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legolas558
What about the new look of the admin template?
02 December 2007 23:33
Anonymous Hi all,

what do you think about the new look of the admin backend template?

rsavarese has done a great job on it, I hope it meets your tastes smile
 
trex1512
Re: What about the new look of the admin template?
03 December 2007 00:17
Anonymous Hi

A definite improvement, you can see there has been a lot of work put into it...the words light and crisp comes to mind

Terry
 
siedlerchr
Re: What about the new look of the admin template?
03 December 2007 08:02
Anonymous Have you got some screeenshots?

Would be nice for the users (us) to have a "preview" screenshot..

Regards
Christoph
 
legolas558
Re: What about the new look of the admin template?
03 December 2007 09:19
Anonymous Drake CMS v0.4.9 has already been released.
 
lictnet
Re: What about the new look of the admin template?
03 December 2007 12:30
Anonymous I like the "clean look smilewell done but not to keen on the icons though, sorry sad
 
awrog
Re: What about the new look of the admin template?
03 December 2007 15:10
Anonymous Nice,

Definitely an improvement!
Suggestion: top-align content in query database output!

Really exciting to see where this is going!

AWRog
 
adrian
Re: What about the new look of the admin template?
03 December 2007 20:42
Anonymous Hello, nice job rsavarese for most of the new general color scheme.
- As I see in FFox 3.0 beta 1, the "Latest Drake" image has been moved completely to left. I, personally don`t like that, it was better b4. Also i don`t like the font in that image. Standard font, like Arial is better.
- Some of the new icons introduced in the last 2 weeks, as some of menu items where added, don`t follow the general Drake CMS color/style scheme. And there are not web optimized (indexed). I will provide some new icons to replace them, or i will optimize those, if no problem.
- Also, what about introducing the 48x48 px icons, as i provided them and the two replacing files? Unfotunately i had lately very limited time, so i was not able to learn to much about using SVN :(.
 
stigi
Re: What about the new look of the admin template?
08 December 2007 18:31
Anonymous Hello everyone,

Long time, no see smile

Quote by adrian:

- As I see in FFox 3.0 beta 1, the "Latest Drake" image has been moved completely to left. I, personally don`t like that, it was better b4. Also i don`t like the font in that image. Standard font, like Arial is better.


I agree.

Quote by adrian:

- Some of the new icons introduced in the last 2 weeks, as some of menu items where added, don`t follow the general Drake CMS color/style scheme. And there are not web optimized (indexed). I will provide some new icons to replace them, or i will optimize those, if no problem.


What do you mean by a term 'indexed'?
 
adrian
Re: What about the new look of the admin template?
08 December 2007 18:51
Anonymous Quote by stigi:

What do you mean by a term 'indexed'?


You heard about RGB, CMYK..., Grayscale modes for representing images colors. Indexed mode is a maximum 256 colors mode. The problem is that, an image with transparency (PNG or GIF) is shown correctly under Firefox, but without its transparency in IE if it is not saved in 256 col. (indexed) mode.
Now, another problem is that when you convert a nice looking icon from RGB to indexed mode, it often looses its "sex appeal", so you must edit the icon image to make it look quite as before.
 
stigi
Re: What about the new look of the admin template?
08 December 2007 20:15
Anonymous In my opinion the most important is to have (as much as possible) images in 8-bit (256 colors). Transparency is a different question, as some icons (especially in menu) should be transparent.

Optimizing images can be made also by reducing their size (on a hard disk).
 
adrian
Re: What about the new look of the admin template?
08 December 2007 20:39
Anonymous re: stigi
Thats what i was talking about in a diffrent manner; of course, 8-bit 256col. imgs. means smaller amount of kb. But, also,how they look is vy important.
 
stigi
Re: What about the new look of the admin template?
09 December 2007 00:00
Anonymous Quote by adrian:

re: stigi
Thats what i was talking about in a diffrent manner; of course, 8-bit 256col. imgs. means smaller amount of kb. But, also,how they look is vy important.


True, however in most cases (that's why I wrote 'as much as possible') difference in quality between 8-bit and 24-bit images is almost nothing, but there's a difference in size (just like you've said).
 
legolas558
Re: What about the new look of the admin template?
10 December 2007 11:17
Anonymous I also think that we should use 8bit PNGs as much as possible, will ease rendering in general.
 
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