconstructing-a-prebuilt-website/ https://avada.com/blog/avada-portfolio-deconstructing-a-prebuilt-website/#respond Wed, 10 Jul 2024 12:36:57 +0000 https://avada.com/blog//

Say hello to Avada Portfolio. This Avada prebuilt website is ideal for beginners, marketers, professionals, and anyone in between. Avada Portfolio can be imported at the click of a button and is highly flexible. Every aspect of the prebuilt website is easily customizable, and it can be adapted and branded to suit any business model or venture using the Avada Website Builder.

In this article, we will explore the header, footer, and homepage layouts that make up the overall website structure to explore how the Avada Website Builder is used to create successful websites. The Avada Portfolio article is a part of a deconstruction series and is the follow-on article that explores the Avada Investment prebuilt website. It is important to highlight that Avada gives you total design freedom to create unique layouts for your website that work, with the only limit being your imagination.

Overview

Styling and Features

Creating a style guide for your website will prove to be invaluable in the future. A style guide will help you to address usability, the user experience, design consistency, and online trends in an organized and consistent manner.

The Avada Website Builder has a vast array of features and styling options; however, you do not need to use all of them for your website, and this is where your style guide comes in. Decide upfront which styling options align with your brand and which design features are needed to make your website stand out.

Performance & Optimization

Optimizing your websites for page load speed can be a seemingly complex subject because so many different facets affect how fast a page loads. It can range from the server’s speed to the options and settings selected, right through to the type and amount of content and even the size of the images added to the page or post.

The Avada Performance Wizard

The Performance Wizard takes the guesswork out of how to best optimize your Avada website. To get you started you are presented with a step-by-step interface that will guide you through the process.

Performance Wizard Start Screen

What is important to note is that you should build your website first before running the Performance Wizard. Creating your website’s structure, placing design elements in situ, and formulating content ensures that the system has something to work with when searching for recommendations at each step of the process. The recommendations provided are for options that can be disabled or enabled to enhance overall performance.

  • Features
    Disable any features not used on the website, thereby reducing the amount of code that is loaded.

  • Avada Icons
    Scan your website for information about icons that are being used. You can also disable unused icon sets and discover how to optimize existing icons.

  • Avada Fonts/Typography
    Check which fonts are being loaded on your website and then optimize how those fonts are served. Fewer variants will mean fewer requests and, therefore, faster loading times.

  • Avada Elements
    Scan your website to discover which Design, Layout, and Form Elements are not used on the website. Disable unused Elements, thereby reducing the amount of code that is loaded.

  • Optimization
    Optimize how the website’s CSS and JS assets should be enqueued. These options can have a significant impact on the performance of the page load. However, some of these options can also break functionality if you use a caching plugin, so proceed with caution.

Above The Fold Optimization

“Above the fold” is the part of a webpage that is immediately visible on your desktop or mobile screen without scrolling down. Traditionally, this digital real estate is where most would choose to display attention-grabbing headlines, important sales/marketing content, images, and even slider plugins as part of the page’s hero.

Above The Fold Optimization

The rate of content delivery for a website, and in particular the perceived speed experienced by the end-user on a mobile device, is at the heart of Google’s Core Web Vitals. Thus, passing Core Web Vitals inevitably leads to a delicate balance between good SEO, attention marketing, and page load times for a website owner.

To assist you with managing your website’s performance and optimization, our team introduced purpose-built tools and features for Avada that can make it possible for you to fine-tune your website’s performance on mobile & desktop.

Generate Critical CSS

Critical CSS is a convenient performance feature. You can enable Critical CSS by going to the Performance Wizard > Optimization tab. Once it has been enabled, you can access the Critical CSS page from the WordPress sidebar at Avada > Critical CSS or Maintenance > Critical CSS from the Avada Dashboard. Both take you to the Critical CSS page to generate Critical CSS for both pages and posts.

Critical CSS

Critical CSS is the CSS necessary to style the above-the-fold content. When generated for a page, it will be loaded into the page head, and the rest of the CSS styles moved to the footer, resulting in less render-blocking and a faster page load time.

Resources

Even with all of the performance options provided, Avada plays a lesser part than you might imagine when it comes to site optimization. Websites running Avada as the primary WordPress theme can be configured to optimize the layouts and structure that can lead to vastly improved page load scores. Still, ultimately, user content will principally dictate how fast and efficient your website will perform according to Google Core Web Vitals.

Color Palette

#ff5d29
#666666
#e8dbe8
#ff5d29
#666666
#e8dbe8
#ff5d29
#666666
#e8dbe8

The color palette selected for the Avada Portfolio prebuilt website is a set of pastel colors, as seen above. If you would like to change the Avada Portfolio color palette, this can be done within the options panel, as explained in this help file and video.

Color increases brand recognition, and it can influence people in how they feel about a website. Colors produce different emotions in people, making it essential to choose the right colors for your website. The balance of white space, contrast, and well thought out color schemes are vital elements of good web design. If you have not already decided on your brand colors, choosing a color palette for your website can be confusing. However, using a handy tool like the Adobe Color Wheel or any of the myriad of app choices online, you can undoubtedly make this task effortless.

We suggest checking out HubSpot’s article on color theory.

Typography

Website Typography can be more important than you realize, from your brand and user perspective to your website’s overall look and style. It is often underrated and is, in fact, an art form and technique in itself. The following HubSpot guide to website typography will give you some great insights into the do’s and dont’s choosing which fonts work best for your Avada website.

The Avada Website Builder has a vast array of Typography controls, options, and font selections to make your job easier. See this detailed help file and video to get you started.

Below are the fonts used for the Avada Portfolio prebuilt website:

Headings

H1, H2, Font Family: Inter Tight
H3, H4, Font Family: Inter Tight
H5, H6, Font family: Inter Tight

Body

Font Family: Inter Tight

We suggest checking out HubSpot’s article on The Ultimate List of Web-Safe HTML and CSS Fonts.

To Get Started You Will Need The Following

To get started with the Avada Website Builder and to create your ideal website, there are a few things that you will need;

Recommended Plugins

What are recommended plugins, and do you need them? In short, it is not the end of the world if you choose not to install and activate the plugins used with any particular Avada prebuilt website. Let’s take the Avada Portfolio prebuilt website as an example: This prebuilt website was built without using any of the Avada bundled plugins.

When an Avada prebuilt website is built without using bundled plugins, you can still install and activate any of them, should it be needed for your website. Any of the prebuilt websites can be modified to fit your project needs.

World-Class Support And Resources

Many facets set the Avada Website Builder apart from the competition. None more important is that Avada is not reliant on 3rd party builders and tools to deliver a stable and seamless website building experience. No waiting for external developers and toolset creators to deliver the next update for your theme. We take pride in the fact that Avada is 100% maintained, evolved, and developed according to strict WordPress and PHP coding standards. Avada gives you peace of mind and guarantees that what you have to work with will always be ahead of the latest industry requirements.

What is a Prebuilt Website?

Simply put, prebuilt websites are complete websites that have been designed and built to fit an industry niche. Each website comprises pages, posts, content layouts, images, or various media types representing or showcasing an online presence for a target audience or business type.

Avada prebuilt websites and prebuilt content layouts (individual page or post content, layout sections, Call-to-actions, etc.) are carefully crafted by our talented team of designers to give you, the Avada user, a way to save time when prototyping a new website.

Avada’s prebuilt websites are a fantastic resource for creativity and inspiration. They will make web design a more efficient and productive process for beginners, marketers, and professionals alike. Here are some essential facts:

  • They are created to save you time when building a new website.
  • A prebuilt website can be imported with a few clicks.
  • Each prebuilt website is mobile and SEO friendly.
  • Each prebuilt website is entirely customizable to suit your project and branding needs.
  • You can white-label any prebuilt website for client work.
  • Prebuilt websites are included with your purchase of the Avada Website Builder.
  • Each prebuilt website is optimized for performance.

Fast One-Click Install

Importing any Avada Prebuilt Website is as simple as clicking a button, with pre-import selections making it highly flexible. You can choose to import a full website (more than 109 to choose from) and parts of any other and anything in between. Choose pages, posts, portfolios, images, sliders, theme options, widgets, or uninstall as you prefer.

Avada Prebuilt Website Import

Website Structure

A page or post structure is divided into four main sections: the Header, the Page Title Bar, Content, and the Footer. With the Avada Website Builder, you can independently edit each of these sections to create super flexible and stunning layout designs.

Below is a list of the Avada Portfolio pages and posts that have been prebuilt just for you. Once installed, you can change all aspects of each Layout, and at any time, add new pages to suit your online business needs.

Explaining Layouts & Layout Sections

Before we look at the specific Layouts on the Avada Portfolio prebuilt website, the first thing to understand is the Layouts and Layout Sections’ architecture. You can think of Layouts as a container for the page content. In contrast, the actual content comes from the various Layout Sections. There are four Layout Sections on a page – the Header, Page Title Bar, Content, and Footer Layout Sections.

There is a default Global Layout, and any Layout Sections added to that will be shown on all pages of your website. There are Conditional Layouts with conditional logic to determine how the Layout will be used.

You can make as many Layouts and Layout Sections as you like, and you can use the Layout Sections in multiple Layouts. But you can only use a specific condition on a single Layout, so the theme knows which one to use.

See Understanding Layouts & Layout Sections and Understanding Conditional Layouts for more info.

Avada Layout Sections Legend

Explaining WordPress Pages vs. Posts

Website pages are allocated for static content such as your website’s homepage, about, contact page, and so on, and are timeless entities.

Website posts are allocated to blog content listed in reverse (newest to the oldest) chronological order and are timely. Older posts are archived based on month and year. You can also create content for custom post types or CPT. In Avada, an example of this is the Portfolio post type. Check out this detailed WordPress article for more information.

What Can I Change? Is the Design Flexible?

The Avada Portfolio prebuilt website is exactly that, prebuilt, for you. If the design and style suit your website needs, you can use it as a starting point, and you can change as much or as little as you need to.

The most obvious details that you will want to change at first is the website’s wording, titles, color scheme, and images. You can choose to leave the overall layouts as is or Drag and Drop to rearrange the content’s order. Further to that, you can add or remove any of the Design Elements to fine-tune your preferred business narrative. In short, you can change every single aspect of the prebuilt website’s Layout and content.

Editing a page’s content and layouts is done using the Drag and Drop live editor or using the traditional back-end method. The first image below shows the Live visual Drag and Drop editor is used to edit the content:

Live Editor

The image below shows the traditional back-end method is used to edit the content:

Back-end Editing

A Side By Side Comparison (Builder vs. No Builder)

We have created a side by side point of reference that illustrates the differences in building a website using the Avada Website Builder to design custom Layouts vs. not using The Avada Website Builder and only using predefined options. The latter will allow you only to build a basic site, in comparison.

Exploring The Homepage Layout

Website pages are allocated for static content such as your website’s homepage, about, contact page, and so on, and are timeless entities.

Website posts are allocated to blog content listed in reverse (newest to the oldest) chronological order and are timely. Older posts are archived based on month and year. You can also create content for custom post types or CPT. In Avada, an example of this is the Portfolio post type. Check out this detailed WordPress article for more information.

The Header

For the Avada Portfolio prebuilt website, the Header was created using the Avada Header Builder and is set globally across the website. This means that every page and post will use the same Header layout without any further conditions set. For example, you can change this if required by creating a unique Header layout for different pages or posts.

The Page Content

The content part of the homepage, the area between the Header and Footer, does not use a page title bar. You can change this page’s content in an infinite number of ways to best suit your business marketing and brand requirements.

Page and Post content is structured using Container and Column Elements, and if required, Nested Columns. Check out the help file links below for detailed information and videos explaining what they are and how to use them:

  • What are Containers, and how to use them? Read more here.
  • What are Columns, and how to use them? Read more here.
  • What are Nested Columns, and how to use them? Read more here.

The Hero (Desktop)

Avada Portfolio Hero

Instead of using a traditional image slider, like the Avada Slider or Slider Revolution, as the above-the-fold hero section, this prebuilt site uses a Containers with one 1/1 (100% width) Column containing a Title Element and a Nested Columns Element.

Simply put, nested columns are columns within columns. This Nested Columns Element is structured holding one 42% width Column containing a Title Element and one 1/1 (100% width) Column containing a Button Element and a Title Element.

About

Avada Portfolio About

This pop-up opens from the Header in the sidebar. This section was created using the Off-Canvas builder. It consists of a Container that holds two 1/2 (50% width) Columns with the left containing an Icon Element and the right containing a Button Element.

This is followed by two 1/1 (100% width) Columns with each containing a Title Element and one 64% width column holding two Nested Columns Elements and one 32% width Column holding an Image Element and a Separator Element.

The first Nested columns Elements contains two 1/2 (50% width) Columns each containing a Title Element and a Text Block Element and the second column contains one 1/1 (100% width) Column containing an Image Carousal Element.

Services

Avada Portfolio Services

This pop-up opens from the Header in the sidebar. This section was created using the Off-Canvas builder. It consists of a Container which holds two 1/2 (50% width) Columns with the left containing an Icon Element and the right containing a Button Element.

This is followed by two 26% width Columns each holding a Title Element and a Nested Columns Element. The Nested Columns each contains one 1/1 (100% width) Column holding a Text Block Element and two 1/2 (50% width) Columns collectively holding two Title Elements and an Image Element.

This is continued with one 65% width Column containing five Nested Columns Elements. These Nested Columns are all structured with three 1/3 (33.33% width) Columns each containing two Title Elements, a Checklist Element, and an Image Element.

Projects

This section is located in the Global header as one 1/1 (100% width) Column within a Container, holding a Post Cards Element.

Newsroom

Avada Portfolio Newsroom

This pop-up opens from the Header in the sidebar. This section was created using the Off-Canvas builder. It consists of a Container which holds two 1/2 (50% width) Columns with the left containing an Icon Element and the right containing a Button Element.

This is followed by two 1/1 (100% width) Columns containing a Title Element and a Post Cards Element.

Book a call

Avada Portfolio Book A Call

This pop-up opens from the Header in the sidebar. This section was created using the Off-Canvas builder. It consists of a Container which holds two 1/2 (50% width) Columns with the left containing an Icon Element and the right containing a Button Element.

This is followed by two 32% width Columns each containing a Title Element and a Nested Columns Element that is structured with two 1/1 (100% width) Columns holding two Title Elements and a Menu Element.

This section continues with one 65% width Column holding a Title Element and the Avada Form Element.

A website footer aims to help visitors by providing appropriate information and navigation options at the bottom of website pages. Website footer design is underrated and more valuable to your website than you may think and is essential to the overall end-user experience. Three key points stand out, namely:

  • A footer should provide a website visitor with additional choices. If you want people to sign up for your mailing list, view a product demo, or contact you, inviting them at the end of a scroll is a compelling call to action.
  • A footer should create a path for continued engagement by including navigation links to products, services, or other parts of your website.
  • A footer can access essential information like ways to contact your company and customer services, privacy statements, and potential legal disclaimers.

For the Avada Portfolio prebuilt website, the Footer was created using the Avada Footer Builder and this particular Footer content and Layout is set to display globally across the website. This means that every page and post will use the same Footer layout without any further conditions set. For example, you can change this if required by creating a unique Footer layout for different pages or posts. Let us take a closer look below:

Footer Content

Avada Portfolio Footer

The Footer section is created using a Container holding one 1/1 (100% width) Column containing two Title Elements with the use of the Dynamic Data Options to display the website information.

In Summary

There are 109 Avada prebuilt websites to choose from, with more being added regularly. Our amazing design team created these prebuilt websites as a way to give you a head start when building your next website.

You can change the styling, Layouts, content as much or as little as you need to quickly adapt any individual prebuilt site to suit your chosen niche. Get started with the Avada Website Builder today and launch your business online; Fast.

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One of WordPress’s key features is its taxonomies, which are also known as categories and tags. WordPress categories and tags are assigned to posts, not pages, and an intrinsic feature of the category and tag system is to help you keep your posts organized. Organization is essential for bloggers who release a lot of long-form content online. However, you can also create custom taxonomies or use advanced options for distinct purposes — like organizing an eCommerce store built with WooCommerce.

Think of taxonomies as a digital filing system. They help you keep everything in its place, make it easier for your audience to find what they’re looking for, and give your website a structured SEO boost. Let’s explore how to use and manage WordPress categories and tags correctly.

Overview

A Brief History of WordPress

WordPress is an open-source Content Management System (CMS) that powers nearly 45% of all websites on the Internet. It was founded by Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little in 2003 with the idea of democratizing and simplifying publishing for the masses. WordPress started off as an easy-to-use blogging system that is suitable even for content authors with little to no technical knowledge of publishing content on the Internet.

Categories and tags are critical components of the WordPress CMS, helping you manage search engine optimization (SEO), as well as the general hierarchical structure of websites.

What are WordPress Categories and Tags?

Categories and Tags are two default WordPress taxonomies. While both categories and tags help organize content, categories are used to group topics. In contrast, tags are more keyword-specific and can group posts under different categories.

Understanding categories and tags is important before rushing to create them. The Category and Tag management pages are located in the WordPress Dashboard under the Posts menu in the sidebar.

WordPress Taxonomies

From their respective pages, you can view any items that exist on your website, as well as create new ones. Each category and tag has a name, a slug, and an optional description. The name is visible to your readers when a category or tag is displayed on your website. At the same time, the slug is used in the URL (permalink) for category or tag pages.

WordPress Category Slug

You can assign tags and categories to any post from the Add New Post screen or the post-management page after creating a post.

If your WordPress theme supports them, which Avada does, the description will be displayed to your readers on your category or tag archive pages, which we will cover in more detail next.

What Are WordPress Category and Tag Archives?

A WordPress archive page is an automatically generated page that lists posts in the same category, tag, written by the same author, published around the same time, and so on. Category and tag archives are unique types of archive pages that group and display posts based explicitly on the categories and tags assigned to them. These archives help organize content, making it easier for visitors to find related posts.

Because the archive pages are automatically generated (style and layout), customizing the layout traditionally required using a WordPress child theme, knowledge of PHP, and then modifying the archive.php file. Thankfully, WordPress and Website Builders like Avada have moved well away from complicated restrictions like this.

With Avada, you can create fully Custom Archives Layouts for an enhanced user experience and a unique style that better matches your website’s brand and marketing goals. For each Custom Archive Layout, you can assign Layout Sections, each with a unique header, page title bar, content, or footer, using Avada Conditional Layouts to assign and manage where and when the layouts should be used. Check the Avada Restaurant prebuilt website and, more specifically, the blog post news archive. You will see an Avada Custom Archive Layout in use.

Avada Restaurant News Category

Check out this help file and tutorial video to learn more about creating and using Avada Custom Archives Layouts.

The Difference Between Categories and Tags

Before we dive into categories and tags in more detail, here is a rundown of their main features and differences to help you get a quick overview of their purpose and what they can do:

  • Categories organize or group your content by topic
  • Tags describe your content, highlighting the key elements of a post
  • Categories are hierarchical and can have sub-categories
  • Tags are flat with no sub-tags
  • Both have their own archive pages displaying all the content from each tag or category
  • Posts generally only have one or two categories, but can have many more tags
  • At least one category is required for each post, however tags are optional

Imagine you have a blog with three main categories: Destinations, Food, and Lifestyle. By using tags like “Beach,” “Healthy,” and “Family-Friendly,” you can make it easy for your readers to find related content across these categories.

For example, someone looking for beach-related content can find posts about the best beach vacation spots under Destinations, recipes for beach picnics under Food, and tips on beach fashion under Lifestyle. Someone interested in health can find posts about wellness retreats under Destinations, healthy recipes under Food, and articles on maintaining a healthy lifestyle under Lifestyle. Similarly, a reader searching for family-friendly content can discover posts about family vacation spots under Destinations, child-friendly recipes under Food, and tips for family activities under Lifestyle.

This way, tags help to connect your content, making it easier for readers to explore all related posts across different categories, providing a seamless and enjoyable experience on your blog.

How to Create And Manage WordPress Categories or Tags

To ensure you are familiar with this aspect of WordPress, let’s briefly look at where you will find them in your website’s WordPress Admin area and how to manage them before we cover how to use them most effectively.

The category and tag management pages are located under the Posts menu on the sidebar. Below is a step-by-step overview of how to create and assign categories or tags.

Step 1: Access The WordPress Dashboard

To log in to the WordPress Dashboard, type your website’s full URL followed by /wp-admin or /wp-login.php in the browser address bar.

Step 2: How To Add Categories

Navigate to Posts > Categories in the dashboard. In the “Add New Category” section, enter the name of your category, optionally set a “Slug” (a URL-friendly version of the category name), and if creating a subcategory, select a parent category from the “Parent Category” dropdown. You can also add a description if needed (this is optional and often depends on your theme).

You can now click the Add New Category button to save it.

Step 3: How To Add Tags

Go to Posts > Tags in the dashboard. In the “Add New Tag” section, enter the name of your tag, optionally set a “Slug,” and add a description if needed (optional).

You can now click the Add New Tag button to save it.

Step 4: Assigning Categories and Tags to a Post

To assign categories and tags to a post, create a new post by going to Posts > Add New or edit an existing post. On the right-hand side of the post editor, you’ll find the “Categories” box where you can check the relevant categories for your post and add a new category directly from this box if needed.

Below the “Categories” box is the “Tags” box, where you can enter your tags separated by commas and press Enter or select from your most used tags.

Step 5: Click to Save The Post

Once you’ve assigned the appropriate categories and tags, click Publish if it’s a new post or Update if you’re editing an existing post to ensure your changes are saved and visible on your website.

Step 6: Review and Organize Regularly

it is good practice to periodically review your categories and tags to ensure they remain relevant and organized. To review categories, go to Posts > Categories to see all your categories and edit them if necessary. Similarly, go to Posts > Tags to see and manage all your tags, keeping your site content well-organized and easy to navigate.

Why Does Your Website Need Categories and Tags?

Simply put, it is because they are essential for organization, user experience, and SEO. Categories provide broad groupings of your posts, creating a structured hierarchy that makes managing and navigating your content accessible. Tags offer specific details about each post, acting like keywords that help link related content across different categories. 

This organization improves the user experience by making it easier for visitors to find and explore related topics, keeping them engaged for more extended periods. Additionally, search engines use categories and tags to better understand and index your website content, improving the website’s structured SEO and making your content more discoverable when searching.

SEO Best Practice For Categories Add Tags

People often ask which is best for SEO, categories, or tags. We will briefly overview some best practices for organizing your content with categories and tags and how this can impact SEO rankings.

Know The Difference

Categories are intended to broadly group your posts, similar to a Table of Contents (ToC) of a website. Conversely, Tags intend to describe specific details regarding posts and allow you to micro-categorize your post content. Note that tags are not hierarchical.

Keep It Simple

Avoid overcomplicating your categories and tags. Stick to a few well-chosen categories that cover your site’s main topics and use specific, relevant tags. Too many categories or tags can confuse readers and dilute their effectiveness.

Consistency is Key

Use a consistent naming convention for your categories and tags. Apply them consistently across all your posts. This helps with SEO and makes your site look more professional and user-friendly.

Update Regularly

Periodically review and update your categories and tags to ensure they still fit your content. As your site grows, you may need to merge similar tags, create new categories for emerging topics, or reorganize existing ones to reflect your content better.

Use Descriptions

Adding descriptions to your categories and tags can provide additional context for search engines, enhancing your SEO. While not always visible to readers, these descriptions help search engines understand the content and relevance of your categories and tags.

Interlink your Content

Use tags to interlink related posts across different categories. This helps users find related content easily and improves your site’s internal linking structure, which is beneficial for SEO.

Summary

Armed with some helpful information, you can now start fully utilizing categories and tags to make your WordPress website more accessible for your readers to navigate. This will help them find more of your great content and spend longer on it. Mastering categories and tags can help your website achieve its objectives more effectively, whether that is greater user engagement, selling more products, better promoting your services, or generating more ad revenue.

In addition, categories and tags will facilitate the website’s SEO, making your content more discoverable online. Keep it simple, be consistent, and regularly maintain your categories and tags to keep your site organized and engaging.

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