I’ve already found some older posts about this, but I’m hoping there might be a more recent update.
Following what has become a common web standard, Sitely still can’t produce pages where text or other elements can be positioned close to the left or right edge of the browser. The only way to achieve this is by using a full‑width box, which mainly works for images.
As much as I enjoy using Sitely/Sparkle and keep coming back to it, clients regularly ask for this type of layout, and I can’t deliver it with the current tools. I’ve been a user since April 2018, and the progress of the app has been great overall, but this capability is still missing.
Is this feature on the roadmap (hi! )? Is it planned, or is there a technical or design reason why this isn’t supported in Sparkle?
Hi @michaelokraj. I’m a Sitely User so I don’t speak on behalf of the Sitely Team.
From my experience of web design, there are two camps (well probably three) of fixed-width design, fluid-width design and hybrid-width design.
What you are talking about in your post is fluid-width design where the CSS width is assigned 100%, allowing for the website to expand out to the edges of the browser window.
Sitely is built on a fixed-width design platform, so the website page width is predetermined based on the device viewing your website. Hence the 320px, 768px, 1200px, etc… devices settings.
So on my end it is more about educating the client rather than them telling me how it is going to be with the actual website functioning. Sitely in a way, as you have mentioned, can place elements on the edge of the browser but more via Popups which works well enough for me.
I wouldn’t agree that fluid designs are a current, or a popular web standard. Current trends tend to favour Hybrid Responsive websites in which responsiveness is set within practical limits, based on the device viewing the site. This gives designers full control over how the website is seen on different devices. The problem with fully fluid sites is that they can become unpredictable (text too wide for comfortable reading, misalignment of page elements at different sizes etc.). In today’s world of website design, hybrid responsive is by far the most popular, and this is the model that Sitely outputs.
I appreciate everyone’s involvement in the community and the effort put into communication. However, I don’t see how the points being raised relate to my original question about the roadmap and whether this feature is planned for Sitely.
I’d appreciate it if we could stay focused on the topic of my post: whether there are plans to support this layout capability in the app. If anyone would like to discuss layout standards or general design philosophies, a separate thread would probably be more appropriate.
As I mentioned @michaelokraj I have no knowledge of what goes into Sitely.
So I answered you on “…or is there a technical or design reason why this isn’t supported in Sparkle?”
Sitely is built on a fixed-width platform which covers the technical reason.
)? Is it planned, or is there a technical or design reason why this isn’t supported in Sparkle?