Josh's blog
My collection of blogs, vlogs, recommendations videos and Elegant Themes blog series!
Josh’s Blogs & Vlogs
This is my growing collection of blogs, vlogs and videos with recommendations on Divi/WP tools, courses, plugins, etc along with personal web design related material.
Josh Hall’s Home Studio Gear and Equipment Setup
Have a home studio/office that you're looking to level up with better lighting, camera, sound, etc? To help you decide what gear is best for you, here's a complete look at my current home studio. We'll cover both budget friendly and advanced options for: What camera...
6 Books That Helped me Take my Web Design Business to 6-Figures
Why is it that so many successful business owners, entrepreneurs and CEO's often talk about the books that made the biggest impacts on them? It's because books are powerful. Very powerful. They are an inside window to someone's expertise, skills and life experience...
An Overview of my Web Design Courses
Interested in joining a course but not sure where to get started? No problem. Here is a brief overview of my current suite of 9 web design courses along with the path/order I recommend taking them. The order you may want to take a course or multiple courses in will...
Best Divi Facebook Groups to Join in 2020
Here are my recommendations on the best Divi Facebook Groups to Join in 2020. Over the past few years, there have been many articles mentioning groups to join (some linked below) and while many of those groups are still active, many aren't as engaged, maintained or...
Image File Types Explained
JPG, PNG, PDF, EPS, GIF, AI, SVG, PSD oh my... There are so many image file types but what the heck is the difference and which one should I use??? In this post, I'll give you a basic understanding and overview of image and graphic file types, formats and extensions....
My Top 6 Web Design Sales Tips
I've been fortunate to sell a lot of websites for nearly a decade (to this point.) In this video + free eBook, I'm dishing out my Top 6 Web Design Sales Tips! All are explained in more detail along with call-to-actions in the eBook but in short, my tips are:You Gotta...
10 Lessons Learned in 10 Years of Self Employment
10 years ago (March of 2009), I got laid off from my job as a cabinet maker. I began working jobs on the side to cover bills and soon after, started into the wild world of graphic and web design. Thus began my journey into self employment which I have not looked back...
Behind The Scenes – Making a Course
Welcome to my first ever vlog style documentary where I'm bringing you behind the scenes during the making of a course! This video contains footage condensed over 10 days where I planned, structured, wrote, recorded, built and launched my Divi/WordPress Beginners...
Best Form Builder Plugins for WordPress
Choosing a form builder plugin for your Wordpress site is an important decision. You want something reliable, flexible and customizable as it's a tool that's crucial to your web design toolbox. In this post, I go over my top 2 recommended form builders and provide...
Top 10 Best Divi Plugins
In this post we're going to go over my Top 10 Divi plugins. I did a video recently over viewing my Top 10 Free WordPress Plugins and someone asked if I would do a similar video geared towards Divi specific plugins, so thats what this post is all about. I wanted to...
Josh’s Elegant Themes Blog Series
The posts I write for the Elegant Themes blog are generally 4-5 part series. Since they’re currently not archived by series on the blog, every time I post a new series, you can find it archived here!
5 Ways Divi Changed my Business (and Life)
This is a one-off post on how Divi has absolutely changed my business and life. When I stumbled onto Divi, I had no idea of the impact it would have on me. It has become by far the most important tool in my business and one of the most beneficial and life-changing...
Scaling Your Divi Web Design Business – Full Series
Welcome to our series Scaling Your Divi Web Design Business where we’re exploring proven tactics and actionable strategies that will help you grow your Divi based web design business. In preparing and researching for this series, I interviewed 9 active Divi community...
Effective Divi Web Design Principles – Full Series
Welcome to my full Divi mini series Effective Divi Web Design Principles where we’re exploring effective design practices to help empower new web designers and those who identify as someone without an “eye for design.” I must say that while I understand some people...
Divi Web Design Pricing – Full Series
Here is my full Divi Web Design Pricing series from the Elegant Themes Blog where we’re exploring effective Divi website price ranges and providing some actionable ideas on how to price your web design services. 1) Effective Price Ranges for Your Divi Website Builds...
Organizing and Taking Control of your Divi Web Design Business – Full Series
Recently, I launched a new series on the Elegant Themes Blog about Organizing and Taking Control of your Divi Web Design Business. I got a lot of awesome feedback but many questions as to how/where to find all the parts of the series. So here is the full series with...
How To Become A Successful Divi Web Designer – Full Series
Recently, I created a series for the Elegant Themes Blog on How To Become a Successful Divi Web Designer. Though it's geared for web designers using Divi, most of these strategies and ideas can be applied no matter what theme or platform you use. I received some...
Client Documentation – Full Series
Hey all, Recently, I wrote a series for fellow web designers on offering "Client Documentation" with the primary purpose of empowering your clients and saving you time. Here is a catalog of the full series which links back to the articles on Elegant Themes. And I've...
5 Impressive Divi Gallery Layouts and How to Create Them – Full Series
Here is my full 5 Impressive Divi Gallery Layouts and How to Create Them series from the Elegant Themes Blog. 1) How to Create a Fullwidth Gallery with the Divi Gallery Module Galleries are one of the most important tools in web design today. Whether you’re a designer...