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Element Platform documentation: [DEPRECATED] Moved to https://github.com/volusion/element

Element Platform documentation

Explanations

Tutorials

  • Using the Site Designer to Design a New Theme - Create a new theme without writing any code. Tutorial focuses on using Design Settings to set up global theme styles, and touches on other aspects of the Site Designer interface.
  • Building an Element Page Tutorial - Build a blog with two blocks driven by a 3rd party API. Test them locally, and then integrate them with a theme in Site Designer.
  • Working with Element Proptypes Tutorial - Explore interactions between Element Proptypes and block code as you build a dark mode feature that switches based on the time of day. Test it locally, and see how the Element Proptypes translate into form fields in Site Designer.
  • Implementing a New Product Landing Page - Build the foundation of your own custom version of the Product Details block, capable of displaying a product from your store and adding it to the cart. Wire it up to a dynamic page in a theme within Site Designer.

How-to guides

Block Development How-to's

Site Designer How-to's

References