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hey there folks

Would be awesome with PWA option for the pagebuilder too

just logged in to see a pwa button on my dashboard ...so in one word to sum up my excitement WWIIIIIIIWAWUWAAAAAAAA hihi this is amazing

@Wassim so awesome that PWA is being added to the list A lot of confusion out there about what it actually entails though: To be a true PWA it of course has to be downloadable to homescreens. One thing about that though is that you only get one shot - if the user hits "ignore" then they won't be prompted again, so it would be awesome if the prompt could be a button which the user can click when or if they want to download it. Secondly and surprisingly ignored by many devs who claim that their app is pwa is offline capabilities. That's where the serviceworker comes into play. Usually when you read or learn about PWA they speak of 3 pillars and offline capabilities is one of the pillars:

1. can be downloaded to homescreens
2. reliable regardless of network connectivity
3. fast as lightning, which I suspect we all dream of

https://developers.google.com/web/ilt/pwa/introduction-to-progressive-web-app-architectures

just thought I would mention this I will be soooooo looking forward to the feature, it will blow client's minds

Hey there @Lora-Alexander .)

I read that google did a core update in December which could affect ranking so might be this what you are experiencing? As a first step I would go through the page titles (see the last paragraph in my answer) If you have something like "the best" or "the most valuable" in your titles, anywhere, then this is now frowned upon by Google. I know this is so frustrating and they spring these kinds of updates on all of us out of the blue, but perhaps minor updates to your titles might do the trick

On December 3rd, Google’s Search Liaison wrote on Twitter:
“Later today, we are releasing a broad core algorithm update, as we do several times per year. It is called the December 2020 Core Update.”

First, Google has continued to stress the importance of the E-A-T principle. Specifically, that content has Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness.

• Expertise: Are you or the author of your content an expert on what you are writing about? If so, make sure you signal this to Google and your readers. Include links to LinkedIn or a bio, mention why you are qualified to write about this topic. Where possible show real facts, numbers, and or data and link to the source. Also, ensure that your writing is top notch and is long enough to fully educate the visitor on the topic. Thin/short articles, especially those lacking Expertise signals, are likely to be viewed unfavorably by Google after this update.

• Authoritativeness: Is your website relevant and an authoritative voice about the topic you are ranking for? For instance, a dentist’s website with an article about “used cars” is not going to be as authoritative as a car dealer’s article about “used cars”. Your authority comes from how Google sees your website. Do you have a lot of high-quality backlinks from other authoritative websites in the space/industry that you are trying to rank for? It is unlikely a dentist would have a lot of car websites linking to his website, while a car dealership probably is mentioned in numerous car forums and directories.

• Trustworthiness: Is your website and/or checkout process secure? Do you have hidden text or links? Does it appear that your website is much more interested in collecting a person’s name and email over providing any real substantive value to them as a visitor. We’ve all seen these types of websites where there are tons of ads and banners and pop-ups but not much real value. Make sure you are not overdoing it and instead focus on providing maximum value and 100% trustworthiness.

Last, Google seems to be getting tougher on page title’s appearing in search results that are overly exaggerated. For instance, if you Google “best plumber” and your title tag shows up in the search results as “World’s best plumber! Guaranteed the #1 cheapest and fastest!” you may be asking for trouble. Google won’t let its advertisers use text like that in ad titles, so it makes sense they won’t want every plumber in town calling themselves the “World’s best plumber”. Lead with facts and then support what you say in your content. Exaggeration appears to be a new negative when it comes to rankings.
@Wassim perhaps the team can plot in a little note on the appdrag SEO section so that people avoid getting into trouble with google for writing a title that is in conflict with their recent focus on title-writing? In May 2021 this change will be in full force so might as well get ahead of the curve

@ThomasD you read my mind I second vuejs. Svelte is cool but it's difficult to find info because it doesn'¨t have a large community. Reactjs is also interesting but more difficult to learn than vuejs and since vue3 there are some pretty interesting upgrades to it

Hey there Nico - one way to explain the difference is: with margin you move objects into place and with padding you squeece objects into place. Let's say you want to move a box from left to right or move the box slightly lower or higher on the page that necessitates that you adjust the margin, e.g. you want your box higher up on the page use minus values (-46 lets say) if you use + values (46) then you move the box down the page. Padding is very similar but rather than a clean move you are squeezing one or all edges of your box to fit into a certain place on your page which also makes your box/object to become smaller or larger - margins don't affect the actual size of an object...make sense? here is a good resource if you are unsure https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_boxmodel.asp

It would be awesome if there were some extra layout tools available in pagebuilder, e.g. the ability to add a custom amount of columns to a section and switching help-guides on and off so that we can organize the page-layout to our liking it would also be cool if we could manipulate the containers/sections e.g. to be contained or full screen and have some positioning available: relative, absolute, sticky, static

@Maciej-Bienkowski congrats on the site you did a good job️️ Here is my advise with regards to colour choice. I would perhaps choose one colour and use it e.g on buttons and the rest in Black and White. Then the colour pops out of the page and allows you to accentuate certain important things on your Page e. g. a call to action. Here's a fun and free resource for playing around with colours: color.adobe.com

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@Wassim hey there Wassim received the files, thanks a mil and will check them through and send back to you guys

Some much-deserved kudos to the Appdrag team. I REALLY appreciate the integrated image editor in the page-builder it saves OODLES of time editing images etc...nicely done!!!!!

@Joseph-Benguira oh my goodness thank you, Joseph, for the credits...so YOU are the mastermind behind OpenVM?? so time for a little RANT: this is soooo awesome I LOOOOOOOOVE this!!!! and there is even MongoDB and Postgres and my favourite headless cms of all times Strapi and ghost AND SEAAAARCH!!!!- be still my heart, life does NOT GET ANY BETTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :), sooooooooooooooo absolutely phenomenal!!!!!!!!!!
SO let us at em: how do we deploy, e.g. a next.js app with this bad boy? I am working on the next.js mongodb app, can I host it on openVM? AND I have a next.js website ready to rock Are there some docs that I can take a sneak peak at ?

coooooooooooooool still learning there is so much functionality out of the box so it might take me a while to get it all thanks @Joseph-Benguira

@Joseph-Benguira thanks a mil Joseph deleted and all is well

Hey there Wassim - that is SO PHENOMENALLY AWESOME!!!!!! I haven't as of yet played around with the code editor, but am actually working on a vue project offline and would love to get it up and running on Appdrag is there any documentation around I can take a look at?

Hey there folks I was wondering if you might consider adding the possibility to add custom animations to the pagebuilder? e.g. lottie? some pretty snazzy hamburger menu effects are on there for free it would be super duper cool because if you look around the web it's all the rage custom hamburger menu effects, e.g. triggering off canvas menu and custom cursors and the likes. if you're into after effects then it has a plugin that allows to make custom vector animations too

@Neil-Ambikar Have you tried grammarly?

Hey there folks hope all is well? does anyone here know how to add geolocation info to the database - is it float? or is there a better/optimized way?
thanks in advance
Linda

thanks in advance
Linda

+3 on this -very handy if you have a large amount of images

@Maciej-Bienkowski
ah yes what a messy response you got...was fighting with my mobile auto-correct and on top of that managed to place a text holder lol my apologies.
from a UX perspective (user experience) negative space is just as important as the use of space. (here's a little article on that matter, but just google negative space in web design and you'll probably find tons of info ) Keeping the importance of negative space in mind I would perhaps reduce your shadowing and/or colours and only use them for something that you REALLY want your user to take notice of. That will make the element POP out at us and we will take extra notice cause our eyes automatically stop at something which is different.
https://passion.digital/blog/what-is-negative-space/#:~:text=Also known as 'white space,or background on the page.
You can CERTAINLY use several colours. The trick is to keep colours within the same family of colours (typically referred to as hue) If you however want to make it easy I would recommend that you stick to just one accent colour because having a complex colour scheme might be quite a hand-full even for the best of designers.
The resource I sent you (the adobe page) will help, you can even upload your logo and the tool will generate a colour scheme from it because as general rule of thumb website colours are very often chosen from the logo. the adobe thing was just an example, there are probably a ton of resources if you google web design colours or something like that

With regards to whether you should should have a black or white background on your menu. I went to your site to check it out but cannot see the menu item. Perhaps you are working on it?
oops just saw sceenshot.
black can be very funky especially if you don't go with a pure black. Your logo is metallic gold isn't it? I personally wouldn't bring black into the mix also. Either have a white background or flat out go all in and invert the entire page to a subtle off black and then have your text in off-white. An alternative which I typically make use of is to have a transparent header - your text and logo are then placed on top of an image and if you give your image a darker overlay and give your navbarlinks a lighter colour then it all looks nice

@Daniel-Mulroy thank you so much for this🤩...hope it didnt disturb your work flow you're in luck, am on windows so once I get up and running I'll let you know