Divi Guide 2023 – How To Build A Divi Website Without Coding

Hey there, friendly stranger!

Would you like to know how to build a Divi website that actually gets loads of visitors? 👋

Great decision. There is no better time to do it than now.

• In this guide, I’ll show you step by step how to build a website without coding 🚀
• We’ll be using the world’s most popular website builder, but we’ll get to that later 🎉
• You’ll learn 17 website promotion strategies

If you decide to purchase a tool I recommend, I earn a small commission from them at no extra costs to you. In fact, I actually arranged a nice discount for you.

Ralph

PS: Click here if you need help with your website!

Divi is the world’s most popular website builder. It allows you to build drag & drop websites on the free Wordpress system.

Before I show you all the cool things it can do, let me show you some numbers.

• Worldwide over 2.5 million websites have been build with Divi. It’s a popular theme, with a reason.
• If you get the Divi theme builder, you can build an unlimited number of websites with 1 Divi Theme license
• The Divi theme comes with 46 free modules you can use to build your website
• You can try the Divi theme 30 days risk free. If you don’t like it, you’ll receive your money back
• Divi has 157 pre built templates you can use for free to build your website
• Divi has an active Facebook group with over 50,000 users who help each other

Bonus articles 
🚀 Read my full Divi review
🚀 10 cool web design tricks you can only do with Divi

The first example I’d like to share with you is the one I love the most. It’s the website of Divi itself. It has great animations and feels incredibly smooth as you scroll down. Have a look and see what’s possible.

16 Amazing Bonus Divi Website Examples

Need more inspiration? Have a look at my list: The best Divi website examples ever.

I assume you want your website to be visited by thousands of people around the world.

That’s why you need to publish your website on the world wide web.

You can do this by getting a hosting company to publish your website. Over the past 5 years I’ve tried dozens of hosting companies.

Why did I switch that much? Because many of them suck.

Many web hosting companies are only after your money and don’t care if your website gets hacked or has bugs. Sure, they’ll look into it – for a few hundred bucks.

But one of them caught my attention.

I’ve experienced this web hosting company to be extremely helpful. They have a 24/7 support which helps you with basically everything. Alongside, they’re cheap too!

The best part? It has a one click Wordpress install, so you’ll be live within 5 minutes.

Step 1: Open the website of Bluehost and click ‘get started’

I arranged a nice 50% discount for your entire hosting plan.

Step 2: Select your hosting plan

Depending on how many websites you’re planning to host, you can select your plan. If you only need to build 1 website, you can select the cheapest one.

Step 3: Find an available domain name

Here comes the fun part. Play around with the domain name checker and find one that’s available. Click ‘next’ if you found one.

Step 4: Enter your details and confirm the payment

Now you’ve registered with Bluehost, it’s time to install Wordpress. Luckily for you, this is the easiest part. Bluehost offers a one-click install for Wordpress.

Here’s what you need to do:

In the control panel on your left  side, click ‘My Sites’.

From here you can launch your Wordpress website by clicking on ‘Create site by Wordpress’.

That’s it. It’s dead easy.

Now you’ve registered your Wordpress website it’s time to install the Divi theme builder. Follow these 4 steps:
Step 1: Go to the website of Elegant Themes and click on pricing

Step 2: Select the plan which fits your needs

I would recommend to take the lifetime plan, but if you’re short on cash or doing a short-term project the annual plan is obviously fine as well.

Step 3: Fill in the payment details

Step 4: Log in to your account and go to downloads

Download the Divi theme. If you do this, you won’t need the Divi builder plugin. All its features are included in the Divi theme. 

Now you’ve registered your Wordpress website

Now you’ve downloaded the Divi theme it’s time to upload it to Wordpress.

Uploading a theme is very simple. Here’s what you got to do:

Step 1: Go to your Wordpress dashboard

Step 2: On the left side, click on ‘appearance’, and then on ‘themes’

Step 3: Click on ‘add new’ and go to ‘upload theme’

Now select your Divi Theme file and submit it.

Step 4: Click ‘activate theme’

That’s it. Divi is installed!

PS: Don’t want others to find out you used Divi? Hide it with https://hidemywp.net/ or https://hidemywpghost.com/.

If you completed all the previous steps, it’s time to create your first page. Exciting!

Step 1: On the left side, click ‘pages’ and ‘add new’

Step 2: Add a title to the page and click ‘use Divi builder’

Step 3: Now you will be taken to the page and a popup will show up.

It’s a message from Nick Roach, the founder of Divi. I recommend you to follow his tour as he will explain how to use Divi in a few minutes.

Step 4: Once you’re done with the page, hit the green ‘save/publish’ button on the top right corner. 

Your page is live!

Now repeat this process and create all the pages you want to include in your website. A few pages I recommend are:

• Contact
• About us

Now you have your first page, it’s time to structure your website. The best way to do this, is by adding a menu to your website.

Here’s how you do it:

Step 1: Go to your dashboard, click on appearance and select ‘menus’.

Step 2: Now you should see an overview of preset menu items.

Add, edit or delete each item by clicking on them.

Step 3: Once you’re done, hit the save button

Now you learned how to create pages, it’s time to select a homepage. Wordpress’ default setting for the homepage is to show the latest blog posts.

Personally I’m not a big fan of that. I mean, you just want to tell your visitors what your business is about, right? By having one static page, you make sure all your visitors get the right introduction to your business instead of your latest blog post.

Here’s how you do it:

Step 1: Open the page you want to set as your homepage

Step 2: In the top bar, hover over your website name and press ‘theme customizer’

Step 3: Scroll down and go to ‘homepage settings’

Step 4: Change the homepage display to ‘a static page’ and select the right page as the home page

Step 5: Hit the blue ‘publish’ button  in the top corner

Congratulations! You just set your homepage.

While changing your homepage in the ‘customize’ section, you probably noticed there are tons of things you can customize in your website.

Take your time to explore each tab, as this is where you get to control your websites. Here are a few examples of things I like to adjust on my Divi website while i’m setting up a website:

How to change the name of a Divi website

1. Go to customize > general settings > site identity
2. Give your site a nice site title
3. Add a cool tagline
4. Upload a site icon (optional)

How to change the font of a Divi website

1. Go to customize > general settings > typography
2. Change the header font (headlines)
3. Change the body font (normal text)

How to change the font color of a Divi website

1. Go to customize > general settings > typography
2. Scroll down and change the header text color
3. Change the body text color
4. Change the body link color (this will be the color for all the links in your text)

How to change the footer of a Divi website

1. Go to customize > footer
2. Here you can change the footer colors and your footer text

Now in the title of this guide I promised I would teach you how to make your website responsive.

Well..

I have some good news for you.

Divi already took care of this. Here’s how you can check if your Divi website is responsive:

Step 1: Open the page or blog post you want to check

Step 2: Enable the visual builder and click on the purple icon with the 3 dots in it.

Step 3: In the top left, click on the mobile icon to see the mobile view

Step 4: In the top left, click on the tablet icon to see the tablet view

Do you want to change the responsive layout of your divi website? Here’s how you adjust it:

Step 1: Click on the content item you want to change (for example: text, image, button)

Step 2: Click on the settings icon

Step 3: Click on design and select the thing you want to adjust

Step 4: Go to the section you want to adjust, and hover over it. By now, you should see a mobile phone icon. Click on it.

Step 5: Click on mobile or tablet and change the color/size of the item you’re changing. Hit save and refresh the page.

That’s it! You just customized your Divi website using this Divi guide.

Now you know how to convert your website visitors into paying customers, it’s time to flood your website with traffic.

#1 Go viral with this viral giveaway tool 🔥

Viral Loops is a referral marketing tool which helps you to explode your website with new visitors.

We’ve used Viral loops to create virality with multiple websites. It allows you to build a sustainable referral scheme which helps you to grow your website rapidly.

https://mycodelesswebsite.com/try-viral-loops

#2 Write blog posts on topics people are searching for 🔔

Semrush is a SEO tool which helps you to get more free traffic from the search engines.

We’ve used Semrush for many projects to get over 100.000 monthly visitors to our websites. For free. It’s great for keyword research, backlink building and rank tracking.

https://mycodelesswebsite.com/try-semrush

Click here to read the full strategy guide on creating blog posts which get traffic.

https://mycodelesswebsite.com/more-visitors-website/

#3 Share posts on social media with a custom call to action button on it 📣

Sniply adds your custom call-to-action to any page on the web, allowing you to engage your followers through every link you share. For example, you can attach a button to the page that links to your own website, so that people can discover you while they read.

https://snip.ly/

#4 Have other people create viral content for you 🚀

Don’t have the time to edit a viral video? Or don’t know how to create an awesome infographic which will grab the attention?

Fiverr is a digital marketplace which allows you to buy logos, animations and more for low prices.

We’ve used Fiverr to get cheap logos, backgrounds and much more. Fiverr is full of professionals offering photoshop services, video editing services for incredible prices. Check it out

https://mycodelesswebsite.com/try-fiverr

#5 Do a press release 📺

Yaiks! A press release? That’s not for small businesses, right?

Well. It is actually. Journalists LOVE small businesses and the entrepreneurs behind them. It makes sense – if you’re at a birthday party, friends are probably always asking how your business is doing.

Everybody loves entrepreneurs.

Write a press release about a milestone your company achieved. It doesn’t really matter what it is your company did, just make it juicy and interesting.

Create a list of journalists and reach out to them. The key in this process is the followup. If you’re just sending them one email you’re probably not going to have a lot of success. Remind them at least once over the period of 7 days.

#6 Publish research on your industry and reach out to journalists 🔍

Journalists are always on the lookout for interesting stories. If the story is backed up with real numbers it’s even better.

Thinking about your business, what interesting data do you gather? Can you write an interesting story about it?

Write a nice article about it and reach out to journalists and industry leaders. Tell them they can use your article + data as long as they mention you in the article. That’s a lot of free publicity!

#7 Automatically publish your blogs on twitter 📲

Twitter is great for sharing thought bubbles and even breaking news. But if you have to tweet everything manually it will become very time consuming. There are many tools which can do this automatically for you.

But if you use it for marketing or sharing your content and do it manually it is very time consuming. There are many tools such as Social Oomph which can do this for you.

#8 Collect email addresses from your website visitors 📧

Did you know 98% of your website visitors never return? That’s a shame. Sumo is an email capture tool which allows you to collect the email address of your visitors. This way, you’re able to reach out to them in the future.

https://sumo.com/

#9 Leverage Quora to get website traffic on auto pilot ✈

Quora is a famous Q&A website which allows users to ask and answer questions. Find relevant questions to your niche and take your time to write great answers. This will bring your referral traffic on autopilot.

#10 Publish your blogs to content curation communities 💥

There are quite a few platforms out there that are looking for bloggers to submit content that they deliver to their audience. This is another great way for you to get your posts in front of new eyes, but only if the content is truly exceptional

https://triberr.com/

http://blogengage.com/

#11 Use a LinkedIn bot to generate traffic on autopilot 🔥

Allright. You’re now probably thinking one of two things:

1. That sounds spammy. I’m not going to do that.
2. A bot? How does that even work? I’m not a scientist.

Trust me, I thought the same as you. But it’s not as sketchy as it seems.

Dux-Soup is a LinkedIn tool which allows you to ‘look’ at 100 LinkedIn profiles per day.

This tool automatically visits LinkedIn profiles of people of your choice. In the past, I’ve used this a lot to get in touch with business owners.

I would have Dux-Soup open the profiles of 100 business owners per day. 

It’s actually pretty simple:

1. Download the Dux-Soup tool
2. Open your LinkedIn account
3. Search for ‘business owner’ or any other job description’
4. Click the ‘Visit profiles’ button.

Now here comes the important part: Make sure your LinkedIn profile is optimized.

This means:

• A good looking profile picture
• A good tagline which describes what you do
• A great profile description which demonstrates your skills as a web designer
• Some nice portfolio websites on your profile

Let’s say 20% of every profile visit converts into a ‘return-visit’. That will mean 20 potential business owners who look at your LinkedIn profile every day.

That’s 600 potential leads in a month.

#12 Pay your friends to bring you traffic 💸

Now your friends wouldn’t be your friends if they didn’t help you to promote your business. Right?

Wrong.

Your friends probably have many things going on in their life and aren’t naturally ‘trained’ to promote your business.

But there’s a way to change that. 

Give them a 10% commission cut on every customer they bring in. Now suddenly they have something to gain. Therefore they’ll remember to promote your web design agency. 

They earn a nice side income, you build your business. Win-win!

#13 Use retargeting advertisements to win back customers 💌

Imagine.

A potential client is looking for a product you offer and stumbled upon your website. But after scrolling through your website for 30 seconds, he or she got a phone call from a friend. After calling for 20 minutes they forgot about your website and they close down their computer.

Auch.

That’s why I use retargeting advertisements to bring back these lost leads. Just install a Facebook pixel on your website to target all your website visitors with an advertisement on Facebook or Instagram.

#14 Leverage Facebook and LinkedIn groups 👫

Did you know there are Facebook/LinkedIn groups for literally every niche? Find the right ones and share your story.

Just make sure not to spam these groups as they’ll have no problems kicking you out.

#15 Translate your website to other languages for maximum traffic 🌎

WPML is our go-to translation plugin if we’re building multilingual sites. 

WPML is a plugin which allows you to build multilingual websites. It’s easy to install and enables you to translate your website fast and easy. WPML detects the language of your visitor and shows the right version of your page automatically.

https://mycodelesswebsite.com/try-wpml

#16 Use email automations to drive traffic to your website 🏂

Convertkit is an email service provider which helps you to send automated email funnels to your customers.

We’ve used Convertkit to convert leads into paying customers. Their features are incredible and their support is insane. Best of all – you can try it for free!

https://mycodelesswebsite.com/try-convertkit

#17 Convert your blog traffic to your sales page 🎯

Rightmessage is an optin tool which converts visitors into customers.

This tool allows you to create customized customer funnels based on the behaviour of your visitors. This is popup marketing 3.0.

https://mycodelesswebsite.com/try-rightmessage

Are you ready to build a website?

How much does the Divi theme cost?

The Divi 1 year license costs $89

The Divi lifetime license costs $249

However, if you buy Divi via this link, you’ll receive a sweet discount.

How fast is the Divi theme?

The Divi theme is really fast. Loading the divi builder literally takes less than a second. I’ve built many websites with Divi and never encountered any speed problems. Just make sure you have a good WordPress Hosting and your website will be incredible fast!

How many website can you build with the Divi theme?

You can build unlimited websites with the Divi theme. That being said, if you purchase the 1 year license, you won’t be able to update your website after 1 year. The website will still be live, but it will be exposed to safety risks if you don’t update your website every now and then.

Is Divi a professional website builder?

Yes. I’ve built numerous websites for clients using the Divi theme and the Divi builder. You know what’s the best part? My clients loved it! They like how easy the Divi builder is, because it enables them to make small adjustments to their website whenever they want. Using Divi for a client is a win-win!

How can I make money if I purchase Divi?

I’ve used Divi to make multiple websites for clients which allowed me to earn a few thousand dollars per website. If you’re able to sell a few websites per month this can generate a great income.

Do I need a separate Divi license for my client?

No. If you’ve bought the Divi theme and the Divi builder you only need one license for you and your clients.

Can I copy my Divi design to a different website?

Yes. Divi allows you to import/export your designs from one website to another. This allows you to work even faster!

Are there any Divi Templates?

Yes. Divi offers 150+ free templates you can use to jumpstart your next website.

Is Divi slow?

The short answer is no. The long answer is – it depends. Divi could potentially be slow, but that most likely has to do with your hosting. I’m hosting all my websites at Bluehost, they’re specialized in Divi WordPress hosting and offer 24/7 live chat.

Can I build a webshop with the Divi theme?

Yes. You can combine Divi with the Woocommerce wordpress plugin to build a webshop.

Is the Divi theme SEO friendly?

Yes. I’ve been able to rank multiple of my websites to the number one spot in Google for very high competitive keywords. A few of my Divi websites actually get more than 500,000 visitors per year through Google.

Is the Divi theme good for my business website?

Yes. Divi is the perfect theme to build your busines website.

Is there a free Divi theme crack?

The short answer is yes. The long answer is – don’t even think about it. There are a few illegal Divi theme downloads out there. I understand this sounds good, but these illegal downloads come with many virusses. Alongside, without a valid Divi license you won’t be able to update your website, which will expose your website to hackers and many other problems. Use this link to get Divi with a 10% discount, it’s one of the best investments I’ve ever done!

Can I try a free Divi theme demo?

Yes! Click here to try Divi a Divi demo for free.

Is the Divi theme good for ecommerce?

Yes. Divi works great together with the Woocommerce WordPress plugin. Great for building powerfull websites.

Can I install Google Analytics on the Divi Theme?

Yes. Divi allows you to implement Google Analytics to your website.

Is the Divi Theme Multisite?

Yes. You can build an unlimited number of websites with the Divi theme.

Can I create popups with the Divi theme?

Yes. If you purchase Divi you’ll get a free popup maker called Bloom. It’s great to capture emails of your visitors.

What about the Divi theme speed?

Divi could potentially be slow, but that most likely has to do with your hosting. I’m hosting all my websites at Bluehost, they’re specialized in Divi WordPress hosting and offer 24/7 live chat.

All of my Divi websites are loading very fast. Try the website you’re currently looking at, it’s built with Divi and hosted on WPX hosting.

Is the Divi theme compatible with Woocommerce?

Yes. Divi works great together with the Woocommerce WordPress plugin. Great for building powerfull websites.

What is the Divi theme?

Divi is a WordPress theme created by Elegant Themes. It’s used by webdesigners to build great looking websites. If you purchase the Divi theme you’ll also receive the Divi builder which enables you to use their mindblowing drag & drop builder. Building websites was never easier.

Is Divi a good Wordpress theme?

Yes. I’ve built over 20 websites with the Divi theme and I absolutely love it. I’ve used many website builders such as Wix, Squarespace, or just HTML/CSS/Javascript, for me Divi stands out the most.

It’s powerful, light-weight and many features.

What do you dislike about Divi theme?

Once you’ve built your website with Divi, it’s almost impossible to change to a different platform.

But does that really matter?

No.

I know multiple developers who customize Divi templates and built great websites in a fraction of the normal time to build a website.” 

Concluding on this topic – yes, you’re stuck with Divi. But that’s not a bad thing.

How to get the Divi theme?

You can buy Divi by clicking here with an exclusive 10% discount.

Is it best to purchase Divi for the ‘one time’ price?

My recommendation is to go for the lifetime license. Sure, you might pay a little extra now, but in the long run you’ll save a lot of money down the road.

What is the difference between Divi and WordPress?

WordPress is a Content Management System (CMS) which allows you to manage your website.

The Divi theme is a layer which you put on top of your WordPress website which enables you to create a good looking design.

The Divi builder is a tool which you can use to build your website with a powerful drag & drop builder. The Divi builder has 46 elements you can use for free.

How do I optimize my website security?

I highly recommend the ‘Hide My WP’ plugin. It’s great to protect your website from visitors with bad intentions!

Are you looking for a great Divi theme tutorial in 2023? Or are you just excited to see which Divi tutorials are out there?

Awesome.

Before we start, I just wanted to give you a heads up that I arranged a sweet discount on the Divi Theme. Make sure to check that out!

Let’s get started!

🎉 Here are the 4 best Divi Tutorials of 2023 🎉

Divi Tutorial #1 by Mak (97% upvotes)

What others said about this Divi tutorial 👋

– Shortest Divi tutorial and now I feel empowered to go create mine.

– Thanks so much. Your tutorial is simple!

– Thanks man, that was on point!!!

Divi Tutorial #2 by Ferdy Korpershoek (97% upvotes)

What others said about this Divi tutorial 👋

– Fantastic teaching. I don’t know Divi is having this much power.

– This is indeed the best tutorial ever I seen.

– This man is a legend

Divi Tutorial #3 by Darrel Wilson (97% upvotes)

What others said about this Divi tutorial 👋

– You are taking things to the next level!

– I wish they had this when I was 15

– Amazing tutorial, Best Divi tutorial I have ever seen

Advanced Divi Tutorial #4 by Mak (100% upvotes) 

What others said about this Divi tutorial 👋

– Awesome video

– Global defaults feature you explained are life changing

I hope you liked these Divi tutorials!

I’m 100% confident by watching these videos you’re ready to build amazing websites. Ever since I discovered Divi over 2 years ago, I fell in love with it.

I literally built every single website ever since with the Divi theme. It’s fast, user friendly and allows you to work VERY effective.

Have a look at the 30 day money back policy. If you don’t like it – you’ll get a 100% refund. Check it out!

Are you ready to build a website?