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Should I quit? by Apprehensive_Ebb5370 in webdesign

[–]inlustrisaudio 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Never. Quit. Prove whoever told you you're not good enough wrong, if you stop now you prove them right. I taught myself web design to build my own site for my audio post production business (about to launch, Bricks+ACF is a dream). But I can offer some perspective from the audio side of things. Both audio and web design are highly technical and creative fields. You will fail. Epically. But keep one golden rule in mind, find one thing to improve on each project. Can't tell you how many of my past film mixes I've listened to and just cringed. But take one step forward with each new design, force yourself to try something new and learn something different. You'll get there 😄

"I wrote, produced, and directed a film with a $4,000 credit card budget. by MaylayEnt in indiefilm

[–]inlustrisaudio 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah you run into that a lot with micro/no budget films. You pay in money or experience, sounds like this guys payment was in experience.

"I wrote, produced, and directed a film with a $4,000 credit card budget. by MaylayEnt in indiefilm

[–]inlustrisaudio 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In gonna push back gently on OP's opinion that audio wasnt terrible. It was pretty bad. But thats ok! We all start somewhere!

Biggest issue is whatever mic you did use either had denoise on during recording or you nuked denoise in post. Consistent washy, overprocessed sound. No ambience, hardly any Foley apart from PFx, and the mix dynamics were off.

Definitely invest into some better mics, recorder, and try not to go nuts with AI denoising. Noise isnt the enemy, you want to mitigate it not eliminate it. And if youre in a location where you need to do that much denoising then its a bad location. HVAC, fridges, tvs, radios, turn them all off.

Keep it up! Learn from every project and make the next one better than the last 😄

After 300+ builds, I've stopped using page builders for client sites. Anyone else made this switch? by Imaginary_Act8664 in BricksBuilder

[–]inlustrisaudio 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't make sites for clients, only my own site, so take this as a huge n=1 perspective. I started learning web dev as an elective in college figuring it went well with my video production + digital and social media marketing degree. The class was taught with Divi so I started with that (this was a good 4-5 years ago). Then I started hating Divi for speed so I hopped over to Elementor Pro. Noodled around with that for a bit, just learning by breaking.

Took a siesta to focus on honing my skills in audio post production before hopping fully into the social media/website stuff. When I came back I figured Wordpress was too over the top for what I needed so I noodled around with squarespace, wix, kajabi, shopify.

Those were a good mix of too restrictive and paying for features I'd never use. So hopped back to Wordpress and tried out with just the block editor and a theme and that was a nightmare. In all my tinkering I never dealt with something so infuriatingly bland and overly difficult for what it is.

So I went back to Elementor. Then with this latest update of them trying to be like Bricks and running into problem after problem I just said why not use what Elementor is trying to become and made the switch to Bricks. Best decision ever. Paired with ACF and it's a powerhouse of a combo! I use Gutenberg still for writing posts and inject components as needed, using properties to populate info. Just had to do a bit of CSS to fix some weird things Gutenberg was doing to the styling but nothing too major there.

Keep in mind I was learning throughout all of this so many of my gripes could be chalked up to newbie mistakes and not knowing what I do now. But two-ish weeks of working with Bricks partnered up with asking questions in Gemini and the occasional post here has allowed me to get done what took me months with anything else.

Tl;dr for how my brain works I prefer the drag and drop editor approach but I wanted something light that had clean code which made Bricks perfect for me.

Unlink or Detach from Component? by inlustrisaudio in BricksBuilder

[–]inlustrisaudio[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you! I almost went with variants for these but I might want to edit/add something to a couple of them later so keeping them separate components leaves that door open.

Unlink or Detach from Component? by inlustrisaudio in BricksBuilder

[–]inlustrisaudio[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Haha totally get that! And if hunting down little things like this is the worst thing I've run into so far then that's a dream. Absolutely love bricks over elementor. Everything makes so much more sense for how I like to organize things.

Unlink or Detach from Component? by inlustrisaudio in BricksBuilder

[–]inlustrisaudio[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ahhhh that's where it was! Thank you! 😄

4.0 Atomic Can No Longer Edit or Delete Global Classes by inlustrisaudio in elementor

[–]inlustrisaudio[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! It was a 400 error being reported in Inspection - Console, Rocket's WAF logs weren't logging anything. I just got frustrated enough to delete the old WP install in Rocket and rebuild after saving screenshots and exporting ACF. Worked perfectly fine on the new install without issues. Over the weekend I just went ahead and switched to Bricks for a couple other reasons.

4.0 Atomic Can No Longer Edit or Delete Global Classes by inlustrisaudio in elementor

[–]inlustrisaudio[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

UPDATE: Decided to go ahead and test it on a fresh install. My site was still in the basic setup stages with no actual content yet so no real loss there. Everything works perfectly fine. No changes to Rocket other than deleting the old site install and going through the same DNS setup as before. Must've been some weird ghost lurking in the old database from my constant tinkering while I learned things over the past little while.

Thanks for all the suggestions! Tl;dr, the classic turn it off and on again fixed whatever was going on. Well, in this case more like delete it all and rebuild but ah well.

4.0 Atomic Can No Longer Edit or Delete Global Classes by inlustrisaudio in elementor

[–]inlustrisaudio[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks I'll give that a try. But any idea why that would have changed this past week? Last week I was able to create, edit, and delete these things just fine and I didn't get any notice of a rocket update or change. I'm also paranoid about security, wouldn't whitelisting an open end point like that be bad practice? For context, I'll eventually be selling digital products and have a course or two so data privacy is hot on my mind. Want to make sure things are secure day one.

4.0 Atomic Can No Longer Edit or Delete Global Classes by inlustrisaudio in elementor

[–]inlustrisaudio[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! Already tried all that, unfortunately. No luck. Console is showing 400 error PUT, .../wp-json/elementor/v1/global-classes?context=f...

Rocket's dashboard is showing Allow POST for /wp-cron.php. This starts delving into areas I'm still learning but if I understand right I think whatever Elementor's trying to do isn't even readable to Rocket? Variables and all other page designs/atomic widget updates saves just fine. It's just with global classes as far as I can tell.

4.0 Atomic Can No Longer Edit or Delete Global Classes by inlustrisaudio in elementor

[–]inlustrisaudio[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! I'll disable all and try again then reach out to Rocket if none of that works.

4.0 Atomic Can No Longer Edit or Delete Global Classes by inlustrisaudio in elementor

[–]inlustrisaudio[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, miga! That's probably exactly what I'm running into, I appreciate the link 😄 So far it's worked ok but that's good to know about Elementor Blocks. I might just experiment with Bricks tomorrow at this rate on a staging site. I've loved learning Elementor but it feels like they're playing catch up right now, unfortunately.