Re:I created a little tool for presenting website mockups/de...
by cinbun8 on Friday October 12, 2012 @09:23AM
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A Bootstrap styled, Markdown powered, Server-side language agnostic, database-less project / mockup presentation engine
If you can say that without losing your breath, 1-up to you :) 'The easiest way to share your project status' seems like a better tagline. I like the simple layout. The colors are pleasing and easy on the eyes. I would still use another tool to show progress since not all progress may be tied to a UI.
Re:I created a little tool for presenting website mockups/de...
by bartsitekcom on Friday October 12, 2012 @09:31AM
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Thanks! Never been any good at copyrighting. Maybe that's because English isn't my native language. Your tagline sounds nice, although I wanted to keep it a little bit on a "technical-funny" side, so that's partly on purpose.
Well yeah, this is for simpler projects for when you're designing/developing something that has few pages and need a quick way to present it to your client (something better than generic file listing on Apache).
Re:I created a little tool for presenting website mockups/de...
by ahallerberg on Friday October 12, 2012 @11:47AM
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For what it's worth, I think the second paragraph does a good job setting up what the product is. But agreed, the first sentence (while still humorous) is definitely a mouthful.
Re:I created a little tool for presenting website mockups/de...
by dools on Friday October 12, 2012 @03:49PM
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I don't get it. What type of mockups are you referring to? Images? HTML? The mention of server side language is confusing me because I don't know why I'd be calling something a mockup if it had logic behind it, nor why I wouldn't be showing my client the app on a URL or doing a screencast.
Re:I created a little tool for presenting website mockups/de...
by bartsitekcom on Saturday October 13, 2012 @11:23AM
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Both actually (HTML + images). It's strictly for front-side templates you'd show to your client for approval at an early stage. The next step would be adding some logic to them.
Server side language thing doesn't have anything to do with templates. It just means you can use this tool in any environment you'd like (it's not coded in any particular language like PHP, ROR, .NET).
The thing is, it's a very early stage and you don't have any app yet, so there's nothing to show. It's for when you're in early designing stage and you need to present some app templates to your clients for approval. Screencasts, sending PDFs by email - that's all too much hassle. Projector enables you to present HTML templates you designed in a simple yet interactive way.
Re:I created a little tool for presenting website mockups/de...
by bartsitekcom on Saturday October 13, 2012 @07:27AM
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Sorry if that doesn't seem to be clear enough! Good questions, I'll update the Guide soon.
- So you put all the page names inside the /project.md file. Now, according to what you just put in there, you upload your page templates/projects to 'project/' directory (each page being a separate directory that matches one on the list created inside /project.md). `Ready` status is simply when page directory exists, and `In progress` when it's only listed inside the /project.md file but is not yet created.
- This one is super simple. Just upload the projector directory to your server and rename it as you wish eg. domain.com/clients/sony/ ('sony' being your projector folder) and access that url.
Re:I created a little tool for presenting website mockups/de...
by bartsitekcom on Friday October 12, 2012 @09:36AM
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Right, also ETA would be useful. But wanted to keep it simple at first to see how it goes. Also, feel free to just fork it on GitHub and modify any way you'd like ;)
If you can say that without losing your breath, 1-up to you :) 'The easiest way to share your project status' seems like a better tagline. I like the simple layout. The colors are pleasing and easy on the eyes. I would still use another tool to show progress since not all progress may be tied to a UI.
Well yeah, this is for simpler projects for when you're designing/developing something that has few pages and need a quick way to present it to your client (something better than generic file listing on Apache).
Thanks for your comment!
Server side language thing doesn't have anything to do with templates. It just means you can use this tool in any environment you'd like (it's not coded in any particular language like PHP, ROR, .NET).
The thing is, it's a very early stage and you don't have any app yet, so there's nothing to show. It's for when you're in early designing stage and you need to present some app templates to your clients for approval. Screencasts, sending PDFs by email - that's all too much hassle. Projector enables you to present HTML templates you designed in a simple yet interactive way.
- How do I set the status of a Page (for example to ``Ready`` or ``In progress``).
- Where can i see the final result? On index.html? Do I need to parse the project.md somehow?
- So you put all the page names inside the /project.md file. Now, according to what you just put in there, you upload your page templates/projects to 'project/' directory (each page being a separate directory that matches one on the list created inside /project.md). `Ready` status is simply when page directory exists, and `In progress` when it's only listed inside the /project.md file but is not yet created.
- This one is super simple. Just upload the projector directory to your server and rename it as you wish eg. domain.com/clients/sony/ ('sony' being your projector folder) and access that url.
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