The Phrasebook

New words for things you already know.

Elements is a whole new website builder so some of the common phrases found in RapidWeacer Classic have changed. However, a lot of what you learned in Classic still applies, it just goes by a different name now.

This page is the quick translation, hopefull Elements will start to feel a little more familiar after reading it.

Stacks → Components

In Classic, you dragged stacks into a Stacks page to build it. In Elements, you do the same thing with components, drag them in, stack them up, nest them inside each other.

The mental model is the one you already have. What's genuinely new: components are built into Elements rather than bought and installed one by one, and they're more consistent with each other because they come from one place.

Themes → Theme Studio

This is the biggest shift. In Classic, a theme decided how your whole site looked, and you worked within it. In Elements, you're more directly in control of styling.

You can build out your design with the built-in Components and Templates and and then change the overall style in the Theme Studio. It's a lot more flexible than the classic themes.

For example, you can global change the colours, or the font type throughout your entire site using the Theme Studio.

Inspector → Inspector

The inspector is still the inspector.

The full glossary

In Classic you said…	In Elements you say…	Why it changed
Stack	Component	The building blocks of a page
Partial (stacks)	Global	Global design elements like headers and footers.
Master Style	Theme Studio	Change colours, fonts and more, throughout the site.
Plugins	Page or File	More flexible pages