Building a Startup: 12 Priceless Tools for Launching Your MVP

Re:Building a Startup: 12 Priceless Tools for Launching Your... by tptacek on Tuesday May 31, 2011 @11:50AM (#2603043)

This doesn't square with my experience at all. You must be much better at HTML/CSS than I am (not at all unlikely).

For my part, it takes me roughly two hours to:

* Copy all the static assets to their Rails-appropriate locations

* Take the "demo" pages and get them to display reasonably as Erb templates of a Test controller

* Convert the HTML to Haml

* Move content to layouts/application

* Break each feature in the demo out to a partial

There is no other two hours I can spend that gets me as much UI functionality, so I'm a fan.

I have done this three times, and each time found the work of integrating a Themeforest template to be easier than integrating work from graphic designers.

I am careful to work with templates that are HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, and that use a grid framework. I can imagine there are many hundreds of themes there that fail one or more of these checkboxes, and that might thus be a nightmare to work with.

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Re:Building a Startup: 12 Priceless Tools for Launching Your... by danielcrenna on Friday June 03, 2011 @01:45PM (#2617264)

Cosign, I find it takes me the same amount of time to fold in a full theme into an ASP.NET MVC site using Razor. It's all just markup in the end, and whatever angle-bracket tax you're paying for server-side includes. Normally the most time intensive part is replacing paths to statics in CSS and HTML.

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