Development Blog: Some Layout Changes
Read the thoughts and ideas of the developers and contibuters to Arctic Reservations, an online reservation management tool.
by Zachary Collier
Some Layout Changes
Customer mode changes everything. Now the system is much simpler and we should think about changing the navigation and some other minor things.1. The words "home page" don't need to be on the home page anymore. In fact, many of the titles can be eliminated.
2. Some of the helpful notes are starting to get repetitive. Maybe take those off, or create a "learning mode" that can be turned on or off that has the helpful notes.
3. I'm going to claim that we don't need the "create customer" area anymore. Because new customers should go through the "customer mode" so that we always check to see if a customer is already in our database. The "create caller" page should also have the "add to e-news" and "mailing list checkboxes. Also on this page, the default for email is "cemail" and it should be blank.
That's all for now. Thanks for all the hard work, Nathan.
Labels: features
January 28, 2006 10:26AM • permalink
Comments
1In general, I am in big support of the idea of a learning mode or tutorial mode, but that is a lot of work and I would rather focus my energies on other areas right now. I will start setting it up in the backend, and as I see new little tip boxes, I will add them to a learning mode. But you will not be able to enable to learning mode for a while, until I feel there are a lot of tips and tools to make it worth while.
I would like to leave titles on pages for organization reasons, but the home page definitly does not need it.
As far as the create customer page is concerned, I would like to leave it. I think it is helpful to have it as an option there. If you really want, I can hide it just for your frontend (in fact, the whole menu is cutomizable for each client...but you must ask me to make changes. One day, it will be automated).
Finally, the cemail problem has been fixed.
I would like to leave titles on pages for organization reasons, but the home page definitly does not need it.
As far as the create customer page is concerned, I would like to leave it. I think it is helpful to have it as an option there. If you really want, I can hide it just for your frontend (in fact, the whole menu is cutomizable for each client...but you must ask me to make changes. One day, it will be automated).
Finally, the cemail problem has been fixed.
by Nathan Perkins • January 31, 2006 10:14PM • permalink
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