[Free] Website Build-Along: Beaver Jams
A fun way to use WordPress – Free Course
What you’ll learn
- Learn how to use the Beaver Builder Page Builder
- Learn how to use the Beaver Builder Theme
- Learn how to get design inspiration from other people’s websites
- Bonus Video: How to setup hosting and DNS
Requirements
- No experience is needed
Description
Lesson Overview
Explore our WordPress Theme and Page Builder Plugin as we build a website together. The site flaunts a rock n’ roll motif with a homepage design that is inspired by a popular music publishing company. Turn your site building beaver power up to 11 with the Beaver Jams website Build-Along.
Adding Placeholder Content
In this lesson we are going to add some content to our site so we can see the stylistic changes we will be making in the customizer.
Create 6 new pages: Homepage, Services, About, History, Core Values and Contact (00:19)
Create a menu and add pages to the menu (00:40)
Add lorem ipsum text to the homepage (01:47)
Add headings to the placeholder text (02:30)
Add links to the placeholder text (02:42)
Add a button to the homepage (03:08)
Customizer Settings
This video shows how to dial in customizer settings in the Beaver Builder Theme interface.
Settings > Homepage Settings (00:22)
General > Background (01:11)
General > Accent Color (link colors) (01:29)
General > Headings (01:45)
General > Text (02:10)
General > Buttons (02:31)
General > Social Links (03:05)
Header > Header Layout (03:34)
Header > Header Style (04:00)
Header > Header Logo (04:38)
Header > Nav Layout (05:20)
Header > Nav Style (05:47)
Content > Content Background (06:13)
Footer > Footer Style (06:33)
Footer > Footer Widgets (and additional unused tabs) (07:00)
Creating a Hero Header
In this video we will begin to build out our page content using the Beaver Builder Page Builder. The first element on our page is a hero header section.
Create a new row and dial in the row settings (00:47)
Add a background image to the row (01:04)
Select a font for the heading from Google Fonts (01:45)
Add a colored overlay to the row over the image (02:47)
Add a heading module to the row and stylize the heading (03:29)
Add a call to action using a heading module and button module (05:00)
Dial in the responsive layout settings (08:00)
Creating Testimonial Boxes
In this video we are going to utilize pre-built content to create testimonial boxes.
Embedding A Video
In this video we will embed a video onto our page.
Creating A Social Icon Row
In this video we will add a row of social icons to our page.
Author(s): Beaver Builder
