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Absolutely - YES!
Maybe, but I would prefer to see .. (comment below)
No way!
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Upgrade to admin side? Do people think we should spend a bit of time and upgrade the look and feel of the admin section?
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pgmarshall
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Re: Upgrade to admin side? I voted yes. I had been playing with mindsparx admin a while back but just ran out of time to do anything at all with it.
I have also been thinking about ditching the side menu/blocks completely and using a series of dropdowns/navbar that utilize jquery to do all the fun stuff. That way the space taken by the side menus/blocks can be used to display info that is more relevant to doing administration, perhaps section specific information/summary, quicklinks, etc.
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Re: Upgrade to admin side? I was considering the whole drop down menu system but I thought that people would prefer to stay closer to the osCommerce original layout.
I was also struggling to get the admin levels to work with the dynamic drop down menus.
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pgmarshall
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Re: Upgrade to admin side? Also, bear in mind that not everyone has/uses widescreens, so any re-design should cater for 'standard' width. I've seen a few Admin consoles that look poor without widescreen.
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Re: Upgrade to admin side? My screen is not a widescreen - but point taken! (It is a laptop so it is just shorter than it is wide!!)
But the dashboard should scale to your screen width - all tables in my dashboard are %s.
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pgmarshall
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Re: Upgrade to admin side? I know this is out of left field but just to get some ideas of what might be useful to add to my store I recently looked at a bunch of different stores. I am happy to report that I still feel OSCMAX is the be best store out there. That being said the admin side if interspire's shopping cart looked pretty slick. VERY JQUERY. Might be a place to get some ideas.
Re: Upgrade to admin side? Okay, as Michael knows I am Cabana's developer so he knows that if Cabana is asking for it then I am most likely writing the code. That said, I am looking at jquery-ing a great deal of OSCMax. On the admin side for ease of use (if you have 10,000 items in your store you really don't want to use the admin for specials or xsell) as well as enhancing the navigation and reducing screen loads. On the user side to enhance SEO (allowing content to load first and then allowing the header and side boxes to load thus moving content to the start of the load and the non content to the end of the load - or in a robots case, not even part of the page load.)
I have yet to come across a "modern browser" that doesn't have javascript turned on by default and as I don't develop stores for WAP I think the time has come to move to a more jquery-like UI. On the admin side, as I jquery various functions I will release here (for instance Cabana already has a version of "orderlist" that does jquery, which may be why he is demanding even more
So, in no order expect to see orderlist, specials, xsell, and a new version of recover carts all jquery'd and released here in the next few months.
so endith the lesson
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Re: Upgrade to admin side? Like your thoughts on load order on customer side ... loading the stylesheet, content and then all the extra stuff will improve search engine rankings and perceived load times.
I think Michael has also worked on restricting javascript loads only on the pages that need it rather than every page in the <head>.
Do people have a preference for the admin drop down menu system - the suckerfish code is pretty good ... I used in on my store side for the menu system. It is light weight, cross-browser, etc.
Regards,
pgmarshall
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Re: Upgrade to admin side? rather than suckerfish, can I recommend looking at Superfish - Suckerfish on 'roids - lightweight, crossbrowser, and jquery
I love the navbar style.
Last edited by met00; 11-04-2009 at 10:50 AM. Reason: added commentary
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Re: Upgrade to admin side? also looking at implementing a version of this in the contact us page to eliminate bots
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