[Fofredux-devel] Version 0.2

[khaled A. A. <bro...@gm...>]

I can guarantee you that this almost never happens, but tonight I really ha=
d
a lot of inspiration for this project. Everything just fell into place
pretty nicely so here is the mockup that is actually pretty close to where =
I
was originally thinking for fofredux.

here's where to download it:
www.brokenkode.com/fofr/Version-0.3.jpg

Top Navigation.
The things that new users will be interested in is adding feeds. That's why
it's the very first thing in the top left hand corner. Since it's good to
keep the place nice and tidy, that category and tag links are next to that.
For the icons I've used those provided by famfamfam (
http://www.famfamfam.com/) which I really like and haven't used in a projec=
t
yet. Generally open source applications seem to lack these and yet they
really will make everything pop at the user and make it that much more
instinctive. I can play around with the colour of the add feed icon without
much problems, if anyone's got an issue with the rest of the icons just
shout out.

Logging in.
To me this is the single most important feature that needs to be added to
fofredux. Having a proper login feature in here. I will be tackling this
area once I've got this page and adding elements (such as feeds and
categories done). Logging out is in the top right hand corner as is standar=
d
convention.

Secondary Navigation:
This one here is how we're viewing the feeds etc. Slightly understated, but
that's ok I guess as it something that ideally should be cached (not the
case right now I guess, or am I wrong?).
Can I ask what flagging items actually does? I've not been able to work tha=
t
one out, so a little help in that direction would be much appreciated.

Links:
You'll notice two distinct colours for the links. The first being in aqua
blue. These are for links that are effectively OUTSIDE the programme. The
magenta links are for all the internal areas.

Sidebar: This one has the most changes that will need to be discussed
further with everyone. I like the age of the feed column, need the name of
the site where the feed is coming from. And then to make reading easier and
also make it clear that this is what people should be clicking on if they
want to read anything from this particular site is the feeds column.

I've made the remove column a bit special by making it into an icon here.

Now what you'll find is that the unmark column has been taken away. I guess
it could be added in there, but I simply don't want to clutter everything.
However if people think that this is an extremely important feature I'm sur=
e
I can come up with an icon for it as well, do people think that the big
refresh button at the top is not enough?

I'm missing the mark as read button (just noticed that) so I'll add it into
the next iteration.

Meat and potatoes:
Very simple layout. All the information located at the top, the actual post
located on the bottom. Clean and clear what everything is.

Okay that's it for tonight. Do we have a javascript/XMLHttpRequest guru on
board? The reason I ask is because I've got a pretty cool idea of how we ca=
n
get the add feed, categories and tags sorted out but I don't want to jump
the gun. The current changes are a simple question of changing the css file=
,
so it's not major but what I've got in mind will require some programming
kung-fu.

Khaled
www.brokenkode.com