We’re back with another CMS progress update to keep you in the loop.
We know a lot of you are eager to get your hands on it, believe us, we want it out there too. While we don’t have a fixed release date just yet, we’re very close to launching a limited beta.
This initial version won’t be feature complete, but it should be enough for you to start using the CMS in your projects.
Now that Elements has hit the v1 milestone, now is a great time to jump in and start building your next website. Visit elementsapp.io to pick up your copy today.
Elements Demo Now Available
The new trial mode in Elements lets you explore the full app and build up to three pages, giving you a feel for the design workflow and features. While export and publishing are disabled in the trial, everything else is fully functional, so you can see exactly how Elements works before committing.
It’s the best way to experience the speed and simplicity of a modern website builder. You can now Download Elements with the new trial mode.
Thanks for Your Feedback
The Elements app evolves directly from your suggestions, and as always, we’d love to hear what you think so far. Your feedback truly makes all the difference
Tried to have a look at Elements. Found it horrific that all the videos were only available for me in South-American Spanish.
Why is it not possible to watch them in English? pretty crazy, never mind assuming no spaniard can speak English (I know it’s close to the truth, but still…)
Might want to check the settings in the YouTube Player. The Videos are in English. After all Realmacsoftware is an English Software Company. Wouldn’t make much sense to publish videos in South-American Spanish
Happens to me too btw. I’m German but tend to watch YouTube Videos in English. And when I suddenly watch a German video, I somehow have an English audio track, which confuses me.
My one big question concerns the other half of a CMS. So far this is all about setting up a site to be dynamic, so changes can be made without editing the project in Elements (after all, that’s what CMS is). At work I’m used to editing a Wordpress-based CMS site as a user which has been programmed by someone else. That is, I edit existing articles and create new ones within the existing set-up, and I don’t need to know what’s going on under the hood. I also don’t need to know about markdown, etc.
So what’s the user interface in Elements CMS going to look like? How will access be administered (user log-in?)? Upload of resources, such as images into the site resources?
This has been mentioned in previous updates on the CMS. The ability to remotely manage the CMS is a feature that will be an addon at a later date after the initial release of the CMS.
To start with the work creation work will need to be done in Elements. Although Markdown files could be added to a folder on the server remotely and they would show up in the site.
As I understand it Elements has to have the Markdown as a resource so it can reference it. This means when you upload the site any file there with that name will get over written.
In the case where you or a customer puts a file up on the site the data can get there, but that means they will have to over write the file you put there when you designed the site and future updates to the site will remove any changes the customer made.
Am I making sense?
I can see this working, but the timing will have to be considered. Perhaps you can use the flags on the element to not have it upload the file. That is the cloud icon?
Let’s say you are creating a blog; each blog entry would have its own unique Markdown file. So, unless you want to purposely overwrite a file, as long as you have different file names, everything should be fine.
When Elements uploads files to the server, it never deletes files. I’m not sure how it handles cases where the filename is identical. I’m assuming it replaces it, but that would be something that would have to be answered by the team.
The cloud icon alongside the file, if active, means the file will not be uploaded and therefore is essentially a draft.
If you were to manually update or replace a file that is part of your Elements project, then yes, those changes will very likely be replaced when publishing your site via Elements.
I would not recommend modifying any files that are managed by Elements, you run the risk of losing any changes you’ve made.
The first version of the CMS is aimed at creating and modifying content directly within Elements, an online editing area will be available later. However, and as I just posted above, we’ve not started work on that just yet so I can’t say exactly when that will be available.
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