Hi Dan, The new skin looks good. You mention re-working the way that skins work. Any intention of using css media queries instead of having separate stylesheets? Media queries may assist with a good responsive skin suitable for various screen sizes.
On Friday, 8 May 2020 23:05:56 UTC+2, Dan wrote: > > Hi Everyone! > > Just wanted to give an update on our BoltWire refresh project. I've > invested some significant time this week working on this, and have just now > uploaded the bare bones of a new site for BoltWire. The membership area is > not yet finished, but even so, it's a big improvement, and it gives an idea > where I'm heading. > > I'd love your feedback: http://boltwire.com > > My plan is to make the BoltWire site run off as vanilla a version of the > core engine as possible, so what you are looking at will likely be the new > skin for BoltWire. And many of the sites features will be built into the > core as well: things like the news area, the blog, the help hotline, the > splash page, the sitemap down at the bottom, etc. And inside there will be > a messaging system, profile page, a subscriptions page, and so on. The idea > is to make the BoltWire site a model of what they get virtually out of the > box... > > Here are some areas I'd really like feedback on: > > * Any input on the layout, design, navigation, etc of the skin? I'm > primarily working on the desktop version at this point. I'll be working on > the mobile version next. > * Please work through the Welcome Tour in the training area if you can. I > spent a lot of time updating the content. Can you think of anything > critical I've left out? > * Any thoughts on the hosting offer? Is it compelling? I know many of you > are developers, and won't need this, but you may have insights into what > others wantr. > * Any other feedback on the direction we're going? I'm actually hoping to > accept our first batch of clients by the end of the month. My plan > initially is small quantity, but high service. > > I'm also about ready to dive into the code. There are definitely going to > be some pretty big changes to the internal architecture of BoltWire to make > it easier to customize specific aspects of how it all works. And some > features I never find myself using are going to get streamlined out of the > core. I'll also be completely updating the membership system to make it > more scalable and secure among other things. > > Anyway, my point is--if you have any thoughts on what you would like to > see in the code or not see in the code, now is the perfect time to send a > note on that while I'm zoomed in on that. > > I suspect there will be a lot more progress code wise next week. Stay > tuned! > > Cheers, > Dan > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BoltWire" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to boltwire+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/boltwire/6fc28623-709d-4fd6-9350-130fe6af36ff%40googlegroups.com.
