develop HTML structure for site

[hannesdatta]

Purpose:

Let's not self-code the layout but purchase it on themeforest (or a comparable site).

Deliverable:

• Links to potential themes you consider buying. We can then vote.

[thierrylahaije]

I have found the following fitting templates. We might need to make some slight changes in the layout, but that is no problem. I can manage all html & css issues.

• [ ] https://preview.themeforest.net/item/muzik-music-streaming-admin-template/full_screen_preview/27967164?_ga=2.110866437.1057326328.1679258688-2065987344.1674141568
• [ ] https://themeforest.net/item/volna-record-label-music-streaming-html-template/31142648
• [ ] https://themeforest.net/item/miraculous-online-music-store-html-template/22317727

@hannesdatta can you choose which template we will be using and buy it?

[hannesdatta]

Any parameters that should affect our choice? Do they differ in terms of 'speed'?

I like https://preview.themeforest.net/item/muzik-music-streaming-admin-template/full_screen_preview/27967164?_ga=2.110866437.1057326328.1679258688-2065987344.1674141568 -- it has graphs which we can use also to display an artists' performance.

In terms of design, I like this one, too (https://kamleshyadav.com/html/miraculous/html/Bootstrap5/version3/index.html). It seems more of a store experience rather than an admin interface. But, it seems suuuuper slow.

What do you think?

[hannesdatta]

I propose this one: https://kamleshyadav.com/html/miraculous/html/Bootstrap4/version2/index.html.

Agree - given speed is ok?

[hannesdatta]

Next steps:

• check whether we can 'post' the HTML file / adapted html file on our GitHub, given this is an open source project
• If yes -- post here so I can buy it (plus post reference / comment upon where you've seen this is 'legal')
• If not -- make other suggestions on which templates we could use. or, we prep an email and ask them about it.

[thierrylahaije]

Within the license, I found two important (contradictory) articles in the license:

• You can make any number of copies of the single End Product, as long as the End Product is distributed for Free.
• You can’t re-distribute the Item as stock, in a tool or template, or with source files. You can’t do this with an Item either on its own or bundled with other items, and even if you modify the Item. You can’t re-distribute or make available the Item as-is or with superficial modifications. These things are not allowed even if the re-distribution is for Free.

The main problem we have is that if we distribute the source code of the HTML files (the template of the author), other people are able to get his template for free without paying for it and can exploit it, which is against the legal terms.

One possibility is to e-mail the owner and ask if we can find some way around this (if we for example mention his name in the layout somewhere) or we have to build a layout that looks like the layout of this specific template. The choice is up to you @hannesdatta

[hannesdatta]

How long would it take to develop something that looks fairly 'good' ourselves?

[thierrylahaije]

Based on the pages that have been mentioned in issue #15 :

• [ ] landing page: +- 15-17,5 hours
• [ ] artist page +- 7,5 hours
• [ ] user page +- 5 hours (can be based upon the layout of the artist page.

In total I estimate it around 30 hours (based on layouts I made in the past). I can build it with the Bootstrap Framework so that it is fully responsive on each device.

Personally, I think this is the best option we have for the following reasons:

• The salary I receive for TSH is a lot lower than the average salary a web developer asks (between €60 - €90 per hour), the total costs of building the site will be around 50% less than I or another web developer would normally charge for building the website.
• The code can be fully adjusted to our wishes, which also makes it easier in the future whenever you want to make changes to the layout of the website.
• The code can be minimized so that the speed of the website is optimized.
• The implementation of our own data (the database) will be done much quicker, since I know exactly how the site is build from start to end.
• Last of all, we will not be facing any legal issues, since web developers normally do not want to open source their projects.

[hannesdatta]

Decision:

• Try drafting front end in a very minimalistic way. We can then decide how much more "layout" we want to add.

[hannesdatta]

We have an amazing version running! :)