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#31 2006-06-06 20:29:15
- alexandra
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Re: Admin Facelift. Take 3
Ace, P, wonderful work!! I love it. You are getting very close to what i personally was hoping for/looking for for months. I love those new icons too.
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It looks a little like PunBB… Looking good, though…
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@ P
I already do something like that on my own TXP install(s). Different colour schemes/look, but something like what you suggest.
@ Ace
That DynamicDrive script is no more accessible for keyboard users than the Suckerfish one.
One of the best scripts I have seen is BrotherCake’s UDM.
Your latest screenshots look better, more tone-down, quiet.
The thing is, with all those Facelift propositions, if the underlying html code is well made, it becomes trivial to create a new theme. Just create a new style sheet, and you can get a whole new look. My own attempts in Admin. Facelift, take 2 includes 2 style sheets. Want to change the colour scheme ? Just open up your text editor and change the values.
Where is that emoji for a solar powered submarine when you need it ?
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#34 2006-06-07 03:48:29
- Ace of Dubs
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Re: Admin Facelift. Take 3
Nice work, P :)
I incorporated your suggestion in the latest build…
@ phiw13
Thanks for that link, although I am not sure what the licensing price would be since Txp is open source. The price for unlimited usage is a bit steep IMHO. But the menus are impressive!
I will definitely take a peek at your code, although at this stage of the game, I am thinking of coding the admin’s html from scratch since it desperately needs an upgrade. Hopefully time will permit….
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Ace and P,
You’re both causing me to stumble.
:)
Really great colaborration.
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#36 2006-06-07 06:13:37
- -P-
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Re: Admin Facelift. Take 3
:D
During the whole time, that has been what I was dreaming TXP admin could be, with those icons and with styling taken also to writing options etc. Ace of Dubs made me speak out! Ace, YOU are an ace!
Round corners would be awesome but guess because of IE have to stick with normal ones? Thou correct me if I´m wrong but have a feeling that Symphony (which to my opinion is having the most beatuiful admin) has styling solutions that render differently with IE. And that´s not really so bad, everything fully works, just isn´t as beatiful than with other browsers… if you want to stick with IE, then be it.
The right side I was thinking beneath article status is that textfields (categorize, section) could stay as they are (and as Ace made in the latest demo) but commenting options could go into a fiedset. With or without a coloured backgound.
And the final touch to write article view, excerpt field that can be expanded/collapsed. Right now the default one is just too small, if you make it bigger, it takes too much space when not needed. Best option would be ability to show/hide it.
Concerning plugins, (since some of them add a tab to navigation) with this style I guess you could make one, same icon that always indicates a custom tab so it stays logic and plugin authors don´t have worry about providing any extra stuff as long as icon is supported in their plugins navigation tab.
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My only concern is that the subtabs off Content and admin seem to only be reachable through the cascade menu. I think specially for an area like content it would be better to have them represented in the second tab row like you have presentation represented now.
This would make the content opions much more visible to clients who will spend much more time in content then in presentation.
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hakjoon wrote:
My only concern is that the subtabs off Content and admin seem to only be reachable through the cascade menu. I think specially for an area like content it would be better to have them represented in the second tab row like you have presentation represented now.
This would make the content opions much more visible to clients who will spend much more time in content then in presentation.
My assumption is that just like the current sub tabs are context sensitive, so too would these mockups
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swf wrote:
My assumption is that just like the current sub tabs are context sensitive, so too would these mockups
That’s what I figured. Thought I’d mention it just in case.
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Really outstanding work, Ace + all others involved. For what it’s worth I preload phiw13’s take 2 theme on every site I build. Just works better.
But this looks awesome, you’ve covered a lot of ground since this thread started.
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#41 2006-06-07 18:52:07
- NyteOwl
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Re: Admin Facelift. Take 3
While many of these are nice, I think it important that, love of scipting or icons aside, any redesign should remain true to the “elegant simplicity” for which Textpattern is known. Bells and whistles are all well and good but overdone and you become just another bloated blog engine.
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#42 2006-06-07 19:54:32
- Ace of Dubs
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I think the Owl is right, I just put together a full comp for the Content page and the icons do get a little distracting. Pardon the sloppiness…still hacking things together here…
When I get some more free time, I will try and simplify some.
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#43 2006-06-07 20:10:17
- Ace of Dubs
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A thought just occured to me… it might be cool to have some display prefs in the admin section so you could turn dropdown menus or icons on/off. Default setting would have niether enabled…
I dont think this would be bloating the software at all, since it is just a matter of assigning CSS to the corresponding pref…
Hmm…
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#44 2006-06-07 20:29:08
- roberto_deoc
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Re: Admin Facelift. Take 3
I really like it!
The CSS preferences for colors and backgrounds and icons seems to be a simple and elegant solution.
Is this going to be released before 4.1?
Looking forward to install it, Thanks!
Best,
Roberto.
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#45 2006-06-07 20:34:34
- alexandra
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Re: Admin Facelift. Take 3
Ace you rock! post#42 looks great. i can see you hacked it together but i am sure it will turn out smart in the end. Fantastic work!
Concerning post #43: i am not sure some display prefs in the admin-area make really sense. It will not bloat the the software but the admin area… Hmm ..
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