New design crowdfunding

Trustmaster	#1 2014-01-08 11:20
Administrators Thanked: 263 times	Some of you may know that we're working on new default themes for Cotonti based on Twitter Bootstrap 3. Our CMS will look differently in one of the following releases. Admin theme is mostly complete by now, but the following is still TODO: Add some required features to Cotonti core. Visual facelift. As for the default site theme, we have the basic templates, but there are more things TODO: New logo and colour scheme. Unique site header. Contents, blocks and plugins udpate to fit current needs. Customized design for basic components http://getbootstrap.com/components/. If we don't do it, every new Cotonti site will look like thousands of other Bootstrap-based sites. We've asked our friends from http://486made.me to help us with new design stuff. Those guys are not from U.S./E.U., so they can't accept money from Cotonti's PayPal donations account. That's why we've added InterKassa payment method to http://www.cotonti.com/donate. So if you want to support this project, you can donate a small sum using InterKassa and your credit card (don't forget to switch InterKassa language to English). Our goal is $300-500. We don't have a true Crowdfunding plugin to track progress, so I'll make weekly reports in this topic. As soon as we have some sketches, we'll show them here. But don't expect anything beyond perfect. We need a new modern and attractive theme, not a pure perfection of all time. Thanks! May the Source be with you!

Trustmaster

#1 2014-01-08 11:20

Some of you may know that we're working on new default themes for Cotonti based on Twitter Bootstrap 3. Our CMS will look differently in one of the following releases.

Admin theme is mostly complete by now, but the following is still TODO:

Add some required features to Cotonti core.
Visual facelift.

As for the default site theme, we have the basic templates, but there are more things TODO:

New logo and colour scheme.
Unique site header.
Contents, blocks and plugins udpate to fit current needs.
Customized design for basic components http://getbootstrap.com/components/.

If we don't do it, every new Cotonti site will look like thousands of other Bootstrap-based sites.

We've asked our friends from http://486made.me to help us with new design stuff. Those guys are not from U.S./E.U., so they can't accept money from Cotonti's PayPal donations account. That's why we've added InterKassa payment method to http://www.cotonti.com/donate. So if you want to support this project, you can donate a small sum using InterKassa and your credit card (don't forget to switch InterKassa language to English).

Our goal is $300-500. We don't have a true Crowdfunding plugin to track progress, so I'll make weekly reports in this topic.

As soon as we have some sketches, we'll show them here. But don't expect anything beyond perfect. We need a new modern and attractive theme, not a pure perfection of all time.

Thanks!

May the Source be with you!

elfrenazo	#2 2014-01-09 01:54
Donator Thanked: 7 times	do not worry, we'll help. o_0

aiwass	#3 2014-01-09 09:18
Members Thanked: 1 time	They (486made.me) are based in Praha aka Prague which is in Europe :) Either way, it's a good initiative. I don't like Bootstrap because it becomes bloated as soon as you step out of the framework or basic design of the bootstrap CSS's, having a CSS file that kills in some extent the design produced by Bootstrap, is to me a bad way. I would rather go with a grid system that isn't carrying any design and from there have the freedom to roam freely. If you have no idea what i mean, then this might explain it: - Boostrap.css (All design etc. that bootstrap gives you) - Yourown.css (Your design that in most cases will be the same as bootstrap but with overrides etc. in order to have it look your way, not like all other bootstrap basic designs) ...not to mention all the JS files needed in order to have it working. Good bye loadtimes! Take all that money that we spend on weapons and defences each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace. - Bill Hicks https://evlear.com
This post was edited by aiwass (2014-01-09 09:29, 10 years ago)

aiwass

#3 2014-01-09 09:18

Members
Thanked: 1 time

They (486made.me) are based in Praha aka Prague which is in Europe :)
Either way, it's a good initiative.

I don't like Bootstrap because it becomes bloated as soon as you step out of the framework or basic design of the bootstrap CSS's,
having a CSS file that kills in some extent the design produced by Bootstrap, is to me a bad way. I would rather go with a grid system
that isn't carrying any design and from there have the freedom to roam freely.

If you have no idea what i mean, then this might explain it:
- Boostrap.css (All design etc. that bootstrap gives you)
- Yourown.css (Your design that in most cases will be the same as bootstrap but with overrides etc. in order to have it look your way, not like all other bootstrap basic designs)

...not to mention all the JS files needed in order to have it working. Good bye loadtimes!

Take all that money that we spend on weapons and defences each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace. - Bill Hicks

https://evlear.com

This post was edited by aiwass (2014-01-09 09:29, 10 years ago)

Trustmaster	#4 2014-01-09 11:03
Administrators Thanked: 263 times	@aiwass: that guy still has Ukrainian citizenship so he can't accept PayPal. As for Bootstrap it won't be enforced. It's just standard themes that will be based on it. You are still free to do anything you want. And I think having fallback tpls use common Bootstrap standards in markup and class names is a helpful thing. Added 1 days later: The progress so far is $80 of $300. Added 4 days later: Current progress: $168 of 300. Here is an attempt of Cotonti's logo redesign by our old friend Stam, the author of the original Cotonti logo: May the Source be with you!
This post was edited by Trustmaster (2014-01-15 08:30, 10 years ago)

Trustmaster

#4 2014-01-09 11:03

Administrators
Thanked: 263 times

@aiwass: that guy still has Ukrainian citizenship so he can't accept PayPal. As for Bootstrap it won't be enforced. It's just standard themes that will be based on it. You are still free to do anything you want. And I think having fallback tpls use common Bootstrap standards in markup and class names is a helpful thing.

Added 1 days later:

The progress so far is $80 of $300.

Added 4 days later:

Current progress: $168 of 300.

Here is an attempt of Cotonti's logo redesign by our old friend Stam, the author of the original Cotonti logo:

May the Source be with you!

This post was edited by Trustmaster (2014-01-15 08:30, 10 years ago)

Twiebie	#5 2014-01-15 11:27
Team Thanked: 74 times	Looks nice. I like the blocks that still make up the shape of the letter 'C'. Not entirely sure about the text shadow inset on the main text though, it might potentially be a problem when using the logo on different backgrounds.

esclkm	#6 2014-01-15 11:44
Team Thanked: 76 times	Цветные кубики? Виндоус? Добавлено 2 часа спустя: Color bricks?3/4 windows? littledev.ru - мой маленький зарождающийся блог о котонти. снижение стоимости программирования и снижение стоимости производства разные вещи. Первое можно скорее сравнить с раздачей работникам дешевых инструментов, чем со снижением зарплаты
This post was edited by esclkm (2014-01-15 14:01, 10 years ago)

esclkm

#6 2014-01-15 11:44

Team
Thanked: 76 times

Цветные кубики? Виндоус?

Добавлено 2 часа спустя:

Color bricks?3/4 windows?

littledev.ru - мой маленький зарождающийся блог о котонти.
снижение стоимости программирования и снижение стоимости производства разные вещи. Первое можно скорее сравнить с раздачей работникам дешевых инструментов, чем со снижением зарплаты

This post was edited by esclkm (2014-01-15 14:01, 10 years ago)

Twiebie	#7 2014-01-15 14:57
Team Thanked: 74 times	I quite like the idea of the coloured (building) blocks as an illustration of Cotonti's modular design. #38957 esclkm: Цветные кубики? Виндоус? Добавлено 2 часа спустя: Color bricks?3/4 windows? I think that's a little far-fetched.

esclkm	#8 2014-01-15 19:07
Team Thanked: 76 times	If i see 4 bricks - a i have only windows association littledev.ru - мой маленький зарождающийся блог о котонти. снижение стоимости программирования и снижение стоимости производства разные вещи. Первое можно скорее сравнить с раздачей работникам дешевых инструментов, чем со снижением зарплаты

esclkm

#8 2014-01-15 19:07

Team
Thanked: 76 times

If i see 4 bricks - a i have only windows association

Dayver	#9 2014-01-15 20:50
Team Thanked: 180 times	Cotonti's modular design. Мaу be like but not block like windows block? Pavlo Tkachenko aka Dayver

elfrenazo	#10 2014-01-16 19:34
Donator Thanked: 7 times	#38906 Trustmaster: @aiwass: that guy still has Ukrainian citizenship so he can't accept PayPal. As for Bootstrap it won't be enforced. It's just standard themes that will be based on it. You are still free to do anything you want. And I think having fallback tpls use common Bootstrap standards in markup and class names is a helpful thing. Added 1 days later: The progress so far is $80 of $300. Added 4 days later: Current progress: $168 of 300. Here is an attempt of Cotonti's logo redesign by our old friend Stam, the author of the original Cotonti logo: I like the logo. Would look more modern with rounded edges, the colored squares.

elfrenazo

#10 2014-01-16 19:34

Donator
Thanked: 7 times

#38906 Trustmaster:
@aiwass: that guy still has Ukrainian citizenship so he can't accept PayPal. As for Bootstrap it won't be enforced. It's just standard themes that will be based on it. You are still free to do anything you want. And I think having fallback tpls use common Bootstrap standards in markup and class names is a helpful thing.
Added 1 days later:

The progress so far is $80 of $300.

Added 4 days later:

Current progress: $168 of 300.

Here is an attempt of Cotonti's logo redesign by our old friend Stam, the author of the original Cotonti logo:

I like the logo. Would look more modern with rounded edges, the colored squares.

Macik	#11 2014-01-17 02:48
Team Thanked: 181 times	The overall idea and design is good. Here are some fine tuning… (click for enlarge) https://github.com/macik правильный хостинг — https://goo.gl/fjCa1F
Team Thanked: 181 times	This post was edited by Macik (2014-01-17 15:53, 10 years ago)

singh336	#12 2014-01-17 06:06
Members	that logo looks good, and im glad you're going to design a new proper default theme and admin theme for the next siena releases, the ones right now are so bad they are funny ! good luck with all, im beyond broke, its no excuse, but winter is a tough time of year for me, im barely affording my hosting <a href="http://www.streetlegalmods.com/">http://www.streetlegalmods.com/</a>

Trustmaster	#13 2014-01-17 07:40
Administrators Thanked: 263 times	@Macik, that link gives 403 forbidden. May the Source be with you!

Macik	#14 2014-01-17 15:54
Team Thanked: 181 times	#38996 Trustmaster: @Macik, that link gives 403 forbidden. Check fixed one. (see edited post). https://github.com/macik правильный хостинг — https://goo.gl/fjCa1F

Slaweally	#15 2014-01-17 16:16
Members Thanked: 2 times	#38992 Macik: The overall idea and design is good. Here are some fine tuning… (click for enlarge) Logo psd file can you give ? Herşey bitti...

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