Switched tools this week from a free rather minimal theme, woocommerce in the store and Beaver Builder to build out our pages to an all-in-one theme called flatsome. It was getting super tedious trying to flesh out individual pages and get the store looking decent with pure html/css. While do-able, working with a theme and a particularly good drag and drop editor has been nice. In particular, styling the default woo-commerce out-put is a bit troubling, having a theme default that looks reasonable is definitely a timesaver.
http://flatsome3.uxthemes.com/
Their drag and drop ux builder is really light-years ahead of beaver-builder, which i was somewhat surprised by as beaver-builder I believe maintains higher popularity... probably because it's basic level is free and it was one of the first. Editing a bit of php will maybe be necessary to add some container borders and there's plenty of custom css to write but yeah... better tool, easier time fleshing out the whole thing.
We decided we needed a more streamlined look and needed to flesh out a few examples which was WAY easier with templates and a better UX tool, basically spent a day creating wireframes of the main page to give our client choices. I think leslie put up pictures in her submission so I won't include them here.
Attached is a piece of the editing tool where they make a few thousand importable templates available you can bring in and edit in their drag and drop editor... convenient :).
![[paper clip]](/cours/static/images/paper_clip_tilt.png)
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