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    Styling Alpha using Alpha

    There is a great deal of debate on this message board about making programs modern and stylish. Alpha actual makes it easy to do. However, the problem is that easy is not quick. Just having great stylesheets does not solve the whole problem. Layout and program flow is possibly the largest problem.

    We are trying to build a framework that will solve many of these problems.

    My question is
    • what parts of Alpha take the most time to style?
      What parts prove the most difficult?


    Here is where we have got so far.

    Moodboard
    http://smg.datadrivensystems.co.uk/r.../moodboard.a5w
    Examples
    http://smg.datadrivensystems.co.uk/r...tyle/form1.a5w
    http://smg.datadrivensystems.co.uk/r...tyle/grid1.a5w
    Ideas that need a little work.
    Input control sub Themes
    https://dochub.com/michaelcornford/E...swgnf9enrutmej
    Form styles Three column
    https://dochub.com/michaelcornford/K...h4kkdp7dn3uf6h
    Form single column right help
    https://dochub.com/michaelcornford/6...47v2fhmy5p6cdk
    Form 2 Column
    https://dochub.com/michaelcornford/z...twpg9uubf9oa8p
    Form 2 Column with footer
    https://dochub.com/michaelcornford/g...okacmood00e71m


    Here is a fun component.

    https://cornford-gmail.tinytake.com/...MwMV83MjkyNTQ0

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    Re: Styling Alpha using Alpha

    this is great! I would love to have global library templates like your modern looking forms-form1(15+ modern looking/responsive text/gird/form templates) and as alpha has global library if it can be distributed as global templates it will be awesome.

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      #3
      Re: Styling Alpha using Alpha

      Templates take a lot of time to set up.

      So Dashboards and Form layouts require some thought, our problem is focusing effort where it is most useful.

      https://cornford-gmail.tinytake.com/...AwNV83Mjk2ODUw

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        #4
        Re: Styling Alpha using Alpha

        may be some really good looking themes similar to warrant and with more modern colors and rounded corner boxes, if you apply all controls start looking great with those colors and height/width/ rounded corner/highlight etc.

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          #5
          Re: Styling Alpha using Alpha

          another cool thing is adding touch events to grid.

          http://tutorials.jenkov.com/responsi...avascript.html

          You can catch elemtns using jquery and add many touch events. This way we can use powerful grid in all devices(just adding responsive rules to hide columns)

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            #6
            Re: Styling Alpha using Alpha

            Moodboard is pretty cool. I like the list control you created at the bottom that allows the user to switch between a columnar layout and freeform. I think that's a great addition to any app. The ability to let the user decide how to view data based on their priorities. I'd say if anything go in that direction with your project. More customization. All of us can create a basic, nice looking layout, but responsive designs are more challenging to create(for me anyway).

            On my wishlist would also be a button to allow the user to scroll down to a certain point on a long form page. Html has an option to scroll to a certain hashtag on a page so I can use that on an a5w page. If there is a way to do that in the UX itself that would be great.

            BTW your last 3 links before the video are getting a 404 error.

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              #7
              Re: Styling Alpha using Alpha

              A template with module positions would be a step up. Look at Joomla and others that use that method. For example only, Notice the sides on the page and the slider at the top. Those are modules with pretty much unrelated article content in the main space. Also this template is almost all CSS and uses bootstrap 4. https://pwadds.com
              ZPay no attention to the content, but on the subject all content is in MySQL using Mysqli and Maria actual db's. Oh the background is a module built into the Template. One can learn a lot from Joomla and wordpress type sites
              Dave Mason
              [email protected]
              Skype is dave.mason46

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                #8
                Re: Styling Alpha using Alpha

                Thanks Richard I will post the links later

                On my wishlist would also be a button to allow the user to scroll down to a certain point on a long form page. Html has an option to scroll to a certain hashtag on a page so I can use that on an a5w page. If there is a way to do that in the UX itself that would be great.


                This is fairly easy will post an example later.

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                  #9
                  Re: Styling Alpha using Alpha

                  Thanks Dave I will post a picture and component to see that I have understood.

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                    #10
                    Re: Styling Alpha using Alpha

                    Richard

                    Here is a video that shows what you requested. Thanks for the suggestion, we will include this.

                    https://cornford-gmail.tinytake.com/...Q4NV83MzA2ODE4

                    There is another way of doing the same thing.

                    https://cornford-gmail.tinytake.com/...UyOV83MzA2ODk1

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                      #11
                      Re: Styling Alpha using Alpha

                      This is demo of one of my favorite Templates. See what the world likes now?
                      http://www.template-joomspirit.com/t.../template-137/ for 26.00?
                      Dave Mason
                      [email protected]
                      Skype is dave.mason46

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                        #12
                        Re: Styling Alpha using Alpha

                        The problem with price is well-constructed templates in bootstrap can sell 40,000 in Alpha the numbers are smaller. However, the work is the same.

                        I am working on some examples, but I am not thinking of competing with content-rich programs. I see Alpha's strength as data rich.

                        Thanks for the input

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                          #13
                          Re: Styling Alpha using Alpha

                          Just woul like to see alpha be able to use some of the thousands of open source templates available so you guys could make them pretty AND functional. Most of the competition has templates built in and one can add their own as they like. They are like using plug ins. Wake up alpha!
                          Dave Mason
                          [email protected]
                          Skype is dave.mason46

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                            Re: Styling Alpha using Alpha

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                            This is an alpha created style in a UX. Templates are great for ideas but i find them often times where you have to strip so much out that it’s often better to come up with your own. It would however be a great addition to take the styles a bit further and have a templating system, it might be a UX that is already responsive.
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                              #15
                              Re: Styling Alpha using Alpha

                              Aha Michael! Thanks for showing me the way. So it's as easy as a static text header with the <a> tag, just like in html. I've been trying show/hide boxes to make forms as small or large as need be, but this is much better.

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