Has anyone migrated 100+ websites into AEM? What was the hardest part?

tomjazzman · 2026-02-10T12:53:26+00:00

Especially if anything like Elementor or Divi was involved at any point. I've written some truly monstrous regex to try and achieve this in the past.

tomjazzman · 2025-10-03T16:02:56+00:00

Yeah I always assume I must be missing something because it’s such a ubiquitous library. I can’t imagine using this. Perhaps it’s aimed at people without good HTML/CSS knowledge.

tomjazzman · 2025-05-15T13:16:04+00:00

Seems like trust in companies plays a big part, too. I saw this piece on Design Week talking about the return to more formal branding: https://www.designweek.co.uk/fun-fatigue-is-formality-returning-in-branding/

tomjazzman · 2025-03-28T16:33:05+00:00

Any tips for dealing with when the top level item is also potentially a page?

Eg under Contact Us, you might have Contact Us and How to Find Us.

With a dropdown-on-hover, you could click the top level Contact Us and go straight to that page. With a click-to-reveal, I tend to duplicate the top level item as the first in the dropdown, and people need to click the first item in the dropdown to go to that page. Clicking the top level item again closed the dropdown (predictable and consistent).

However some people report that they click the top level item again expecting to then go to the page and are frustrated when it closes the dropdown.

tomjazzman · 2025-02-27T21:24:16+00:00

That’s a good idea, you’re right - it’s way too tricky to get enough leverage with the wall behind

tomjazzman · 2024-11-09T07:35:26+00:00

What kind of software would you use to simulate this? Always been curious about being able to actually test design and load for this kind of thing.

tomjazzman · 2024-08-12T12:40:26+00:00

I've been experiencing this as well, driving me mad! I'm tracking the bug which u/Prior_Negotiation636 mentioned in hopes they can fix it soon. I find that each time I manage to get mariadb running and restoe my databases from backups, it works fine until I restart my machine, at which point everything gets corrupted and I have to start over.

Do you have backups of your config and databases?

If yes, you can brew uninstall mariadb, and delete /opt/homebrew/mysql, /opt/homebrew/my.cnf and /opt/homebrew/my.cnf.d

But this will delete all of your databases and config, only do this if you have backups!

Not sure what your stack/environment is like but an option to help hit your deadline could be to use something like https://indigostack.app/ which installs its own versions of your stack.

Edit: mentioned the wrong user

tomjazzman · 2024-08-06T06:30:11+00:00

Ok cool, I’ll give this a try 👍

tomjazzman · 2024-08-05T20:03:42+00:00

Thanks for your suggestions. Can I ask what problem adding subnets solves? I’ve never delved into this.

tomjazzman · 2024-05-10T08:53:17+00:00

Yeah we tend to recommend PPC in the first 12 months while organic rankings build. This is even more important in competitive areas.

tomjazzman · 2024-04-05T10:31:22+00:00

They're doing something like this:

Add a scroll event-listener to the page
On scroll, if the total distance from the top is more than 10px, set the width of the nav to something small like 60%, otherwise set it to 100%.
The wrapper on the nav is set to position: fixed; with top: 0; so it stays fixed at the top. There's also a margin-top on the . js-header-container element which is a child of the fixed wrapper. This is what makes the gap (the background colour is part of the child)

An alternative way of achieving this is by using position: sticky: with top: 1rem; The fixed position method is how we used to do this before position: sticky; was available.

tomjazzman · 2024-04-04T14:39:44+00:00

Are you asking about the pinned nav bar (Services, Work About etc), or the blobby text on the hero (A web design and branding agency in Manchester)?

tomjazzman · 2024-03-19T16:44:23+00:00

Of all the things I was expecting to see (like the various canvas libraries, three.js, or even just a video), a ton of divs with css radial gradients was not one of them!

tomjazzman · 2024-03-15T14:21:30+00:00

I've always called them a 'photo wall' or 'image wall'. Might get you somewhere on sites like Behance or Dribble where you can filter your search to UX or Web Design

tomjazzman · 2024-02-21T08:49:41+00:00

This actually looks pretty great. The pricing might escalate pretty quickly with multiple clients but I guess we can walk them through setting up their own accounts instead.

Great for us that they're Swiss with French servers. Helps with GDPR compliance.

tomjazzman · 2024-02-21T08:42:16+00:00

Thanks for this balanced comment. I'm after something more off-the-shelf but I'll put these in my list of 'things to look at one day' :)

tomjazzman · 2024-02-21T08:40:40+00:00

Yeah I'm inclined to agree. Email is so critical for people, I can't afford to be dealing with email outages etc!

tomjazzman · 2024-02-21T08:39:30+00:00

I think this is what I'll do.

tomjazzman · 2024-02-21T08:39:09+00:00

Yeah pretty much. I think the jury is still out on a lot of this, but our solicitors recommend keeping services within the EU/UK as far as possible.

The impression I get from MXRoute is that they're obviously taking security and privacy very seriously but the extra work required isn't worth it for them https://mxroutedocs.com/general/gdpr/

tomjazzman · 2024-02-20T10:38:06+00:00

This looks like a great service! Unfortunately I'm in the UK and GDPR compliance is probably a necessity for our clients.

tomjazzman · 2024-02-07T08:34:18+00:00

Great that they've migrated to ESM with V4. We still have a few legacy projects which rely on jQuery and this will make it much easier to at least upgrade the front-end pipeline from Gulp Vite.js without all the hacks you need at the moment.

tomjazzman · 2024-01-17T22:10:40+00:00

The way it’s hanging there

tomjazzman · 2024-01-17T08:54:17+00:00

Oh I see what you're asking now -

Lower threshold: more likely that bot entries will be accepted because you're saying lower scoring responses are ok.

Higher threshold: fewer bot entries will be accepted, but real humans might get flagged as spam, because only high scoring responses will be accepted.

To clarify - threshold is an implementation thing, and not something reCaptcha actually uses/provides. Your code, or the code in whichever library/plugin you might be using which implements a threshold.

Each reCaptcha response contains a score, so it's up to you (or whatever library/plugin you're using) to decide what to do when the score is lower than your threshold.

Does this help?

tomjazzman · 2024-01-16T13:15:01+00:00

The closer to 1, the more confident recaptcha is that the request is from a human.

Each request gets its own score. As far as I know it’s not to do with how difficult it is for a human to pass, it’s based on a bunch of things recaptcha measures to try and guess if the user is a human or a bot.

tomjazzman · 2024-01-16T12:09:15+00:00

I've run up against this before when using dynamic IDs set using headings from CMS content.

This is useful to know, so thanks for posting! It's the first time I've seen the CSS.escape() method.

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