Mobile/responsive

[Welly]

Hello,

Have been using this site for some time now and it's been invaluable. What I have found most frustrating with the site is it isn't responsive and I'm willing to bet a reasonable percentage of users use this site on their mobile phones.

I work as a web developer, and have done for all my professional life. I'd be keen to get involved and at the very least make it responsive for mobile users.

So, how can I do this?

Thanks very much and my appreciation for the work that has been knows no bounds!

Welly

[Stephen Atty]

Hi Welly

Canalplan uses a templating system for most of its layout so making it responsive hopefully won't be too bad.

The Boat listing section is all written in PHP and doesn't do much formatting at all ( it just sits within the main content div)
The Forums and Bug tracker are third party products.... I'm not sure how much work would need to be done  to make them responsive if the main Canalplan site was.

Steve

[Administrator]

I'm still wondering how to best take advantage of your offer.  In the past I've had people take a page and alter it to make it more responsive, but because they are all generated from a complicated selection of template files, and include some (not great) custom JavaScript it ends up being just about impossible to track the changes back to where they need to come from.

I don't want to have to make people install the entire CanalPlan development system, nor is it in a suitable condition in terms of how to build it, for that to be practical.

The idea I'm tending to is a small executable that can take a data file and run all the templating code.  That, plus the template and JS files, would be something people could download and play with before letting us have changes to the templates back again.

Does this sound sensible?  Do you have a great idea that cuts through all of this?