On Wednesday, October 7, 2015 at 12:53:28 AM UTC-7, Leonel Câmara wrote: > > There's a reason people like opinionated CSS frameworks. They save a *lot* > of time which means customers save a lot of money, I can bet you my > government which isn't swimming in money right now would not have the same > opinion. Completely bespoke design is great but it is also a lot more > costly for my client. >
The new US guidelines and samples are open sourced, and built on open source.The "playbook.cio.gov" link above is an example site, which you can copy ... and is available on github. So your government (and your customers) don't need to be swimming in money. I think the sample site has a very nice, clean look that would be a good model for many sites. > There's also a basic usability heuristic of following the standard, by > following a site structure the users are familiar with, it's easier for > them to use it and I think that, coupled with design trends everyone wants > to follow at the same time (see what happened with flat ui, which is all > the rage right now despite creating poorer interfaces in my opinion), is > the reason why many websites look similar and not because of bootstrap. > The example site's structure can be followed easily. But yes, fads are fads, and occasionally become lasting trends. > > I also don't think that bootstrap is that hard to change, but maybe I'm > just used to it. The upcoming Bootstrap 4 addresses some of the issues I > think. > > That said, there's a lot of good stuff in the government's document, it's > well worth the read. > Definitely, even if you choose something else. I was hoping someone here could estimate how hard it would be for one of us to use those examples instead of bootstrap. /dps -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
