 I think we might be live. All right, let's let this Start to kick in. I know there's a bit of a lag Just testing things out. I'm a little rusty. I gotta kick off the dust in the cobwebs. All right, so Let's see. I'm Using this is check and see where we're at. This should be going live. I mean any moment Charlie, what's up, man? Okay? Dope that means we are live. What's up guys? What's up everyone? How y'all doing? The Rosa, what's up, man? Awesome. Awesome. All right. Just getting set up here It's a late night here in Thailand and what better thing to do on a Friday night. This is how you know I'm a nerd. What else do you want to do on a Friday night, but to geek out? alright Cool cool, so check it out. This is gonna be open. It's gonna be kickback. What we're gonna be doing is Just opening things up for an AMA Trying to have a discussion Conversation even though all of you are inside the chats Awesome. I'm so glad to see you all already coming in Yeah, I do know what like I've been doing these on a Wednesday But something told me go ahead and give it a try on a Friday. I kind of feel It's more relaxed and depending on where you're at inside the world Pretty sure most of you are inside like the daytime or even coming around to the morning time Those of us in Asia is that Friday night and which means it's a Friday night and we're at home on YouTube or wherever we're at But yeah, I just feel like it's a good way to You know to bring the week to an end and stuff Right Larosa says what else is there to do on a Friday night? I totally agree. That's how I feel well, I'm sure there's a few other things to do but You know what I've been wanting to do this for a while. It's been too long. I started doing the live streams A while back, I mean it's been several several months since I have done them And I wanted to get them going again because I had just a blast doing them You know, I love to connect with other web creatives with other Developers designers agency owners and so on who have the same passions and you know conversate around The stuff that we enjoy doing I want to do things like look at different tools and Explore other stuff and do some live design sessions like what we did for Thailand divers and stuff The truth is once you stop doing this for a while, it's hard to get back in because as an introvert and as somebody who Doesn't find taking the step easy. Well, it's easy to get complacent. So we're doing it We're bringing it back and not only that I got guests already start I got some special guests coming up next week. We have studio carts founder Nicole She's gonna be coming on as a special guest She's also an agency owner who has built a really robust tool one that I Personally enjoy and love because it's the one that powers my website And I'm really looking forward to having her on our live stream next week that way we could I like I like to Talk with other agency owners and other web creatives who stepped out of their lane and did something different like build WordPress tool. So yeah, all right. I want to catch up now on these chats So there's already a question in the very beginning Elstack, okay I'm gonna pull this up ask on the sales page of the subs and extracts for the non-develop elemental courses or New word for Ella is that on my website? Is that what you mean a sec that I have Ella mentored on my website or or is that something else? Please let me know and drop it in the chat. I really like that word though Ella mentored That's pretty dope all right Eureka says ready to transform a pile of containers into a website. Isn't that what we do basically? Take sections containers widgets and we turn them into something magical. That's what I love about this What's up, Brian? How you doing man? What's good man, it's all good. It's all good Donates, I hope I'm saying this right donates. Hey, what's up man? So glad to see you here web Express tech hiya. All right dope dope. So glad to see you on yes Norris We're gonna start doing this again. We're back in this we're back in this So I'm making this is what tonight really is for me at least is me like, okay Stop making excuses Get back on it get back in it because I really just want to have that opportunity to be able to engage with everyone You know if you have like I get asked questions a lot and I get tons of just amazing messages Emails messages through my form people reaching out and every time they do it just really hits me in the heart It motivates me and pushes me to do what I'm doing here like that is You know that that it's something special, but you know like Being able to do this and go live we could take it to another step and we can start to engage with each other And I really want to do that Alright, so let me see Brian Brian ask are am I from the US? Okay, yes, am I from the US and you do detect the West Coast? Accent or slaying or dialect definitely. Yes, I am born and raised in Los Angeles But I did grow up on East Coast hip-hop. So ever since I was a kid I listened to Run DMC when I was like nine years old That was one of my first albums and Houdini and stuff like that I don't know how it happened but I stumbled on it onto it, but I remember young growing up I had this East Coast accent, but still yeah LA in and out always Dude, I ended up in Thailand. I just bought a one-way ticket That's that's a trick for anybody who wants to go to Thailand and live there Just buy one-way ticket let the rest work itself out Dave then what's up man? So glad to see you back here. How you doing, man? So does anybody have any questions to get things started? While I am going to let a question come up. I'm gonna have my tea real quick Russell, what's up, man? I did see you I was gonna reach out to you in our pro Academy space, man So awesome. So I awesome to have you on board. So check it out man Malaysia. Oh That's one of my favorite places. I go there all the time. I was just there I miss work camp Malaysia though. I really wanted to go. I was waiting for my passport I didn't have my new passport in time. Dang. I really miss that one Any chance did you get a chance to go to work camp Asia? I mean not work camp Asia work camp Malaysia That's what I wanted to ask you inside our Lightbox pro group Ecuador's in the house. All right Cool, cool, cool. So how's everybody doing with the new? 3.16 update Everybody all good anybody have to do some rollbacks The what's what's go ahead and bring it up David. Yeah, right hot topic hot topic. All right Let's address the elephant in the in the room Okay, so the Rosa all right man. No, this is great these this is why I want to open it up that way doesn't all have to be web dev This is just straight up AMA, but yeah, man. That's a good question About knowing about my video recording setup and gear that I use All right, so my camera is a eight. What is it? It's been so long since I a Sony a 6400 so it was I did this whole long research about what cameras to get I try to use webcams, you know, I got the logitech even like the high-end logitech But no matter what I did it always came out fuzzy and it really bothered me so I Did a lot of research on what cameras to use and I went with the a 6400 First it wasn't super super expensive. It was more of a good Starting point a starting range. The next thing though is that you could actually plug this up to the wall I have like a dummy Dummy battery in it and it's plugged into the wall So I never have to worry about charging and you could record it for a very long period of time a lot of cameras They have limitations So when we're choosing a camera One thing I was looking at was the limitations like some you can only record like up to like an hour Some of them you had to keep recharging batteries the a 6400 Just seemed like a winner and then for the lens it's the signal. I think it's like the 1.8 Aputure it's a it's a very very popular one. I have to probably look at I don't know if I can see it here If it shows the specs now It's a very it's probably one of the most popular ones that come with a 6400 So, you know, if you check it out on the YouTube now the mic is A sure podcast mic really really good. I wanted the other short It's like the professional one, but that one you needed to get a lot of other stuff for it And I can't get everything here in Thailand like the other equipment. I wanted for that mic It's just isn't sold here or it's like super super expensive. I got this and before I was using this I was using the blue Yeti, which is I but this right here. It has been solid like I'm super happy with it What else, you know, I got the what is it the cam link or you know to connect it to the TV? But yeah, that's what I'm working with and Rustam, okay saying. Oh my god. Okay the elephant in the room 3.16. It's all good Taiwan. What's up? Awesome. Awesome. Taiwan's inside the house All right, so Brian's got a good question and what I was hoping somebody would bring up Because if you guys notice I built my new website on bricks and you know I'm a power Elementor user and Brian asked I use Elementor and bricks primarily Which one do I lean towards more? All right, so I got some videos coming out about my journey using bricks We started using it to build client sites as well And we got a new project coming up We're going to use bricks for our new project and there are reasons for their pros and cons for both of them now Still right now when it comes to like my power tool still it's Elementor I've spent years on it. I know it inside and out like the back of my hand So I could go into a project and I could build something really quick with Elementor I already have a system in place and all that Bricks on the other hand, it was a pretty big learning lesson for me I had to build a few websites like practice websites and every time I build it I would discover something new that would just make the whole process of building a site Better so I did about three or four practice sites Then I went to build my site Then we went to build a client site and I feel like we have something Solid with it now the thing about bricks and why I lean towards bricks for certain projects Are ones that I'm collaborating with my team and other developers aren't it's just you can have systems with frameworks and stuff like that And it's very developer friendly like it brought out the inner developer in me It was fun to use because I started my journey as a front-end developer You know actually my journey my path as a developer I started off in Shopify and I learned how to you know code in and flu it and do custom Shopify websites before I even touch WordPress And then I got into WordPress and I got into UI UX and then into design So yeah going to bricks was fun like it brought out that designer in me, but still You know Elementor I could just knock outsides really really fast I have a stack that's already dedicated. There isn't much of a learning curve for me anymore. So I would say Leaning towards one or the other would all depend on the project. You know what the project is You know, we need to do something quick. We need to do something fast The client wants to be more involved with their website. They need things more simplified I'm gonna go definitely into Elementor if the project is going to be like really heavy SEO focus I'm going to be working with our developers We need to build a stack and it's more of a higher end Then I'm going to go into bricks and look at doing something more custom with that So I wouldn't say I'm choosing one or the other it's just that I've added bricks to my workflow and By doing that now we got more options to be able to choose for you know based on the projects Anybody else have questions on that definitely let me know I think it's a You know like right now Bricks is doing great, man. Things are really great and there's some really great Tools in there too like third-party tools, you know advanced steamer ACSS Bricks for some really solid stuff inside there But yes, okay, still Elementor. I don't know if he could see back there. I got too much Elementor gear To give up on in it. I've invested too much Of my education and learning it. Okay Let's catch up. I know I'm rambling. Oh, oh There is a work camp in Taipei. What is that happening? I'm actually flying through Taipei in November It's just in the layover, but if there's a work camp around November December It's not that far from me All right, Kaya. I'm going to I'm going to check that out if you if you have the information dropping inside the chat If you have the date, I definitely would like to check that out I've only like did stopovers and Taipei and every time that I did I wanted to explore more It was just one of those cities like once I flew in like I was like wow Okay, I want to stay here for a little bit. I haven't had a chance to do that yet Maybe that'll be a good opportunity All right, Dave Dan said, uh, okay 3.16 did break a mega menu. Okay. It's all good now Yeah, they're going to be applying a hot fix. I know like it's a hot topic. It's an update that caused some breakage, but You know, like for me, I don't stress it, you know as long as we test it and make sure to have backup of backups of backups You know only stress it if you don't have things in place and Elementor has a default built-in backup, which is you could roll back. So I never really Trip over the updates, you know, just be careful on sensitive sites. That's the only thing For me personally when I have a sensitive site a site say it's a e-commerce a high-selling site Really high traffic where if the site does break it actually costs our clients money In those situations, I'm a bit more careful with the updates for some major plugins like WooCommerce I'll wait and actually see what happens and so on. We don't just update really quickly even with backups but Yeah, it's all good, man. I don't trip over You know some breaks as long as we have something in place all right case is a Have some problems using Elementor container prefer the column Then the and then the container. How can I overcome? That's a really good question And at first when I switched the container Instinctively I wanted to use sections because I was so used to it The best way to overcome it is just to stick with containers and figure it out It'll take you maybe about one or two websites But once you do and it clicks and you see how the flex works with it You won't want to go back to sections. So the way to overcome it The best way to overcome it is just to stick with it and don't go back to your comfort zone You know because sections really is not that you know, it's it's more clunky. It's more Div heavy. It's got a lot more dawn to it Uh Let me actually turn this threw me off having this right here Yeah, the best way to overcome it is just to go into your uncomfort zone You know, you got to take those positive risks and that means you got to walk through the uncomfortable Learning curve once you do the payoff and the rewards are are just amazing And then now we also got the grid option inside the container which also is super dope I got a video coming out about that in about a week or two. So that's on my road map Okay, so to not just ask to not says okay I'm hope I'm saying the right is asking what plug-in settings. So I use on the Lightbox Academy as It keeps kicking me out saying access. Where are you located at? Yeah, it is WP login lockdown, you know, but I also have a cloud flare. All right, cool. Cool. Let me see I'm trying to think dude Reach out to me if you could reach out to me another way, we'll get that solved man Cuz I don't want you know, I don't want anybody being limited. I want You know, I do want To get it figured out but also to make sure that everybody has access, you know I want to make sure you're all good man. So reach out to me definitely man We'll get that solved. But yes, I'm using a few things for security now. I boosted up my security And I'm still in the process of even adding more to it. So You know before I just use word fence and word fence is still cool But you know, I started taking things to the next level, you know Definitely with cloud flare protecting things at a DNS level doing quite a bit more things but while I'm in this journey doing it sometimes the security could be too strict and You know, I have to like Still adjusting it. So, you know, something happens. Definitely hit me up like anybody could hit me up anytime Through many different ways Instagram Facebook I wish they allowed messages to come through on YouTube that would make things really easy. But uh, Yeah, we'll get that sorted man. Ah Dave didn't sit. Okay. They looked at template monster. By the way, let me pull this up really quick. I Forgot all about that and I know like What am I first off? Let me do a live stream. I mean not a live stream. Let me share my screen It's been a while. Okay. So this is practice right here. I'm just gonna practice. Let me do the stream Okay, cool. We can see it hmm Okay, still got a lot to learn on this. Okay I haven't seen that yet. Let's see who is leading right here. I'm not logged in though Maybe I have to be logged in in order to see it Check out the builders Okay, if anybody has a stats, do you know what I don't have my account right here every time I log in it takes me a little while next week We're gonna do a live and I want to keep this going to see bricks man bricks is like Gaining but I did check it out. Just the other day how many active sites and I mean still L This is like millions, you know, these you know divvies a lot Gutenberg bricks is Starting to gain traction and it's it's a definitely well-deserved but Okay, my shameless shout out to myself. I'm sorry guys. I got to do it And I know this is all just vanity metrics and stuff. It doesn't really mean all that but still If you guys want to support the channel want to support me I'm not good at this kind of stuff, but check it out a support who you feel you want to support here because there are some Amazing youtubers here. I mean emron who has absolutely been crushing it the last two years, you know, Dave McCann This dude is awesome. He's just full of wisdom Design with cracker man. I follow his stuff all the time. He creates some amazing content I love his tutorials. In fact when I get stuck on a lot of things. It's his tutorials that helped me get stuck I learned a lot from him Okay, I mean there's a lot of good stuff. I mean, you know Kevin Gary right here. It's got great content. You know, I've learned a lot of stuff from his channel So, you know as much as I want to come in here and say vote for me guys, you know what? It doesn't feel right, you know to just go out and do that What I would say is go in here and vote for the people that really help you out You know, there's a lot of amazing content creators here and Everybody here. I know what it it takes for me to do this. It's a lot of hard work It's a lot of dedication. We got to walk through a lot of stuff. It's not always easy and I'm More than 100% sure that Everybody else here is the same some of them are putting in even he's more I mean, I could never match with him Ron does this dude the work that he puts in is just absolutely Incredible and for me, it's Inspiring really a lot of people here inspire me. So alright, let me go ahead and Turn that off and bring this back in. Let's go ahead and catch up on the Comments here the chats. Okay So Rustam, okay, he asked have I ever worked with motion page not yet. I do got the lifetime deal I do plan on using it. I just haven't yet, you know, I haven't gotten around to it now We've done GSAP like on the Lightbox.co website right now. We're using GSAP. There's a lot of custom coding on that But going forward instead of just custom coding using GSAP GSAP I would use motion page because I did get the LTD on it. All right, so Workcamp Taiwan Taiwan It's gonna be October 14th. You know what all the tickets sold out in Thailand, too When there is work camp Asia My my thing is I've broken into bigger parties Bye, I Feel I don't know man. I feel fairly confident. I could break it Yeah, I probably shouldn't say that but it doesn't seem that difficult. Oh Man, I'm gonna get myself in trouble. It's late night over here But you know never you never know maybe some tickets like pop-up. I would love to come to Taiwan for sure Abdullah what's up, man? I'm doing good. How you doing, man? How you doing? All right? I'm just catching up on all the chats All right, Rustam says that he enjoyed the web flow experience Containers and web flow better than the sections and columns Yeah, sections and columns now when I go back to it, you know, like we've had it like work on some old sites that were built with sections and Kind of it's not like as fun It's I find it to be a pain and You know, normally I would never tell anybody to put something That's in beta or alpha not ready for like full release or hasn't put out for full release on the live website But containers is one of those things that I felt was an exception to the rule Because I knew why containers stayed in alpha and beta and release candidate for so long It wasn't because it wasn't ready and full of bugs or anything like that It was because they needed everybody to have time to catch up the plug-in developers You know, you got to understand when Elementor makes an update or adds a new feature or something They can't do it as quickly as say somebody like bricks Who doesn't have as many sites running now when Elementor does it if something goes wrong It breaks a very high number of websites. So they they need to be a lot more careful than other people Alright, let's see here. You know, I haven't played around with webflow yet It is something though that I've wanted to check out right now Though I'm also got my eye on framer. I see framer starting to grow right now. So I Wish I had just more more time. I swear if I had does anybody else feel like that? Like don't you wish you just have like more time to geek out and experiment and do stuff I mean, I got PlayStation 5 recently and I got Diablo 4 which is fantastic But it's like I don't even have time for that I'd rather be here and like try out new tools like right now I got a basket full of all kinds of stuff in AppSumo that I got to get Test and try out and I got new tools to test out for next week as well Yeah, okay, let me see The Rosa he put in here is using thrive themes Recently moved to Elementor a good move by the way really good move finds it works better, especially with all the flex stuff And okay, it cuts off. He says I you know have fun migrating all my sites to Elementor You know, that was my feeling as well when I started using Elementor I felt like I was playing video games like I felt like I was playing a video game while working on a website Like it was just fun to do And that is the best thing that's the best thing when we could just have fun Doing this just geek out and have fun. That's what it's all about That's the reason why I don't get into the page builder wars and beef. It's all about having fun like I'm all good with all of them. It's all good. All right Kaya 17 years old nice. Wow What a time to get started. I didn't even know how to use a computer at that age Nice nice. Awesome. I'm so glad to see you getting started at that age. Oh It's just the beginning this journey is an amazing journey One thing I would say as you learning and if you are building websites for clients and helping build brands on websites You know, look at the skills for sure, you know, getting good at web development getting good at WordPress Elementor whatever tool you choose But also start to invest in learning the business side as well learning around about project management learning about sales and marketing For personal businesses doing personal branding and positioning If I were to start my journey all over if I were to go back and tell You know the newbie Jeff like what's it like what to do? My advice to the newbie Jeff would be to invest equally in learning the business side of you know Doing what we do here building websites for clients. So that way I could treat it more like a business in fact The reason why I'm saying that is fresh on my mind right now Croco blog has their summit coming out at the end of the month and I have I Have something on it for For taking those steps from going from freelancer to agency owner and a lot of a lot of that part of just treating it more As a business it is full in that talk All right, I need a sip of my turmeric tea Abdullah Abdullah. All right Abdullah ask am I transitioning from Elementor to bricks? I'm not transitioning. I've only added bricks into my workflow So I'm using both of them. It's all good, but the thing is I think I said earlier, but the thing is it's like I Know Elementor so well I don't want to just give it up because it's definitely still a powerful tool that I could use for my business And I have fun with it Alright, just catching up Alright, the Rosa says he loves a thought of bricks builder, but don't think it's easy for clients to understand And what else? Alright, also why not going to Gutenberg Spectra? I want to keep it easy You know what? There's a pro and con to that, you know, there's a pro and con to that now There are some clients that You know, I'm not like the restrictive type that's just going to try to control clients and like, you know So, you know, don't touch your website only we could do it Not all the time not all the time a lot of times clients some of them are they know their stuff You know, they can figure out and edit content and stuff like that in those cases Elementor definitely is a good way to go Especially the client has all these ideas for all these different changes It's a lot easier and more cost-effective to change But sometimes for some projects, we don't want the clients in it You know, for example, we just did a project with a really big brand Well, no, we didn't just do we did it like last year and It's a global brand a really big company and they went through a change in their marketing department They got a whole new marketing team and this new lead marketer that they got He just wanted to go into the website and do his own thing And we ended up losing the client over it because he just kept going in and messing it up and messing it up Have the conversations, you know that hey, we're not liable, you know, like you guys are on, you know, like If you want to do this, he can't be on our plan and So on and this person that just came in that they hired just was like, I don't care I take full responsibility and You know, like the thing is and the reason why I had to step away from that client And from their website was because of the risk factor when you got a big global brand There's a big risk that comes to it because you know, you could do something that could harm the brand Say the website gets broken during a campaign or what say it gets hacked somebody adds plugins to it They do something with it Things like that could really, you know cause harm. It's very risky as an agency owner and a freelancer It could be very risky and the last thing that we ever want is for a client to come back to us and say hey This broke on the website. You costed us X amount of dollars And it's just something just like ridiculous and you know, that's the kind of stuff that keeps me up at night as a business owner So like going back to that in hindsight now for that big brand I would have rather use bricks something that looks way too scary For some marketer to jump in and start to mess around with because they have no business doing that, you know, like We're elemental on the other hand for not so big of a brand. I mean you can still build it for big brands I've done it, but you know, like if it's something that's more flexible not as risky It's a great tool to use and la Rosa. I know you personally and I know like, you know Your type of clients will still learning them But I could see why elemental would be a great choice for them, especially if they're doing stuff on their own website Abdi, what's up, man? What's up? Okay, Abdi. Thank you appreciate it. Definitely man Don't man. No, I really appreciate that and if you guys don't know I did do Campaign just this week like it's rare for me to do it But right now I did drop all the prices on the design with elemental of course, but one thing I did drop Okay, that's live right now until I think there's about three more hours two or three more hours and then it goes back to normal price, but But what was I going to say? Oh, yeah If you haven't checked it out yet, we do have the pro Academy and one thing that we changed inside the lightbox pro Academy is I did something different, you know, like right now. I don't know if you notice, but everybody out there Everybody and their mom are raising their prices prices. Just keep going up on everything big companies Corporations raising prices everything keeps going up and then I saw something that really That really bothered me, you know, I saw this interview with the do the CEO of uber and You know, they were talking about the prices going up in uber and his justification was that well They're just increasing the prices to match the inflation of the dollar But it wasn't true. Not only were they just trying to keep it going up like the inflation was going like this But they were taking it up even higher They're actually increasing be on the inflation and while doing that at the same time We're taking it out on the drivers and not giving them more money and that kind of stuff bothers me Like it really really bothers me Yeah, okay, I'm gonna start getting all angry right now I don't want to angry ramp, but you know like Seeing that and seeing like the state that everything is in I've decided to do something different with the pro Academy And we cut the price down I wanted the pro Academy to be affordable for everyone because it's not even about the money It's about helping other web creatives So just to let you guys know that that right now has been cut down like really big and it's going to stay that Way at least until the economy rebounds and gets better because my mission since I started the building businesses were Elementor Facebook groups as I started creating content has been to help other web designers developers freelancers Agency owners to build sustainable businesses this thing has changed my life and I Just want this for others. All right catching up on everything You know, I never know what's gonna happen when I come into these if I start rambling somebody I wish I could have the Jeff is rambling button just hit it All right, we got a lot of things to catch up on do not is I got you man. I'll hit you back up on LinkedIn Probably next week though. I'm gonna be taking the weekend off, but I'll definitely get right back to you. All right Kelchin says many plug-in developers offer bulk prices for more than one license. Do you change? The price you charge a client for for a plug-in. Okay, it doesn't have the whole thing. Let me read the whole thing Do you change the price you charge a client for a plug-in if more customers need the same plug-in? alright Trying to understand this question. I don't know if you meant charge Well, you know, okay change the price So I'm just trying to think do I change the price I charge a Client for a plug-in if more customers need the same plug-in I have a stack that I use for our WordPress maintenance plans And I always buy the agency license for them and that covers like 90 95% of websites Some websites are going to need a very special plug-in, especially if we're dealing with rule commerce and for those We're only going to get the license when it is absolutely needed. We also do a lot of custom development So keep that in mind. I try not to use plug-ins unless if absolutely necessary If I am going to get a plug-in that I'm going to use across multiple clients websites for and I see that this Could go into my stack then I'm going to buy the agency license for that and that does not change the price for our maintenance plans or what I What I provide for our clients our maintenance plans Covers all the plug-ins that is inside our agency plan and our maintenance plans that start off at $100 a month But they are going to be going up next year. We're right now in the transition with the lightbox agency making some changes But so my my short answer to the question is No, I don't change the price I don't even everybody gets the same price and if a client needs a special plug-in Then I'll pick it up and get reimbursed for it from the client Okay, Ola is asking for the URL. Sure. Let me see here Can I tell you here we go? I think I spelled something wrong, but yeah, I dropped the link inside the comments Alright, Nori is very let me hide that Nori asks is there a easy way and elements or to position background elements in a way that makes them look like they're connected throughout each Section on a page hyper flow is an example of the visual effect Okay, so am I guessing like like for an example? You got the whole page and you want like different gradients, but everything flowing Uh You got to add the bet the easiest way is to add a background image to the whole page That is going to be the easiest way. I kind of go back in the element or say I've been I know in bricks We could do that page by page. It's a lot. You know, there's that option. Actually, let's let's take a look right here I'm a side element or And I'll tell you exactly what I would do while I'm looking at that I'm gonna do a screen share That way everybody could look at exactly what I'm looking at as well. Oops. All right, and let me hide that And I'll take this full screen right here All right, cool. So I got this not that one. I got this open right here Let me see if they give an option. I don't think they do So, I mean the best thing to do is to add a background image to the page now you might be able Okay, you can't do a featured image. It doesn't give us the option. That's right. All right So what I would do here is add a little bit of CSS Uh Let me see. I got to put my thinking hat on real quick Wait, we can do that. Okay scratch that Let me see here Okay, so we can do it for the whole page. I can put a section here Let me put a new section. Oops. No, not the templates Add a new section. So yeah, there you go. Yes, it's right inside here. I haven't done that yet in here I've done it on bricks just recently. But yes, that's how you would do it So you would go back over here to the site settings You know, you go over here to the style and then back here You just go ahead and put an image now what you'd want to do is, you know Go to something like figma, you know and make sure you create a long image like this and I've done this before It usually takes a bit of tweaking the image, especially if you're going to do mobile. Now, let me check real quick Okay, it doesn't give us the option for mobile So you might have to do a bit of CSS like if it had the mobile option here You could do one for mobile image remote. Wait snap. It does You guys it's too late for me. I'm slipping right now. Okay. Yeah. So we got one for mobile too. So man All right, scratch what I just said a minute ago So this is how you would do it right here And when you make the image make it in here tweak it around see how it looks So you might have to play with that image quite a bit to get it right All right back to the live stream and the question. So let me hide that show this I'm still getting used to my software. I got to get back to it. I really do dig this software right here So Norris, did you get that Nori? I'm sorry. I hope that you got that Mia hey, how's it going Mia? Awesome. So good to see you all here. This is dope Stacy so good to see you back man All right All right, so Stacy asked I got a client that I lost due to several differences But wanted to know if I'm able to continue to use that website for your portfolio Yeah, I mean unless that the client comes to you and says hey take it off. I mean I Really we want it, you know, like we outgrow clients clients outgrow us. It's natural turn We want to keep churn low But always as best to end things on the best note and if you know the project Was lost in a very You know bad way It might be a little bit more difficult. They might have some resentment or something like that I'm not sure So it's kind of case-by-case but if you put in the work and You did really well and by the way, this is inside my agreements as well when I do a contract part of my contract is You know that hey I get to showcase your work as part of my portfolio To help me to find more clients and to show the work that I could do because Weird thing happened one time early on It was so weird it threw me off. I had a client for a new project. I finished a website I put a whole lot of extra work in he was happy with it Crazy thing is he was happy with it and I asked him I'm like hey awesome Can I use this for my portfolio? He just came back and said no I was like wait what why? You know, I wanted to say why but I just didn't push it any further I just didn't know if anything was wrong. Nothing was wrong In fact, he came to me a couple years later He would check in and have questions and you know was you know from all I could tell happy about it But the thing is We need those portfolio items. We need them for our business You know, I know other agencies who have a clause that we get to use Whatever work we do as part of our portfolio and if a client disagrees with it. Well, that's fine But we're gonna have to charge more Because now I'm doing this work and investing in it and I can't even show people the work that I've done and Bigger agencies will do that. They will charge a lot more money If the client makes a request saying you cannot show that you did this, you know There's also situations where you're doing things white label. If you're a white label Person then you know, you just got to get more of those agreements up front. But yeah, Stacey I say go ahead unless that they specifically asked you now. I did have one time Client that just went really crazy. Like, you know, they weren't well and Even though it was inside our agreement that we could use their website They just pushed scope creep and they just got really nasty and even though I stayed nice and kind and I really Believe kindness is the best way to go no matter what that is my philosophy No matter how nasty Somebody could get we got to stay kind always but when she came back and said I want you to take my site down I didn't push it. I said no problem. I hope that you're doing well. That's all alright Okay, awesome. Awesome. Let me catch up real quick All right, Russell is asking about contracts protect against Situations with brands Just so that way they can't come back to sue you and stuff like that I mean, we got contracts. The thing is I don't have templates just to give out Got to be very careful with that. But like contracts that I got I paid a lot of money for it We definitely can't build them I have some plans inside the future to help you guys out with contracts I just got to structure that in a way and put some good thought into it But yeah, we definitely want to protect ourselves, you know the way I look at contracts and agreements It's I mean if you're working with like a big major brand, okay We got to do we got to have more due diligence because it's more risk But most of the cases when we're dealing with like smaller and smf size businesses The agreements, I mean, yeah, we protect ourselves But it's very rare for like a situation like, you know, we're client wants to come and so it's a fact It's probably more of the opposite where we got to go after like hey, you missed the payment Or he asked us for all this extra work for me I like to look at a contract as an agreement and I like to look at it as a way for us to have a clear understanding That way we could set the expectations and make expectations clear I don't want to make a contract or an agreement all about the legal stuff and focus on that Even though that is an aspect of it, but I think it's a very valuable tool to use to keep expectations clear I like to keep, you know, like the legal talk very minimal and down at the very bottom up front though I like to look at okay. Here are the deliverables Here's what we're responsible for here's what the client is responsible for here are some terms and conditions what we are not liable for And so that way it protects myself and makes it really clear what the scope of the project is what we're going to deliver It's going to make it really clear on the timing of the project And it's also going to make it really clear of the payment conditions as well So that for me, that's what I use my agreements for All right, Leonard. Hey, man, so good to see you here. This is dope. This is dope. I'm so glad to be back everyone awesome awesome Cool, thanks for us some really if that's crazy by the way you guys I just hit a million views this week So it's for me personally it was a big milestone this week All right and John yes, definitely we're gonna do Web critiques. I want to keep this going on a weekly basis. So some weeks we're gonna have guest speakers here And I really want to get some really good quality guest speakers So I'm already talking to quite a few we're gonna have guest speakers some weeks We're going to look at some tools or when a geek out together Some might be like this like a last-minute AMA, but then also we're gonna do some straight-up dedicated website critiques And when we do a website critique, I'm gonna let you guys know Hey, we're doing website critique so definitely get your websites ready and Share them and we're gonna go ahead and take a look at them tear down break them apart or just go through and give some tips You know to help out. All right, just catching up on everything Okay, Abdi ask. Okay. Yeah, that's right. Remember you asked inside our group About the review plug-in. So some of our older WooCommerce sites you'll see it's got its own like kind of review. Well We I don't like to add plugins if I don't have to and I have a awesome developer on my team he's really really good at building stuff and One of the challenges I've always had with woo and especially like WooCommerce with elements or is it got to keep it as Light as possible and I remember this is back before containers So we really had to be extra extra careful like adding additional plugins like it really slowed down the site and Abdi asked about why we built our own review plug-in I just do not like the built-in default reviews that are in toggles or like in tabs They're hidden and reviews are a powerful powerful selling feature. They show They show proof of purchase. They show, you know trust and I feel they are such an important You know piece of a WooCommerce website. So we did the review plug-in. We built it And it isn't a plug-in that we have like in the repository because the plug-in is like actual just code We have you know, we put the files right into the website It is something I do want to revisit though make seeing that there's a way to make it more available But I focus on UI usability the user experience making that the easiest possible Not only for the clients, but for the end-user. So maybe I'll show one of those coming up. In fact, I Don't know how much time do we have? Okay? Let me see. I think we're down at the end of the questions Do you know what? Let me know if you guys would like to see something like this. Let me do I'm gonna do one more screen share guys All right, let me do this And this is one of the sites right here. That's been a while We built this years and years ago right here. They're no longer on our maintenance plan So I don't know what they really did to the site. Okay. It's pretty much the same as it as it was Yeah, so this is one of my earlier sites right over here and Here is the reviews Okay, so first we made it. So I remember that we coded this in we made it so we have a hyperlink and You know one of the reviews to be easy to see So we built this right here so that way you can see the reviews and You know, just it's not hidden anywhere like it was with the tabs and this is a part that I really liked It was the whole uh-oh Uh-oh, it's broken. No. No, it's broken This is why they need to be on our maintenance plan. No now when you click on it, it's supposed to be a pop-up box Okay Let me see if it has anything to do with the cookies Oh, no, that's not that's not good Let me see on the reviews page if it works Okay, there we go. And that's broken still. Okay. So something broke. This is probably like elements or 3.7 right here By the way guys, I doubt it's been updated in a long time But yeah, that's the way it works right there and it's a pop-up All right, I want to take another look at this and all right Despite the bugs in it and the brokenness of this background right here I don't know. Do you guys see this as something of value that would be helpful? Uh to be able to install on the website as long as it works, of course Let me go ahead and stop that screen share. All right from screen Okay, so the Rosa says the project management course on our lightbox academy site It has contract templates. It does Now the project management course on the lightbox academy It's right now. It's at a pretty cheap price that thing is a beast. All right Now I didn't make the course is actually my mentor that made the course Somebody that I've learned from throughout the years a good friend of mine Lauren from brave factor She did that course and she has built a very large agency Like we we go way back to my very beginning But she has a very successful agency. She took everything that she's built with her agency And I mean she has a large in-house team big office designers developers She is doing it like she is just she's created something just amazing and the project management course She took everything that she's built for years and put them in a way that's very organized and Look at she is just somebody that I have that I always have continued to look up to learn from And her design skills on a whole other level as a web designer She's just on like I kept trying to get good trying to catch up And as soon as I got to a certain level she was just still steps Skills are just amazing. So, uh, yeah, you know, I don't try to push out stuff and you know Be all selzy but that project management course it is a gem. Like it really really is All right, let's see here work down at the end of the questions and we're coming to the end of the live stream too My girlfriend made some cookies some homemade chocolate chip cookies and they smell really good And I shouldn't be eating them because I'm on a diet It's friday night All right, john asks I would like to know if it's possible to change the header color menu text and logo When it hits a specific section on the page, for example Uh, let me continue with it got cut off For example at a container at the very bottom of the page above the footer It's possible But only by pixels. So There is an option Oh wait, hold up. That's not what I wanted to do Let me see here. There is an option Let me go to the header right here That if you were to go here to advance into your emotion effects And you put it on sticky Now you have this option for the effects offset And let's say, you know, you got to like play around with it again. Let's say it's like 5000 pixels down to the very bottom of the page You would set this at 5000 and whatever effects you put and you got to do that all by css It will kick in Right here. So this is how you control how far The page scrolls until those effects in your header like the changes in color and so on take effect You want to focus on this right here? Yeah, let's hide that. Let's show this All right, have I tried jet engine plugins with bricks I've tried the testing. I didn't find any issues at all and it worked fine. I mean it's still Still works. I mean even jet filters works with it. Now, I haven't used it for a production site yet On my site, I'm using advanced themeer, which is super dope. Like I've I love that plugin. Like it is an absolute beast to parallel with bricks, but advanced themeer has acf with it. So Uh-oh, what happened here? Did I get kicked out? No, okay, something else happened another window popped up Uh, so right now for my production site and bricks, I you know, if it's a simple site I just use acf because it's already built in like on my site just recently I had to use a custom post site and a custom fill for something just to make it more manageable and instead of adding jet engine With acs acf already built in it. I just stuck with the acf But if I were to build something more complex, I probably would go to jet engine because I like it I know how to use it. I got an ltd on it. So it just makes sense for me to use it Cool. Thanks. Dave didn't appreciate it, man All right. So nori has a question as an agency owner I'm really curious To hear your thoughts on the rise of unlimited design subscriptions. Are you for it or against it? You know, here's the thing. We got to pivot We got to know what's going on in the industry and and this is a time as a as an agency owner We have to look at what's coming. We got ai coming. I mean right now It's only effective with content really, but we still got to Take a look at what is happening in our industry and we got to be ready to bounce and pivot We can't use the same model forever the same business model Me personally I am exploring subscriptions. I'm exploring plans and packages as well Now I've been against unlimited development with WordPress maintenance plans That has been my stance since I started offering WordPress maintenance plans because I feel like if we open up that box It's like a pandora's box if you open it up and say, okay If you sign up from our WordPress maintenance plans for like 800 bucks a month you get unlimited revisions Well, most clients are probably really not going to utilize that But you're going to get those odd ones that come in and just want to just You know just go crazy with it and that is going to eat up a lot of time and I'm sure you know nori as an agency owner Time is very limiting There's a lot that we need to do and we can't spend all of our time Just doing support and making changes and small stuff So going back to that. I've always been against the unlimited development, but I do feel I got to switch things up a bit. So now I'm opening up to it I just need to build a plan and a process around it So I do have a plan for you know later on at the end of this year beginning of 2024 with my agency To start offering more unlimited packages more pre-built type of like pre uh Pre-packaged type of things like I want to productize A lot as well I just first before doing that you've got to build a system Got to build processes around it and got to have everything prepared for that business model So Like I'm all for it. I'm all for the change and I think we're going to continue to see more of this Uh, the industry continues to evolve and it's important that we involve Evolve with the industry and I think that any agency owner here with uh some time under their belt They should start to look and explore In these different areas and different business models You know what here is a really good video. This one opened up my eyes to a lot Let me see here. It was with uh Greg Hickman, in fact, you could just do I'm not going to put the link You guys could youtube it youtube greg hickman with chris doe It's an hour long call that greg hickman from alt agency did with chris doe And you're going to get a whole new idea and perspective on Productizing your services even if it is web services to start to look at it. How can we productize this? It's it's a gem that that video right there that one greg He dropped us with some gems in that one All right, cool Rustam. All right. Thank you, man. Awesome I'm so glad to hear and got the maintenance course. So the new maintenance plans course is going to be coming out later this year I've made some adjustments evolved my own process and simplified things a lot So i'm excited to share that coming up and we're down to the end of the list And I think that is a good time to get ready to sign off Okay, cool. John. Thank you, man. So good to hear and see and abdela asks Where can I see all your websites that you made? They seem really awesome. Cool. Thanks, man. Thanks. Appreciate it. Definitely do You know what? I'll be honest since I started creating content I I kind of took a break a lot from like our agency site. So our agency site is Way indeed for an update But that's coming pretty soon. That's our next step to rebuild it With some new stuff. I'm going to keep you all posted on that here So as when I do get, you know, when we start the the rebuild of the lightbox agency site I want to do a live With all you guys like the process behind it the thinking behind it. Nothing's going to be secret, man We're not doing any secret stuff. Nothing is secret Everything is transparent out in the open when I started this journey out here. I gave up the right to be secret That would be that would be kind of shady, right out here on lives doing secret stuff No, no just joking around but uh, I want everything to be transparent. I want to let you guys into Uh process the thinking behind it the reasons behind it and look here. Here's the thing too going down this journey A lot of good stuff happens. I'm sure a lot of you have experienced a lot of good stuff There's also fails that happen too You know, there's fails. There's wins. In fact, there's a whole lot more fails and there are wins And that really is how it should be. That's the process You know, we want to have a bunch of those small micro fails You know, we want to have those smaller ones where you just get kicked back a little bit Rebound pivot try something new find something that works And I love being open about all that stuff. You know, I want to let you guys in You know, and that way we can learn together You know by being transparent and open. We're all here learning and here's the thing about me. I'm just learning I say I'm in the process To learn and grow that's one of the I love helping. I love teaching. I love sharing But one thing this does for me as well as it keeps me in the process of learning and growing And I I'm just not the type that could be in a position that feels like I know too much Never I'm open minded Sometimes you're going to hear this and if you follow my content follow my journey Here you're going to see times where I rebound on some things where there's some things I might believe and feel like That's right, but then I hear different perspectives. I have different experiences and I learned Something else that you know, maybe there's a better way something better to do And I feel that's the best place that we all could be in you know, stay open minded and just ready to learn All right, cool Charlie so good to see you so good to see you all I'm going to sign off now We're going to be back next week. I've got a special live guest next week and uh looking forward to it Thank you all for being here