[hobbit] Input needed from all of you.

[Neil Franken]

HI All

To be honest I have already created a CSS for Xymon and I am busy
testing various resolutions. I wish I had more time but my 9 month old
daughter pretty much forces me to spend all my time with her and Barney
the Dinosaur. Jokes aside I will document my ideas over the next few
days and I will also try find a place to put up a example or two of the
site. So far I am not messing with colour themes/icon etc I just want to
get the layout sorted. Cosmetic while being the most prestigious part of
the site is not a high priority. Functionality first.

Cheers.

-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Nixon [mailto:pnixon at gmail.com] 
Sent: 07 July 2010 08:02 AM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Input needed from all of you.

If you are going to change the existing color schemes for the
webpages, implement CSS first.

There are multiple reasons why a darker page is better than a brighter
one, but mostly, it's preference and at this point, it's what we're
used to and, personally, I like it :)

On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 1:43 AM, Neil Franken
<nfranken at theunlimitedworld.co.za> wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I think the main thing that came out of this discussion is the
following
> 1) Screen resolution is not going to be used as a guide line for the
> front end. The front end must scale to fit the screen. No matter the
> resolution.
> 2) Using your own themes i.e. logo,icons and positioning should be
easy
> to achieve.
> 3) The HTML must remain extremely lightweight(i.e keep fancy
> animations/graphics etc to a minimum).
>
> Taylors rework of the front end is a good example of how it could
look.
> If you guys want to see the power of skinning/modifying a web UI with
> CSS head over to the css zen garden. The site is one web site where
you
> can use alternative CSS style sheets to achieve different look and
feel
> for the site. It is a awesome example of what I think we should be
> looking at. Also by making the web site CSS and xhtml compliant adding
> other fancy feature such as Ajax incremental updates etc would be
easy.
> However for the moment we should just try to get a ui that scales well
> it light weight and easy to moidy to user preferences.
>
> We could use Taylors layout as well. Like I said in a previous mail
with
> proper CSS in place we can even have a library of 'skins' and you
don't
> need to be a developer to make a skin with CSS you just need GIMP!
>
> Regards
> Neil
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Kauffman [mailto:tommyk66 at newsguy.com]
> Sent: 06 July 2010 06:28 PM
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] Input needed from all of you.
>
> Screen resolution: 1920 X 1280 - and NEVER in full-screen mode.
>
> Please be gentle with the page/sub-page and include file logic; I've
> made use
> of this to dynamically generate files for vmware and p6-RS6000 systems
> to show
> active guests on each host as well as cumulative memory and cpu usage.
>
> Tom
>
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