Between a graphic design tool and a coding one, this block builders are the response to the ever growing market of website builders Saas.

That’s the trend at the moment and I’m happy that wp also took this direction.

I wanted to use Elementor for more than a year before I felt confident enough to express an opinion. This is a tool that when is not properly configured can give you a lot troubles with performance and compatibility.

With the proper setup instead it can really become:

The best tool for a UX designer

Elementor can be a design tool that goes beyond prototyping, it gives you a live website developed visually, but following already all the rules required to be in a web browser.

Here there is a video of a design to staging conversion that I made with Elementor:

The conversion took in total 2 hours, not every step was easy to find. So again if need the normal speed video I’ll be happy to provide it.

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Gestione WP: Come bloccare un sito WordPress

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Gestione WP: Verifica: Plugin Sicurezza

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Second, I’m glad to tell you that finally I bought a motor bike, an old and classy enduro bike, date of matriculation: 17th February ’89, this date kicked me hard when I read it on the papers, but in the end this “Date with destiny” was the trigger to my decision. The bike’s engine works like a charm, but there are still a lot of fixes and improvements to make. So wish me luck and to be able to follow my own “jokey laws”.

The last week I spoke about keeping the move going, it’s good for your mental health. So now lets say that you had your break, a little pause to the “game of the fixes” that now have to end. What to do next?

4. Work around.

Working around is like improvisation, it requires practice and attitude.

There are mainly tree ways I work around problems:

1. The long way: I try to get back in time to the breaking point, I erase the broken part, and then I rebuild it with a new code, even if it may be less efficient and ordered. It takes long but often this technique overrides the bug in the code, the bug i wasn’t able to find.
2. The other way: (personally the one I prefer) Instead of spending time and efforts on fixing the issue I try to figure out something similar but better, It’s a trick, but it’s really energy saving in the end. The hardest part after you found the trick it’s always to convince your customer/user that that change is an improvement. So be sure to not play dirty, it really have to be a better way.
3. The short way: Indeed the short way is also the 5th rule because of its importance, so catch you up next week for this.

P.S. I don’t think that there is a good translation in my native language for: “Work around”. Something like “Girarci attorno” maybe, but it doesn’t gives you the same amount of significance.

See you next week!

Niccolo’

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Don’t stare at me with that look, I’m not your life coach and I know it sounds really obvious.

Also, I know that in the previous post I promised you that the third law would have talked about “working around stuff”, but after a week I’ve changed my mind and I’ve decided that this topic should come first. That’s because dynamism have always been very important to me, it saved me from many headaches.

Cool off anyway, I’m no sportsman, so I’m not talking about physical exercise, listen up:

3. Keep moving.

Very simple, no?

The biggest errors that I’ve made in my life were errors made while stuck, mentally stuck. It’s not a strange kind of black magic, it’s simply because the moment when you get stuck is also the moment when you start to feel frustrated. As a human I feel better or at least more optimistic when I see improvements. In the first rule we learned that errors could prove useful, but reiterating an error over and over is simply being stuck.

It happens a lot of times: while facing an issue on a website you feel like blocked, it’s because you don’t get any satisfaction as any solution at all. So you hit over and over on the same damn button.

Keep moving it’s always a better way to approach the problem, while looking for solutions you can slow down but you can’t stop. If you feel forced to stop you get angry and you quickly lose energy and concentration.

How to keep moving? How to avoid the empasse?

If you tried everything then you didn’t tried doing nothing at all.

Sometimes it’s better when you start feeling stuck, to pause, take a breath, and do nothing about the issue at all. It may sound as an excuse, but it’s not if it is your own decision and will.  This doesn’t mean that you should sit and watch the ceiling. This means that you can slow down, watch around and start to do something else, something that gives you a bit of satisfaction.

It’s easier to balance while moving, as I said, it’s obvious.

Here’s a list of activity I love to do, to avoid the “Rat in a cage” feeling:

1. Call a friend on the phone
2. Work on an easy task
3. Write a blog post ;)
4. Have a coffee
5. Go for a little walk
6. Go out and wash the car

Simple things, that gets you distracted. We tend to underestimate the power of distraction. It helps in seeing the problem from another point of view, it helps in finding something new to try out.

Again it helps you in your path to find “maybe” a work around. Speaking of which it will be the next topic, I hope…

See you next week,

Niccolo’

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