Responsive Design - user control?
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- safeworld4women
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Hi All
An interesting situation arose recently with a friend who has built his website using WIX.
The way he described the process to me was that with WIX you create a main website and then a mobile website.
Now it was a lot of work for him to do this and the result is fine.
However, as a designer it is obvious that RT ( and others) approach is much more simple.
One site - adjust the settings
But what WIX offers is total user control..
I am just wondering if anyone has any thoughts how we can bring in 'more user control' into our design work using RT?
For instance if we allow the website owner to create blogs or articles etc
How can we simply give instructions such as...
'do this if you want this to show on mobiles only'
How does one empower your 'client'?
Would love to hear from developers who work directly at this level?
I am working more in Wordpress than Joomla these days
Best
Andrew - My wife and I design, build and maintain websites - for non-profit organisations, therapists, artists, local community groups and small businesses.
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- MrT
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WIX and other drag 'n drop site builders are ok for basic sites that are predominantly static content. They are very nice for end users to use. But, as soon as you start wanting to add more dynamic content (e.g. blogs etc) or capture data into a database (e.g. forms) then that's when a proper CMS comes into it's own. Also, there are way more plugins and extensions available for a full-blown CMS.
A full-blown CMS can do every thing that these online site builders can plus a whole lot more. Of course with that flexibility comes more complexity too which is why we have "web designers/developers" who use this everyday.
So really it's horses for courses, if you want a static site that's just drag and drop for an end user then by all means use an online site builder But if you want more flexibility and control yourself then use a full-blown CMS. There is a middle ground too in our GRAV CMS (with or without Gantry 5) which is also great for building simpler sites.
I hope that helps.
Regards, Mark. - Please search forums before posting. Please make sure your post includes the version of the CMS you are using and a link to the problem. Annotations on screenshots can also be helpful to explain problems/goals. Please use the "secure" tab for confidential information.
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