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DevMoore94 / TextThem

This is an app to send text messages from the web browser
GNU General Public License v2.0
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Homepage design. #18

Closed DevMoore94 closed 9 years ago

DevMoore94 commented 9 years ago

Just thought I'd open an issue to start throwing some ideas around about what should be on the homepage?

mkowoods commented 9 years ago

If we go with some sort of phone book option it might be nice to put that up. And if we start using a db then we can also show recent messages

DevMoore94 commented 9 years ago

Would tracking messages be useful or world it just feel like an invasion of privacy?

mkowoods commented 9 years ago

I guess that's the big question of the times... :)

But, now that you mention it. It's a little Big Brother-esque.

Another option is to go forward with a menu of features(basic text message, random message, rick roll message, geolocation message, etc.)

syntonym commented 9 years ago

Maybe opt-in with a little checkbox "remember my message" with an link that describes in more detail what is tracked and what not?

DevMoore94 commented 9 years ago

Almost like an incognito mode. So the user can control what messages are tracked and which aren't.

DevMoore94 commented 9 years ago

Starting to think again about what we should do for a homepage. The whole list of previously sent messages wouldn't be a bad idea. Only the user would have access to them anyways so privacy isn't really a problem.

mkowoods commented 9 years ago

Let me know if you need help putting it together. Maybe break it into some small projects that we can work on separately.

DevMoore94 commented 9 years ago

I'm not the most artistic person when it comes to web pages. How do you think it should look? Any ideas?

mkowoods commented 9 years ago

Neither am I. I'm much more a backend guy. I'm actually partial to the layout that github has for the user page the 3 column format might lend itself well to this case (a column for features a column for the phone book and a column for recent messages?)

DevMoore94 commented 9 years ago

I think I'll start with adding a box with the recent messages and go from there.

DevMoore94 commented 9 years ago

45b2fb7e39 addressed the message history enhancement.

mkowoods commented 9 years ago

Do we have access to datastore?

Can you use SQLite on Heroku?

DevMoore94 commented 9 years ago

Yes you guys have access to data store. I chose to take the NOSQL route for this project by using REDIS a NOSQL database. http://redis.io/ should help you install your local environment. The remote server information is in the code.

DevMoore94 commented 9 years ago

Also @mkowoods I wasn't sure how to email you but I wanted to show you this. Both of you @syntonym emails_stormpath

syntonym commented 9 years ago

Wow, that's pretty cool.

mkowoods commented 9 years ago

2nd that

DevMoore94 commented 9 years ago

I have added a footer to the bottom of the page with a couple links for now. Wasn't really sure what to put if anything.

DevMoore94 commented 9 years ago

@mkowoods and @syntonym I went with how I was feeling for color changes and I know I need to fix the tab text color(which I`m having trouble with) but I personally feel this looks much better. What do you guys think? Would like to know if I should push the changes.

new_textthem_look

EDIT Updated image with changes.

mkowoods commented 9 years ago

It definitely pops more. The yellow highlight is a little hard to read on the send text button. It might be better with a white background?

DevMoore94 commented 9 years ago

I added a white background to it with black text. Do you think there would be a better option for what is on the background of the page?

mkowoods commented 9 years ago

I usually find it helpful to use pre-existing color palettes. Helps reduce the "universe of decisions"

http://www.colourlovers.com/palettes

or http://www.dtelepathy.com/blog/inspiration/beautiful-color-palettes-for-your-next-web-project

Color brewer is helpful too

http://colorbrewer2.org/

DevMoore94 commented 9 years ago

I was just thinking could we use some sort of pattern? maybe get some more graphics.

DevMoore94 commented 9 years ago

I have added some graphics and and changes to the home page when users are not logged in.