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Update Website Builder like/better than Elementor!

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Ben Baker

Everyone would benefit from an easy to use builder like Elementor Pro, this makes the process of rapidly building client websites super easy and even novice clients and VAs could manage it easily and make edits to it. No more hard coding inline styles, add awesome section breaks, Hero Slider and support for Video Backgrounds! This is a NEED, not a want. Bonus points if able to rapidly generate seo landing pages based off [short-code-tags] ;-) I would gladly offer up a wordpress / elementor pro dev environment for GHL devs to go in a scope it all out!

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May 27, 2020

Raji Kelly

Builder is nowhere close to how Elementor is; not sure why this is marked complete.. The builder is still choppy, no Global styling, limited widgets, Ecom store customizability as far as the builder goes is limited and cluncky, no custom fonts available, no text animations, you can't even utilize multi colors on text only limited to changing colors for: Color, Bold Text Color, Italic Text, Underline, Link Text, and Icon Text; again super limited would like to choose any color I want for any text, the list goes on...we need this ticket to be reopened again, I repeat builder does not come close to Elementor nor does it feel that way. 
I personally was hoping for a overhaul on the builder, not minior UI updates, we don't feel confident moving our entire business over to GHL from our current white label solution, no matter the fancy features GHL has, websites/funnels are crucial for any business data speaks for itself. 
Our current white label solution may not have everything GHL has, but we are easily able to patch in other platforms and use them just fine and not compromise on amazing site building capabilites. 
Despite everything I said, GHL is a great software, we would like to migrate our entire business over to this platform, but features that are out now should be ironed out before releasing many other new features that sound cool but don't function well and site builder is one of those features that needs major ironing.
Hopefully you guys will go back to the drawing board and redo this one again please! P.S. even with new site speed updates you guys have pushed, no matter what I do, our current White label outperforms GHL sites in every test we did, every image is compressed, we don't use heavy code on our site builds, fonts are Google fonts so it's accessible, mobile optimized, images have defined widths and heights and nothing, GHL still can't pull through.
Keep in mind our test subjects are identical sites we have already built out from what we already have on our current white label solution. so nothing is different. We replicated our test sites not missing any details, and the results from GHL's end are disappointing on both GTmetrix and on Pagespeed.
Please reopen the ticket!!

Sales & Marketing

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New builder is LIVE on Labs with all the exciting features

Jason K Williamson

Sales & Marketing: isnt in my labs

Jordan Parker

Sales & Marketing: This is the new UI of the website builder. There are no new features in it.
(unless there's ANOTHER update that we don't know about and actually made the site builder modern and added all the missing things)
This isn't a closed ticket.

JP Hogbin

Sales & Marketing: Have a look at the video on https://www.learnworlds.com/website-builder/ - colour switcher and section library. If the page builder was something more like what they are demo'ing in their video we could stop using WordPress.

Marisa Amirian

Sales & Marketing: where?

Dave Smith

Sales & Marketing: I don't have it visible in my labs, just the version that was in labs a few months ago.....

Please, please, please don't tell me that is it! If it is, I have just been forced to create all future website on anything but GHL. I just can't use the new UI as it is terrible and super glitchy.

Tiyana Robinson

Sales & Marketing: I don't see it either. Hopefully, this is something new and not just the UI that was already released. There are several things that still need improvement.

Blake Butcher

Sales & Marketing: Is this really 'Complete'? How is there not an option for "Font Weight" among many other features? Am I missing something?

Tjark Veltrup

JP Hogbin: we definetly need a section libary with fresh and modern templates! Also animations would be great

Mohamed Eldegla

Sales & Marketing:

The current builder lacks essential features that are considered a must-have in any modern page builder. It is recommended to add the missing features and improve the existing ones. Please ensure that the core effective improvements are not overlooked while working on the user interface.

Yanick Webster

I'm not sure Elementor has this, but it would also be nice to adjust the opacity of the existing color and see it change dynamically/ live as we are moving the slider, versus having to go into a color selector, pick from that little section, and hope that we get the right color/ gradation/ opacity, etc.

Mohamed Eldegla

I agree with the original poster that having an easy-to-use builder like Elementor Pro would be a game-changer for GHL. It would be awesome if GHL could integrate with Elementor Pro or create something similar that would allow us to build beautiful and functional websites and funnels without coding or using WordPress. This would save us time, money, and hassle, and make our clients happier. Please GHL, make this happen!

Tjark Veltrup

We definetly need a better builder. This is the most crucial part IMO. When i look at builder even in all in marekting softwares like Builderall- GHL is way behind. I love the software and think it is really capable but we need a better builder and enhanced UI oveall.

Ed Erickson

emphasis on better than elementor

Virginia Scheuer

Showit.com has the best example of this. 
It’s the ability to have 8 dots around an element to resize any of the objects. Drag and drop to be able to move a section or row anywhere on the screen. 
https://www.loom.com/share/511c1506e42e4ae69add96199b4d587a

Diego Lucero

Virginia Scheuer: showit.com is not ideal for SEO, as it is not semantic, and likely mostly things like absolute positioning

Ryan Jenkins

Coming from Thrive Architect, the new builder is... very disappointing.

Ed Erickson

Ryan Jenkins: Coming from Thrive, pretty much the only way to go is down. "Disappointing" is sugar-coating it.

Sales & Marketing

We have just launched Brand new funnel builder (Phase 1 and 2) which consists of UI and Layout update with new editor, layers and other features. More phases are coming very soon which will include lot of exciting features. To use the new builder, please visit labs and turn on the toggle for Brand New funnel builder. For more details, please take a look: https://highlevel.canny.io/changelog/brand-new-funnel-builder-is-live-in-labs

Benjamin Rutledge

Sales & Marketing, I really hope that the minor UI updates that were just introduced into the labs aren't the updated website builder...there still isn't the ability to have independent styles for mobile and desktop without duplicating the entire element. Media queries were introduced into CSS 21 years ago, yet GHL still doesn't have them in its web builder. Please, please tell me there is a lot more coming than what just rolled out in the labs section!

Level Up Suite (Agency)

Benjamin Rutledge: Not to mention CSS grid & Flexbox without having to manually code would be very nice

Sales & Marketing

Benjamin Rutledge: We have just launched Phase 1 and 2 of the builder which consists of UI and Layout update with few minor features. But this will help us in brining new features in an efficient manner. With upcoming phases, you will see many more new features coming soon. You can take a look at the changelog where these things are mentioned here: https://highlevel.canny.io/changelog/brand-new-funnel-builder-is-live-in-labs

JP Hogbin

Sales & Marketing: Is there a list of upcoming features that are planned? This was just a UI update - are there functional updates coming that will bring it closer to the level of codeless page builders that are common in the market now?

Lisa Hines

Sales & Marketing: the new funnel builder is crap! You flipped the element styler to the right instead of being on the left. The floating text styling bar gets in the way, can't be closed, nor docked up top. The lag time is ridiculous from typing to text appearing. I still don't see the capabilities of adding video background, nor an audio player, or a simple social media icons element. I hope it gets better before it's final release date. Please?

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