Hi Tom and Farcriers, I am sorry for not been able to post this document earlier. I have been talking to this "web user interface" expert. Here are some suggestions he have made to the admin section of Farcry. We don't have muck knowledge in Farcry so may be some of this suggestions are already in place.
1 - Separate the Help, View Site and Logout tabs from the other tabs 2 - Have a default Farcry logo in the back end (he already made one and I will submit later) 3 - Have unique CSS files for each admin user (sysadmin.css, contributor.css, and so on). 4 - Been able to edit the admin homepage just like in the front end, adding containers and rules for content people for instance and then been able to pick what the admin users will see or let them choose by themselves. 5 - He would like the ability to combine tabs with drop down menus reducing in at least one click several tasks. Of course this could implicate in more time to build the menu (but hey we may cache, can't we?). And again may be by extending the core is already possible.... 6 - This one may be is already possible, but they would love the idea to have the ability to choose to display multiple step forms or not. I don't know if I am clear enough on this one. But basically display all the plp steps in one single step or combined. For example, have teaser form and html body together. Or in the message centre, have the text and html body together, or even all the steps in just one single page.... 7 - Make the help content available so people could edit/update and add comments as well. If any of this suggestions are not worth or feasible for changing the core I would like to know so we could start planning to implement them by ourselves. Best Regards On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 08:45:03 -0800, Tom Cornilliac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Great! Thanks Emanuel. I look forward to reading that document. > > ~tom > > > On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 11:42:15 -0500, Emanuel Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Tom, I asked them to wright it down a document about that. So in > > the next couple days I will submit to the list. In few words they > > compared to Microsoft's sharepoint > > (http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/)... they said it is much more > > intuitive for non technical users (contributors) and the first thing > > they ask is the ability to manage the admin section of farcry. > > > > On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 08:26:55 -0800, Tom Cornilliac > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Emanuel, > > > > > > I assume you're referring to the Farcry admin when you say "Back end > > > usability". Can you give some examples? I am very keen on what folks > > > perceive as usability issues. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > ~tom > > > > > > > > > On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 09:48:34 -0500, Emanuel Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: > > > > Back end usability, so far, is the only one complain I have heard > > > > about Farcry. If we could improve that, Farcry will be even more > > > > powerful! So far I have been able to create any funcionlity I want on > > > > both front and back end and this is making everyone happy here! ;o) > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 17:53:02 +1100, Geoff Bowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > wrote: > > > > > Folks, > > > > > > > > > > We're building our plans for the next milestone release of FarCry. > > > > > This > > > > > should be considered a work in progress and has not been finalised. I > > > > > put this out to the community to really get some feedback on what > > > > > people > > > > > are eager to see and spark some discussion about the priorities we > > > > > need > > > > > to give to various areas of the code base. > > > > > > > > > > ************************************** > > > > > * FarCry 2.4 is codenamed "Glamour" * > > > > > ************************************** > > > > > > > > > > --/ Mission Statement /-- > > > > > *Glamour* is all about the users. We must overhaul the UI of FarCry > > > > > administration, and surface as much hidden functionality as possible. > > > > > FarCry will become an elegant and beautiful thing to behold. > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ > > > > Emanuel Costa > > > > site: http://www.emanuelcosta.com > > > > msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > ICQ: 8013683 > > > > Orkut: Emanuel Costa > > > > Skype: Emanweb > > > > =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ > > > > "Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance." > > > > - Will Durant > > > > > > > > --- > > > > You are currently subscribed to farcry-dev as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/ > > > > > > > > > > --- > > > You are currently subscribed to farcry-dev as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/ > > > > > > > -- > > =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ > > Emanuel Costa > > site: http://www.emanuelcosta.com > > msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ICQ: 8013683 > > Orkut: Emanuel Costa > > Skype: Emanweb > > =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ > > "Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance." > > - Will Durant > > > > --- > > You are currently subscribed to farcry-dev as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/ > > > > --- > You are currently subscribed to farcry-dev as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/ > -- =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Emanuel Costa site: http://www.emanuelcosta.com msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 8013683 Orkut: Emanuel Costa Skype: Emanweb =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ "Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance." - Will Durant --- You are currently subscribed to farcry-dev as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/
