Has The Jamroom Site Showcase Been Removed?
Design and Skin Customization
clrkprsn:Yeah... the sites in the showcase are quite dated. Do we have some newer JR5 sites? I too remember something that looked more like a Bootstrap site and was good. I'd love to see more modern examples.
I think we need to do a better job of soliciting sites - the sites you see on the list are ones added directly by our members - there's no "design" criteria applied. I know you're coming from Ning - almost
every Ning site that has contacted us about moving to JR has for the most part insisted on keeping the SAME look and feel for their site.
N8Flex has quite a number of designs here:
https://www.jamroom.net/n8flex/networkmarket
that you might like. For the most part the skins WE have developed fall into a few categories:
1) Jamroom 5 skins that are "clones" of Jamroom 4 skins (such as Sage, Flashback, Nova, etc.) - these skins were designed to keep "true" to their look in Jamroom 4, and have not changed much since then.
2) the default Elastic and Lucid skins - these are VERY simple and are built as a "starting point" for customizing and creating your own skin
3) the "pro" skins (media pro, pro jam) - these are music oriented skins we took over from Oinkba design that are geared towards music communities
4) Ningja - this skin tries to put the "groups" support of Jamroom front and center since this seems to be the area that Ning users are most concerned with.
Building a skin that is both simple to customize and expand AND has "slick and modern" features that some people want (i.e. lots of Javascript base sliders, menus, etc.) is harder than it may seem on the surface. Most of the slick features are going to be harder or trickier to customize for the majority of our users, and on the other hand keeping it simple means new users to JR think that JR skins don't offer enough.
We have some ideas we are working on that hopefully can address some of this down the road.
Thanks for the feedback everyone
