I know this may be too much to ask for but when will Roller 2.0 be officially released? - Ransford
paksegu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nice Job Dave. Dave Johnson wrote:I've been working like crazy to finish up the Roller 2.0 UI and it's ready for some review. I've posted some screenshots to my blog and I'm preparing a standalone demo. entry=roller_2_0_screenshots> Here is a summary of the major changes I made. * Broke UI up into three portions. Why? To simplify the user experience and to make it more clear when a user is working in a specific weblog. 1) the main page, where a user lands if he has multiple blogs, no tabbed menu here 2) the weblog editor/admin UI, tabbed menu defined by admin-menu.xml 3) the server admin UI, tabbed menu defined by editor-menu.xml * Simplified the menu tab organization. Why? We had too many top level tabs and that was confusing to new users. * Eliminated the "website" concept from the UI. Why? Some of us understood that a website is a collection of pages, one of which being a weblog -- but that distinction was lost on most users. So now, we just use the word weblog. The website concept lives on in the data model and code tho. * Created different classes of pages (using Struts Tiles). Why? Many pages need a different layout from the simple header/footer setup we had before. * Added a helpful subtitle and a help paragraph to each page. Added field help to the Register User, Create Weblog and other pages. Why? Do you really have to ask? * Added some AJAX magic to the User Admin and Invite Member pages to make it easier to find users on large sites. This work incorporates a lot of feedback from folks inside Sun and I did a lot of it on my own (nobody has seen the new look and feel until today). So it definitely needs wider review. Comments, suggestions, offers to help with testing/fixing are all welcome. - Dave --------------------------------- Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
