Hello, I have been using RapidWeaver for many years to build a website for my brand consultancy business (it is really an electronic business card providing access to creds, thought pieces, ideologies and background information that a potential clients might use to check out my offering rather than being an online sales channel). The web address is: https://www.lucasbrand.com.
I have been disillusioned by RealMac’s move to Elements with its expensive subscription model—probably fine for regular users, but I only update my one website a couple of times a year. My question is, how easy would it be to convert what I have into Blocs? Can any of the Stacks that I used to build it be carried over or would I have to start again from scratch? Is there anything there that cannot be replicated in Blocs?
Forgive my digital naivety and lack of developer competence, but I was quite pleased with what I had managed to put together and would like to carry over the best bits and improve on the worst. Is Blocs the right solution? Many thanks!
Hey @keithlucas welcome to the Blocs community, hopefully we can help.
Visually I think you would be able to build your website in Blocs fairly easily. However, before we get into that, which stacks are you using with your current site?
Hi Keith,
Welcome to the Blocs Community! One thing to keep in mind is that Blocs is much more capable out of the box. Many things you’ve used Stacks for in RW can be built using just Blocs. Of course, there might be some specific functions that work slightly differently, but as long as you’re flexible and willing to adjust a few details, I’m sure you can create an even better version of your RW website with the Blocs app.
Cheers,
Eldar
P.S. Don’t hesitate to reach out if you need any help.
Thank you for your quick response Norm. I have just checked on RapidWeaver and see that, in addition to Blocks, I have accumulated a number of Stacks including: Accordion, PlusKit, Weaverpics, TF-HenksSlider, atm_ScrollTo_Enclosure/Hyperlink/Position, ExtraContent, Limelight, Points2, MagicGellan, Pin. I also used a theme called Traveler. Is this all reproducible… or, honestly, is it looking a bit creaky now and is it time to review it anyway? I appreciate your help.
Thank you so much Eldar and Norm. I have downloaded a trial to see how I get on… I have also been looking at Sitely—which looks remarkably simple (almost a bit like Apple’s iWeb, on which I built my first website—but which I came to regret, as it was so slow and made me a laughing stock among web-developer chums, who delighted in ridiculing the acres of code hidden behind the WYSIWYG interface!), I’m guessing Sitely is rather better than that, but don’t want to make the same mistake twice, so candid opinions welcome, please!
I would say a lot of this you get with Blocs out the box.
Blocs standard has:
Accordions
Carousels / Sliders
Light box
Scroll to interaction
Animations
Scroll FX
free Google docs Bric
We also have the Blocs Store with more add-ons (free and premium), plus many templates, Bloc libraries to choose from.
But as @Eldar said, you get a lot just with Blocs alone and it’s not a subscription on Mac. 
Regarding Sitely, I’m not sure they offer add-ons from third parties, so that may mean you will not be able to get the full functionality of your current site.
Good luck finding your new tool and enjoy taking Blocs for a spin. 
All that is doable as the others have said. Might be a bit timecomsuming as you are learning as you go, but doable and will be worth it. I see you are using Points to image map on the homepage you can do that natively in Blocs, it is well documented on the fourm here how to do it, but if unsure just ask. Don’t be afriad to ask about anything, folk switching systems need to ask many questions, then bang it becomes intuitive. Welcome aboard.