Roller 2.0 Public Release

[paksegu <pa...@yahoo.com>]

I know this may be too much to ask for but when will Roller 2.0 be officially released?
- Ransford

paksegu <pa...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Nice Job Dave.

Dave Johnson wrote:I've been working like crazy to finish up the Roller 2.0 UI and it's 
ready for some review. I've posted some screenshots to my blog and I'm 
preparing a standalone demo.

entry=roller_2_0_screenshots>

Here is a summary of the major changes I made.

* Broke UI up into three portions. Why? To simplify the user experience 
and to make it more clear when a user is working in a specific weblog.
1) the main page, where a user lands if he has multiple blogs, no 
tabbed menu here
2) the weblog editor/admin UI, tabbed menu defined by admin-menu.xml
3) the server admin UI, tabbed menu defined by editor-menu.xml

* Simplified the menu tab organization. Why? We had too many top level 
tabs and that was confusing to new users.

* Eliminated the "website" concept from the UI. Why? Some of us 
understood that a website is a collection of pages, one of which being 
a weblog -- but that distinction was lost on most users. So now, we 
just use the word weblog. The website concept lives on in the data 
model and code tho.

* Created different classes of pages (using Struts Tiles). Why? Many 
pages need a different layout from the simple header/footer setup we 
had before.

* Added a helpful subtitle and a help paragraph to each page. Added 
field help to the Register User, Create Weblog and other pages. Why? Do 
you really have to ask?

* Added some AJAX magic to the User Admin and Invite Member pages to 
make it easier to find users on large sites.

This work incorporates a lot of feedback from folks inside Sun and I 
did a lot of it on my own (nobody has seen the new look and feel until 
today). So it definitely needs wider review. Comments, suggestions, 
offers to help with testing/fixing are all welcome.

- Dave






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Re: Roller 2.0 Public Release

[paksegu <pa...@yahoo.com>]

Okay Thanks
- Ransford

Dave Johnson <da...@rollerweblogger.org> wrote:
My group at Sun will be putting the Roller 2.0 code base into 
production in late September, so we're gearing up for testing now. I 
hope we can make a release from the Apache Incubator (or Java.Net) 
shortly after that.

- Dave


On Aug 16, 2005, at 1:05 PM, paksegu wrote:

> I know this may be too much to ask for but when will Roller 2.0 be 
> officially released?
> - Ransford
>
> paksegu 
wrote:
> Nice Job Dave.
>
> Dave Johnson wrote:I've been working like crazy to finish up the 
> Roller 2.0 UI and it's
> ready for some review. I've posted some screenshots to my blog and I'm
> preparing a standalone demo.
>
> entry=roller_2_0_screenshots>
>
> Here is a summary of the major changes I made.
>
> * Broke UI up into three portions. Why? To simplify the user experience
> and to make it more clear when a user is working in a specific weblog.
> 1) the main page, where a user lands if he has multiple blogs, no
> tabbed menu here
> 2) the weblog editor/admin UI, tabbed menu defined by admin-menu.xml
> 3) the server admin UI, tabbed menu defined by editor-menu.xml
>
> * Simplified the menu tab organization. Why? We had too many top level
> tabs and that was confusing to new users.
>
> * Eliminated the "website" concept from the UI. Why? Some of us
> understood that a website is a collection of pages, one of which being
> a weblog -- but that distinction was lost on most users. So now, we
> just use the word weblog. The website concept lives on in the data
> model and code tho.
>
> * Created different classes of pages (using Struts Tiles). Why? Many
> pages need a different layout from the simple header/footer setup we
> had before.
>
> * Added a helpful subtitle and a help paragraph to each page. Added
> field help to the Register User, Create Weblog and other pages. Why? Do
> you really have to ask?
>
> * Added some AJAX magic to the User Admin and Invite Member pages to
> make it easier to find users on large sites.
>
> This work incorporates a lot of feedback from folks inside Sun and I
> did a lot of it on my own (nobody has seen the new look and feel until
> today). So it definitely needs wider review. Comments, suggestions,
> offers to help with testing/fixing are all welcome.
>
> - Dave
>
>
>
>
>
>
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Re: Roller 2.0 Public Release

[Dave Johnson <da...@rollerweblogger.org>]

My group at Sun will be putting the Roller 2.0 code base into 
production in late September, so we're gearing up for testing now. I 
hope we can make a release from the Apache Incubator (or Java.Net) 
shortly after that.

- Dave


On Aug 16, 2005, at 1:05 PM, paksegu wrote:

> I know this may be too much to ask for but when will Roller 2.0 be 
> officially released?
> - Ransford
>
> paksegu <pa...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Nice Job Dave.
>
> Dave Johnson wrote:I've been working like crazy to finish up the 
> Roller 2.0 UI and it's
> ready for some review. I've posted some screenshots to my blog and I'm
> preparing a standalone demo.
>
> entry=roller_2_0_screenshots>
>
> Here is a summary of the major changes I made.
>
> * Broke UI up into three portions. Why? To simplify the user experience
> and to make it more clear when a user is working in a specific weblog.
> 1) the main page, where a user lands if he has multiple blogs, no
> tabbed menu here
> 2) the weblog editor/admin UI, tabbed menu defined by admin-menu.xml
> 3) the server admin UI, tabbed menu defined by editor-menu.xml
>
> * Simplified the menu tab organization. Why? We had too many top level
> tabs and that was confusing to new users.
>
> * Eliminated the "website" concept from the UI. Why? Some of us
> understood that a website is a collection of pages, one of which being
> a weblog -- but that distinction was lost on most users. So now, we
> just use the word weblog. The website concept lives on in the data
> model and code tho.
>
> * Created different classes of pages (using Struts Tiles). Why? Many
> pages need a different layout from the simple header/footer setup we
> had before.
>
> * Added a helpful subtitle and a help paragraph to each page. Added
> field help to the Register User, Create Weblog and other pages. Why? Do
> you really have to ask?
>
> * Added some AJAX magic to the User Admin and Invite Member pages to
> make it easier to find users on large sites.
>
> This work incorporates a lot of feedback from folks inside Sun and I
> did a lot of it on my own (nobody has seen the new look and feel until
> today). So it definitely needs wider review. Comments, suggestions,
> offers to help with testing/fixing are all welcome.
>
> - Dave
>
>
>
>
>
>
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