1. What are the strengths? Things you found useful, fun, applicable?
- One can master it when enough time has been put in
- The target audience is for people who are beginners in web development that will eventually switch to coding
2. What are the weaknesses? Things you found could be improved, challenging, not useful?
Man, this time around I had way less fun playing around with it. Last assignment everything was new. This assignment, I don’t know what changed. I spent a total of 4 hours using Divi. I spent the first hour painfully trying to learn the tool. It ended up deleting everything on my page which I wasn’t too fussy about because I was going to redesign it anyways. Anyhow, in that first hour, it was buggy, it was harder to learn than the first time, and it was not that fun to learn. The second and third hour was way less painful because once you learn the tool it’s fine. However, I found that Divi builder was really shallow (which isn’t necessarily bad, it just depends on who you are). When I was finished I clicked publish on the bottom right and then the site reloaded and it was blank. All my progress was gone. I have little to no patience left for this tool. I put something up but it isn’t nearly as great as the design prior. Also, a lot of the features just don’t work on my site that I added. I believe last time I gave Divi builder 6/10, I am now changing that to a 3/10. Could be great, could improve your site a bit, but it is just not useful to the majority of the population.
3. How can this plugin be used in a classroom setting to enhance student learning? Would you use it and/or recommend it?
- As a troll
- Expand creativity
- I can’t come up with a third reason
This is just never going to be useful in its current state. In 4 years, if it is still getting updates then maybe. But I would not want to touch this for the next 2 years. I also didn’t mention all the bugs I ran into. I had one every 5 minutes and I had to refresh the page or something else. In conclusion, I am more of a hardware guy than software so I might be biased. Still, I would be fine to never use this again.