[Vtigercrm-developers] LANCER : Home page UI - Revised

[Sergio A. Kessler]

saint, if you put a scrollable div, then it means there can be two
vertical scroll bar, the browser one, and the div one...

I think Brian is refering to the same, he just call this a "website
within a website"...

look at the following screenshot and you'll know what i'm talking about...

see ? there are two vertical scrollbar... the fundamental concept of a
"page" has been broken...

"The appearance of multiple pairs of scrollbars affects usability,
since users are essentially confused as to which scrollbars to use.
Hiding these scrollbars has the effect of hiding all content that
doesn't fit into the frame, thus seriously impacts users finding their
way around a website or finding the content they wanted."

what you are doing is like putting a frame inside the main windows,
jakob nielsen (*) say this about frames:
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9612.html


it evens happen to me (a supposedly experienced user), I want to see
what others type of reports are below "Invoices by Accounts", then I
rotate my mouse's wheel, only to find (confused) that I'am scrolling
the graph part (which is not what I want)


/sak
(*) jacob nielsen is considered by many as the # 1 guru of web usability.


On 3/3/06, Saint <saint at vtiger.com> wrote:
>  sak,
>
>  Sorry, I couldnt get what you mean by "two differnet scroll windows".
> Please throw some more light over this! In the At a Glance UI, there is only
> one scrollable DIV layer in the right.
>
>
>
>  cheers,
>  Saint
>
>
>
>
>  Sergio A. Kessler wrote:
>  saint, I don't know how this will work, but if the "dashboard
> approach" consist of mantaining two different windows with two
> different scroll windows in the same page, this is very, very bad web
> usability, you just broke the "page" concept...
>
> there must be an article out there about this from Jakob Nielsen.
>
> (I myself was confused to see that my scrollwheel was not working...)
>
> /sak
>
> On 3/3/06, Webmaster <webmaster at vtigercrmfrance.org> wrote:
>
>
>  Hi Saint, let me tell you, your job on vtiger CRM 5 UI is very good, i
> have french users very positive feedback.
> Aïssa
>
> Saint a écrit :
>
>
>
>  Team,
>
> We are updating the home page UI as well. This will be called *At a
> Glance*. More or less similar to compact report/list view of major
> modules. All the Top 10 lists will now become Top X (where x = 10, 20,
> 50, 100 and All). This UI uses the same dashboard approach and thus
> eliminates the number of scrolls to reach a particular Top X module.
> To facilitate viewing all Top X lists the "Show All Modules" has been
> given, which will display all Top X modules one by one (like the
> dashboard). To add some visual appeal, we have included spiral
> bindings to the right.
>
> Each module will have a "Make as default view" link to the right of
> page heading. When clicked, the current module will be set as the
> default landing tab when the home page is viewed. Thus sales people
> can select their fav module to be seen first, marketing people can
> select their fav module and so, the others.
>
>
> -Saint
>
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