Tom, this is a great idea and I'm very keen to help out. I'm no coder, I'm an e-learning developer with a passion to see Adapt develop. I've used Adobe Captivate/ Articulate and have trailed Evolve authoring (which has built in Theming.) This would be a very strong pull for e-learning designers/ developers.

Ideas off top of my head:

Live Preview

Heading Text manipulation 

quick block and B.G. theming

Hope I can help out in anyway

Chris

Hi Tom,

I would also think of thing like padding. For example add a toggle to remove the padding if the block or article title is empty.

And how about providing a place holder for a company logo?

Cheers,

John

Hey Adapt community,

I'm trying to give this feature a quick boost in visibility. Tom, Brian, Dan, and Thomas are excellent developers, but work moves quicker with more hands (and brains). We need and want your help.

This is an excellent opportunity to get involved in the development of a significant feature. One that is very necessary to the success of the authoring tool. One that will be front and center in every author's work. If your organization is currently using the authoring tool, contributing development time is a way to make sure your needs are discussed; it is a way to give back for the lovin' you've already received -- oh, and it's a way to pay it forward, too.

You don't have to be on the payroll of a collaborating company to make a difference (but hey collaborators, thanks for all you do!). Having worked in a distributed environment like this open source project is not a requirement either. If you have made customizations to your instance of the framework or authoring tool or have built some robust and stable plug-ins, you've got the skills needed to help. Yes, you may feel that you don't know enough about the code base to jump in. And if you had to work on your own, you might be right. But you won't be working on your own. You'll be working with other developers who will appreciate your willingness to help. They'll be there to answer your questions and to give you code strategies if you draw a blank. You'll find folks are quality oriented, collaborative, understanding about interruptions to schedules, and serious about writing good code. And they have a good sense of humor. Check out the adapt_authoring gitter room. Check out all the Adapt gitter rooms, especially during GMT business hours. Private message Tom Taylor (or Brian Quinn) if you'd like to help.

Thanks for your contributions if you have been collaborating with us. And if you haven't been, hope you'll join us soon.

hi all,

how incorporating about a setting for rounded corners? maybe something like this:

Hi all,

Two suggestions:

1 - A graphic selection like we see on the Chrome Inspect to select the editing properties, position, padding, margins for each kind of element: Component, Block, Article.... and like on Chrome Inspect highlight on the element itself what part are we selecting to edit.

2 - Certainly too complex, but it doesn't hurt to dream ;) - Develop a button to allow the user to switch from Mobile(small), Tablet(medium) and Desktop(large) sizes. Here we could edit the @device-width variables and looking at min-width or max-width related css properties allow to edit this properties and trigger the theme preview for each of the layouts.