hi all, new here!
first i want to thank my friend shadowfax, who told me of sparkle some months ago. so i remembered it a month ago and started to use it. after 2 weeks learning i had my holidays, so no computer, then worked again on it - besides regular work, i had 18 days for building up the (still under construction) homepage on https://www.wesen-tli.ch/Entwicklung-Sparkle
to its recent state. at the beginning with sparkle, i was a little flashed by all the possibilities i could do, and designed wildly for all screens, read the community and the documentations. after holidays, i realized i have to do it again from scratch - so i tried sketch and figured out how easy it is to build up for sparkle. that took 2 days, then i was ready for implementing sketch into sparkle. first i had some issues, of course, but after a while it was really easy. Stunned, that the structure has been created that fast, i began filling content and took a lot of advices and tricks from the forum, thank you all for your ideas! and of course duncan and his team for the great software!
since there’s no space for all the good sparkle does, here my problems i addressed:
- the animated popups for colour and likewise popups begin to get very slow after a while - i dont know how to deactiavte this animation. for work, a snappy popup, better not animated, is much nicer.
- of course i’d have a lot of wishes too for the sparkle app. sketch shows a nice gui how to handle work very efficient and intuitive. good that content is exportable to sparkle in an uncomplicated way.
- some export issues from sketch to sparkle: there’s always +1px to my boxes or groups in sparkle. since it is svg or textboxes, no problem, just realized. and i would love the text capabilities of sketch in sparkle. it was not as easy to adjust line-height and other font stuff in a similar way as it is in sketch.
but the best of the sparkle app is its flexibilty to address a lot of design elements natively, most part i love its ability to handle svgs. coming as a dreamwaver-beginner with a little codings skills over iweb, i began to try some other wysiwig editors like everweb, muse, wordpress, and clearly failed with all of them in all aspects. never felt so good when prototyping and designing, after all it was quite handy done. and the community topic about hyphens definitely showed me how sparkle can be used too. and so, i used quite a bunch of css to tweak the result, but after 4 days of intense work, i think the result is quite nice - though it’s only the 960px-version yet. looking forward for the mobile version (uff …)
for the more experienced/interested: libraries and css-tweaks you find in the code and on
https://www.wesen-tli.ch/Entwicklung-Sparkle/Defs-960
some tests (like some kind of a tooltipp) are on
https://www.wesen-tli.ch/Entwicklung-Sparkle/Test
so, for the end: thank you all again for the nice work and input. and sorry to them whom i stole one or another idea. now you can steal back 
oh, and it all shows best in safari, then chrome. firefox still doesn’t handle backdropfilter by default. other browsers i don’t care anymore and hope, sparkle does it 
best regards, wolfgang
