Making application looks better.

[akshay0...@gmail.com]

Hello web2py team,

      I just started using web2py for my application. When i am going deeper with my application, i am facing issues. The problem is that i have a basic idea about HTML tags only. I have never worked with CSS, Bootstrap, ajax, javascript etc. As of now i am able to add basic functionality to my application like creating forms which are dealing with database or printing things via creating simple views. Real problem is coming when i want to make my webpages look beautiful.

For instance suppose i want to show few things in left side of my webpage with different background color like a side menu, few things in center of the webpage with diff background color.(this example i am giving to show that i am at complete beginner in web development)

 I am not getting whether i have to create my own css files and use them or extending existing or make changes in existing files. As of now i don't have idea about things like sidebars and all which are used in existing layout files or CSS files.

So my question is how should i approach things? Do i need to have a complete understanding of CSS, ajax and bootstrap etc? or if i get basic idea of things then it will work? How should i move forward?

Thanks.

[António Ramos]

I like and am using this 

https://almsaeedstudio.com/themes/AdminLTE/index2.html

here is the web2py template

https://github.com/tomcam/AdminLTE-web2py

the code is very well organized...

Regards

António

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[Pierre]

learn the basics of css and the bootstrap grid system and components. As for sidebars, there are powerful tools like  -change column ordering-   (a sidebar is just a bootstrap column contained in a row)

https://www.w3schools.com/bootstrap/bootstrap_grid_examples.asp

[Michael Beller]

I created my own scaffold app based on the AdminLTE layout, similar to what António did in terms of layout but replaced the Welcome app.  I use this for each new app instead of the Welcome app as my base app:

https://github.com/mjbeller/web2py-starter

[Massimo Di Pierro]

screenshots? :-)

[António Ramos]

My humble doc management app still in testing, with workflows... 

I have email templates looking very nice....

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[LoveWeb2py]

These are beautiful! We should start a collection of scaffolding templates...

[Joe Barnhart]

Something's wrong!  The text came out garbled on the screen shots.  I can't read a thing!

;-)