As I said before here it goes some image suggestions to represent
Farcry Open Source CMS

http://www.emanuelcosta.com/farcry/




On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 11:52:43 -0500, Emanuel Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > --
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> > > > > Emanuel Costa
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> > > > > "Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
> > > > > - Will Durant
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