Showing posts with label styles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label styles. Show all posts

Having experimented with several of the built in themes in Morfik 2.0 I came to the conclusion that it should have a theme with more of a "clean" look. I really like the some of the themes that are bundled, including the one called "Default" which, not surprisingly, is the default one, but I really like to build web applications which have more of a clean look to them.

I prefer to work with white backgrounds, light and bright colors and add some visual effects (sparingly) for effect. I get this feeling that when you use too much of the visual effects at the same time, they loose a bit of their appeal, as they kind of "interfere" with each other.

Most of the themes that are bundled are just a bit too "rich" on visual effects to be to my liking and I really think that a "plainer", "cleaner" theme should be added to the built-in theme collection.

Of course, you can create your own theme with its own set of visual effects, colors, fonts, etc. I have done exactly this, twice already, but I'm not yet up to the same level of polish as the bundled themes display.

Morfik AppsBuilder 2.0 allows you to extensively customize what HTML popups will look like.  This is done by inserting a Popup control onto a form, changing its formatting and properties to reflect what you want it to look like and then updating the default style for the control.




Since this control will not be visible in your application, but you might want to make changes to what the popups look like, you will probably want to keep it.  In this case I recommend creating a separate form in which to place such "model/template" controls.

In a future note I will discuss styles in a bit more detail as they are one of the more interesting aspects of the new version (2.0).

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