Nice work Dave - I was able to checkout from SVN and get it running on Tomcat w/o any issues.
I have a couple of questions: 1. Should we enter issues in JIRA for things, or would you prefer on this list? I'm assuming JIRA. 2. Is it possible to set the default root to go to a single blog? I'd prefer that /page/rd is the same as /. Currently, I use a custom JSP to do a redirect, but I'd prefer a forward, and that all the links someone relate to the root instead of /page/rd. I believe this should be an option on group blogs where there's only one blog. I'm willing to hack my own instance and post a patch to JIRA if you can tell me where to change the code. Thanks, Matt On 8/16/05, Dave Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > <http://www.rollerweblogger.org/page/roller? > 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 > > > >
