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I'm not sure if this is the correct place to post this question, I've not posted before.

I wrote a website using open Element several years ago when desktops were the main way to surf the net. Now most people search online on thier phones. The website does not view well on a phone. Is there a way to add or alter the existing OpenElement code for it to view better, without having to rewrite the lot from scratch. Please help. Thanks.

You must learn some techniques to understand what it's all about.

I made some videos to help this process:   https://denislafrance.net/index.en.htm#formation" rel="nofollow - https://denislafrance.net/index.en.htm#formation

You should add a link to your site to this post so we can see what level of work will be required

Thanks for your response.

I had a brief look at your tutorials and will look in greater detail later. They do appear to give instructions from building the site from scratch. Is there anything that can be done to an existing site? 

The site in question is http://www.juleshomevisits.co.uk. " rel="nofollow - www.juleshomevisits.co.uk.  ; I wrote this for my wife's business 5 or 6 yrs ago.im not very proficient in Web design, so please forgive my mistakes. Comments on how to remedy the display would be much appreciated. 

Troy 

Responsive requires a totaly different approach.

You may be able to copy-paste elements from the old to the new site but idealy you will build a new site.

That's rather what I feared. 

That's what I will have to do then. 

Does the new OE version include responsiveness by default,  or do I need to enable something? 

Thanks a lot for your assistance.

Then add the following patch  https://openelement.uk/Files/Other/update_openelement_fr.exe" rel="nofollow - https://openelement.uk/Files/Other/update_openelement_fr.exe

It's not possible to use one of the templates from the OE create site page  but OE keeps working

Many sites used to, and some still do a "user agent" type detection then serve either mobile.yoursite or http://www.yoursite. " rel="nofollow - www.yoursite.  ;

You can just design a static 480px wide OE site as the mobile version and it works fine. 

Cloudflare has a built-in, and very easy-to-use user agent redirect type. 

You would simply add a mobile.yoursite.co.uk a record and build a mobile version of the site with the same content in a 480px wide format and use Cloudflare to redirect mobile users to said domain name. 

Let's say you use that and obtain a version for PC, a version for tablet and a version for phone ( I would consider that as a minimum).  Every change to the site will have to be done on each of the 3 versions.

If you build your site as responsive, a single change will be requied since this single site will adapt to every screen.

I have viewed the tutorial on adaptive website building created by Hobby001. It is I must admit too advanced for me to understand fully. I have followed the initial steps including adding the relevant SEO code to instruct the sizing dependant upon the viewing device. I set the default to 100% (full screen), and have created a mpre or less duplicate of my original websites homepage. When I preview it in default everything is fine, but if I click adaptive and tablet/ smart phone and preview that, much of the homepage from the right side is missing. Is this OK and will be sorted out when published, or have I got it all wrong? Is it supposed to view correctly? If i alter elements to make them fit on the tablet/ smartphone preview, they then don't display correctly in the default full width screen. As I have said initially I am like many on this forum a real novice and in need of constant guidance. I apologise in advance if I appear stupid, but I am uncertain of almost everything and don't want to remove a functioning website, if not adaptive , to replace it with something even worse.

At some point, we will bring it back here to functionality on an active server. 

troy wrote: If i alter elements to make them fit on the tablet/ smartphone preview, they then don't display correctly in the default full width screen. As I have said initially I am like many on this forum a real novice and in need of constant guidance. I apologise in advance if I appear stupid, but I am uncertain of almost everything and don't want to remove a functioning website, if not adaptive , to replace it with something even worse.

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