Best Way To Do Admin Sections on Sites

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volomike
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Re: Best Way To Do Admin Sections on Sites

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PCSpectra wrote:Nice...is that your own design?
Yeah, I thought it up, drew the screens, built the framework behind it, coded it -- yep, all me. That's how I typically make my admin systems now. On the left you'll see the top control is something I did with jQuery to switch between domain object groups. Underneath it, on the left, are the domain objects inside a jQuery Accordion menu, thanks to whichever author built that control. Then, you have the CRUD menus beneath that. I didn't make this complex beyond that -- just stuck with frames because I wanted to avoid menu refreshes with each click -- many sites are implemented on shared servers which can sometimes be slow, and admin systems need to be responsive during emergencies.
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Re: Best Way To Do Admin Sections on Sites

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That looks a little like the WordPress admin interface. However it you want have a little more horizontal then perhaps a menu across the top and drop-down menus might make more sense. This WordPress style is better for managing content that goes into layout columns. But some types of sites have CRUD with lots of data columns and a wider layout works better. Perhaps you could support both? The backend should not really care.
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