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Web Design Agency owner. I hear about people using Gutenberg and element or all the time but never hear anything about Avada. It’s by far my favorite set of builder tools. I can essentially do anything I could ever dream of with this set of tools. Anyone else use it at all?
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Yes, built over 200 sites with it. The cream of the crop.
I’ve used Avada in the past. It’s a good traditional theme.
If you own an agency, IMO you owe it to your clients to produce as performant a website as possible. That’s where Gutenberg with Full Site Editing comes in.
You can build any block you want to, either natively or with ACFs hybrid native approach.
However, FSE does take some time to get used to developing for and it does take a little extra upfront to architect, build and setup. You need to have front end styles and editor styles (to render blocks in editor as you would see them on the front.)
So, if you don’t have clients paying $5k or less, it might be more economical for you to use Avada.
As a full time web dev, i avoid it at all costs. Not for the devs.
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I used it once. I have used most of the builders at one time or another.
I now typically use Kadence blocks.
Playing with it now for the first time on a client’s site. Enjoying it so far, and looking forward to doing something more involved with it, too.
I hate bloat and over complication in themes so use ACF Pro with flexible content and keep it very simple.
Giving customers too much rope to hang them selves with always ends up in them trying to be “creative” and ruining the website.
Flexible content still allows the customer to be creative but limiting them to using only the blocks you have designed, developed and tested for their website, so there shouldn’t be any surprises.
It’s also a lot less to support and provide training on.
I picked it up from Themeforest years ago. I took it for a spin recently, and although it has a lot of nice features, I always have to tweak it so it speeds up because it’s slow out of the box.