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<\/p>\nHere at Futr Digital, when it comes to building out new websites for our clients, we have a few focus points that allow us to improve the speed of development, and decrease the cost to clients, whilst maintaining a high level of customisable options.<\/p>\n
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One of these focal points for us is developing somewhat of a key specialisation in a WordPress framework, to ensure we are as clued up and knowledgeable\u00a0as we can be on said framework, for the benefit of our clients and the growth of Futr. Over close to a decade I have been using X by the wonderful te<\/p>\n
am at\u00a0Themeco<\/a> for the vast majority of sites I’ve built for many reasons, which I will likely go into in another blog post down the track, but a few key features per below:<\/p>\n X has, and will continue to be.. shall we say.. the ‘cornerstone’ of our boutique agency here at Futr. *ba-dum, ching!*<\/p>\n Then, as we continue to receive regular updates to X from Themeco, we noticed there was a bit of a longer delay between awesome upgrades. There wasn’t too much of a stress from my end, as I knew we were in very capable hands with the team at Themeco. After a bit more of a wait, an announcement was made by the team that a significant change was about to take place with X..\u00a0and that’s where I got super excited.<\/p>\n A few more months down the track, and we hit April 2017, and voil\u00e0, Pro was announced! Unbeknownst to the vast majority of X users, Themeco had not only upgraded ‘X’ as it stood, but had created a completely brand new, super-improved framework for WordPress that utilised much of the same functionality and approach as X, but with a bunch of new features. Essentially Pro is X on website steroids. And we’re feelin’ the pump!<\/p>\n Essentially, the heart of Pro is about introducing several new interconnected builders and advanced features. The header and footer builders give us unprecedented control over these very important parts of websites… the header and footer!<\/p>\n Instead\u00a0of there just being some theme-type options to choose from, Themeco has developed inbuilt functionality to allow us to create almost any type of complex header or footer layout that we so desire – all within the Pro framework. This is a game changer.<\/strong> It basically gives us almost complete customisation functionality for headers and footers – without the necessity, time spent, and expense of ‘ground-up’ custom development.<\/p>\n Multi-sticky bars that interact with visitors on scroll events, flexbox layouts for footer columns that adjust constantly based on window size, interaction button animation, and more, and more. This type of functionality you usually only find on high-end, very expensive websites. Not anymore.<\/p>\n We’re now able to build out headers and footers in a very similar way, with very similar customisable options, that we have when building out website pages.\u00a0This means an entire new library of Elements from navigation to buttons to toggles to off-canvas content and more.<\/p>\n We now have much more powerful native control over headers on footers using Flexbox controls – with the\u00a0ability to manipulate each Element in a truly unlimited number of ways, you will quickly discover that Pro is not just a solution with new \u201cfeatures,\u201d it is a digital canvas.<\/p>\n Pro is unlike anything I have utilised before for website design and development. It feels like its the beginning of something a lot bigger that’s in the pipeline from Themeco.. think the new Header and Footer customisation options and functionality, but across the entire framework and site – Pages, Posts, Portfolio entries, eCommerce, and more..<\/p>\n I’m absolutely addicted to Pro now, and am furiously working through the new features to learn up and pass this increased knowledge and skill onto client’s websites moving forward.<\/p>\n\n
The Key Improvement – Headers & Footers<\/h5>\n
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