The Hidden Costs of Page Builders: What You Don’t See Is What They Get

Given at the WordPress Cape Town meetup (https://www.meetup.com/WordPress-Cape-Town/events/241266840/), with Deb Butler aka Startum Project

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2. The Hidden Costs of Page Builders: What You Don’t See Is What They Get Slides: naga.co.za/pb
3. Also: What They See Is Not What They Wanted
4. Also also: What You Do Now Will Change Later
6. On balance, Page Builders mean a less good site. We should use them a bit less.
7. We are not saying: never, ever, under any circumstances, use a Page Builder. They are evil.
8. We are saying: be aware of the potential costs. They can be not so good.
9. Steve Barnett FED & UX @maxbarners Deb Butler WordFED @startumproject
10. Development Design Changes
11. What we won’t be talking about Gutenburg, AI design, every single Page Builder
12. PageWhatNows?
13. Visual Composer
14. UX Builder (Flatsome)
15. Divi Builder
16. Page Builders! Page Builders? Page Builders.
17. What You Don’t See Is What They Get Development
18. Pro Don’t need to learn how to code
19. Con Do need to learn this thing
20. Con The code it makes is not so good.
21. Con Making responsive sites is (more) difficult
22. Con The code it makes combines content and presentation
23. What’s one thing you agree with? What one thing you disagree with?
24. What They See Is Not What They Wanted Design
25. Pro Look different from your competitors
26. Con Different isn’t always good
27. Con Lets not-designers do design
28. Pro Lots of options, things to pick from
29. Con Lots of options, things to pick from
30. What’s one thing you agree with? What one thing you disagree with?
31. What You Do Now Will Change Later Changes
32. Pro Freedom from developers, designers, (& more!)
33. Con Tricky to leave this Page Builder
34. Con Tricky to go back to regular WordPress
35. Con Updates can break things
36. What’s one thing you agree with? What one thing you disagree with?
37. Recap! Development Design Change
38. On balance, Page Builders mean a less good site. We should use them a bit less.
39. Page Builders! Page Builders? Page Builders.
40. Thank you! ✌ Questions? Slides: naga.co.za/pb
41. It depends! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯