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http://bfn.context.org
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Styling for the forum topic page #82

Closed rgilman closed 5 years ago

rgilman commented 5 years ago

In the last few days I've been moving up the learning curve with something I've wanted to try for about two years. I've started using Pinegrow for interactive styling. It's a powerful app and I still have a lot to learn but so far I like it well enough to keep going.

This PR is my first result out of Pinegrow. My goal was to get the forum topic page to the point where I would feel comfortable sharing it with people outside the team – where the look and feel was good enough.

There is certainly more that could be done on this page. Among other things, it doesn't have a mobile treatment yet. But it feels like a useful step.

Going forward, I'm hoping that Pinegrow will allow me to explore and communicate design ideas in ways that generate usable CSS. If it turns out to be a genuinely useful tool, I'd be happy to share what I learn with others.

However, with this step taken, I expect to turn my attention next to building the backlog and diving into various PHP challenges.

I'm happy to describe details in this PR if needed.

rgilman commented 5 years ago

Here's a screen shot:

screen shot 2018-11-02 at 10 42 51 am

iangilman commented 5 years ago

Great! So you loaded style.css into Pinegrow and then messed with it and saved it back out? I love how it cleaned up all of the styles at the top. :)

rgilman commented 5 years ago

Not exactly, but close. I actually load a copy of style.css and then transfer to the version in bfcom in chunks relevant for each commit. I'm continuing to like Pinegrow as a styling tool. I'll have more on my Pinegrow workflow soon.

iangilman commented 5 years ago

Cool. How did all of the styles at the top get cleaned up? Was that Pinegrow or something else?