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LowellObservatory / NightWatch

A system to display a set of important information at an observatory.
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Possible Themes for NightWatch #3

Closed dyerlytle closed 5 years ago

dyerlytle commented 5 years ago

There are a lot of themes out there. Basically, all we need is an HTML theme and then just insert the various plots, images, info lists into the theme.

The isotope theme, for example, looks interesting.

It looks nice but I don't know how it scales to smaller/larger formats, etc.

More research is needed, let me know what you come up with.

dyerlytle commented 5 years ago

TemplateMonster has a lot of ideas too.

astrobokonon commented 5 years ago

@dyerlytle I like the isotope one a lot. The flexible different-sized-square nature of it seems like a pretty good fit for the initial test version. The related Packery one lets you even drag and drop stuff around, though I kinda like how isotope tamed the infinite-tweakability of that with the filters + buttons.

I'm still fuzzy on how they would actually interact and operate with something like django, but it would probably become clear with an example.

dyerlytle commented 5 years ago

I suspect as long as every piece of content on the NightWatch page is wrapped in a DIV, Isotope would arrange them.

astrobokonon commented 5 years ago

Closing this since I think we've settled on something worthwhile for the alpha version. Further comments on what we put together can be handled as a new issue.