Design beautiful sections for your website or use it as a page builder. Paint on its fluid blueprint system with no obstruction of rows and columns. Achieve your vision, smartly create HTML elements and fit them anywhere with a shortcode! Works for widgets, pages, posts, footer, header, wherever your theme permits shortcodes.
iDesign gives you:
What makes iDesign worth it?
“Users love it for it’s expressive quality and unmatched capacity for customization. This plugin doesn’t lock you in with a specific look. It offers you amazing flexibility of potential output.”
“Fans of metro, meet iDesign, king of metro!”
If you have creative ambitions for your website, other options will only get you by so far. When you ‘really’ want to start designing, step up to iDesign. It all comes down to two key advantages built into the DNA of iDesign:
PS – Want to know the best part? iDesign can also work with your current page builder to ensure that you get the best of both worlds!
Once upon a time every page builder came with rows and columns. Users had little flexibility when it came to positioning and sizing elements. Painful as these restrictions were, they had no other choice.
Then came iDesign, the only page builder with a fluid blueprint system that gave it’s users amazing flexibility while laying out their page elements.
Now freed from rows and columns its users could create far more creative layouts with ease. And that is how for those who tried iDesign other page builders became history.
iDesign was built ground up on new principles to bring an enhanced experience to the design builder genre with a single aim – make creative web design fun, intuitive and efficient like never before. Here is a canvas that fits in anywhere and brings to life amazing designs with splendid ease that blends work into play.
You can use this plugin for developing specific sections or visual elements that you require in your website. Or simply make it your new page builder to design awesome pages. It will even work alongside your current page builder if you need it to. iDesign is not fussy that way – just drop its shortcodes wherever your theme processes them normally and your designs will appear on your website, whether it’s in the footer, content area, widgets, sidebar, etc. You are welcome to browse iDesign’s vast array of presets here to get an idea of how refreshingly capable the plugin is at creating unique and requirement specific web design elements.
The plugin was created to give users immense designing power. With zero lines of code, and an intuitive user interface experience you’ll be able to create and visually integrate a wide variety of web elements such as:
Most importantly, you’ll be getting the means to conveniently create highly custom sections and pages that would simply not be possible otherwise without a cumbersome amount of coding. For the first time, you’ll do this without struggling with the tyranny of rows and columns and receive a vast amount of customization options and presets to jump start your projects!
You have the option of either manually entering content for your tiles or having them grab recent posts from your blog categories, custom post types, WooCommerce and pages. You can select multiple categories to display your blog posts and set the excerpt length, post offset among other options. The plugin will continue to grab content from the the latest posts in the categories page once you have chosen this option. This is great for creating post teasers and you also get the option of ajax pagination so that your readers can repopulate the tiles with older content by pressing the forward or backward buttons.
For non-programmers, and those keen on quick productivity, iDesign brings the amazing opportunity to conveniently build your web visions into reality without code and via an easy to use platform that facilitates creatively experimentation. It’s interface was created to remain newbie friendly and offers more and more power to advanced skills. Another great facility relevant here is iDesign’s vast array of presets that can be found here. These can be used to quickly jump start your projects, saving you time and energy by laying down the foundation, and to better understand the design capabilities of the plugin. iDesign offers easy and vast creative control over your web designs, and can be counted on time and again while you build various sections of your website. Mastering this tool means gaining incredible and easy creative control over your website and it can be counted on time and again while you build design elements for various sections of your website – be it the main content area, sidebar, widgets, footer – basically wherever your theme permits shortcodes without restrictions. In this way, iDesign helps you truly customize your website to your specific needs amd bring your web visions to reality.
iDesign is responsive right out of the box. It will adjust to the screen size, whether your viewers are using PCs, laptops, tablets or mobile devices, your designs will adapt to their screen sizes. To take things a step further, not only can you adjust responsive settings, you can also create entirely different designs and content for 3 different device categories – mobiles, PC and tablets. Simply enter the text device=”tablet/pc/mobile” inside your shortcode and you’ll find that the shortcode will only appear on the associated device. This is entirely optional in case you wish to give viewers different experiences across the different devices, which is recommended considering web traffic tends to have different behaviour across the device categories.
A solid presets system is at the heart of iDesign’s ability to provide you with great efficiency and ease of use. iDesign is already backed by a vast selection of presets, including sets and full page templates, covering a variety of purposes, and this selection will only continue to grow. Access the presets by heading over to the presets page here. These presets can be easily imported into your current projects and are a great way to jump start your designs. The “General Use” presets section offers a variety of handy presets you could often rely on to build typically required elements. But do not forget to check out the selection of “Custom Concepts” that showcase how unique your own designs could end up looking with the power offered by this plugin.
iDesign has been developed with a lot of care and deliberation as a high calibre WordPress tool to assist with the creation of beautiful and smart designs, and its success would be measured in terms of the output it helps its users create. If you would like to share your work developed with iDesign, please send a mail to idesignplugin@gmail.com. A five star rating from satisfied users would be much appreciated for the effort put into its development. However, if you face any issues with the plugin, or would like to provide suggestions to enhance it, you are most welcome to please write in at the same email address for prompt support.
v1.5 ------ - Fixed responsiveness issue with latest phones. Better slider performance on mobiles. v1.4 ------ Feature Enhancements: - Now you can give exact width and/or height to your designs by adding the width attribute to the shortcode, eg: [idesign id="15" width="200px"] - Enhanced mobile look - Enhanced iPad performance - Loading speed boost through combined js files - Option to delete designs via history page - Updated Font Awesome CSS link to the latest for all icons - Set's extended background now shows through transparent cells on blueprint - Option to exclude certain tiles from importing settings when automatically exporting a single tile's settingsto all other tiles in the set Bug Fixes: - Tooltip z-index raised - Error messages that were outputted if image did not exist - Set's background position error upon animation - Error upon cancelling move tiles then moving set v1.3 ------ Feature Enhancements: - Full width slider and grids - Custom screen size based dimension rules for sets - More styling options for full width background - New option to control image fitting: spill/contain - Link element's background color opacity and margin options - Switched Swing animation to much smarter Zoom In Bug Fixes: - Extra classes being added to some elements v1.2 ------ Feature Enhancements: - Ability to get content from parent pages and custom post types as well - Speeded up printing of large grids with images - CSS refinements - More information tooltips added in the admin panel for clarity Bug Fixes: - Blueprint cell size and gap will now be saved for future copy/edit - Cell row adding & subtracting icons align properly with different dimension cells - Fixed issue with shortcodes in the description element making the tile go blank v1.1 ------ Feature Enhancements: - Buttons to add or delete rows of cells anywhere on the blueprint - Modify domain names in URLS of images and links while importing database - Indexible shortcodes made available upon saving designs - Admin buttons minor visual enhancement - Save & Copy more prominent - 'Button' tile type's link now smartly centers upon image if there's no description element Bug Fixes: - Misc. CSS properties fixed - 'Mobile_Detect' error resolved - Set resize box now comes infront of set tooltip
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