Bootstrap the best custom download page on the internet

[Andrei Oprea]

My name is Andrei I am a first year student at the politehnica
university of bucharest studying computer science. I have read that
you are looking to make the “best custom download page on the
internet” and I have some ideas to contribute to that.The problem I
see with the customization interface is that it’s crowded by elements
and features making it overwhelming for some users or even boring.

I had in mind a step by step customization where you flip through
pages (similar effect to github from page to page) each page is a
different section.These sections could be tailored so that they only
show the obvious options but always giving the user an “advanced”
feature to go in depth. Also each page should contain the elements
they are customizing so that the user can see what he is doing.This
step by step process would simplify things and make it more engaging.
Everything would be backed by a intuitive interface with color
pickers, sliders and text bubble explanations guiding the user and
helping him along the way.
Users could also have access to a gallery of pre-made themes where
they could only change little things like colors, even make their
original theme and post it in the gallery.Or at least have access to
something like “light”, “dark” versions to start with.

I have used Twitter Bootstrap in my projects I like it a lot because
of the head start it gives you while still being easy to use and
because it looks so good, and I would like to help make it better for
everyone.I have been working with CSS, HTML and Javascript for several
years, all the features I referred to would be implemented in HTML5
with fallbacks for older browsers where necessary, I also have
experience with Nodejs, I’ve been using it for the past half year and
I would be able to handle the backend as well (I’ve used frameworks
such as connect and expressjs and mongodb as a database ) I would love
to go into more details with my idea and I await feedback. Thank you !

[fat]

Hey andrei!

Definitely interesting - i think there's lots of work to be done in
the backend to improve things around our development process. Would be
awesome to be able to deploy the backend and have it *just work* when
we update file names, etc. in the main repo.

I'll work with @cra this week to see if we can get the backend
opensourced so you guys can get a sense for what is currently going on
there. :)

-jacob

[Andrei Oprea]

That sounds like an opportunity for a node module to handle all the files, dependencies etc.I'm up for the task of writing one. Looking forward to seeing the backend code.

Thanks :)