If you log in to your WordPress site and find things don’t look the way you expected, relax. Since early 2015, I’ve built most new GiteWise sites using a design theme called Divi.
You’ll know if your site is built with Divi because when you go to edit a page or post, you’ll see something like this:
I appreciate this can be a little unnerving if you’ve worked with WordPress before and are used to seeing the page look more like this:
But, as you’ll soon discover, that familiar WordPress Editor screen isn’t too far away. A couple of clicks in the right place and you’ll feel more at home:
What Divi does is manage the content of your site by separating the page elements into customisable modules. It takes a bit of getting used to, but the advantages of this revolutionary approach to working with WordPress make it well worth the adjustment.
Why I chose to create your site with Divi
From a design point of view, Divi gives me the means to configure any part of your website just the way I want. And the freedom to develop a design knowing it will look good on any screen size – something which is increasingly important these days.
Other themes (the WordPress term for design framework) have limited options for page layouts and use shortcodes – which look like this: [one_half] – for layout customisation. They also have relatively fixed homepage layouts, so adding a panel or extra section to the home page usually involves messing around with code.
When I create a new site with Divi, I have far more control over the site’s design. This makes it much easier to add special features and restyle individual pages and sections – like changing the text from grey to white and introducing a background colour.
For a quick introduction to the basics of editing with Divi, see Getting to know the back end of your new website
Just posted new blog and it looked the same to me?
Your Hill Crest site was built the standard way. Your new site uses Divi.