The more I tinker with Elements, the more I like it. It’s changing how I design a site.
With RapidWeaver the lack of WYSIWIG was annoying, and working with foundations with multiple things embedded in them became a nightmare at times; in one case something I wanted to change was in the middle (somewhere, wasn’t sure at first) of a multi-page scrolling set of stuff all embedded in each other. That makes site designing more into programming, less into designing.
If I want to try something different—I’m attempting to make visually and interactively simple sites this time—I’m doing more the design thing than the coding thing, and I’m doing it directly with the elements (hmm, good name ;~), though I still get stuck in the inspector more than I’d like. Trying different approaches as I try to simplify is faster, more direct, and more satisfying in Elements than anything else I’ve tried so far.
I have doubts as to whether Elements will work for my big (thousands of pages) production sites, but the projects I’m working on right now are benefiting from me just being able to play with design more than coding. So thanks for that, RMS team, good on you.
Just thought you should know. I’ve been on the other side of as a developer of new software in much of my career, and I know that sometimes you wonder if you’re doing the right thing. You’re doing the right thing.
