Mike Freeman
Built with Elements by Mike Freeman
Visit the site: jazzvibe.com
Builders Notes (optional):
First, let me say that I’m very excited and satisfied with the final outcome of my Elements site! It’s ready for prime time and I hope you check it out.
My thoughts on Elements: The learning curve was a bit steep but once you get the hang of things, it was easy. For instance, discovering that putting photo galleries inside of a container was needed in order to deal with gallery margins was a light bulb moment for me.
The blog was very difficult and time consuming to put together (countless hours!). The basics, like changing the page from html to php took a long time for me to realize and understand. The rest of it took forever to get working. It was definitely a eureka moment when it finally did start working! Spending time watching outdated video tutorials was a pain.
And finally, publishing uploads even for small changes on one page is very slow. It takes a long time generating checksums. Once it gets to uploading files it’s fast, but it takes a long time before it gets there. And quitting the application is very slow. I often experience long waiting times watching beachballs.
In the end, was it all worth it, compared to my Classic site?
Yes!!!
Take a look!