Hi David & team,
Thank you so very much for the rapid response, I spoke with one of your team members who was very generous with his time and information trying to figure out what went awry and then walk me through some best practices in layout setup.
So an actual Editor X glitch did occur when the container box froze and one image was frozen on the screen and traveled up the screen as I scrolled up; that definitely was a program glitch.
But your colleague’s best guess on what caused the entire layout to suddenly shift a few seconds later and all text sizes to change and items slide off of sections was possibly that (soon after I experienced the container box glitch), perhaps I had simply clicked over from the desktop view into tablet or mobile— and because I hadn’t set up the background framework of objects and items properly, the jumble of layout resulted from clicking over to different margin breaks. I don’t recall doing that but it’s definitely possible.
So it was explained that the jumbled mess was from not having set up the framework properly as I was just still being loose with layouts and positioning of objects at the beginning stages of laying this out. Also, having created layouts in basic Wix before, I was able to get away without a lot of structural framework; there’s no real anchoring or adjusting percentages of sizes within sections that I needed to worry about, unlike Editor X.
So I’m going to sit down now and watch a few tutorials on setting up and anchoring things and using the grids etc and will take the time to recreate the front page that way.
I’m still a little perplexed as to why all of the previous saved iterations of the website are “corrupted” now with this same jumbled mess of text sizes and object positions; because theoretically shouldn’t the versions before Saturday still be fine?
But at this point I’m willing to give this a go and start from scratch again but this time setting items to grids etc from the start. That’s a bit annoying and gives less flexibility (from a preliminary layout/eyeballing the design) point of view, but it sounds as if it’s not possible to create a loose flexible “sketch” layout in Editor X without background structure, at risk of having this mess happen again,
So! More painstaking background structure from the start it is, and let’s see how we go. Fingers crossed. Thanks for your time Corey; hopefully this thread helps someone else going forward.
The short form answer on solving this is: watch tutorials on setting up Editor X and anchoring items within grids using the Inspector BEFORE you get into laying it out; it will save you a headache further on.
Best, Heather