Suggestion: Skinnable Frontend
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Hey TBB,
It would really be cool if users on Paid Plans (not free ones, more
incentive to upgrade) would be able to upload their own Stylesheet
(.css) file that would allow them to reskin most, if not all, of
the frontend of the website. :)
Support Staff 2 Posted by Matt Johnson on 03 Feb, 2010 11:59 PM
Hi,
We definitely started out with this type of idea. About half way through development we realized that there are better ways to go about customization.
One idea we have is having embedable widgets that takes the brackets, info page, list of participants (each within their own widget) and then lets you build a page on your own website around these widgets.
This is more or less just a conceptual idea - we haven't started development on it yet, but it's something I think we will do soon and we think will be a better result than allowing customization of the application itself.
Really appreciate your feedback though! Let us know what you think of the idea above.
Matt
3 Posted by Pat Grogan on 04 Feb, 2010 01:53 AM
That would be cool as well, as long as we could skin the widgets. Having a bright white widget in the middle of a website focused entirely on dark-themes doesn't always look right.
And I still think the ability to customize the frontend directly would be great, but I can understand why you don't want to build this into the system. :)
-Pat
Support Staff 4 Posted by Matt Johnson on 04 Feb, 2010 02:06 AM
Yeah, widgets will definitely have customization. No doubt!
5 Posted by sk8erbryan on 05 Feb, 2010 10:44 PM
I would be a fan of being able to use a custom stylesheet, but I haven't used the system yet.
Support Staff 6 Posted by Matt Johnson on 05 Feb, 2010 10:53 PM
Cool, we're keeping an open mind about it.