[Template Manager] MODxGreen

Quote from: rthrash at Feb 27, 2006, 12:20 PM

I’m one of those guys that thinks the black will distract from the important bits: the actual page content. I’m liking what I’m seeing a ton!

Ehmm.. Well yeah, I can’t say anything to that, considering I really like our current branding, so I thought it will be best to have it similar with the one that we have right now. Anyway, whichever it is, they will looks good to my eyes, remember, I’m no designer, but I’m a coder

It has grown on me somewhat, but I did change the document tree’s hover background from black to a slightly darker grey than the background, just enough to make a difference but not enough to distract.

Thanks guys for nice words and suggestions.

@wendy I agree with you: I love MODx branding colours and I think that manager need to be similiar to MODx branding, but at the same time I think need to be more usable for everyone.

@Susan: Original Etomite colours is based on Microsoft Outlook buttons and colours , I know that it’s very friendly, but it’s not the best for a cms that will be ’’something different’’ from other cms...

however we need a future switchable manager template system to avoid colours and style changes for individual necessity and tastes.

Green Manager can be a start point to create new manager themes, because i removed all external links to other system folders from css styles, but need to modify 3 core file and it’s not a very good thing....

Quote from: sottwell at Feb 27, 2006, 01:36 PM

It has grown on me somewhat, but I did change the document tree’s hover background from black to a slightly darker grey than the background, just enough to make a difference but not enough to distract.

Thanks Susan I missed to modify black Hover background (I will include your changes soon).

I like the change also, but personaly I would prefer the control panel to be more greys and silvers. Perhaps just a few hints of green for title emphasis and bullet points or something.

Some little css fixies on document tree (Thanks Susan) and Right Menu (on document tree).

Quote from: banzai at Mar 06, 2006, 06:00 AM

Some little css fixies on document tree (Thanks Susan) and Right Menu (on document tree).

Banzai: I think its better to update the 1st post of this topic with latest files, so everyone can easily download the latest version.

Hats off! for this brilliant work ... (you balanced the load on me actaully )

Thanks and regards,

zi

Love the newest update, had fun with Firefox and IE first of all as they wouldn’t clear thier cache so i had half green half blue and orange lol...

Gorgeous look however and i think it is def the way for Modx to go...

I liked the old blue one more.. and just reverted back using it. Don’t know what’s wrong with me, sorry! What I didn’t like on the Green theme was that the new tree icons and the icons at the top of the tree were too blurry for my liking. The green color in gray backround without any clear outlines make my eyes hurt after a while using the manager.. the text colors in the tree menu were too light. Btw, When viewing content of an empty folder (by clicking the + in front of it) the text is in light gray on gray background. I also didn’t like the green colors of the "save", "cancel", etc. buttons, that were the same green as the color behind them. They are hard to notice this way, with no outlines. All in all, the green theme looks too blurred for me, and I’d like to see more contrast in it. Wouldn’t vote it for a default template.

But I really do appreciate the work what you banzai have done in making this theme. Many users love it allready and it’s good to have multiple choices! This will be great to have as an option in the future versions! (I hope that the blue, office look, stays too as an option) I would suggest that you would include the default files what will get overwritten in your posts, that way it would be easy and fast to revert, if needed. I attached the default files from 0.9.1 to this post.

Updated to version
1.3
(download file from the first post)

changes:
New css fixies on document tree:

- More sharp icons in toolbar (trash, refresh..)
- fixed color in empty folders (Thanks Doze)
- new icons in right-click menu (duplicate document, publish document, new document, new folder..)

Thanks for all comments. they are all appreciate
This month i’m very busy (working on 2 video production), but in free times I’m working on an alternative version based on original (first post) version, with more contrast and more black.
High contrast and Light contrast versions will using the same icons to easy switch to your own favorite version.