The Pixel Jar Blog

Menus are a fundamental component of a website. Users expect to be able to use a menu to navigate through your website. Menus come in many different shapes and sizes, but most follow similar patterns. There are several CSS features that can improve menu usability. Take the following menu: This is a pretty standard pattern…

Web design and web development are two halves of a successful site. We often have clients that are uninspired by the appearance of their site. If these projects don’t include a custom design solution, clients often struggle with web design inspiration. We have a few tools that we rely on to break through this “designer’s…

Responsive design is key to making sure your website looks great regardless of the viewing device size. If you’re using Beaver Builder for your site design, you can easily customize your responsive settings. Standard Responsive Sizes Responsive design has been around long enough that some standard breakpoints have developed. However, as devices and user behaviors…

One thing that’s often overlooked when talking about Beaver Builder is accessing column settings. You’re probably familiar with Beaver Builder’s row settings. Rows are the paradigm for the page building process the plugin uses. However, while not as evident from a visual standpoint, the settings for columns are equally robust. Accessing Column Settings in Modules…

I know. It doesn’t make sense. How can a single day last a whole week? Much like Hanukkah, it’s a holiday miracle! Starting on Black Friday, November 29th, passing through Cyber Monday, and extending through Friday, December 6th, we’re offering an incredible 40% off of AdSanity and all of AdSanity’s Pro Add-Ons, and 40% off…

For this post, we’re going to leverage a real-world example of how we optimize conversions. As you may know, along with the client work that makes up the core of Pixel Jar’s services, we also sell some premium WordPress plugins. Today we’re going to look at how we’ve focused on AdSanity conversions and what we’ve…

Creating custom responsive behaviors with Beaver Builder is a snap. In this post, we’re going to look at Beaver Builder responsive headers and a good method for managing content between breakpoints. Beaver Themer is the Key to a Responsive Header Beaver Builder is a powerful tool and you’re able to create a lot of flexible…

We’re often asked about the differences between the WordPress editor versus the Beaver Builder editor. New users to Beaver Builder are often trying to draw a correlation to the classic editor that they’ve used for years and the way that Beaver Builder handles content. They’re more alike than you think and this post takes a…

Microservices: Imagine that your application (for example, your WordPress site) is broken into smaller services (i.e. microservice). Each service handles one part of your application’s operation. One service might only handle the authentication of users. Another service might handle the comment system. Yet another service might handle the routing of web pages. All of these…