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:user-1f2406f832af@xymon.invalid]
Sent: 07 July 2010 08:02 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
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
<user-1689acfc5a3b@xymon.invalid> 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:user-eb86974acd2c@xymon.invalid]
Sent: 06 July 2010 06:28 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
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