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Hi,
I love Enfold but my CSS Designer says that it´s impossible to edit Enfold so that it looks like http://www.joveniajuveler.se
excl. flash (when clicking on ny of top link in menu.
Designer says editing Enfold theme would result in over 1,500 setting variations in order to make same design as on current flashsite.
i.e MUST / CAN my website look like enfold demo ?
If not, if Enfold can be edited, can u give example of major files that designer must edit except CSS file?
The Designer also writes:
“Using theme forest themes always result in updates ruining optimizations. Its best not to use a themeforest.net theme if
you are changing the interface. If you do any update will overwrite the styling applied.
If you don’t update wordpress and plugins you risk getting hacked. “
– Does that seem wrong or right according to your expertize?
Thanks, knowing this i will know how to proceed.
I think the designer is probably right. It would be quicker and easy to design a theme from scratch to achieve this. Also, although the joveniajuveler looks alright I think the Enfold theme (and WordPress) would enable you to create a more extensive and better website.
Hi Suicide Rescue,
You could pretty easily set all the color settings to black (maybe 1.5 hours total) and then remove all un-needed elements to get a very simplistic but dark design. The exact layout from the reference isn’t a realistic goal unless you are building from scratch. Using it as an inspiration for the overall look and feel is pretty solid.
The demo doesn’t use anything special to get its look, within about 5 minutes of install that is what you can have on your own site. See: https://vimeo.com/channels/aviathemes/64927356
As for updates ruining things, that only happens if you edit the theme poorly or sloppy. Create a child theme:https://vimeo.com/channels/aviathemes/67221517 and then you add all your changes to it. If anything major is needed on the parent theme then make a personal changes.txt file that you record all of your modifications to. Then when you need to update the parent theme its pretty quick to re-add in anything that had to get updated.
Regards,
Devin
Your designer is right and wrong. They’re right that it would take a lot of work to recreate the example website in any WordPress theme, especially since the example is all flash. But, you can use Enfold or any other theme to create an HTML alternative to your all flash example. I agree with Torlock that you could create a more extensive and better website using Enfold or any of the more popular WordPress themes.
I believe your designer is wrong with their comments about ruining optimizations. With the use of child themes you can make changes to appearance, etc. and continue to keep these settings while updating the theme core. WordPress actually recommends creating a child theme, and many designers (e.g. Kriesi) have child themes as part of their theme files.
There are security vulnerabilities in most if not all programs. So as developers find issues with their software they close the hole, therefore it is essential to keep your software up to date. Furthermore, hackers love going after php code and they look for security holes. Therefore, it is important to keep your programs up to date.
Just like any piece of software developers are constantly adding functionality to their software to make it easier to use, more powerful, etc. so you need to keep they software up to date. WordPress, Joomla and any other CMS is no different. So they have to be updated on a regular basis.
“Using theme forest themes always result in updates ruining optimizations. Its best not to use a themeforest.net theme if
you are changing the interface. If you do any update will overwrite the styling applied.” – imo that’s not true because even if you create a custom theme you maybe need to update/hack the theme when a WordPress/browser, etc. update breaks your code. This can happen with all themes and it’s not just a problem of themeforest.net themes. Maybe the developer wanted to say that some themeforest authors do not support their themes anymore after 3,6,12,etc. months and tbh he’s right – some authors just drop the support if the theme doesn’t sell anymore. However Enfold is the most popular Kriesi theme and we are not interested in loosing the customers by dropping the support. In addition you have the same problem with all other themes – if your developer doesn’t work for you anymore you also need to hire someone to update the custom theme for you…
Can you rebuild JOVENIAJUVELER.SE with Enfold? I don’t think this is feasible because you’d need to use many html5/css3 techniques and then you’ll have the problem of “downwards compatibility” with older browsers. In addition the animations of html5/jQuery are imo not as good as flash animations. If you want a new website you can use Enfold – however imo a 1:1 copy of the flash website doesn’t make much sense and you’ll just burn money…
Thank you guys for your answere! Due to time limitation and due to the fact that I already had to pay the designer 50% upfront… I will for now let him develop custom wp theme even if the backend will be shitty compared with FAB Enfold :(
If anyone is a good designer of ongoing design related work on Enfold please feel free to contact me on johan (at) intelligentsolutions (dot) se thanks!
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