I am learning Elements and have used a theme that came with the software but, when I publish it with my alterations, it publishes as the original and not my edits.
Does this mean that you can only use the themes for practise and not live?
Themes in Elements ≠ Themes in Classic
A Classic Theme is more akin to a Project in Elements
A Theme in Elements is how a site looks overall and can be accessed in the theme settings window
Note, that as of now, theme settings have not been unlocked for editing, but can be overridden. Editing coming soon!!
What did you change, what didn’t change, did you save, can you show screenshot??
Hi.
I did not edit the theme just changed the content to suit my website.
I cannot see how to include a screenshot.
Tried and I got this message 
“An error occurred: Sorry, you can’t embed media items in a post.”
I think you have to make a certain number of posts, and then Discourse will let you attach a screen shot…
Yet another weird thing with all this. I am wondering if Classic was worth staying with.
Personally, I say no. I would switch to Elements (and am currently using Elements). Others would have different opinion.
My web site was originally written using GoLive and hasn’t been changed since. It took me about 18 months to convert to Elements. Not because of Elements, but because of size and type of site.
I have spent all day trying to just make a simple website and publish it without success. I ran into trouble first not getting the menu and header automatically posting onto new pages’ and now this.
Never mind. I will give it a rest and try again tomorrow.
Thanks for trying to help.
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With Elements, you have to create each page, and place the elements of the page on each manually. There are ways to speed everything up, with Globals and Templates, but they have to be placed manually. If each page design is the same, you can use a template, and then just change the content.
Elements is very different than Classic and has a much different work flow. You will have to spend the time time learning how Elements works, and it will become much easier.
I totally understand the frustration and it can happen the first time you open Elements, but if you have a little patience, then you will learn to think about the differences too,
in RapidWeaver Classic, themes and content were separate. You could completely change your site’s appearance with a single click just by switching themes, and all your content would automatically adapt to the new design while staying intact. You could even save different theme configurations with specific colors and fonts, then switch between them instantly whenever you wanted.
RapidWeaver Elements takes a different approach. The design is integrated directly with your project content, creating a unified workflow where everything works together as one cohesive unit.
Elements uses Themes(in this case a kind of theme styles as RW classic ) to help you maintain visual consistency across your project. It’s simply a different philosophy in how design and content work together.
I think the best way forward is to experiment with existing templates. Start replacing images and text with your own content and see how everything flows together. This hands-on approach will quickly help you understand Elements’ integrated approach to design and content.
I’ve made several free Classic layouts for Elements, just to help and encourage the transition, but this still takes some practice. 