Elevated X CMS Announces New Developer Program
 

We?re excited to begin offering support to designers and developers as part of a new developer program initiative.

The program offers an opportunity for designers to get more business as a result of being able to customize templates for the Elevated X adult CMS, one of the adult industry?s most popular pay site management software products.

In a move that will benefit designers and Elevated X CMS customers alike, we will be giving designers a direct line of communication with our technical staff. We?re extending an invitation to any legitimate designer who wants to learn how to work with our CMS templates.

1 on 1 help, support and training is available to professional designers and coders who would like to provide services for Elevated X adult CMS customers. This is in addition to giving qualified participants access to a development copy of the CMS to help them learn how to work with the software.

Elevated X currently refers our customers to 4 or 5 different design companies for design and light coding work. The demand for CMS template coding services is so high that some designers are booked solid just from Elevated X related work alone. It pays to know how to design for our system.

The goal for the developer program is to give our adult CMS customers more choices when it comes to design services.

For more information please visit http://www.elevatedx.com/developers/ or contact me directly.

AJ

Great news AJ and ElevatedX. We are working on several ElevatedX projects right now and are pleased to be one of the design companies you have referred so many client to over the years. Having an extra line of communication and one on one help is great and networking with more industry design companies will only make the end product that much better. This kind of customer service is what makes ElevatedX the best in the business.

I'm so glad you've had such a good experience working with us over the years.

Thanks for the nice review!

AJ

Sounds very interesting :thumbsup You've got mail

cool stuff man...ill check it out

AJHall, I have some points to relay as feedback from working with your member templates:

Get rid of fractured tables in html, by 'fractured' I mean tables that are generated from various template pieces where table can start in one file continue in other files with some more tables, etc. Once we did complete members design with our own sliced html of course, without tables - man, it was a pain to bring it over into your templates, although I love smarty ;)

I haven't looked in a while at ElevatedX templates, if you still use tables I would suggest make your members templates table-less except only where it's required for tabular data. We could help with it btw, we have very good html coders on our staff.

Personally, I usually don't require any live support when working with new systems given it has good documentation along with it where
general template file structure covered and or visualized;
which templates are part of others;
list of all available variables/arrays/objects and mention whichever only available to certain templates;
guide how new pages can be created and linked within;
instructions how a new theme could be created/added/copied, since editing default is never a good idea, and maybe add a feature to quickly switch between them from admin and add ability for devs to test out theme before applying it in live production.

templates need to be as flexible and simple as possible, then designers can do with them as they please - bring over their code or adjust current code/style easily.

There's no use of fractured tables in our latests CMS version (3.2). The templates for this version were redone entirely and every sub-section of a major page has been broken into its own Smarty sub-template for easier editing.

Our templates use divs where possible and rely on a CSS file for all styles. Tables are still used for the main layouts of various page sections.

We tried table-less CSS templates back in 2007 and it didn't go over well with our customers. We then reverted back to tables. It's great for designers but a lot of our customers are not designers. Not all of them want to redo their whole site with a custom design, many just want to edit basic things. We found that giving them simple old school HTML code made it easier for them to recognize the code and make simple edits.

Making things both flexible and simple to edit is always the goal. It's not easy when dealing with a complex system with literally 100s of functions and features but we're always working toward achieving that. Improving and simplifying the template system further is a big part of our plans for 2012 and we will definitely take this feedback into consideration.

Thanks for sharing your feedback!

If other designers have feedback or suggestions please email it to me directly at [email protected]

AJ

Back to the top for an awesome program!!

WOW that's super cool AJ !!!!! Elevated X is great :)

We've had a lot of response and some great feedback and suggestions from this post already.

Thanks for the support everyone, it's always appreciated!

AJ