I think we possibly need to get a sense of perspective here. I downloaded and installed a copy of wildflower yesterday and delving through it, it has some very nice bits of code, so I think we should probably be thanking he / she / them for releasing it to the community - it gave me a few ideas anyway.
I don't think that 37 signals have a monopoly on tabbed layouts made with css. My first thoughts were that it looked quite a bit like Wordpress... but this isn't really so surprising is it? Tabs have been around in offices sitting in files and filing cabinets for a lot longer than computers. Over the years people have come along and thought what a good idea they are and implemented them in whatever application they are building. These kinds of application almost always look alike because there are only so many layout solutions and some are just easier to make and use than others. If you are writing a CMS type application the most import bit of the page is the big editable content area, usually with a field for the title above. Now nobody has 800 x 600 screens anymore, you put as much other stuff as you can into a sidebar (which you can then jazz up with a bit of fancy javascript or ajax). The buttons do look very like the buttons from backpack, but on they other hand I would guess most people in this group could make an identical button in about 5 minutes. Anyway if I was a betting kind of man I'd put my money on the green cross part of them being the 'add' icon from the Silk icon set http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/ Of course I could be wrong and the Wildflower people have really ransacked Backpack, which would be wholly inappropriate, but I really don't think they have... On Jun 10, 6:47 am, Lance Willett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Off-topic, but needed to share this publicly: > > I followed the link above to check out Wildflower. In viewing the > screenshots, I was really surprised to see the UI (graphics and > layout) look almost identical to the UI built by 37signals with their > Backpack product (backpackit.com). > > It's not cool to use someone else's work and pass it off as your own. > I'd encourage the CMS author to change the images (and CSS and any > other visual assets he is using from Backpack/37signals). I emailed > the CMS author Róbert Starší aka "klevo" (http://www.klevo.sk/about/) > and also sent Jason Fried (founder of 37signals) an email letting him > know about this. > > Don't get me wrong: I think the concept of a CakePHP CMS that is easy > to use and has a great polished UI is a good one. But just make sure > that the graphics, CSS, and layout concept are either open source, > purchased legitimately, or created by you -- don't use other people's > work. > > Note: I didn't check the actual downloadable files -- those might be > different from the screenshots used to show the Wildflower Admin > layout. > > On Jun 2, 9:25 am, "b logica" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hey,wildflowerlooks nice. I'd never heard of it. > > > I'm just in the final stages of a project that required page editing > > and is multi-lingual. I've cobbled together something that works > > really well, though it's probably missing features for some people. > > When it's ready I'll post an article at the bakery to explain the > > things I did to get something that works for my situation. Maybe it'll > > help someone else. > > > And I'll definitely givewildflowera look soon. > > > On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 3:10 AM, Marcin Domanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Check outWildflower: > > >http://wf.klevo.sk/ > > > > On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 4:24 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: > > > >> What Cake CMS Forge projects have people used with good results? > > > > -- > > > Marcin Domanski > > >http://kabturek.info --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
