Hi,
I have been running DAViCal for some time now and, except for a little
struggle during installation, it runs quite well. Only the admin
interface, as several people on this list have noted, needs some heavy
work done.
I started working on the stylesheets, applying the designs of my
intranet site. But I soon came to realize that the interface itself
faces some usability issues that cannot be resolved by design. So I
sketched up a completely new design, specifically done for the admin
interface. I tried to create a clean and intuitive interface which also
works on different platforms from lynx to mobile devices (there is e.g.
no "hover" event on touch-enabled devices).
Here is what I have come up with so far:
http://byteflip.net/davical/userlist.html
There is already quite some work in this, so before I spend more time
thinking about usable UIs I wanted to know if you are interested in this
kind of work at all.
There is a downside to this though: (luckily) I am not a PHP programmer.
So implementing this new design requires somebody working on the backend.
Right now the HTML of the admin interface is spread out over multiple
PHP files, making anything other than small changes to it an awful lot
of work. I would strongly recommend switching to a real template engine.
(I hear many people are using Smarty in their PHP projects?)
I am looking forward to your feedback.
Best regards,
Bernhard Morgenstern
I have been running DAViCal for some time now and, except for a little
struggle during installation, it runs quite well. Only the admin
interface, as several people on this list have noted, needs some heavy
work done.
I started working on the stylesheets, applying the designs of my
intranet site. But I soon came to realize that the interface itself
faces some usability issues that cannot be resolved by design. So I
sketched up a completely new design, specifically done for the admin
interface. I tried to create a clean and intuitive interface which also
works on different platforms from lynx to mobile devices (there is e.g.
no "hover" event on touch-enabled devices).
Here is what I have come up with so far:
http://byteflip.net/davical/userlist.html
There is already quite some work in this, so before I spend more time
thinking about usable UIs I wanted to know if you are interested in this
kind of work at all.
There is a downside to this though: (luckily) I am not a PHP programmer.
So implementing this new design requires somebody working on the backend.
Right now the HTML of the admin interface is spread out over multiple
PHP files, making anything other than small changes to it an awful lot
of work. I would strongly recommend switching to a real template engine.
(I hear many people are using Smarty in their PHP projects?)
I am looking forward to your feedback.
Best regards,
Bernhard Morgenstern