[Xerte-dev] Re: Design editor

Tue Nov 25 16:12:26 GMT 2014

Hi! :)

My sketch does not really change anything other than appearance; what can
be done through CSS. Maybe also some js/jquery for the on/off buttons at
the bottom middle, depending on how they are implemented.

The only major change I propose, is moving the Save/Play/Publish buttons to
a more intuitive position, which in the sketch displays the "power" these
buttons are in possesion of. This also creates more tidy workspace in the
main column. But this also is just CSS styling and placement.

Other changes that I focus on are (inspired by getuikit.com):

   - Use of an elegant and easy-to-read font (From Google Fonts or similar)
   - Applying more margin/padding so the page feels "airy"
   - Simple, elegant icons using icon-font instead of images:
      - http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/
   - Using button-icons instead of text at the most obvious functions like
   Insert, Copy and Delete in the left coloumn.

As this is just a way of CSS-styling, my suggestions for design should not
at all interfer with your changes in functionality. It just gives some
ideas on how things can look. :)

Feel free to comment/criticise!

Mvh Jens Magnus

2014-11-25 16:41 GMT+01:00 Smith, Bradley <brsmith at akamai.com>:

>  Unfortunately I have a work deadline that is going to keep me from being
> able to contribute anything more than ideas and mockups until some time in
> December, most likely. :(
>
>  —Brad
>
>   From: Inge Donkervoort 12Change <i.donkervoort at 12change.eu>
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> Reply-To: For Xerte technical developers <xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
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> Date: Tuesday, November 25, 2014 at 10:26 AM
> To: "xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk" <xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Design editor
>
>   No it doesn't, so your ideas for the insert page are stil very welcome.
> Are you working on that?
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> Smith, Bradley schreef op 25-11-2014 16:23:
>
> Yeah, the stylesheet is lovely. Nicely done.
>
>  Does this change anything functionally/structurally, though? Or would
> this be separate from things like fixing the way the Insert menu works?
>
>  —Brad
>
>   From: Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>
> Reply-To: For Xerte technical developers <xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> >
> Date: Tuesday, November 25, 2014 at 8:59 AM
> To: For Xerte technical developers <xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Design editor
>
>   I think so too, really nice.
>
>
>
> *From:* xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [
> mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> <xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>] *On Behalf Of *Ron Mitchell
> *Sent:* 25 November 2014 13:56
> *To:* 'For Xerte technical developers'
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] Re: Design editor
>
>
>
> That looks great to me!
>
>
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> mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> <xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>] *On Behalf Of *Inge
> Donkervoort 12Change
> *Sent:* 25 November 2014 12:28
> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] Design editor
>
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> One of our Norwegian users Jens Magnus Jensen made an example for a new
> design of the editor. Is this something he can go on with? Any suggestions?
>
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>
> Bye,
> Inge
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> Julian Tenney schreef op 25-11-2014 10:26:
>
> A custom interface is a legacy from the old flash runtime, where you could
> use a swf as a custom interface: that swf could then call the navigation
> methods in the main engine.
>
>
>
> I’m not so close to the html5 runtime, Fay will give you a better answer
> tomorrow: try overriding with !important in css?
>
>
>
> Otherwise extend the code in the template to handle an optional property
> for layout?
>
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>
> J
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> mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> <xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>] *On Behalf Of *Smith, Bradley
> *Sent:* 24 November 2014 23:15
> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] Custom layout for questions?
>
>
>
> Hello all,
>
>
>
> Not sure if this is better send to xerte or xerte-dev, but I’ll try the
> latter first.
>
>
>
> Personally, I’m not a fan of the two-column sort of layout that Xerte
> seems to prefer for questions. Often, both my questions and answers may
> include unix commands, screen shots, and other things that take up a lot of
> horizontal space. What I would like to have is a “vertical” layout that
> just shows the instruction/prompt (when you only have one question, I’m
> unclear why you would distinguish between these  anyway), followed by the
> answer options, each taking up 100% of the page’s width.
>
>
>
> The closest I’ve gotten to this is to set the Panel Width setting to
> “full”, and put the instruction and prompt text both in the Prompt box .
> However, the prompt is rendered as an H3 tag, so the whole question appears
> bolded. This causes problems with text-heavy questions where I need more
> variety in the formatting.
>
>
>
> I noticed an option to include a custom stylesheet with a learning object,
> so I uploaded one with:
>
>
>
> h3.question {
>
>   font-weight: normal;
>
> }
>
>
>
> When I load the preview, my browser’s dev tools show that the stylesheet
> is loaded by something, but there is no change to the formatting of the
> question.
>
>
>
> So my question is: what’s the best way to do what I want here? I see
> there’s also an option to upload a “custom interface”, but that only seems
> to be available at the the learning object level (as opposed to a specific
> component like a question), and I haven’t seen any docs that explain
> exactly how to make one anyway.
>
>
>
> Suggestions?
>
> —Brad
>
>
>
>
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