Forum Activity for @garymoncrieff

gary.moncrieff
@garymoncrieff
06/09/15 07:11:19AM
865 posts

Privacy for Under 18s


Suggestions

http://www.nspcc.org.uk/fighting-for-childhood/news-opinion/online-safety-social-media-companies/?utm_content=buffer4b626&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin.com&utm_campaign=buffer
gary.moncrieff
@garymoncrieff
06/09/15 02:37:41AM
865 posts

Modern Responsive design examples


Ning To Jamroom

I think it would all be better in site builder otherwise there would be too much switching around.
gary.moncrieff
@garymoncrieff
06/09/15 01:42:39AM
865 posts

Modern Responsive design examples


Ning To Jamroom

On a per page basis you can choose to

show/hide the site header
show/hide the page header
Set the padding and margins of the page
Set the padding and margins of columns and rows
Set background of the page

On a per widget basis you can control
The padding and margins of the widget/container
The background of the widget/container

I already provide custom templates for my site, my point with this above was to meet a wide range of use cases you'd have to include multiple templates for each page to show different layouts.
gary.moncrieff
@garymoncrieff
06/09/15 12:38:13AM
865 posts

Modern Responsive design examples


Ning To Jamroom

And just to add to that most of those themes will be constructed by a tool similar to sitebuilder on the WP side and take alot of work also to configure pages correctly. The advantage those tools have over sitebuilder currently is you can override the default css on a widget and page basis. Sitebuilder doesnt yet allow you to do this as the team wanted to make things as simple as possible, but given the demands for more modern skins maybe it's time to do this.
gary.moncrieff
@garymoncrieff
06/09/15 12:13:07AM
865 posts

Modern Responsive design examples


Ning To Jamroom

I have some work done on a skin and the way I handle placeholder boxes, is to make them part of the skin settings, but this can get messy too.

But please bare in mind there are some wonderful WP and HTML themes out there but once you get into buddypress, although they are better than JR's, they still lack the diversity of the WP themes. Since JR, Buddypress, PhpFox etc are networks users expect information to be presented in a certain way, and this puts certian constraints on how you design your skin. Each page will typical have to be 2 or 3 columns, with blocks and lists.

What makes some of the themes above so nice is the no padding between elements, which allows the colours, pics etc all to flow seamless together. You could do that sort of thing to your homepage rather easy but your inner pages will have to follow a predictable path for users.

Each JR module gives you a simple full width list, with a search box at the top as default, if you want anything more, then you have to really work hard to achieve it. The problem with off the shelf skins is, short of including 5 templates for every page to show variation, there will be no way to cater for more than 10 or 15 sites. This in turn then has a direct effect on how much work a designer can put into a skin and still make it at least breakeven never mind profitable.

I don't know what the solution, but JR already gives you the tools to do a ksin like those mentioned, you're just gonna need a very good understanding off the system and css.
gary.moncrieff
@garymoncrieff
06/08/15 07:44:56AM
865 posts

Problem Using The Meta Tag Manager


Using Jamroom

I have tried using the meta manager before but always found it too cumbersome to use, a more elegant solution is needed. What form that should take however I am not sure as I have no experience of how good Jamrooms out of box seo is without usign this module.

Any data points out there?
gary.moncrieff
@garymoncrieff
06/08/15 12:18:04AM
865 posts

Odd gray bars on side of Ninga skin


Design and Skin Customization

Try looking in the site.css file for this

#wrapper {
    margin:0 auto;
    background-color: #C7C7C7;
    background-image: url('{$jrNingja_img_url}/wrapper_bckgrnd.png');
    background-attachment: fixed;
    background-position: left top;
    background-size: initial;
    background-repeat: repeat-x;}

You will need to change the background colour and depending on your circumstances change or delete the background-image line.
gary.moncrieff
@garymoncrieff
06/06/15 04:18:16AM
865 posts

Modern Responsive design examples


Ning To Jamroom

I've been toying with the idea of making a couple of business orientated profile layouts modeled of canvas homepages for some time but have never got round to it. The biggest headache I forsee is the slider.

However, turning one of these themes into a jamroom skin will be alot of work, and any time I have thought about doing it, the number of sales I estimate always put me off.
gary.moncrieff
@garymoncrieff
06/06/15 04:05:48AM
865 posts

Aparna Suggestions


Suggestions

michael:
Perhaps a "jrDelayIt" module that allows other modules stuff to be delayed would be better. The blog has a post later feature, but the audio doesnt, the gallery doesnt, the poll doesnt.

If its the kind of thing a bunch of modules could use, then perhaps it deserves its own module to stop them from needing to include that.

Yes that might be a much better option.
gary.moncrieff
@garymoncrieff
06/06/15 12:02:33AM
865 posts

Aparna Suggestions


Suggestions

I am assuming the majority of modules created with aparna are simple content posting modules and having the option to post later built in would be a big thing for those.
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