Hello to all,
only a report and short considerations.
We are making our new site with your theme and much personalized code for our needs; everything works well and optimization makes great results on speed and usability.
You can see the development at http://deb.radioradio.it (the content is real but test). The layout has yet to be decided, next week will be published at the definitive address radioradio.it.
We loved your work with the latest release (8) to create a native composer; In fact it’s even better than optimization and it seems to work fine.
Despite this, your composer is still missing some features, options, and widgets, very important for a modern and flexible layout.
For example, there are missing boxes, spoilers, accordion, tabs, icons, and other small items that sometimes seem useless, but contribute to the site’s appeal.
Then, very important, it is not possible to make (for example) a two-column (obviously responsive) page layout, or divide the contents of a column or row into n-columns; These are all things that can now be done with Visual Composer.
Still, you can not insert third-party shortcuts that are available in the text editor (probably depends on some incompatibility with the frontend editor).
Sometimes for a more general view, it is better to see the backend scheme (such as VC), which can not be done with td Composer.
We understand that in most cases you do not need to use these options / features, and may be harmful if someone is using them badly, but there are layout circumstances that need them.
For this reason, although we really enjoy your work, we prefer to stay in Visual Composer, hoping that in the forthcoming release, you can implement those features that are missing from your tdComposer today.
Thanks for your great work.
Fabio Duranti
Radio Radio Network – CEO
Hi,
Thank you for your appreciation of the theme. The developer team try their best to implement new features and options with every update.
Please note that the tagDiv composer is yet from being complete, or in a final stage. In coming updates more elements will be added to this builder exclusively. The elements you mention or similar ones may be added in these updates.
A two column layout is not possible with the tagDiv composer. I believe nothing will change in this regard, in the theme. This kind of layout is possible with Visual composer, but it was never recommended. Using the suggested row layouts ensures that your blocks will look and work perfectly.
The tagDiv composer is a front-end composer, a back-end view of the website structure is not possible. The editor is not meant to be a copy of Visual composer, try to think of it objectively.
You can still use Visual composer, if for the moment the tagDiv composer does not have the options you require for your website. You can make the transition at a later time, when you consider the time is right for you.
Thanks
Hi Simon,
Thank you for the reply.
I’m sure you will improve your composer, and that we can use it soon.
On the issue of the columns, I do not quite agree: the fact is that there may be occasions, on some pages, where the two columns can be useful.
I understand that the layout is designed to accommodate the default theme blocks, and therefore the structure is designed to work best, but in some cases it may be necessary to display the content differently (ie in two columns) without using the blocks.
For example, you can see our privacy page http://deb.radioradio.it/privacy/ with a large column at the bottom and two spoilers on two columns side by side for details, or the live radio page at http://deb.radioradio.it/diretta-radio/ with comments and live SMS messages on two columns.
All this works perfectly and is 100% responsive on all devices.
You could leave the publisher the ability to create the two columns (even within the content column) with the recommendation not to use theme blocks (only text and/or compatible content) and the warning that this would create viewing issues!
It would thus preserve every possibility for everyone.
Thanks for your attention.
Fabio Duranti
Radio Radio Network – CEO
Your native composer is a nice idea, but not yet ready for use. Most importantly: it strips Visual Composer layout elements, but then is not sufficiently customizable (e.g. has no 1/6 columns, only 1/3). Furthermore, I activated Visual composer for WP posts as well – now my posts layout is messed up, and td-composer doesn´t work with posts. Sorry guys, but had to go back to version 7.8.1.
We are using TD Composer on numerous high traffic news portals, and have been since it was in BETA. It works beautifully for us, once you wrangle the normal ajax usability stuff in browser. It allows us to make complex home page layouts quickly, simply, and make multiple draft layouts for testing/review, then go live with the version we choose — with low overhead, higher page speed (95 with no caching plugin), and much lower CPU/RAM use or system crashes from pokey Visual Composer.
For those of us who need lean “main features” and speed, it’s superbly awesome.
Thanks again, TagDiv team! Love it 🙂
We are programmers and we can say that TagDiv guys have done an excellent job; our tips are for improvement and to allow system usage to all needs.
The issue of columns is important, because in some sections of some pages you do not use theme blocks, but you may need to have different columns for custom textual or other content.
It takes time to fix these things and we are sure the team will solve everything.
Fabio Duranti
Radio Radio Network – CEO
FYI, what we did for a two column layout was simply use a full width block, then use normal CSS for two columns (we actually used a table 100% width, with two custom columns with a td width = 50% class). In our case we didn’t need to put modules or blocks in there (or widgets), but did use a shortcode in one, and normal plain HTML in the other.
However, yes, having a two column “row” for pure HTML would be helpful.
It would be useful (for example) to build a page with several lines (sections) with a first line with theme blocks and in the bottom section (row) two columns with text or other content (or shortcode), and still below (other row) other blocks or other.
This can now be done with Visual Composer, with no problem and all responsive.
This is just an example, and it must also be possible with tdComposer, to increase its great integrated system value, and the efficiency it has demonstrated.
Fabio Duranti
Radio Radio Network – CEO
i have to agree with storytraveller. i tried the tdComposer and while it can definitely be a replacement for Visual Composer, it still has long way to go.
While it may be already good for some, I believe that majority will have a hard time using it.
I will be waiting and monitoring its development and hopefully it’ll be ready soon.
I take advantage of the topic to signal another very important feature to implement in tdComposer: it is to be able to save block presets.
This is very important because, especially in publishing a newspaper, you need to recall a preset for a specific publication in a simple way.
Thank you again for your attention.
Fabio Duranti
Radio Radio Network – CEO
