The new manager - looking for best practice solutions

some further inspiration for future modx admin templates http://www.themeforest.net/category/site-templates/admin-skins, maybe an admin template design contest would open opportunities to deliver some creative ideas for the new modx admin.

A quick comment before replying in depth later - you all should make sure follow the SVN development branch. There has already been a redesign done there.

Quote from: splittingred at Jan 12, 2009, 09:08 PM

A quick comment before replying in depth later - you all should make sure follow the SVN development branch. There has already been a redesign done there.

Could you make some screenshots of it? I still didn’t find the time to install the SVN version myself

It changes daily, so a screenshot would not really be appropriate at this time. We really do appreciate the feedback tremendously, but if we are open and honest, it will unquestionably be a lot more productive if it’s based on the SVN branch. It’s an investment of time to be sure, but I hope one that folks find worthwhile. Keep it coming, please!

Just updated to the latest SVN, must say I much prefer the pulldown menus, just my 2 cents.

For those of you interested in starting with SVN, please don’t be afraid and you don’t have to use the command line either. Here’s some notes from the new Wiki that relate to getting started: http://svn.modxcms.com/docs/display/revolution/Development+and+Testing+Notes

So took the plunge, first time using SVN.

not crazy over the new manager... need to look at it more, but currently there is too much "black" and the contrast between the dark background and the white boxes is not great.

Glad to finally know how to use svn though

I would like to suggest to folks posting in this thread that some suggestions on improvements with explanations and mockups is welcome.

I would also like to remind everyone that the Manager is not fully baked. The development team is working hard on building out the Revolution Codebase and making sure events and actions work in the manager as expected and without error. Its current state is not refined, not fully "designed" in the sense that it needs the attention of a visual/UI design phase that has not yet occurred.

MODx Revolution is still alpha and as we move to beta I know that refinements and imporvements to visual design, aesthetics and usability are on the agenda. So please keep playing with it. Certainly let the team know if something is broken and post it in Jira as a bug and if an improvement can be made by all means post it for discussion or add it as a feature request.

garrr I’ve just spent about 3 hours trying to install the SVN and thought I was finished to be presented with the following message,

Fatal error: Class ’modSmarty’ not found in /home/modxsolu/public_html/modxrevo/core/model/modx/modx.class.php on line 447

Any ideas  :’( or anyone willing to share their demo account details as I would love to have a look at the admin. Thanks

Quote from: modx at Jan 14, 2009, 11:04 PM

garrr I’ve just spent about 3 hours trying to install the SVN and thought I was finished to be presented with the following message,

Fatal error: Class ’modSmarty’ not found in /home/modxsolu/public_html/modxrevo/core/model/modx/modx.class.php on line 447

Any ideas :’( or anyone willing to share their demo account details as I would love to have a look at the admin. Thanks

It sounds like a bad download. It happens more often than you would think.

My installs are all on localhost, otherwise I’d be glad to let you have a look at one.