I’ve always had an intimate approach with design. I figured out when I was at university that a lot of people can’t sense when something is wrong with their design. I’ve built Dotlane – an HTML/CSS framework – to make code and design accessible for everyone.

Elevator Pitch

Dotlane exists to facilitate building a portfolio with only a basic knowledge of web development. It’s meant to stay easy and simple to achive a wonderful result.

This tool was originally made for my close circle of friends that needed to build demos or personal websites to bump up their profile to find internships.

Usage

  1. Select a theme
  2. Import the given HTML structure along with the link to the CSS file
  3. Focus on your content

Perspectives

Dotlane offers a specific layout that fits well with a student’s showcase. However, the user needs to be familiar with CSS classes to add rules to his design.

Ultimately, there shouldn’t be any need to dive into the CSS and HTML code. The user should be able to drag and drop designed blocks of contents where desired.

I started developing the interface to create the own user’s styles but didn’t reach the drag and drop part due to new tools offering the same features being introduced at that time.

Dotlane is not in active development anymore. This project hasn’t been made public since its value is arguable considering all the frameworks and libraries today.