I hope that current Admin template (r4717, available on SVN) will not be set as a default in 0.4.8, because it looks.. bad?

Light blue header, gray menu toolbar, dark gray buttons toolbar, white background of sections, again (second??) dark gray buttons toolbar and white footer.

Logout link in top right corner of header?

I prefer old, good version Please make further changes before releasing 0.4.8.

Yes, now looks better, although:
1) Second toolbar - is it really needed? It looks 'strange' with buttons on top bar aligned to a right side, and buttons from bottom bar aligned to a left side

2) There's too little space between Logout icon and Logout text (IE issue)

Overall: I think this is a good way that theme should go, but you know it can be better (and should be)!

BTW: There are several conflicts while adding new Admin template, starting from 'selecting a new template doesn't make any changes in Admin backend' (I've had to override the directory name and ID of my admin template to 'default' to see it), and ending on 'dissappearing images'. Just try to look how many crazy things you can encounter

A few tips: I would replace the orange of subheaders with the same color of the main header (see in Global config the "Global Configuration" color vs the "General Drake CMS and server settings" color)

And the menu does not contrast very well because it's black (menu) on black (background page); maybe it could be silver/bluish? I have no idea

I don't like the fact that the page gets an external URL - the Drake CMS ugly status image was sort of mandatory so that we do not use that trickery:

on some servers you cannot retrieve an external URL via PHP, while the image will always work - even without javascript.

<big style="color:navy; font-weight:bold">

<td bgcolor="#FFFFFF">

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That generated image (status.png) is looking REALLY BAD with a black template, because of the background color (cyan?). Maybe you can change it's script to get background color as a parameter by GET method? So I can pass background color (and text color) to it's link (&back=black&text=white)? Anyway, because I've left out image about the latest version, I had to produce information about it in other way.

The best way would be creating a link (or button) near installed version number, called 'Check', so an user can see the latest version only when he wants it (in a text format), not everytime he'll change the Admin page (you can speed-up page loading time, especially on localhost) OR to load version number always when entering Administration section only one time and not anymore (in that session)..

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That's why it is disabled by default (+ because it makes working in Administration backend slow).

Does the status image really slow down the backend browsing? I am not sure about this, I think it does not affect browsing at all...

This is how it looks:

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Scary ;)

BTW: 'Total hits' still works or it's structure has been changed?

1) Sometimes image is not displayed (page needs to be refreshed once or twice)

2) Can you please add also possibility to change the font (style and size)?

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I was writing about fopen which is slowing down pages a bit. I have no idea about image.

I like it; however, black should be used for the "normal" status (obg), I would use a different color for SVN status (like to say: hey, you're working on SVN - don't expect this to work)

It would not make sense, since the picture should then have a different size too...

Actually that's not a good thing in an admin template..

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I'll change it's background color to brown. However brown color of text would be so much better - is it possible? :/

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Exactly. This image is a little bit to big (in my opinion). I think that it's better to use 2 rows (instead of 3): Latest version & Your Version, remove Alpha/Beta Testing message and put 'SVN' word to 2nd row. That way image can be smaller (with the same text), or more clear by increasing font size (with the same image size). What do you think about it?