sooo
Ok - this is a product of my brainstorming on this subject in the last week, and based on our (Mike and mine's) discussion of the needs of the project last weekend. This may seem overly complicated (all the segmenting of template blocks and such) but this system needs to be all things for all clients into the forseeable future. This means a really flexible structure that readily accepts lots of different content. Hard-coding, or even hard-copying content leads to a system thats hard to maintain (and certainly update). This system could be upgraded en-masse with new files and themes. And thats good.
The whole back-end drag and drop management system is inspired, obviously, from many other systems that work like this. Specifically
wordpress or some drupal installs... um concrete5. etc. The whole point, of course, is to give users as much control as posible while
keeping it as simple and intuitive as possible. So - a system like this is really like a "wordpress lite" because it features some functionality,
but not nearly the level of control, nor the ability to screw it all of the way up.
Note that there is a list of features and potential themes all up in the google docs:
NOTES
THEMES
Alrighty - did some research, and tested out a few different responsive frameworks:
Skeleton
- Probably my favorite. Simple implimentation of fixed-width classes. Nice reset and base stylings for common elements. Mobile browser may be a bit narrow.
MQFramework
- Very clean fixed width framework. Implements 960gs classes, which is nice. Works as advertised.
1140px
- Fluid width columnar framework. Presents nicely at lower resolutions, but I kind of prefer fixed-width systems.
LessFramework4
- Fixed width, but without any implementing class system. Will take some working out to perfect - but other options already do this...
Rough Drafts:
Draft_1
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