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Re: Admin Facelift. Take 3
Ace of Dubs wrote:
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…
A couple of display prefs would certainly be a very good thing:
- set font-size (as is well known on this board, the current default of 11px/10px is completely unusable for me :-), or for many other pairs of not-so-young eyes) ——> input field
- display icons ——> yes/no
- use pop menus ——> yes/no
Personally, I see the icons more as clutter / IE7 fisherprice look.
The popup menus is possibly a more difficult issue, if a good way can be coded to have this working for most users (keyboard users, users that are not so handy with the mouse,…), cool. Otherwise, keep the current < select > object which is accessible to every user.
Don’t think this would qualify as ‘bloat’, and it would make the admin interface much more user friendly.
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#47 2006-06-08 08:06:54
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Re: Admin Facelift. Take 3
Another thing that hasn’t been mentioned yet is the web standard issue.
It is important that an admin gui redesign follow the W3c standard in terms of CSS 2.x and XHTML 1.0 strict.
That means no CSS-hacks or bogus code.
Let’s make it right this time.
PS.
And for the record I liked the rounded buttons better than the semi-rounded.
DS.
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#48 2006-06-08 13:57:38
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Re: Admin Facelift. Take 3
@ roberto – I am not sure if this will be ready for the current version as I am starting to poke around with the structural code of the UI. As Sencer has confirmed, the admin is in desperate need of not only a face lift, but some serious liposuction as well. As much as I would love to just skin the current structure, I am overwhelmed by the desire to replace those nested tables with semantic lists, do ALL styling via CSS and bring the admin up to Strict xhtml standard. My guess is this would probably work best with crockery…core team will have to confirm that though.
@ Nonsense – The semi rounded tabs were a consequence of using icons. I suppose I could use sliding doors to incorporate the icon and the rounded corner, but then the icon would vertically lose alignment whenever the user bumps up their text size…I was shooting for a more bulletproof solution, but am open to suggestions…
@ Everyone – In regards to the preference modifications, I think this would be the best solution:
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#49 2006-06-08 14:40:11
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Re: Admin Facelift. Take 3
Everything else I agree totally except “Select a theme”. It goes to the “toy”-section. At least definitely not as a default feature. One good admin layout is enough, it´s up to the person setting up/building the site if they want to change the colours.
If somebody wants to provide it as plugin, that´s fine but having it in a core would be to my opinion already too far from TXP:s simplicity.
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#50 2006-06-08 14:48:19
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The plugin idea is not bad actually. Wish I knew more PHP :(
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@ Ace of Dubs, I just love your “WinterFresh Theme”!
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#52 2006-06-08 15:26:55
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@ P
I disagree. I think theme-switching is a great feature. If you don’t like it. Don’t use it.
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>Dub
Here’s a slight variation on your latest mockup. I always wondered why the tab metaphor was ditched on the tertiary navs. Anyway, FWIW here it is. Too many tabs? Thoughts…
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Re: Admin Facelift. Take 3
Nonsense wrote:
I disagree. I think theme-switching is a great feature. If you don’t like it. Don’t use it.
I agree. Even if it’s something as simple as entering the filename of the css file to use.
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#55 2006-06-08 17:31:37
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Mr Dale,
I like that idea muchly! How bout we push it even further and use hanging tabs instead? I like how the line goes under the title now…
@ patchwork, Glad to see I’m not the only one into gum-flavored interfaces :)
EDIT: Due to popular demand, the red is mellowed
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#56 2006-06-08 17:46:34
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Re: Admin Facelift. Take 3
<blockquote>Nonsense wrote:
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I disagree. I think theme-switching is a great feature. If you don’t like it. Don’t use it.</blockquote>
Don´t get me wrong, ofcourse theme-switching is an awesome feature! Just that I´d prefer seeing it as a plugin, not made into the core.
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>Rubadub Dub
Sure, I’m down with that. Just promise me that you’ll ix-nay the ruby-red grapefruit scheme. It just burned holes in my retina. ;)
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mrdale wrote:
> Just promise me that you’ll ix-nay the ruby-red grapefruit scheme.
Darn, that was my favorite ;)
Looking really good, I can’t wait to take it for a spin one day.
I’d rather see changing themes part of the core, with the ability to upload new schemes if possible.
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Re: Admin Facelift. Take 3
hcgtv wrote:
I’d rather see changing themes part of the core, with the ability to upload new schemes if possible.
Yep, me 2.
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#60 2006-06-08 18:24:08
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Okay, I see hgtv:s point. :D
I guess he´s thinking the feature way it is in PunBB. When installing system, you just can leave out (not upload to server amount x of additional stylesheets) if you don´t need them.
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