here is what we try to achieve with wappler.
A beautiful designed project/job board for the film industry.
While the backend looks like it will do amazing, a lot of explanations, tutorials at that front…
The front-end design - drives us nuts at the moment…
ok there is a Theme Manager but there is nowhere a "save this theme as a template button to be found - or only we can’t find it??)
the NodeJS layout/content page concept… which we understand as a Master page / normal page in design software - makes sense. And yes you are right there is a BUT coming…
But why are the CSS design tabs are dead? So how can I say - this Button should complete round etc etc etc. as we attached the CSS before - it shows up but nothing works… (3.9 or 4.0 same same)
The theme manager does not generate a template. It creates a new local Bootstrap CSS file, with the options/styles/colors you selected in the theme manager. On clicking the generate button, the new file is created. So this new custom look and feel for Bootstrap will be used for all the pages in your site, instead of the default one.
As for your question 2 i don't really understand what is the issue here:
thanks -
maybe there is a bug in our system…
Just to verify.
After you added the style file to your layout page save it and then refresh the content page should the design modul just show up or you have to connect the style file there again to the content page?
Once you add it on the layout page and save it, when you open a content page based on this layout the design panel will show you the options to style the selected element.
Testing this on the latest beta.
Can you explain what exactly happens? What do you mean by "not link the theme"?
Can you please provide a step by step explanation so we can recreate the issue?
Teodor, sorry for interrupting, but I was a bit confused about styles in NodeJS too.
Now I see, that I have to open the design panel on the layout page in order to create style.css. And only after that, I can use styles on the content page.
That logic is understandable, but not quite obvious for all newbies. Especially because the design panel is available and “working” even when styles.css is not connected to the layout page.
So, maybe it is better to disable the design panel in content page if the corresponded layout page hasn’t connected style.css?
And if someone tries to open the design panel in this case, show them some tooltip with an explanation like you write here:
“1. On the layout page open the Design panel and click add style file.
2. Save the layout page
3. Open the content page using this layout. Open the design panel, do some changes.”