I use the Elementor plugin for my portfolio website and then spend a lot of time edititng the settings and CSS though trial and error to get the look I want. My skills are mostly beginner, possibly intermediate at best.
Lately I feel like my site design is very chunky. I spent a fair amount of time on my home page, but all the other pages feel like boxy because I’m limited by Elementor’s stackable grid format. I was wondering what the downside would be to designing my site as larger spreads in Affinity Designer (essentially InDesign) and then eporting them as PNGs to be imported to my site. Would the files just be too large to import? It would be nice to have a little more freedom with my designs instead of just boxes without the need to learn to code an entire page. I understand I’d loose some interactivity, but it might be a fair trade for having a page that flows better from a design standpoint. I know there are other sites that have more flexibility but I’m trying to save money since it’s just a place to share my portfolio for now and not bringing in revenue. If anyone has some suggesions on how to make WordPress a little more flexible, it would be really helpful.
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Individual images would be better for SEO if you are talking about gallery type spreads. Have you tried using columns or even a masonry grid with differently sized images?