Hey everyone, I’m wondering if the community might be able to give me some tips on what direction I should go with page builders. First, let me list the types of pages I’m trying to build with some examples. I want to achieve an elegant, minimalist, clean look, with the types of animations, effects and menu types that you can see on these pages:
* [https://www.vinylagency.com/])
* [https://outofreach.nyc/])
* [http://gbmpn.me/])
* [https://amaliaboier.com/])
* [https://ryota-sato.com/])
I can take care of the clean, minimalist aesthetics, but what I ultimately want to be able to do is integrate the animations/effects that you can see on those sites. I’ve recently built a site using [Salient]), and for the most part, the elements provided by their theme allows me achieve quite a number of elegant animations, effects, off screen menu, etc. I’m happy with what they provide, for now, but I know that at some point I’m going to grow out of using their premade templates, as convenient as it is to do so.
I’ve been looking at Oxygen, but I’ve also read some good reviews about Bricks. The one time payment option that they offer is attractive to me, which is why I’m considering them, but I’m open to suggestions. There’s also Divi, but I’ve heard mixed reviews about it. Same goes for Elementor (also, they’re subscription based, which isn’t what I’m looking for at the moment).
I’m also aware of [Motion.Page]), and it looks like I should be able to use it with Oxygen/Bricks/etc. to integrate some of the animations I’d like to. Are there other similar ones that you like?
I’d love to hear your thoughts and recommendations. Thank you, if you made it down this far, and furthermore for your feedback!
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When using WordPress sites my go to builder has been oxygen for 3.5 years and motion.page for one year. They work great together. Motion.page is also nice because it’s not oxygen specific. You can use it with any page builder or just themes. It layers gsap animations on top of your pages. The reason why it’s so nice with oxygen is because oxygen automatically gives every element a unique id so you can animate by that id and not have animations with duplicate ids going crazy all over your site. I’m a bit biased as those are the only things I use anymore to build on wp but I come from elementor pro, brizzy, and wpbakery early days. Oxygen is like a breath of fresh air but I’m a bit sour still about the whole breakdance thing. Best of luck.
I get downvoted every time I say it, but Elementor is garbage. The code it puts out is awful, and it seems to demand so many ‘add-on’ plugins to get it working. Divi is also garbage. Both are over-built – they need a rewrite from the ground up to improve back and front-end speed, and improve code rendering. They also tie you in, because you can’t leave the theme without having to rebuild your whole site.
Bricks is great and can do a lot of ‘entrance’ animations. Get it while it’s a one-off payment, as this won’t last forever. But the animations are limited. However, there’s ways to get more…
I looked at [motion.page]) too – but I recently got Breakdance – it’s subscription, so no good for you – but it does have entrance (fade / bounce / zoom etc. once in view) and scrolling animations (change blur / scale / rotation / position etc. on scroll). I am so impressed with how much you can do, and how fast it remains. So thought I’d mention it. I don’t need [motion.page]) now – Breakdance can’t do everything, but more than enough.
But if you can afford Motion and Bricks – go for it. Bricks is a brilliant and light/fast builder – I use it for some sites and it’s only going to get better as it’s still young.