I’m a DIY-er with existing web site built with Dynamik Website Builder, which I’ve used for nearly 10 years. I know a little CSS and HTML, but I’m not a web developer.
I purchased Pro today on the recommendation of a friend, and after being impressed by some of the YouTube videos. But my experience has been very frustrating. I have a hard time believing Themeco’s claim that 40% of its customers are first-time site builders; to me, the documentation seems aimed at people who’ve been using X or Pro a long time and already know the basics -and at professional developers.
I’ve done web searches, read the help documents, and watched videos, and I’m still lost. I decided to just jump in and try stuff, and ended up deleting content in a page which I couldn’t recover via Cornerstone’s Undo. (Thank heavens for WordPress’s version history.)
I activated Pro on a staging site of my existing web site, so there were a few dozen pages of content, almost all of which are static pages.
- What is the purpose of Stacks? I thought they’re a starting point for designing your site. As such, I expected that when I opened, say, the Header builder in Cornerstone, that it would show the header for Integrity (the Stack I chose). But it says “No Header Found - click to create a new header.” Likewise for the other Builders and the Templates window. Is there any way to pull in the design elements from the Stack into the Builders?
The documentation of Stacks simply describes the various controls, but those are fairly self-explanatory. IMO, it fails to explain what Stacks are for.
- My current site builder (Dynamik) controls the appearance, but you still add the content (posts, pages) in the standard WordPress editor.
Am I correct that with Pro and Cornerstone, you don’t use the WordPress post/page editor at all?
- Are there tutorials about how to open an existing site’s page and post content in Cornerstone?
While viewing the content of a pre-existing page in the Stack, I opened the Page builder and was asked if I wanted to start with existing content. But the page I was working on wasn’t listed. Why not?
I selected “Start from scratch” . I thought it would let me design the page elements while retaining the existing content of the page, but as I mentioned above it deleted all the content.
It’s looking like Pro just might not be a good fit for me.
But even with all my research, maybe I overlooked the answers to these questions.
I’d really appreciate any help.
Thanks!!