Comments on: Cleanly Designed Wicket Sites That Scale

By: wdeveloper

wdeveloper — Sun, 06 May 2012 19:59:47 +0000

http://www.springer.com

Good looking is not the scope of Wicket, but with Wicket you can easily adopt any design.

By: Croc

Croc — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 10:29:16 +0000

Ivaynberg is a key commiter on Wicket isn’t he?

What was the context of the quote at the top? Are you sure it wasn’t sarcasm?

“ivaynberg: you cant build good looking sites with wicket”

By: Joe Mama

Joe Mama — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:37:08 +0000

ties.com

Not the “cleanest” site on the planet, but it’s powered by Wicket.

By: APRI

APRI — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:04:00 +0000

Glasscubes – Share, Collaborate, Communicate (i.e. yet another CRM).
http://www.glasscubes.com/ (sign up for Basic account and login to see that the site is Wicket-powered)

By: Jarl André

Jarl André — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:29:31 +0000

Event though my blog tells everyone how much I hate the fact that Wicket is codeheavy, I am actually deeply in love with the fact that I can make a full blown functional website and just hand out my wicket template files to a designer that can make my website shine. In this respect nothing surpasses Wicket. Especially since I am an educated Java developer, I tend to leave the CSS to the bare minimum

By: Erik van Oosten

Erik van Oosten — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 08:17:06 +0000

If I may be so bold to promote I site I build: http://www.tipspot.com fits nicely in the category Clean Wicket Sites.

By: Michael Mosmann

Michael Mosmann — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:24:29 +0000

I think, wicket attracts more java developer with no web experience. But wicket comes without a default theme, so any application looks like web 1.0

As i noticed here: http://www.wicket-praxis.de/blog/2009/11/03/wicket-theme-css-layout-fur-wicket-anwendungen/ wicket needs a default theme.

By: HieuUK

HieuUK — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:33:17 +0000

I’m a website developer and I work more with code then design. But I still have to admit that writing clean code just aren’t help much for the world wide web. Design and user experience, usability is way more important.

I think a beautiful website isn’t depend on what framework you use. It depends on how you design the website. So when your friend said, you can’t build a good looking website with wicket is just wrong. He could say you can’t build a beautiful website with Paint, than that maybe right(some designers still could pull it off though).

It’s quite a good collection though

By: Marco Polo

Marco Polo — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:49:03 +0000

For the moment let’s say there are two types of development teams: those that think of their mission in terms of building a great looking website and those that concentrate on building a well crafted webapp. The former have good visual design skills and spend a lot of time thinking about the user experience. The latter know a lot about writing clean code that leads to robust, extensible systems. [And the sun is always shining...]

To the extent my portrayal of the two camps is real, wicket appeals to the latter group. It is truly a smart framework and *can* facilitate well written webapps. I am in the backend wicket camp and I have contributed to more than my share of horrid looking websites. I tend to end up on projects requiring deep technical resumes, projects where the visual, experiential side is given little priority.

Wish I had better visual skills though…

Thanks for the great post.