Alternate administation interface

Posted by dmitrig01 on February 18, 2009 at 3:56am

We can do a dashboard style thing: http://dmitrizone.com/mockup-demo.mov

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I am building out

Posted by drumm on February 18, 2009 at 4:06am

I am building out http://infrastructure.drupal.org/drupal.org-style-guide/prototype/dashbo.... It is currently dependent on the theme, but intend it to work elsewhere.

I don't think this is that

Posted by dmitrig01 on February 18, 2009 at 4:20am

I don't think this is that complicated - it's global for the site, and i'm just storing the list of blocks in a variable

is it time to separate

Posted by markpeak on February 18, 2009 at 4:59am

is it time to separate frontend-backend? from my experience, my customer's mindset is like that.

I have a project that might be of interest

Posted by Brandonian on February 18, 2009 at 3:46pm

I have a theme/module combo based on Panels that is fairly similar to what you're describing. I'm taking inspiration from the Wordpress 2.7 admin, especially with the placement of the main admin choices. All the regular admin choices that you would find on the main admin page are placed in a dropdown on the left side, leaving the main content area free for the dashboard.

Some kavats to the screencast...

a) The setup itself is fairly unpolished and not super-pretty. I hope to have a more polished demo up before Drupalcon.
b) I don't expect this to replace the traditional admin. Personally, I think it's a great direction to go for site maintainers/owners, but it hides too much information to be a useful landing page for site creators, which compromises most of us.

http://www.screencast.com/users/fillerwriter/folders/Jing/media/4659afc3...