
Build a beautiful portfolio site with a drag-and-drop web design tool, creating a three-page layout (home, about, contact) with services and projects and cover effects.
Install and activate Elementor, install and apply the Halo theme, and create a three-page portfolio site (home, about me, contact me) to start designing responsive WordPress websites.
Enable Elementor on a WordPress page, edit with Elementor, set the page layout to full width, save updates, and toggle light or dark theme in user preferences.
Learn the boxes concept in elemental, where a section acts as the large container and columns hold content, with elements like images, buttons, and text draggable into them.
Learn to customize elements in Elementor, exploring content, style, and advanced settings to adjust images, spacing, width, height, opacity, borders, shadows, and margins and padding.
Learn to design your first home page in Elementor by setting the page layout to full, adding a section with a single column, and setting the height to 600 pixels.
Learn to place content by dragging and dropping a haitink heading, adjust alignment to center, and customize text styling with color, typography, font, and size for a portfolio heading.
Add a background image to the section, insert media, and adjust its position with center alignment; choose default or cover, then apply a background overlay for readability.
Explore how to use dividers in Elementor to style text, adjust width, switch to double lines, set gaps, align center, and customize color for a stylish design.
Learn how inner sections in Elementor organize content with a box, a column, and another inner section containing two boxes to enable two-button layouts for more complex designs.
Learn to style two buttons in an Elementor layout by adjusting background and text color, border radius, padding, and the column gap, then duplicate and align them.
Create a three-column services section in Elementor using icon boxes, duplicate the title for efficiency, and style headings with dividers and centered alignment.
Customize the services in Elementor by changing background and text colors and icons, then duplicate items to create three services: web design, seo, and ux/ui, and adjust padding for spacing.
Create a responsive project section in Elementor by building a multi-column grid of project images, styling with shadows, borders, overlays, and a shape divider for readability and spacing.
Create a three-box counter section in Elementor, duplicate sections, update titles to experience, apply blue backgrounds with white text, and configure the counter element with custom numbers and spacing.
create the final section with a back-to-top button, featuring a one-column 300–350px panel, centered cover image, white 0.6 background, blue styled button with an icon, borders, and a shape divider.
Learn to name and link buttons in Elementor to guide users to the about me and contact me pages, and add a back-to-top button that jumps to a section.
Learn to build a contact me page in Elementor by creating a full-width, three-column section with a background image and white overlay, and adding a map and a responsive form.
Add a contact form to the contact page using an Elementor plugin, then integrate it into the design and adjust padding and height to balance the map with the form.
Learn to style a contact me page in Elementor by adjusting map column padding, adding a left border, and applying a bottom mountain shape divider for a clean, separated layout.
Save time and design faster by creating, saving, and inserting Elementor templates, blocks, and pages, then apply reusable designs to the about me page with easy customization.
Create a responsive about me page in Elementor for WordPress with a two-column layout featuring text and a rounded image, blue section color, white text, and skill progress bars.
Implement final home page adjustments by refining section spacing with extended gaps, replacing the placeholder with the real image, and increasing height to 800 and button padding.
Explore motion effects in Elementor to add animations that fade in elements from the left, right, or bottom as pages load, across home, projects, contact, and about sections.
Explore hover effects in Elementor, applying bob and hank animations to buttons and project items. See how background, border, and other properties respond to hover to make designs feel alive.
Master mobile responsiveness in Elementor web design by using responsive mode to tailor typography, buttons, and shape dividers for mobile without changing the desktop layout.
Adjust and optimize the contact me and about me pages for mobile by hiding lines, setting responsive height, and tuning padding and dividers, so the pages render cleanly on phones.
Learn to optimize the tablet view in Elementor by adjusting the 50/25/25 column layout and fixing lines for a responsive WordPress design.
Set up a static home page in WordPress by uploading the logo, customizing site identity, and selecting the designed home page before publishing.
Explore how Elementor enables you to build responsive WordPress websites and launch your web design career. Ask questions anytime to get the most from this course.
Hello, my name is Nikolai and I am Web Design teacher and practitioner.
Here in this course I'll be teaching you about Elementor and how to use it to make awesome looking websites easy, without needing to write any HTML or CSS.
We'll be using a free theme and the free version of Elementor to create an awesome portfolio website.
Elementor is a very powerful frontend tool to make websites and learning how to use it can be very beneficial.
With Elementor you'll be able to make all sorts of different custom designs by just drag and dropping elements and customizing them.
Elementor also has a huge variety of templates that can help you speed up the process of building websites.
The website that we'll be making will be a simple portfolio website with 3 pages.
I'll be teaching you how to make a beautiful homepage and also we'll be making contact me and about me page.
I'll show you how to make awesome looking buttons and beautiful sections with shape dividers that makes them stand out.
This course is perfect for complete Web Design beginners and if you wanna get in to Web Design, this course is perfect for you.
We'll start the course from a brand new installation of Wordpress with nothing on it and we'll be making the needed pages and study about the very basics of how Elementor works.
The design that we'll be making will be a very simple and minimalistic design that is perfect for beginners.