Once my site gets converted from RSD 1.5 to V3, is V3 easier to learn and use?

A personal view. Your question is difficult to answer. I went from 1.5 to 2.5 converting Coffeegrinder sites to Foundation framework. I was given a lot of help on the forums to do this with special thanks to Inger & Wayan. Converting my sites from 2.5 Foundation to SD3 Foundation was ok. There was a big learning curve for me and I am still not comfortable with SD3 although I have written basic sites using it although without a lot of the bells and whistles the software offers. I have no formal website background just an interest since I produced my first HTML website using CoffeeCup in 1999. I now have all my sites (I do these for charity and good causes etc) on SD3 and once you accept everything is about containers it becomes easier ….not easy.

Good luck.

Russ

I agree with what Russ said. Once you grasp the idea of containers it makes more sense. The program is very full of bells and whistles which is a great thing... That also means there is a lot to learn (and I am still learning). These community forums are a great help.

There is a learning curve... But it is worth it.

So it makes more sense to use containers for the Bootstrap and Foundation frameworks instead of rows and coulums ?

Whether it makes sense or not depends on how you define sense. I would say using containers instead of rows and columns is easier
1 - because you can have less units inside each other (with rows/columns you can't have one without the other, with containers you need neither)
2. because, if you are using flex positioning with rows and columns, you can't set the body or the row to display flex. With just containers you can set even the body to display flex.

All that is over my head, so far. I usually find someone ( Adam West did my first CC site ) to do the first one, and then learn to maintain it, which has been a struggle with 1.5, if I needed to change anything significant. Here's what I have for the latest: https://denverprocessservers.net/

But I've noticed that the www version can display better than the non-www version, and need to learn to do htaccess redirects, so it doesn't mess things up with Google, which I'm told can falsely think that we've done duplicate sites for extra ranking, or something, which is not so.

I've been having a hard time finding help with the htaccess file. Need someone to review the whole thing and see if I have it right. The redirect that I tried, caused a "server error" and I had to remove it.

This is weird and something I haven't been able to fix. On my current site - the Blog Article title; "Why Shopping", despite ALL my efforts ( RSD 1.5 remember ) renders on Chrome on my phone, with dark blue text on a dark blue background, while on Chrome on my PC, it renders like it should - with dark blue text on a white background.

I meant using SD3 makes more sense once you understand how they work. You design your site to whatever framework specifications you like. I do not know which makes more sense to use...whatever you like, I suppose. Sorry for any confusion.

How did you write your redirect in your .htaccess file?
I have used this syntax earlier:



You have to edit what is in italic and bold, of course.

Inger, one issue is that it's https. So it needs to be done properly that way, to redirect one or the other ( not sure which one my ISP is pointing at ) of https://www.denverprocessservers.net/ or https://denverprocessservers.net/ But the one that they arent pointing at needs to be redirected at the one they are pointing at.