Hi,
There are a number of issues with Modern Sliders which are making it difficult to use. We’ve come across a new issue yesterday which we’ve been unable to solve.
The logos (JSON) are sometimes changing colour and this appears to be a random thing. When using a few logos, they appear okay - as soon as we start to build up numbers, adding a new logo makes one or more of the logos change colour. We’ve tested every logo out as an individual file, however, depending on the logo we add (sometimes), the logos affected actually change to a similar/same colour. This has baffled us.
We have tried a variety of ways converting the logo files and even stripped out much of the detail to keep some of the files smaller - one of the logos in the code sent to you was stripped back (the brand with the letter M) because the original logo is ‘metallic’ and SVG file size was significant.
The other issues with the slider is the sheer time it takes to navigate within the GUI, having to let things go around again and again (as using click or drag or stopping the animation makes it go back to the first logo when editing). This adds a long time to the development timeframes.
Finally, there needs to be some form of documentation for the sliders - in detail. It is possible to pick up information from your YouTube tutorials, the Modern Slider Tutorials and the original Slider Tutorials, however it is all over the place and not comprehensive.
We’ve only used one of the modern slider templates to-date, however, the use of JSON files needs to be clearly explained to users - there are a several posts on this forum which give a good ‘approximate’ answer on how to do things, but nothing which has been put together to help users.
We’ve built on this, adding our own notes, however, it appears to be designed for users who are very comfortable with JSON conversions and who have significant experience in knowing how best to convert for purpose. The process of conversion is very much hit and miss. Sometimes Exporting from ai, sometimes finding logos on the web which have already been done and sometimes (not always) optimising the SVG files give the best results. The best solution we have found (still not great) is the svgviewer.dev tool which allows you to upload the SVG and optimise. The problem here is that the workflow then needs to move to a Text Editor to strip out the unecessary JSON code (height / width - although it sometimes does not need removing) and changing the / and " to / and /" respectively.
All of this is a real headache and Themeco could help by providing a detailed process for users to follow, including the optimal and suggested way of converting SVG files.
We have a couple of logos which converted at around 800Mb - that’s huge and many times bigger than the original SVG file. Some logos really slow down the process completely and even the SVG logos which are small in size (on JSON conversion) can stretch to 20 to 150 pages long (of text) and then things grind to a halt.
Please can you let us know why we are having issues with colours? Why this is random? What is the fix? And, is using JSON really a sensible way of putting 20 logos into a slider? Does this have file size/ page loading speed / SEO benefits? Or is it simply a solution which is good for up to 10 logos which are relatively simple. Bear in mind that anything which looks metallic, has gradients, shadows etc makes SVG JSON code rather bulky,
Thanks for the great product - at the moment it doesn’t appear to work as effectively or efficiently as it is marketed to be - it’s a real coders paradise, but less useful for rapid web development for clients.
I will have to put code in separate post as it exceeds the character limit of the forum.
