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A little screenie of my proposed Txp Admin screen. x
http://simplecandy.deviantart.com/art/The-Future-of-Txp-90490572
Last edited by driz (2008-07-03 13:40:14)
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It worked for me, Jon-Michael
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jm wrote:
Broken link.
hmm the link should work!
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#5 2008-07-03 18:33:39
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I took some time to look at your design and compare it to what we have.
Some thoughts:
- The menus are great to navigate quickly.
- The selected menu item is an indicator for where you are, why dim it?
- A resizeable text area is often desirable.
- Too much lines.
- Did my screen shrink? 100px of empty vert. space between main text area and category menus, ca. 140px horiz. between nav menu and title field.
- What I’d be missing most is custom fields and all the other advanced options.
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Status, Sort and Display, etc. should be flush left. Otherwise it looks promising. I’m wondering if maybe it’s the colours that make the interface look dated. You might want to try tweaking them or maybe go with something dramatically different.
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uli wrote:
I took some time to look at your design and compare it to what we have.
Some thoughts:
- The menus are great to navigate quickly.
- The selected menu item is an indicator for where you are, why dim it?
- A resizeable text area is often desirable.
- Too much lines.
- Did my screen shrink? 100px of empty vert. space between main text area and category menus, ca. 140px horiz. between nav menu and title field.
- What I’d be missing most is custom fields and all the other advanced options.
The dimmed menu item is so that attention is taken to the actual menu items, I don’t know but I think it works really well :S
The other advanced options are further down the page.
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Status, Sort and Display, etc. should be flush left. Otherwise it looks promising. I’m wondering if maybe it’s the colours that make the interface look dated. You might want to try tweaking them or maybe go with something dramatically different.
Well I wanted to keep it as similar to the default Textpattern look as possible, I really like the simple yellow and white look of Txp, it may be a bit 90’s web rather than cutting edge Web 2.0, but it’s really easy to deal with and let you concentrate on coding rather that looking at eye-candy. x
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I’ve updated the design. x
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#10 2008-07-04 19:39:16
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Though darker (from what I memorize) it seems a lot fresher: The white line beneath the yellow helps a lot. Getting rid of the grey gradients was no loss :)
Perhaps adding the smallest amount of blue-green to the font color as well as to the menu selections?
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uli wrote:
Though darker (from what I memorize) it seems a lot fresher: The white line beneath the yellow helps a lot. Getting rid of the grey gradients was no loss :)
Perhaps adding the smallest amount of blue-green to the font color as well as to the menu selections?
Blue Green? hmm is that in the Txp branding. I dunno I don’t think blue green works with yellow, feel free to show a screenie if you think it will look goood. x
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hmm is that in the Txp branding.
Nope, it’s not in the branding color scheme nor part your theme mockup :)
Last edited by Gocom (2008-07-05 00:36:24)
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Ah looks like deviantart was down when I checked (gateway timeouts).
- I like how you’ve moved the login/logout up top.
- The drop-down is nice – it eliminates the need for duplicate menus (table + select in current admin).
- The active-tab needs more contrast.
- “Add-Ons” should be “Extensions.” (This hain’t no Firefox!)
- Too much vertical padding in each of the right-column fieldsets.
- Too much horizontal padding on the submenu.
- Curved-menu and drop shadows should go.
- Right-column legends should be left-aligned.
- The background-gray is too dark – why not use the lighter gray of the content area or use white?
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I don’t like the idea of having three columns, i think it becomes too cramped, and much prefer having just the two, but because of the amount of functions, I was thinking of making the sidebar an accordian? x
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* Curved-menu and drop shadows should go.
Personally I thought the current iteration was an improvement over the original drop down. Curve aside, w/ the drop shadow – some sort of demarcation is useful for the eye and brain to organize and process quickly (my opinion).
- The background-gray is too dark – why not use the lighter gray of the content area or use white?
As I mentioned in response to Mary’s comment in the other thread driz started on this: I like that focal quality the contrast brings; but agreed – the gray is not pleasant.
driz wrote:
don’t like the idea of having three columns, …. too cramped …. prefer …. two …. because of the amount of functions ….. making the sidebar an accordian?
Perhaps a two column layout, where one column has a third level of tabs for the various settings, custom fields, etc. – similar to EE’s js approach on it’s write tab (but improved over it)?
Last edited by maverick (2008-07-05 14:49:06)
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