In my opinion, the only problems with the current interface are:
1. it's difficult to customize to the taste of the user. Aside from
things like header or footer changes, you've got to change the source
code, re-compile and deploy to see a change. Hence the reason that I
went through everything to add CSS capabilities so I didn't need to
recompile everything.
2. The interface is simply a little dated. Most of this goes back
to the 90's with Big Brother. That's not to say that being thin and
fast is a bad thing, but everything needs a makeover now and then to
incorporate items that simply didn't exist at the inception. Even
Volkswagen change the Beetle which was neither thin nor fast.
3. Although PURELY cosmetic, the current interface doesn't always
portray the most "professional" look to those that might not
understand what they are looking for, but expect and IT department to
use professional tools. This doesn't have to be a 100K application,
but it's probably time that the animated smiley faces go away or at
least give the user the option of it.
Again, these are the three fundamental reasons that we changed our
UI. It's still thin and loads very fast, but when someone looks at
it, their first impression isn't open source.
I'd love the app to be PHP based instead of HTML so that it could do
a little more processing of what was/is being displayed, but that's
another discussion.
-----Original Message----- From: Josh Luthman
[mailto:josh (at) imaginenetworksllc.com] Sent: Monday, July 05, 2010
10:33 AM To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Input needed from
all of you.
Excellent point, which brings me to ask a very good question:
What doesn't work about the current interface?
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On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 10:28 AM,<wshart (at) hormel.com> wrote:
I haven't been following this thread real closely, however I want
to throw up a bit of a warning.
It's all fine and dandy to develop a wiz-bang page that looks great
on your 15000x240000 screens, but remember day-to-day usage is not
necessarily the critical time when you will be using the product.
I see a lot of use from people who don't normally leverage it
during disaster times. This is not a good time to have to worry
about the screen resolution. Many times a 15" CRT is all that is
sitting around and what we are forced to use short term because
it's all we can find. If the page is formatted for a monster
screen it's going to be very difficult to get a good picture of
where we actually stand.
It could just be the situations I've been in where this comes into
play and no one else ever has to worry about it, but I have seen
it happen a number of times, so my vote is to stick with the simple
and fast rendering pages that anything can view. Or possibly offer
up an option so both sets of pages are still available.
Bill Hart
From: "Neil Franken"<nfranken (at) theunlimitedworld.co.za>
To:<hobbit (at) hswn.dk> Date: 07/05/2010 09:16 AM Subject: RE:
[hobbit] Input needed from all of you.
Cool Guys.
From what I can see we will need a fluid layout for PC's. We would
need some other layouts for mobile devices. Thanks for the
information.
Regards Neil
-----Original Message----- From: Bill Arlofski
[mailto:waa-hobbitml (at) revpol.com] Sent: 05 July 2010 04:00 PM To:
hobbit (at) hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Input needed from all of you.
On 07/05/10 05:09, Neil Franken wrote:
Hi All
As we are in a planning stage I need YOUR help. One of the things
we have on our hit list is the web interface(might be for a
later
release).
Here is how you can help. Send me the resolutions of the screen
you
most
commonly use to view your Xymon pages. This information will
help greatly with the development going further.
Regards Neil
Hi Neil... I see a lot of people listing high resolutions - like
my two screens @ 1680x1050 each...
But let's not forget about my Nokia N900 @ 800x480 and other
mobile devices when considering redesigns. Some of my clients VPN
into their networks and use their iPhone to check their Xymon
status.
Thanks! :)
-- Bill Arlofski Reverse Polarity, LLC http://www.revpol.com/
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