Upgrading from Marquee to Brine Template: Step-by-Step Migration Guide
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Switch to Brine family templates to access modern features and continued platform support. While Marquee family templates (including Adversary, Alex, Eamon, Ginger, Mint, and Shift) remain functional, they're now deprecated and receive limited updates.
Brine offers similar key features to Marquee:
- Overlay index pages
- Parallax scrolling
- Banner images and videos
- Plus additional modern capabilities
Follow these steps to switch from Marquee to Brine:
- Prepare for the Switch
- Document your current fonts and colors
- Note that style settings will reset to defaults
- Preview the Template Recommended template switches:
- Marquee → Basil
- Adversary → Polaris
- Alex → Sonny
- Eamon → Ethan
- Ginger → Basil
- Mint → Basil
- Shift → Burke
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- Adjust Style Options Configure:
- Two header sections
- Mobile styles
- Share button options
- Store pages
- Content inset
- Update Index Page Banners To recreate Marquee-style banners:
- Duplicate the page
- Move duplicate to index
- Remove content from upper section
- Add title as Header 1
- Remove featured image from lower section
- Add Banner Text Use the introduction area to add:
- Text
- Buttons
- Images
- Custom formatting
- Adjust Collection Pages Special considerations:
- Album pages support banners
- Blog pages offer grid layouts
- Event pages can show past events
- Gallery pages support banners
- Store pages have advanced features
- Publish Template Click "Set as active template" to complete the switch.
You can always revert to Marquee by selecting it from installed templates if needed. All changes made in Brine will be preserved.
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