On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Ashley Aitken <mrhat...@mac.com> wrote: > > Hi Igor (et al.), > > On 28/10/2009, at 12:21 PM, Igor Vaynberg wrote: > >> we take a wireframe prototype, build it, and have the designer go in >> afterwards and pretty it up. > > Great, that is what I was hoping for. > > Any tips on how to do this so that it is easier for the designers?
be sure to enable idebugsettings().setOutputMarkupContainerClassName(true), this will make it very easy for the designers to identify which file is responsible for generating any bit of markup they want to tweak. also, be sure there is an easy way for the designer to launch an uptodate build. we keep a set of scripts in our root svn folder that run svn update and launch the app in a mode that creates a new database and populates it with test data. to set up a designer we perform an initial svn checkout, and they are good to go. this means the designer can work on a live app (thanks to wicket's markup reloading feature) and immediately see their changes, and more importantly, if they borked anything. there are times when the designer goes back to the dev team and asks to have a bit of functionality added here and there, like a dynamic css class on a specific tag, etc. the turnaround is usually pretty quick and once the dev checks in the change the designer simply uses the above mentioned script to update their build and move forward. this allows the devs and the designers to pretty much work in parallel past the initial wireframe implementation. > Anything special we need to do wrt page layout, CSS, etc.? not really. once you turn on the the debug setting above and explain to your designer how tags like wicket:child, wicket:extend, and wicket:link work they can get around pretty well. eg our guy uses textmate to edit the html files and that works great for him. -igor > I'm happy to do the logical UI design, I just want them to be able to make > it pretty (as you say). > > Cheers, > Ashley. > > -- > Ashley Aitken > Perth, Western Australia > mrhatken at mac dot com > Skype Name: MrHatken (GMT + 8 Hours!) > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org
