How third party templates can help in developing new application
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We've a project with 150+ forms and 70+ reports / graphs and got scheduled to complete in 2014 Dec by starting the development now. We have enough knowledge in project and specification also is ready. But my hands are empty in development which supposed to start this month end. We want to deliver a good and rich customer experienced web application. UI interface should be smooth and the performance to be good. This will be a intranet application. We've chosen to did it in ASP.NET (Visual studio 2012) with back end MS SQL Server 2008 R2. My worry is designing the base template itself will consume much time if each and every thing will be developed from ground level. I searched and come up with availability of third party templates. (http://themeforest.net/category/site-templates/admin-templates) When I saw the demo which they provided in their site, it looks good for me and it is enough for my application. Please share your ideas and experiences with third party templates. - Will it suitable for projects which fresh start? - Will it help us to reduce the development efforts in page / form design ? - Can we incorporate it in .net development environment? Please share your valuable suggestions if any other way of solution. Thank you.
Rishihar Subashchandran
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We've a project with 150+ forms and 70+ reports / graphs and got scheduled to complete in 2014 Dec by starting the development now. We have enough knowledge in project and specification also is ready. But my hands are empty in development which supposed to start this month end. We want to deliver a good and rich customer experienced web application. UI interface should be smooth and the performance to be good. This will be a intranet application. We've chosen to did it in ASP.NET (Visual studio 2012) with back end MS SQL Server 2008 R2. My worry is designing the base template itself will consume much time if each and every thing will be developed from ground level. I searched and come up with availability of third party templates. (http://themeforest.net/category/site-templates/admin-templates) When I saw the demo which they provided in their site, it looks good for me and it is enough for my application. Please share your ideas and experiences with third party templates. - Will it suitable for projects which fresh start? - Will it help us to reduce the development efforts in page / form design ? - Can we incorporate it in .net development environment? Please share your valuable suggestions if any other way of solution. Thank you.
Rishihar Subashchandran
An application of that volume it should be very wise to bring in a web designer - that can help you to create a higher level of look and feel...However if there is a time frame that renders the work of a designer invalid, you may consider a good template too, but you have to see whether the template will not break you, so take you most complicated pages (in look, not in code) and test it against the template. If you have your template, than bring in a designer anyway to fir it for you, than drop him...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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An application of that volume it should be very wise to bring in a web designer - that can help you to create a higher level of look and feel...However if there is a time frame that renders the work of a designer invalid, you may consider a good template too, but you have to see whether the template will not break you, so take you most complicated pages (in look, not in code) and test it against the template. If you have your template, than bring in a designer anyway to fir it for you, than drop him...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
Thanks.
Rishihar S
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We've a project with 150+ forms and 70+ reports / graphs and got scheduled to complete in 2014 Dec by starting the development now. We have enough knowledge in project and specification also is ready. But my hands are empty in development which supposed to start this month end. We want to deliver a good and rich customer experienced web application. UI interface should be smooth and the performance to be good. This will be a intranet application. We've chosen to did it in ASP.NET (Visual studio 2012) with back end MS SQL Server 2008 R2. My worry is designing the base template itself will consume much time if each and every thing will be developed from ground level. I searched and come up with availability of third party templates. (http://themeforest.net/category/site-templates/admin-templates) When I saw the demo which they provided in their site, it looks good for me and it is enough for my application. Please share your ideas and experiences with third party templates. - Will it suitable for projects which fresh start? - Will it help us to reduce the development efforts in page / form design ? - Can we incorporate it in .net development environment? Please share your valuable suggestions if any other way of solution. Thank you.
Rishihar Subashchandran
If you look at other large scale efforts that are intended to be used in a variety of situations you will find a common 'template' already -- XML. SQL Report Definition Language = XML Microsoft XPS = XML SOAP = XML ADO.NET DataSets and DataTables both can serialize as XML and XML Schema. XML is the world's best glue because it is self-describing and completely system, network and transport agnostic. It can carry any type, the objects created from it are automatically native and correct and its support is widespread -- XSLT can output just about any object you care to -- HTML, XML, JSON, etc. If you begin with XML -- you can always replace it easily with something more specific -- but if you start with something specific and your design is not frozen -- you will struggle to complete it at all, much less on time.
