Custom UI style?
My company has tasked me to develop a custom style for our AO frontend. I checked and we do not have a "design guideline" file (it's empty): https://github.com/AnswerOverflow/AnswerOverflow/blob/main/DESIGN_GUIDELINES.md
Below is a mockup example that our designer has made, but it's still a work-in-progress.
What would be the most appropriate way for our own developer(s) to submit this for ourselves?
The only thing is that this would obviously be a style that specifically we want just for us as it uses our own brand images etc.
I've discussed with the team just trying to get 'custom .css/.js' enabled maybe as a first step as this was the #1 reason we left Linen. That they absolutely refused to give us any 'custom anything'. If we had this, it shouldn't be too difficult to override the default style with our own template.
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I had a meeting with my our stakeholders today and they suggested showing you the above design image and just asking about how we'd submit this as a PR. We'd design essentially the template/stylesheet for it and we think it would provide pretty huge value to Answer Overflow, as a second togglable style to use aside to the default one.
Others could drop in their own logo, change colors etc. We were thinking of submitting this, and then you can change the logo and colours as you want to suit AO now. But then specifically for us, we'd use this style. This is kind of the 'final boss' for us, as we finish our community project.
The only thing we see that is totally missing on AO are the 'categories' on the left, in which channels are displayed. As you said, text channel support / banter is coming. So this (to us) looks to be the only thing remaining that prevents this style of ours being possible. What do you think?