Hi @manofdogz,
UIkit-3 demos are just one page, the first page of a project so to help you in starting your own. Therefore the projects are so affordable: https://uikitstacks.com/projects/
Cheers,
Lucas
Thanks for the mention @TemplateRepo,
For me the combination of a theme and a framework is the way to go. Making websites with RapidWeaver themes is so easier and quicker, adding the framework specific stacks where more advanced stuff is required.
Personally I use Parallaxis for my website, which is fully compatible with UIkit-3:
https://archetypon.net/themes/parallaxis/
Cheers,
Lucas
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Sure. I’ll give some detail: The first is an e-commerce ‘taster’ for a wine company https://manorwines.co.uk whose core business supplying restaurants and trade collapsed during Covid. They wanted a quick way to start selling online locally to non-trade customers, so we got this starter site up to sell just a selection of mixed cases.
The site has a mixture of F6 and non Foundation stacks. For example, where I wanted to change the colour of a few words in a paragraph, I used a BWD Paragraph Pro stack rather than the F6 text stack - simply because it was quicker and easier than adding span tags in Markdown, and also creating links is easier. I also used Doobox ‘Swell’ stack for some image zooming. Finally, I used BWD Sidebar stack to keep the image of the owner and intro text aligned at all screen sizes. I will however, use all F6 stacks for this type of thing in future to keep things faster and leaner. The e-commerce is Paysnap.
Second site is not finished - awaiting some photographs and final layout: https://kikkdevelopment.co.uk/jody. The Navigation is a good example of where the extra flexibility comes in very useful. On desktops, I wanted a reasonably large logo to the left with both nav bar and a text space above to the right - rather than the more usual logo in nav bar with full width text above. F6 flexible menus allowed this to be built and morph into something different on mobiles as required. Also uses Joe Workmans impact stack for banner. And, although just placeholders at present, I used Shaking the Habitual’s Parallaxer stack for on-page images.
Hope this helps
Oh @manofdogz loving this idea…
I had a meet with a client this morning who is also shifting to local online sales. I was wondering how to ensure people outside his 10m radius don’t attempt to order and that’s a great and simple solution.
Have you kept the online store away from Google somehow, to stop people landing directly on it?
That’s a good question and I haven’t - principally because I’m hoping we’ll progress to a full solution rather than this tester site. Glad the idea helped! I did it because the ‘buy wine’ button with text about location was all the way down the page and I needed some way of a button at the top where the on page text would never work. It uses the F6 Button group with just the one button set to ‘open lightbox’ - also F6.
Possible but If I bought a project file I would do so for the ease of getting a site live knowing that things can be unpicked, rearranged etc later. Not sure i’d use it to see how everything works - the videos are better for that. Also, the templates included give a fair idea about specific functions.
@manofdogz how did you get this image to move while scrolling?
Was that created with the @joeworkman Impact stack?
Really nice effect, this image and the one following.
Parallaxer stack from Shaking the Habitual. Parallaxer | Shaking the Habitual
There are others but this has lots of options and has never let me down!
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I share your joy. I just stick to the basics, after toying around with Foundry – mark you, I still love what Foundry can do. But I have a whole cache of Yuzoolthemes themes and stacks that gives me such awesome looking site, that even visitors comment.
Ahh… you linked to the downloads area. But maybe you didn’t realize that there are 3 demo projects there with links to corresponding YouTube videos for them. I do have one more project to upload from the live stream that I did a couple of weeks ago. I need to add that to this area as well.
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Thanks @joeworkman.
Thanks for pointing those out. Greatly appreciated.
I used to experiment with 3rd party themes but mostly they, in my opinion, waste valuable screen space with photos and the like, Obviously it depends upon what target market the site is for; in my case, content is words, i have very few graphics. images,. I don’t use the built in themes because none are to my taste so some time ago, I asked Will Woodgate to customise one of his basic themes and it has served me well since.
Website design is fashionable. And whenever a new trend arrives, suddenly it’s as though all websites have to get in on the act, jump on the bandwagon. Playing around with appearance in the hope of attracting attention is the stuff of ‘amateur’ marketeers.
According to yet another site about website design: " A website without any images is boring and even with a nice design, most of us would probably prefer one with a lot of images. Why is that?" Blah, blah, etc. Whereas on website usability, research shows that people will read lengthy text provided what they read they find interesting. As i’ve said, it depends upon what the website is for and the target market. I receive loads of plaudits for my website despite it not passing the test of professional web designers.
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@mog1 Content is king/queen! Sometimes, such as for a photo site, photographs are the king/queen. But I’ve seen so many sites with lots of fancy design … but not much real content. It reminds me of the old saying, “If you can’t convince them then confuse them.”
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