Scrutinizing SPARKLE (Freeway alternative)

Hey Mark,

the documentation page is indeed built in Sparkle. The navigation on the left is simply a menu element with a vertical orientation, it auto-populates from the website pages and it’s made visible on all pages. The outcome is that it’s possible to add a new page, which will show up in the menu in all pages, and just add the text block on the right side.

Regarding text effects we definitely should add CSS shadows, hopefully we’ll get around to them soon.

We do have a plan to add a forum but it’s held up for a few reasons, agreed FWT isn’t the best venue for this.

In Sparkle a section is a collection of pages, the purpose of this is threefold:

  1. you visually organize the site outline
  2. when you have a menu that is populated from the website structure (as opposed to manually configured), the section becomes a submenu
  3. when you show elements in multiple pages, Sparkle’s version of master pages, you have the option to show them in the whole site or just in the current section, which is useful when a section has something visually distinctive that you can then edit from one of the section pages and have show up identically throughout the section.

Duncan
http://sparke.cx http://sparke.cx/


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