Must know
- Your site lands on the Classic Club template — “the look of your old CCM site”: logo over the menu, a right-hand column, condensed type with a short rule under headings — with your colours, fonts and the sizes measured off the original.
- Every imported page is a draft. Nobody publishes two dozen converted pages unseen; walk them under Website → Club Pages and press publish.
- The builder version resembles the original; it is not a pixel copy. Where the two differ, the From your CCM import checklist says why.
- At cutover the Uplifter team can serve your old site as a frozen, exact copy instead. The builder version then waits behind it, hidden, until you switch — see Why is my club’s site an exact copy of my old website?.
Two versions of your site
- The frozen copy — your old site exactly, captured from your live site at cutover, with its login, signup, calendar and event links pointing into the new system. Nothing in it can be edited.
- The builder version — what the import converted, described on this page. You edit it page by page.
What comes across
- Pages — Joomla articles and menu items as club pages with blocks (text, pictures, tables, forms, tinted bands, tiles).
- Menu — as the Site Menu.
- Media — images copied into your media library, namespaced per club; a page whose image was missing shows a broken image rather than failing the import, and the report names the file.
- The home page — hero or slider strip, icon tiles, bands, in the club’s own header and footer.
- Header and footer — arrangement (logo left or centred), band colours, up to four footer columns, the contact block.
- Theme — a preset plus the club’s colour and font overrides.
- Sizes — nav, headings, module titles, logo width, container and rail widths, measured from the rendered original.
- Sidebar — the right-hand rail modules the club actually used; others are reported.
- Events as calendar listings (registration off), sponsors where the data holds name, logo and link, documents where the file was under the club’s web root.
What to do once you are on the builder
1
Read the checklist
Website → General → From your CCM import. Fix what has a setting, tick what you accept.
2
Publish the pages
Website → Club Pages — open each draft, glance, publish. The plan’s needs-review list is where to start.
3
Look at the home page and header
Website → Header & Home — arrangement, band, tiles. Back to our standard returns fonts and sizes to the theme’s if the measured ones look wrong.
4
Consider a modern template
Website → Templates — preview Open Ice, Editorial or Community Board on your own content; switch back any time.