Karelia Community Forum

Commodore

Member

Widening Slate Manifest

I understand that you have posted the method for widening your designs. But the entire reason that I use Sandvox is because I don't want to learn how to get into code.  Furthermore, what would take you 20 minutes would take me a couple of days, and then there is no guarantee I'd get it right. So my question is this:

What would I have to do to get you to widen the "Slate Manifest" design from its current 730 pixels wide to 960-1024 pixels? Whatever it is, I'll do it.

Commodore

danwood

Administrator

Re: Widening Slate Manifest

It's not something we at Karelia can take on right now, but maybe there are other CSS-savvy people here that would be interested in taking it on.  We specifically licensed the CSS portions of the designs under the Creative Commons license, which makes it easy for anybody to base a new design off of an existing design.

Commodore

Member

Re: Widening Slate Manifest

Thanks, Dan,

I love Sandox and really appreciate all the great work that you've done so I don't mean this to sound sarcastic in the slightest, but "that's easy for you to say." I actually attempted it and ended up swearing. If it's so easy, who don't you offer it in both sizes?

For one of my clients, I have tracked over 2.5 million visits to their website and found that less than .001 percent view it with anything smaller than a 1024 pixels wide browser window. You might consider offering more designs in the wider format.

Thanks again for all of your great work.

Commodore

RX7RACE

Hero

Re: Widening Slate Manifest

Would this be what we are looking for?  Found this in another portion of the forum.

SVDesignMiner is a Sandvox design editing assistant. It enables you edit or replace any element in any Sandvox design. It provides a user friendly interface between the contents of your Sandvox designs and your image and text editor applications. With SVDesignMiner making design modification is easy and intuitive. SVDesignMiner assits you in editing or replacing design image files as well as editing text files such as: css, html, js, plist, etc.

Here is a link to the User's Guide: http://www.ttpsoftware.com/SVDMGuide/

If you think SVDM might be of use to you please let me know by responding to this post.

Commodore

Member

Re: Widening Slate Manifest

RX7RACE,

I don't know if this will work but it certainly looks promising. I appreciate your quick response and I'll get it a try.

Thanks again,

Commodore

RX7RACE

Hero

Re: Widening Slate Manifest

Here is where I found the info if you want to post directly to the developer...
    * Index
    * » Sandvox General
    * » Any interest in SVDesignMiner?

Commodore

Member

Re: Widening Slate Manifest

Thanks, again.

Commodore

danwood

Administrator

Re: Widening Slate Manifest

Commodore,

I apologize for the misunderstanding. It's not an easy change; if it were we would have already implemented it.  I was trying to say that from a *legal* standpoint, we have removed barriers to adapting a design to suit your needs.  There is still the technical issue.

For the technical side, we have provided the Quickly modifying existing designs documentation page.

We have some long-term ideas about offering a lot more flexibility in the widths of designs, but that's not something we can quickly slap together.  So that's why I suggested that there may be somebody in the community who would be interested in helping out with your project.

Commodore

Member

Re: Widening Slate Manifest

Dan,

Thanks for the response. You guys are doing great things and I don't want my comments to come across as acrimonious. I'm just craving for more space to put more menus on that particular design.

Commodore