superMicro CMS to Qwwwik
Qwwwik is deliberately simpler than superMicro CMS.
(1) Qwwwik has no menu as such. You make your own menu(s) with pages titled 'information' or 'menu' or 'archive' etc. An example is here.
When logged in there is a red 'Edit' button top right. This can become a 'Menu' button when logged out by editing inc/edit.php. The reason this is not built-in is that a menu page does not exist until one is made and its URL has to be known. To do this, ask me how.
(2) Qwwwik doesn't have 'extras' or 'comments'. Comments can be received for any page but they must be added to the page itself, not a 'comments' file.
(3) Qwwwik doesn't have a contact page as such. To make one just make a page titled 'contact' and enable commenting.
(4) The default column width is 640 pixels. The containing column is 720 pixels wide to leave side margins that progressively reduce with the screen width along with the columns. Be aware of this with image widths. superMicro CMS has a wider default column width of 740 pixels with options for image widths up to 1200 pixels.
Qwwwik has an option for image widths of up to 720 pixels (to fill the containing column) and wider images (eg 1200 pixels) by using the 'modal image' option to make them expandable.
A 740 pixel wide image can be used in the 640 pixel wide column but it will not be viewed at its 'native' resolution. It may not matter. It won't anyway on mobile phones.
(5) Qwwwik has just one default style sheet to cover everything. superMicro CMS has a default style sheet and a mobile style sheet. Both systems have an optional 'extra' style sheet.
(6) Qwwwik has an entirely different look and entirely different style options. Styles contained in the pages of superMicro CMS transposed into Qwwwik pages may look slightly different or may do nothing at all but they will not 'break' the pages.
A way to convert
(1) In superMicro CMS backup everything, download the backups and unzip on your hard drive.
(2) Also download every single file from superMicro CMS. If something goes wrong during the conversion you can then restore the entire superMicro CMS website but hopefully this will not be necessary. At least you now have all the content saved to use as the new Qwwwik content.
(3) Install Qwwwik temporarily somewhere independent of superMicro CMS and create a page for every existing page in superMicro CMS. Things in the pages might need adjusting but you can take your time with it because it does not affect the main website to eventually be converted. For comments and 'extras' add the text to the main page text.
(4) Backup everything in the temporary installation of Qwwwik.
(3) Delete everything in superMicro CMS and install Qwwwik on the main website, then start adding content page by page as follows.
(4) Using the new Qwwwik backups, first upload all the images and videos to their respective folders then screate a new page for every page from the original superMicro CMS. If (3) was done properly this should be plain sailing.
(5) Finally, when everything is working, delete the temporary installation of Qwwwik. Or keep it for testing. It doesn't really matter.
I can't think of a simpler way. If it takes five minutes to delete superMicro CMS and install Qwwwik, then 30 seconds per page to paste in the Qwwwik backup text and create a new page, a website with fifty pages might take half an hour or so to convert, with at least some downtime. This is the way I converted my personal website of about 180 pages, beginning with the most popular pages.
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