{"id":836,"date":"2016-10-15T09:55:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-15T07:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nieuwsmarkt.nl\/?p=836"},"modified":"2017-10-01T09:09:56","modified_gmt":"2017-10-01T07:09:56","slug":"first-impressions-of-beaver-extender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nieuwsmarkt.nl\/nl\/blog\/2016\/10\/15\/first-impressions-of-beaver-extender\/","title":{"rendered":"First impressions of Beaver Extender"},"content":{"rendered":"

For years we have been working with the Genesis\/Dynamik combination. Genesis is still one of the best hook based foundations on which space\/speed effective childthemes can\u00a0be developed. Dynamik is in its basic idea a childtheme, but it acts like a WordPress theme development tool. Cobaltapps saw the Beaver Builder market growing and developed Beaver Extender. Our first impressions.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 First read part one<\/a>, to get a clear understanding of the concept of the Cobaltapp product Dynamik
\n\u2022 Follow the discussions<\/a> on the facebook group<\/em><\/p>\n

\"hamm\"We would never have bought Beaver Extender<\/a> if Eric Hamm would not have opened up his mind as he did the last month, by playing a much more active role in the Facebook Beaver Builder group<\/a>. He learned that the market around theme development is changing and that the Genesis approach does not seem the only way to go for his company CobaltApps<\/a>. He saw that ‘some’\u00a0Genesis\/Dynamik users stepped over to Beaver Builder and with very valid arguments. Among them: ‘What tasks are left for Dynamik if the Beaver Builder plugin does nearly\u00a090% of all\u00a0page design?’ Most just answered with header (including menu) and footer. And most complained specially about the complicated way Dynamik had become in setting up the various menus. Now we experience a possitive change in the way Eric is looking to the market and also part of his excisting customers in the Beaver Builder community.<\/p>\n

Hooks<\/h3>\n

Like us, many just bought the Beaver Builder plugin and afterwards the Beaver Builder theme and started ‘playing’ with that combination<\/a>. And many were surprised by the very well developed hook structure offered in the Beaver Builder theme. And besides that setting up the menu was just a one click ‘event’. Did that throw away the Genesis\/Dynamik combination forever? Well, that is hard to answer and depends very much on what your demands and skills were (or still are) within Dynamik.<\/p>\n

Dynamik is setting paramters where you can and programming where you need<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Setting parameters is the most common starting point when you start to use Dynamik. All definable sections have their own set of parameters in colors, fonts, margins, paddings and other possible options. At first it will be overwhelming<\/a>, since you have to learn where all these settings have there influence, since it is the back-end of Dynamik without a preview mode.<\/p>\n

Once you learned to use that, the next step is to do your own dedicated CSS styling (if needed) in the front-end CSS-Builder. A very nice and interactive tool, which displays direct results on the page where you insert\/edit your own CSS code. The learning curve requires to know CSS a bit more than average.<\/p>\n

After you learned that step, Dynamik offers the following more advanced features under ‘Dynamik Custom’:<\/p>\n