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Re: A new HTML5 Admin Teamplate

#11

Post by afandian » Tue, Oct 22, 2013, 11:04 AM UTC

My first reaction was ARGH MY EYES! Not in a pompous design way, but looking at that blurry image actually made my head hurt. Maybe it's just me but I find the blurred-image-in-the-background very difficult to work with.

I wasn't surprised when Microsoft did it (they never had much design sense), but it was a surprise to see it in iOS.

Re: A new HTML5 Admin Teamplate

#12

Post by paaaaaaaaaa » Tue, Oct 22, 2013, 11:05 AM UTC

It's good but I think it needs a bit more work. I have found a couple issues.

Sliders do not work in firefox, they are missing the handles.

The switches or very difficult to understand whats active. However I guess that's a common issue with switches like these.

Some other things seem broken for me too. The html5 date picker "Works on every HTML5 device" doesn't work along with the colour picker.

I do like that ink filepicker though. Not seen that before, very useful.

Personally I would go for something on wrapbootstrap eg: https://wrapbootstrap.com/theme/ace-responsive-admin-templat...

Re: A new HTML5 Admin Teamplate

#13

Post by seszett » Tue, Oct 22, 2013, 11:09 AM UTC

afandian wrote: post #11

My first reaction was ARGH MY EYES! Not in a pompous design way, but looking at that blurry image actually made my head hurt. Maybe it's just me but I find the blurred-image-in-the-background very difficult to work with. I wasn't surprised when Microsoft did it (they never had much design sense), but it was a surprise to see it in iOS.

It might be more acceptable if it was a lot more blurry. But right now, my eyes keep trying to focus on the big "A", especially since the image first loads and then the buttons are shown.

Re: A new HTML5 Admin Teamplate

#14

Post by adem » Tue, Oct 22, 2013, 11:14 AM UTC

Am I the only one who thinks that those one-size-fits-all solutions (esp. Bootstrap) are really not the way to go? Sure, it drastically reduces the development time, but using templates for specific purposes are meant to fail, aren't they?

Re: A new HTML5 Admin Teamplate

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Post by Cthulhu_ » Tue, Oct 22, 2013, 11:21 AM UTC

adem wrote: post #14

Am I the only one who thinks that those one-size-fits-all solutions (esp. Bootstrap) are really not the way to go? Sure, it drastically reduces the development time, but using templates for specific purposes are meant to fail, aren't they?

"Meant to fail" is a bit of a strong phrasing; like in all things, it depends. Bootstrap and the like are ideal if you just need to get something up and running without looking terrible, I've used it in both my current and previous project. For an end-product though, I'm not sure if it's ideal. In my previous project, we ended up hiring a CSS jesus who single-handedly created a Bootstrap-like framework (or based it on Bootstrap) for the entire company's web projects (a large international bank). In my current assignment, we use Bootstrap with a number of customisations and custom parts. In both cases, Bootstrap was used to create something pretty, fast - without again falling into the 'how to css positioning' rabbit hole.

Re: A new HTML5 Admin Teamplate

#16

Post by ngcazz » Tue, Oct 22, 2013, 11:23 AM UTC

It's nice, but did that page really need 30 seconds for the text and images to render at all?

Re: A new HTML5 Admin Teamplate

#17

Post by lignuist » Tue, Oct 22, 2013, 11:30 AM UTC

> A new HTML5 Admin Teamplate

And I thought this is a new way of collaborative ("Team") template creation. :)

Re: A new HTML5 Admin Teamplate

#18

Post by josefresco » Tue, Oct 22, 2013, 11:33 AM UTC

afandian wrote: post #11

My first reaction was ARGH MY EYES! Not in a pompous design way, but looking at that blurry image actually made my head hurt. Maybe it's just me but I find the blurred-image-in-the-background very difficult to work with. I wasn't surprised when Microsoft did it (they never had much design sense), but it was a surprise to see it in iOS.

I agree, it actually hurts my eyes to look at it. There's probably some science behind this...

Re: A new HTML5 Admin Teamplate

#19

Post by est » Tue, Oct 22, 2013, 11:37 AM UTC

I've tried many beautiful admin templates, all of them are visually nice, quite suitable for integrating as dashboards and "read-only" panels. But very few of them actually tries to solve the "hard" problem: how to transform "rational" row based data into read-writable web forms.

Server-side & client side interactions, validations, cascading events, descriptive forms, etc. Given two or three slightly sophisticated m2m models you get stuck either to re-write from scratch or re-invent your own.

Re: A new HTML5 Admin Teamplate

#20

Post by afandian » Tue, Oct 22, 2013, 11:37 AM UTC

josefresco wrote: post #18

afandian wrote: post #11

My first reaction was ARGH MY EYES! Not in a pompous design way, but looking at that blurry image actually made my head hurt. Maybe it's just me but I find the blurred-image-in-the-background very difficult to work with. I wasn't surprised when Microsoft did it (they never had much design sense), but it was a surprise to see it in iOS.

I agree, it actually hurts my eyes to look at it. There's probably some science behind this...

I don't know if you're being sarcastic or not (I'm not!) but this is the same as putting on spectacles of the wrong prescription. Everything is fuzzy and your eyes try to compensate for the lack of focus.