Seeking Advice on Redesigning Webflow Site Using RELUME Components

Hi everyone, I used to have my site made by a service provider who adopted the client first structure (from 2 years ago). Now I want to do a COMPLETE overhaul of the site. I want to do the new one with RELUME components. However, I want to stay in the same Webflow Project because I have a lot of CMS data that I want to keep. Do you know how I should proceed ? - Do I delete all the guide styles, and all the classes, all the pages and properties I've created? - Or is it better to create new classes ? I was thinking about erasing almost everything except the CMS, work on a new style guide, new classes + published once the new website is ready. I'm lost and I'd like your advice on this. Thank you very much

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Matt J.
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Sacha can you share a read only link so I can get a feel for the site and give you a better informed decision here?
Sacha
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Hey Matt, of course, here is the read only link : https://preview.webflow.com/preview/project-adsback?utm_medium=preview_link&utm_source[…]k&preview=62e6fd49fea0f202860e1b81da1e35b7&workflow=preview
Sacha
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Hey Matt J., have you been able to get a look with the website read only link ?
Matt J.
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Sacha honestly, if I wanted the cleanest restart of all, I would still just create a brand new webflow project starting with the latest Relume Webflow Style Guide (I would wait until late next week - component day is next week 😉) and I would start the project by recreating the collections and their fields, and then export those CMS items from the old site and import into the new site one by one. That'll be about an hour or so of work - maybe less depending on number of fields. But then your project will have variables, be on the latest version, and it will not have any chance of duplicate classes, or any other sort of hidden issues that might not crop up right away - if that makes sense? I would keep the old site for any references you might have. And if the old site is published/live - you can easily transfer the site plan once you are ready and it will stay connected - no DNS changes need to happen and it'll happen nearly instantly. So there's very few downsides to starting over in this case besides having to recreate the collections and importing the items.
Sacha
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Thank a lot for your answer Matt J. !