Looks good. I'd be all for it. We get a lot of complaints from our editors about the wizerds. ernst
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: Nico Klasens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Verzonden: dinsdag 7 oktober 2003 10:24 > Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Onderwerp: Editwizards look&feel > > > Hello Users and Developers, > > The editwizards are the standard editors for our mmbase > projects at the > moment. We usually only change some colors in the mmbase > editwizards to > match the customers brand. Several customers told us that they didn't > like the look&feel of the wizards. A first-time user has a lot of > problems to figure out how the wizards work. > The editors of Web-In-A-Box had a redesign when we upgraded it to a > newer version of MMbase. The new design is much more > user-friendly then > the editwizards. Two weeks ago I proposed on the devlist to make this > 'WIAB' look the default one for the editwizards. The suggestion was to > create an extension on the current stylesheets and override the things > we don't like. So, the past 2 weeks I have been doing this. The > extension now overrides 75% of the default one to get it the > way we want > it. I only tested it on IE yet so probably there will be more code to > get it working cross browser. > > Some changes I made to get it more user-friendly are: > > - Apart from the color change worked a lot on lay-out in order to > improve the look and feel. > - One wizardscreen can consist of more pages: steps. It is just a list > with a previous and next button. We made 'tabs' of it, > because everyone > is familiar with that concept. > - Wizards can become very long. An improvement is to use steps, but > switching screens still requires a lot of scrolling. In our extension > the buttons and tabs stay on the screen all the time. > - Showing links to attachements and images only when they are > present in > the system. No dead links. > > The list of related objects are the messiest parts in the mmbase > wizards. Most of the extension code concerns this part. > - Better distinction between list of related objects and which buttons > belongs to them. > - Adding related objects by searching or creating a new one is on one > line and clearly seperated from the listed objects. > - Every listed object is shown screenwide and is separated by a line > from the other objects. > - The buttons to manipulate the object are grouped on the same line as > the object. > - Editting an object can be done to click on the listed object. > - The searchscreen is a popup instead of an iframe. This way > the window > can easily be resized and moved around the screen. The iframe usually > pops up with parts outside the screen. > - Images in the searchsreen are non-clickable. Usually, users > select the > image by clicking on it. In the mmbase version the iframe dissapears, > because the image is shown fullscreen. We provide a link beneath the > image. > > We have the current version online at http://editwizards.finalist.com. > The wizards with the extension are slower then normal because > right now > the implementation has to work with both (default and extension). That > is why we like to make it the mmbase default. With this much more > user-friendly layout the only thing you want are some hooks for extra > functionality and an easy way to change colors. I'm working on making > that very easy well by reworking the CSS files. > > Just try them out and let us know what you think and if there are any > reason why this should not become the default. > > Nico Klasens > > Finalist IT Group > Java Specialists > >
