I had some time this week and decided to try the import function of Elements for existing Classic projects. My website was made around 2 years ago using Rapidweaver Classic, Stacks, Alloy, and Foundry.
Over the last few months, I felt more and more uncomfortable to update and maintain my website. I was really a big fan of Foundry 3 but going back from Elements to maintain my Foundry site feels always like going back in time. I sometimes need minutes to understand how it needs to be done. After switching to preview, I found myself several times by clicking into the preview only to recognise that I have to go back to edit mode to make changes.
So I tried the import function of Elements and after a very short time the conversion was done. My complete page structure was imported, all my content was there, the publishing setup was correct, the favicons are in etc. What I liked most was that all my pictures were sorted under Resources in the same structure as in Classic. Everything looked fine for a start!
It took me some hours to replicate the Homepage and doing some smaller improvements and changes. Then published the Homepage. The other pages will follow the next days. What I really like is, that I can now rework my site page by page. The already published pages from Classic stay untouched and work as they are. You only select the pages you want to keep on Classic as to be not published in Elements and voilĂ .
Great work team Elements! It makes the transition from Classic to Elements a breeze. I’m thoroughly satisfied.
If you would like to have a look: weaverpixel.com. Currently, I only converted the homepage, the subpages will follow.
Oh, and before I forget it. The speed improved from an 82 score to 99.
Nice layouts and animation items. My only “critique” and that comes from a 73 year olds eyes, is the difficulty I have seeing a black background with purple or other color buttons. I have seen a variety of websites built like this over the past few years. Many even have grey text on them. My eyes just can’t read much from the site, so I just move on.
There was a stacks developer years ago that used a similar style, though the contrasting colors used on the site were far worse for the eyes.
I also loved Foundry3. Was very sad when Adam quit developing. I am looking forward to seeing what you develop. Cheers
yes modern website design is often very dark nowadays. I created mine in the first step also with a very dark approach but what I had in back of my mind was to create a dark and a light version. More or less everything is prepared to do so and your feedback encouraged me to do so. So have a look in the next days
Markus I feel your pain! Having just made my first project live yesterday on my trial site I asked for comments and made changes. Your site look OK on a computer when narrowing from computer to phone size screen but on mobile it doesnt.
I checked everything on the “sizers” inside project - everything all sort up for breakpoints etc. looked good, but on trial site people pointed out things they found on phone and iPad etc. But when looked on screen and narrowed down it reacted as I’d expect.
As this was my first project I have learned so much and I now know to check everything on phone and iPad as well as on screen and in project too.
