71–80 of 142 posts
[1] - https://www.blocsapp.com
I know this is a Bootstrap tool, which means it has baggage. But if something like this existed for email, I would buy it in a snap. I have yet to find a desktop tool that can make decent responsive html emails, and that is one of the main strengths that Bootstrap should offer. Skip the JQ efects. Perhaps you can make a email mode that is JS free, strips out the unused CSS, and inlines the remaining rules?
Pretty. I hope it doesn't mangle markup like GUI tools (that tackled the problem) in the distant past did. Frontpage or Netscape Composer anyone?
GoLive, Dreamweaver too. It's hard to convey semantic intent and create efficient structures in markup when your tool has to be generic enough to have a flexible GUI. It still comes down to how skillful the creator is, to not end up with nested divs and classes like "rt-col1-flex-span-head".
That's been my experience in the past with these kind of tools as well. Its easy to make a mess.
Looks super cool and very useful. If anyone thinks that $25 or $50 is expensive for 3 installs, they are just being disingenuous. That's less than most devs charge their clients per hour and tools like this easily save a few hours on each project. And good to see another Bulgarian venture :-)
Well, to be honest, it might be. I myself would never pay so much for software because I have better things to pay, like electricity, water, internet, etc. I'm not saying you should not pay for software, but poor people, even more poor under-18 developers, don't really have the conditions to pay for such things.
If you're not working, you're not the target market for an application for professional developers and designers.
IMO this is another example of unnecessary fragmentation of the dev tools ecosystem. Why do we need a whole IDE for Bootstrap? Can't we instead make a plugin for an existing IDE to accomplish the same thing?
Are there any widely used WYSIWYG web editors left that this could be a plugin for? I can't remember seeing one of those in ages.
Not Bootstrap specific but Macaw 1.6 [1] is now a free alternative since they were bought by InVision. [1] http://macaw.co
LOL, $50 for a HTML editor.
$25 for a pretty superb WYSIWYG editor with CSS and JavaScript support, in-app responsive design tool, selectable themes, etc. I enjoy it. I'm not at all into coding front-end design, which is always a project-stopper for me. Something like this makes the GUI part easy, even though it's "just bootstrap".
First impression after downloading: an unsigned OS X app? Really? This is commercial software; it's not that expensive to get a dev certificate.
I know this is a Bootstrap tool, which means it has baggage. But if something like this existed for email, I would buy it in a snap. I have yet to find a desktop tool that can make decent responsive html emails, and that is one of the main strengths that Bootstrap should offer. Skip the JQ efects. Perhaps you can make a email mode that is JS free, strips out the unused CSS, and inlines the remaining rules?
* Drag and drop with common content types. Text, HTML, image, button, divider, social icons.
* Controls for fonts, colors, borders, padding, etc. You don't want to adjust CSS after the CSS is inlined.
* Control over email structure. Most email layouts are a single column or pre-built with a multi-column area. A good editor allows you to add new sections that are single or multi-column.
* Responsive by default. For email this means that multi-column layouts can "collapse" to one column on mobile. So a 3x3 grid becomes 1x9 and the content of each cell isn't tiny on a phone.
* Cross email client compatible. It handle Outlook, GMail and Apple Mail out of the box. This means lots of s, that's just life.
* One-click export to HTML with inlined CSS.
* Image hosting. You can host the images yourself, but most of the time that's an extra step you don't care about.
* Allows for saving and re-editing. It's not fun creating a variation of a template from scratch.
For the last three years, we've been working on our email builder: https://www.klaviyo.com/email-templates. I think it has all of the above.