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How To Build A Product Carousel Loop In Divi 5

How To Build A Product Carousel Loop In Divi 5

November 2, 2025 in Design | 2 comments

Divi 5 continues to add features that make it easier to design right inside the builder. The Group Carousel Module is one of them. It lets you build swipeable carousels that slide smoothly into your layouts. You can use it to showcase products, highlight testimonials, or even create a fullscreen...

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What Is CSS Grid (& Why You Should Use It)

What Is CSS Grid (& Why You Should Use It)

October 15, 2025 in Design | 0 comments

Designing a layout involves placing boxes on a page and ensuring they remain aligned when the screen size changes. For years, that meant working around limitations — floats, manual spacing, or building everything in one direction. CSS Grid changes the game. Rows and columns function as a single...

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The Power Of Flexbox In Responsive Web Design

The Power Of Flexbox In Responsive Web Design

September 21, 2025 in Design | 2 comments

Traditional layout methods often break at smaller widths. Content misaligns, spacing collapses, and manual fixes pile up. Flexbox solves this by defining relationships instead of fixed positions. In Divi 5, these controls live in the Visual Builder, and the new Flexbox release makes alignment,...

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A Beginner’s Guide To Flexbox CSS Properties

A Beginner’s Guide To Flexbox CSS Properties

September 20, 2025 in Design | 1 comment

Good layout starts with a clear model for alignment and spacing. Flexbox provides that model by organizing content along a single axis with predictable control over direction, alignment, wrapping, and gap. This post covers the basics of these CSS properties and how they work together. After the...

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Flexbox vs CSS Grid: How Do They Compare?

Flexbox vs CSS Grid: How Do They Compare?

September 16, 2025 in Design | 1 comment

Flexbox and Grid are the two layout systems that define modern CSS. At first glance, they seem similar. Both handle rows and columns, manage alignment and spacing, and replace the old float-and-table workarounds. The real difference is in how they approach layout challenges and the kind of problems...

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What Is HSL And Why Designers Should Master It

What Is HSL And Why Designers Should Master It

August 23, 2025 in Design | 0 comments

Color is one of the most powerful tools in a designer’s toolkit, but working with traditional systems like hex and RGB can sometimes feel limiting. These formats work, but they don’t reflect how we actually see or think about color. Need a lighter shade or want to match saturation across...

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What Is Flexbox (And Why You Should Use It)

What Is Flexbox (And Why You Should Use It)

August 20, 2025 in Design | 0 comments

You can build clean sections all day, but aligning elements across every screen size can start to feel more like trial and error than intentional design. Flexbox fixes that. It gives you real control over how elements sit, stretch, shrink, and wrap inside a container, without constant adjusting of...

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Understanding Relative Colors In Web Design

Understanding Relative Colors In Web Design

August 16, 2025 in Design | 1 comment

In web design, even the simplest decisions can multiply. What starts as a single design choice quickly expands into dozens of visual variations for interactions, backgrounds, borders, and more. Your build can become cluttered with mismatched values and manual tweaks without a consistent...

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