On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 8:35 AM, tezro <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everybody. > > I use Django for about a year, do websites for about 5 years, am kind > of experienced in web, interface and techdesign, used lots of CMS or > other site management tools (99% is a piece of crab). And I'm writing > here because although Django admin default look is successive, I think > it has lots of interface related misconceptions and element related > eye-unfriendly problems.
Design opinions are always welcome, and I'm not going to claim that Django's admin is perfect. However, please keep in mind that Django's admin site was originally designed by Wilson Miner, who has quite a reputation in design circles (as a point of reference - Apple's website is in his portfolio). I'm sure Wilson would do some things differently if he redesigned Django's admin site today, but claiming that the original design has "lots of misconceptions" and "eye-unfriendly problems" is slightly overstating the situation. > Question is: I can modify templates, css, not so sure about images > that fit well enough, but mainly I can position all the given elements > to date and CSS them as if I was doing and redesigning it for myself. > Is it realy needed and could be implemented to trunk, or everybody > just uses it as is notwithstanding some dirt? > > As the most obvious thing - here's the margin/padding problem on the > left/right side of the page. One of a hundreds... > http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4022/4329186446_212477b9e4_o.png I'm not necessarily convinced that the margin padding "problem" you identified is inherently a problem - variations in horizontal alignment can serve a useful design purpose. However, that doesn't mean we're going to reject all your proposals, or that horizontal alignment like you describe couldn't form an important part of a larger design. Design proposals are always welcome. If you think you can improve on the visual design of Django's admin, put together a proposal, and we'll consider it. It doesn't matter if your proposal takes the form of mockups, or a set of CSS/markup replacements - as long as we can see and understand the changes you want to make. Yours Russ Magee %-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
