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Monday, March 15, 2010


[Radiant-Dev] Re: Providing an alternative Admin UI with enterprise look and feel but with the Radiant less is more concept!

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On Mar 12, 9:39 am, rubybox <voorr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I did not have time yesterday to post my mockups. So here they are...I
> would love to work together on this with some people, Let me know what
> you think!
> these mockups are an initial idea I had for years and copys some stuff
> from other CMS'ses around.
>
> @John: I wont open anymore topics on this subject.
> Everything can be discussed in this topic, since the topic you refer
> to was just to get an idea.
>
> Project Radiant-UI:
>
> http://github.com/rubytastic/radiant-UI
>
> On Mar 12, 3:32 am, "[Square Talent] Dirk Kelly"
>
>
>
> <dirk.ke...@squaretalent.com> wrote:
> > Hi Jordan, I don't feel there hasn't been a great deal of positive feedback
> > towards changing the user interface. I think it would be best we kept the
> > threads about this topic down to a minimum so that we can all focus on the
> > work that we're doing.
>
> > Your previous thread answers a lot of your questions.
>
> > Would really love to hear some feedback from the community on below
>
> > > mockups for the structure of a new admin UI that could benefit end
> > > users
>
> >http://groups.google.com/group/radiantcms-dev/browse_thread/thread/eb...
>
> > # Documenting how to remove certain portions of UI elements for
>
> > > regular users ( not designer or admin ) with code snippets so everyone
> > > can easily implement that
>
> >http://groups.google.com/group/radiantcms-dev/msg/ee1127c381686cc1
>
> > As Jim mentioned changing the interface is as simple as overwriting the view
> > files, and you would do this in an extension.
>
> > Cheers,
> > DK
>
> > On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 7:57 AM, rubybox <voorr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > As most of you read a few days back I posted this topic:
>
> > > Radiant admin UI:
> > >http://groups.google.com/group/radiantcms-dev/browse_thread/thread/eb...
> > > .
> > > I got some good feedback and idea on how everyone reacts on something
> > > like a new admin UI for radiant. So far I understand there is not much
> > > positive feedback on changing the default admin UI ( why would we its
> > > great of us developers, admins ) But I do feel there could be some
> > > improvements for regular users updating there website.  In that
> > > Currently I have some work done and things like login screen and page
> > > three, are all modified to have a more "enterprise" look and feel. I
> > > was not totally satisfied.
>
> > > Would really love to hear some feedback from the community on below
> > > mockups for the structure of a new admin UI that could benefit end
> > > users
>
> > > CONCEPT
> > > # Less web 2.0 look and feel and a bit more cleaner
> > > # Documenting how to remove certain portions of UI elements for
> > > regular users ( not designer or admin ) with code snippets so everyone
> > > can easily implement that
> > > # More enterprise look and feel
> > > # An alternative to the existing UI ( I plan to just code it so it
> > > works, it could be adapted to be a real alternative to the current
> > > Admin UI )
> > > # The UI exists in an empty extension that just holds the views,
> > > images are stored in a seperate folder in the /public directory
>
> > > Then now my initial thoughts and sketches for a new structure on the
> > > pages
> > > Please provide me with feebdack, suggestions on this! I will create
> > > the CSS and layout for this shortly on a Github repo  so you can
> > > download, share, contribute, etc
> > > *this will follow in a reply*
>
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