[wp-design] Shuttle Work To-Do list

[Michael Heilemann]

I think we can get pretty far in a month if we tighten the helmet and
get back in the game.

I say we start with the Dashboard (since we already have a mockup of
it). I'm sure Khaled and I will get a bit of work done tonight, and
then I say we try and have a new version every day from now on.

Another thing Khaled and I were talking about just now, is the idea of
inline posting. Basically, we imagine a dropdown, ala the one Shaun
Inman has on his site, which contains the a 'write post' form.

(Likewise, I think as many admin functions as possible should be
reachable from the blog itself. Stuff like deleting/moderating/marking
as spam directly from the permalink itself).

I've sent an invitation to all of you for a Backpack page I've
created. Please fill in information as it comes to you, and we will
make it the new home of todo lists and ideas.

- Mike


On 11/5/05, Khaled Abou Alfa <khaled.aboualfa at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ok,
>
> Talking with both Joen and Michael we're all thinking it's time to pull
> up our socks and get this thing finished. It's the final straight guys
> so we're nearly there effectively. Thought I'd write down what we still
> need to do:
>
> *1. Icons - *
> Michael's going to get his icon wiz to sort these out but we've got to
> give the man a list and potentially even a few mockups. So here's my
> list and everyone can add and omit as they see fit:
>
> External link - This is mainly in the dashboard area, but also in the
> plugins and theme areas, where an external link is shown differently. An
> 'out' icon would do the trick, however I really think it should be
> different to the pixel icon that's used on blogs in general.
> Warning - In all areas of the admin panel
> Confirmed - Again in all areas of the admin panel
> Visit Site - Right at the top of the page on every page,
> Log out - Again right at the top of every page
> Support Forums - This is just a little thing, not terribly important but
> might be nice to have.
>
> *2. Dashboard -*
> Comments and thoughts about what is missing, and what needs to be
> relocated. I would like to have a very faint icon/image something in the
> background at the top of each page to give a visual identification as to
> where the user is in. That's probably something you guys won't be too
> keen on, but it just adds to the fun aspect of the program IMHO. The
> only area we might have a little bit of difficulty integrating into that
> would be the write function as that's pretty lock and load. This would
> make the last column for WordPress exclusively while the first two are
> for the user. Apart from that however I'm pretty happy with what's there.
>
> *3. Themes -*
> The new system has a thumbnail, which is very cool. I've got an ideas as
> to what we do to make it look pretty good, just need to implement that
> and send it through
>
> *4. Plugins -*
> Thinking about this I think we can stick to the current arrangement and
> just give it a coat of paint. It works fine, unless people thing that
> having a simple list of the name of the actual plugin and then a button
> to open and collapse the title is a better way to go about things. I'm
> thinking something along the lines of www.netvibes.com
>
> *5. Manage -*
> I've got a couple of ideas for this, but it's easier to do the mock up
> than try and explain, but this could be dealt with in a better fashion.
> *
> 6. Links - *
> Well this is in the same category as the plugins section. There's not
> much you can do with this section really, other than give it a lick of
> paint. Anyone got any alternative ideas?
>
> Okay those are the thoughts so far, and I think we should put a self
> imposed deadline on this guys, otherwise we'll drag this on, and
> although this has been a fantastic experience I'd really like to try and
> get this project completed after a fashion so that we can move on to
> bigger and badder things, and the dev team can take our mock ups and do
> their magic. So I propose that we say that the above works, and all
> tweaks etc are to be completed and handed to Matt and co, by the *Week
> 4th of December*. That gives us a grand total of 4 weeks. That should be
> more than enough I think.
>
> So what does everyone think then?
>
> Khaled
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Michael Heilemann
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