A Good Fit?

[Max]

Max

November 8, 2017 at 12:33 pm

I have a client website that was built on the theme Weaver II. It’s a large complex site with a fair amount of CSS to get it the way the client wanted it, and it needs an upgrade. Upgrading to the next generation of Weaver is a possibility, but I’d much rather switch it over to Ascend, which I’m a lot more comfortable with.

There are a few things about this site that I’m concerned might be difficult or impossible in Ascend, and I’m hoping you can advise me about what whether that’s true, or what might be involved.

1) I think the biggest issue is the navigation panels. The client likes having the menus and submenus displayed with as many as three tiers visible, as shown for example: *Login to see link or here: *Login to see link Is there a way to get something like that to work in Ascend?

2) Another issue is the fact that they use different sidebar elements (mostly various kinds of gallery widgets) for every page. In the current theme this is accomplished by creating separate widget areas for each page. I suppose this could be accomplished in Ascend by using the SiteOrigin editor, and creating a sidebar column on each page, and inserting the widgets there. Does that seem like the best approach?

3) A third concern is that there are scores of galleries already set up on the site using a plugin called NextGen. I’d prefer not to spend days remaking those, and I am assuming that changing the theme would not disturb these existing galleries, and they could still be plugged into the pages where they need to go. Am I correct to assume that?

Answers to those questions and any other issues that you notice would be gratefully appreciated!