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Introducing Bootstrap Studio

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Re: Introducing Bootstrap Studio

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Post by assocguilt »

hex13 wrote: post #119
oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure, I think the OP was talking about people who earn the price of this tool in an hour or two, not people who aren't even working. Software pricing is a very strange beast. It seems to vary so widely, with not always a very obvious price/quality connection. And over time, it doesn't seem to follow any reasonable expectation; I paid £65 for a game 25 years ago, which would be over £90 in today's money.

Uhm... Usually I'm buying games on steam for 5-15 euros. There is a lot cheap special offers...

What has that got to do with anything? If I see a game I want on Steam and I want it now, should I not buy it because it's not part of a sale?

Re: Introducing Bootstrap Studio

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Post by assocguilt »

andrewingram wrote: post #41

I find the existence of this kind tool to be strange, but that may just be because of my preferred way of working. Despite the fact that i'm not hugely keen on Bootstrap, I recognise that people find it useful. But do people really love it so much that they build an ecosystem and actual paid apps around it? It just seems like such a weird thing to focus your energy on.

Are you kidding? There are plenty of devs that build bootstrap front ends - if this makes life easier for them and saves time / effort, it's an easy decision to purchase this. There are other front end frameworks that with IDE's that people pay for too such as vaadin. You're probably not in the target audience for this.

Re: Introducing Bootstrap Studio

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Post by assocguilt »

yelnatz wrote: post #19
dandare wrote: post #4

This looks promising but I would need a free trial before paying for it.

I was actually hyped a little bit until I saw your comment. Forgot about the price. $50 for 1 year free updates and only 3 installs is a little bit steep.

Professional tools cost money. How am I going to drive in nails without a good quality hammer?

If this becomes a good solid product - I would expect to be paying several hundred dollars.

Re: Introducing Bootstrap Studio

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Post by lightlyused »

Cool. When I added a new page (untitled.html) and renamed it the page name change wasn't reflected back. Also, There appears to be a page tab for the page editor, but I'm only getting one tab while I have more than one page defined in the design.

Re: Introducing Bootstrap Studio

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Post by rodriguezcommaj »

poxrud wrote: post #106
rodriguezcommaj wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You should look into http://www.stampready.net - along with Campaign Monitor's email builder ( https://www.campaignmonitor.com/features/create-custom-email... ), it's one of the best drag-and-drop tools for creating really good, responsive emails. The problem with any of these tools is that they still spit out sometimes convoluted code, but that can't really be avoided since they need to cover their asses in literall…

Thanks. Do these support responsive emails on the gmail android client? Unfortunately the gmail client does not support media queries, which makes building a responsive email for it very difficult.

That's a good question. I'm not sure about StampReady, but Campaign Monitor has a few of the best email designers in the biz working there (namely Nicole Merlin and Stig Morten Myre) who strive for really robust templates. Nicole in particular has written about her approach (typically called 'hybrid' or 'spongey' development), which works without media queries. It's basically using fluid tables, max-width, and MSO conditional tables to get things working and is the best approach around these days. You can read more about it here: http://webdesign.tutsplus.com/tutorials/creating-a-future-pr...

I wouldn't be surprised if Campaign Monitor's email templates built in their builder follow the same approach. MailChimp's too, for that matter. The team there use similar techniques.

Re: Introducing Bootstrap Studio

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Post by hex13 »

assocguilt wrote: post #121
hex13 wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Uhm... Usually I'm buying games on steam for 5-15 euros. There is a lot cheap special offers...

What has that got to do with anything? If I see a game I want on Steam and I want it now, should I not buy it because it's not part of a sale?

just saying... ;)

Re: Introducing Bootstrap Studio

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Post by tuananh »

smacktoward wrote: post #104
tuananh wrote: post #33

i think this can be achieved by a bootstrap snippet set; a decent text editor with live reload/files watch setup. a dedicated app is not needed.

It's $25. How much time would it take someone starting from scratch to gather those snippets, choose a text editor, get it installed and configured, and set it up to use the snippets, watch files, etc.? If their time is worth anything at all I can understand the attraction of paying $25 to skip straight to the part where they're doing the actual work people pay them to do.

if you're a web developer, you should probably have those already.

Re: Introducing Bootstrap Studio

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Post by nevi-me »

$25! Thank you! I'm buying me a copy right now! Someone was saying you should charge $99 as freelance developers would buy it at that price, but as a hobbyist who $99 is how much I spend on almost monthly groceries because of the exchange rate, I'm glad that the price is at reach.

From looking at the site, this looks awesome, especially since I can import my own Bootstrap themes. I haven't used a visual CSS editor in over half a decade, and after the page refreshes that I spent time on just last night, I hope this will be a great tool for me to use.

Thanks again :)

EDIT: I see it comes bundled with Bootswatch themes, this is awesome as I use some of them! Great tool so far!

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