Okay Thanks - Ransford Dave Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My group at Sun will be putting the Roller 2.0 code base into production in late September, so we're gearing up for testing now. I hope we can make a release from the Apache Incubator (or Java.Net) shortly after that.
- Dave On Aug 16, 2005, at 1:05 PM, paksegu wrote: > I know this may be too much to ask for but when will Roller 2.0 be > officially released? > - Ransford > > paksegu 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 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
