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johnnycage

23 karma · joined April 24, 2008

Currently creating a sitebuilder application for a small niche
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johnnycage··on Ask HN: Are there any design-led frameworks out there or should I create my own?
I thought Liquid was created by Shopify, so apologies for that! Didn't realise it was available for others to use. It seems that its just for Ruby / RoR though? We currently use PHP and Python
johnnycage··on Ask HN: Are there any design-led frameworks out there or should I create my own?
Well, I've been researching this for 2 days now also, so once I've completed this and see what everyone suggests on here I'll post my findings for everyone to see
johnnycage··on Ask HN: Are there any design-led frameworks out there or should I create my own?
The primary goal initially is just to allow people to seriously alter some provided templates or to create their own, so I had not planned on having a marketplace/library (although hopefully this would come out of it). I have a lot of respect for what people have done with the Shopify templates, but I am cautious about rolling our own on the basis that it requires someone to learn it. I was looking for something that might be more widely adopted and used by a few apps (Mustache mentioned in here looks interesting and I'll check it out).

In terms of customiztion with colours, logo etc - we have this already based on CSS. People can pick different colors through a color picker etc and that works well, but I want to two-tier it (as you have suggested) and allow power-users the flexibility to create their own

Thanks for the reply though. Really appreciate it

johnnycage··on Ask HN: Are there any design-led frameworks out there or should I create my own?
Thanks That looks interesting and I'll feedback on here about what I find out
johnnycage··on Ask YC: Where to find great freelance designers?
Thanks for this. I don't feel comfortable with that to be honest - I think this site is good (and there's another similar) but I don't like the idea that there's only one winner and other people put work/effort into it only to not get paid. I will know, from a previous portfolio, who is the right person and someone who we can work with together