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Hi all,
It can happen that, sometimes, even if under the hood the engine is really great, people are a bit disappointed by the external look of the e-commerce application, especially under IE6, where it happens do be really broken. I've asked a friend of mine to build a little prototype in order to make the front look less like an 'engineer's site :-) and the result is at http://www.telaside.com/ofbiz/home.htm. Do you think that the redesign the e-commerce part could be a good idea? And in that case, do you think that this pattern could be a good starting point? Best regards, Manuel _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.ofbiz.org/mailman/listinfo/dev |
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I think this could be a good idea. JSH -----Message d'origine-----
Hi all, It can happen that, sometimes, even if under the hood the engine is really
Do you think that the redesign the e-commerce part could be a good idea?
Best regards,
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Manuel,
The UI is a good alternative. I think there are many different UIs that people may want. My view is that it would be very powerful (more powerful) to creat a theme mechanism which would be able to allow a variety of alternate look and feels. Products I have used with this capability include Oscommerce and Xaraya CMS but there are many ofther products with this ability. If you were able to create a theme mechanism then we could have a theme competition which may inspire many designers to create a range of UI options. David G -----Original Message----- From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Manuel Meyer Sent: Monday, 5 December 2005 9:17 PM To: OFBiz dev Subject: [OFBiz] Dev - Front office e-commerce new interface Hi all, It can happen that, sometimes, even if under the hood the engine is really great, people are a bit disappointed by the external look of the e-commerce application, especially under IE6, where it happens do be really broken. I've asked a friend of mine to build a little prototype in order to make the front look less like an 'engineer's site :-) and the result is at http://www.telaside.com/ofbiz/home.htm. Do you think that the redesign the e-commerce part could be a good idea? And in that case, do you think that this pattern could be a good starting point? Best regards, Manuel _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.ofbiz.org/mailman/listinfo/dev _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.ofbiz.org/mailman/listinfo/dev |
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Manuel,
I think this is really nice. Can your interface be implemented through a different set of CSS? I would be very happy to have a few different CSS styles that can ship with OFBiz and give the default applications different looks. I think this is becoming a standard feature of web-based applications. One way it could work is to introduce a .properties file propertie that has the name of the CSS and then change the ecommerce application to use that CSS. Alternatively, we can change the web.xml. I wonder if anyone else has thoughts along these lines? Si David Garrett wrote: >Manuel, > >The UI is a good alternative. > >I think there are many different UIs that people may want. > >My view is that it would be very powerful (more powerful) to creat a theme >mechanism which would be able to allow a variety of alternate look and >feels. > >Products I have used with this capability include Oscommerce and Xaraya CMS >but there are many ofther products with this ability. > >If you were able to create a theme mechanism then we could have a theme >competition which may inspire many designers to create a range of UI >options. > >David G > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] On >Behalf Of Manuel Meyer >Sent: Monday, 5 December 2005 9:17 PM >To: OFBiz dev >Subject: [OFBiz] Dev - Front office e-commerce new interface > >Hi all, > >It can happen that, sometimes, even if under the hood the engine is really >great, people are a bit disappointed by the external look of the e-commerce >application, especially under IE6, where it happens do be really broken. >I've asked a friend of mine to build a little prototype in order to make the >front look less like an 'engineer's site :-) and the result is at >http://www.telaside.com/ofbiz/home.htm. > >Do you think that the redesign the e-commerce part could be a good idea? >And in that case, do you think that this pattern could be a good starting >point? > >Best regards, >Manuel > > >_______________________________________________ >Dev mailing list >[hidden email] >http://lists.ofbiz.org/mailman/listinfo/dev > > > >_______________________________________________ >Dev mailing list >[hidden email] >http://lists.ofbiz.org/mailman/listinfo/dev > > > _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.ofbiz.org/mailman/listinfo/dev |
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Manuel,
I think the idea of having a better look and feel to the ecommerce is welcome by all and the ground work was started some 10 months ago on cleaning up some of the tables and CSS usage within the framework to make it easier to customise the UI. Unfortunately it is not quite finished as there has been little input from individuals with good skills in the tricky/quirky area of differing browser standards. The current ecommerce is broken in IE6 for the above reason, although our designer did improve a testing version last week in a few screens which we will hopefully get around to submitting in the next month. I notice your sample heavily uses tables, is this because it's easier for the designer whilst playing with a sample or is it your proposed structure? Certainly the project is moving away from tables to manage the layout i.e. view the source of http://test.opentravelsystem.org/ecommerce/control/main and you'll not find one <table> tag. Your prototype does look nice and I think a few samples to go with the project would be great. Ray Manuel Meyer wrote: >Hi all, > >It can happen that, sometimes, even if under the hood the engine is really >great, people are a bit disappointed by the external look of the e-commerce >application, especially under IE6, where it happens do be really broken. >I've asked a friend of mine to build a little prototype in order to make the >front look less like an 'engineer's site :-) and the result is at >http://www.telaside.com/ofbiz/home.htm. > >Do you think that the redesign the e-commerce part could be a good idea? >And in that case, do you think that this pattern could be a good starting >point? > >Best regards, >Manuel > > >_______________________________________________ >Dev mailing list >[hidden email] >http://lists.ofbiz.org/mailman/listinfo/dev > > > _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.ofbiz.org/mailman/listinfo/dev |
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