I am so happy I found this article. Am totally new to WP, know nothing about CSS/JS/PHP, was about to purchase Avada on Themeforest but decided to do a little bit of due diligence before pulling the trigger. I already bought X theme and not pleased with how it works, and thought Avada may be the one.

Very grateful for this article and everyone who chimed in, you sure have convinced me to stay away from the Themeforest route.

One thing that really made me change my mind about Avada or any other theme in Themeforst is when someone said how portable are my contents once I started using a particular theme? This spooked me.

It has been a nightmare for me trying to migrate my site to another platform so I will do anything to avoid having to do that on a regular basis.

I hope I can return the favor to you guys one day.