On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 07:45:42PM +0200, ?lvaro Ortiz wrote:
Here's a sketch:
http://furilo.com/drupal/DRU-HCI-admin-content-01-out.png
(a continiustic approach, as I mean not to propose big changes)
Comments:
* Quick stats (or call it whatever you like, its a quick sketch, haven't entered into much detaill): the total number of nodes and comments (I know comments don't belong here, but a shorcut well thought its not bad), the # of nodes/comments needing action, and some insight as what happenned in your site recently (this could make it into the new admin control panel?)
I like this idea. You say this is a quick sketch, I'd like to see a more finished version.
* Content by type: so you get an idea of what your site is composed of, and shortcut to filter any content type.
Another debate would be separating "page" content type, or letting an admin change the name of a content type...
Making story and page part of a system with user-defineable content types would be nice. But that is a different discussion.
* Content by status: not sure of this one, as many of the indicators are not of frequent use, but good to know at first glance that you have content waiting moderation (but it's repeated)
Yep, I don't find much use in these. I'd be interested to know if anyone has interesting uses of these.
* Filter: I find the actual filter widget difficult to use, which I think ends up in reducing its use. I find the radio buttons irrelevant; you can go without them as it can be seen with the same functionality and reducing the number of clicks.
I like this, but it seems redundant with the Content by type and status sections. I think the Filter section may be removed. To get the multiple-filtering functionality out of the Content by type and status sections we could add a link beside 'view' which narrows down what is currently shown. An example of this is the 'related tags' column of http://del.icio.us/drumm/drupal. I don't think '+' is the best link to use for narrowing down since it hard to click.
* Table of results: I would add a date column.
This table is quite wide. Maybe type or status could be represented with color? -Neil