Blackrock Apartments

Elements Built with Elements
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:desktop_computer: Blackrock Apartments, Queenstown, NZ

:hammer_and_wrench: Built with Elements

:link: Visit the site: https://www.blackrockq.com/

:pencil: Builders Notes:
With a bit of help from Dan with the sticky menu I had the guts of this site done within a couple of days of starting with Elements. Without all the tutorials to refer to I think I would have been lost but once I got the hang of it I was able knock something up that looks kind of half professional. No going back to RW now, Elements is a fantastic bit of software.

I designed on a desktop for a desktop and after publishing noticed it needed a lot of work to view it on a mobile. Knowing this I will do things in a different order for my next site to save a lot of repetitive work.

It is a very basic site that used North Eleven as a template to get started. Just throwing it up here as an example of what someone without a lot of techie nerd knowledge can put together pretty quickly with Elements.

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The site looks great, nice and clean design, and easy to navigate :ok_hand:

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So, you got the map locations page as part of the North Eleven template?

The site looks basic but very competent. I’ve been reading that you need to start with Mobile first and then add other screen options.

You kicked out to the booking and payments site? Did you try anything with Elements for that?

Thanks so much for sharing.

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Map is just some code from Google, easy enough to do. I used the template just to get an understanding of how a site in Elements is structured.

The site is meant to be basic. For what it is selling it doesn’t need any bells and whistles. Am working on a sister site that has a few accordions in it but that is about my limit.

I still design on desktop for desktop but do think a bit more about how it looks on mobile to save a lot of rework. (Basic process now is throw everything on the page for desktop, go to mobile view and get it how I want it then go up each screen size doing over rides for the various breakpoints). Read another thread earlier about accessibility. I am quite colour blind hence why it might be a bit bland in that department.

The booking site is 3rd party. Due to the amount of effort to maintain something like that which is critical to the business, and the security issues around storing credit card details, I am happy to pay someone else to do it. Having said that, their mobile site really needs some work.