Elxis 2007 preview?

[datahell]

I need your opinion about the attached image (It is a design attempt not a real screenshot!). It shows the main screen in the administration panel. The icons/buttons are in the right side. This list scrolls up and down using javascript. You will be able to add your own shortcuts in this list. In the left gray area appears the buttons descriptions and the ARTI (Artifficial Inteligence - highly experimental) responses (ajax powered). In the black box bellow the gray area is a command line / chat box for ARTI. The design is inspired by windows Vista.

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[datahell]

And a second design (I think it is better and more practical). About the pictures quality: Don't pay attention it is just a quick design/sketch.

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[CREATIVE Options]

With the grey background, most of the icons with white color on the perimeter will not be color suitable.

[datahell]

No, they will be fine. Don't look at the icons quality it's not that the issue. As I said it is a very quick design. The structure/whole idea is the one I ask for your's opinion. (By the way: The gray background is much better for transparency because you can hide the shadows flaws easier.)

[rentasite]

The second design is much better. No doubt about that.

[CREATIVE Options]

Will the administration panel be editable through a template?

Because I think that the word "vampire" and the dark template is a little aggressive.

(My opinion).

[rentasite]

Yeap i agree, its too dark.

[Ivan Trebješanin]

I'd go for lighter version too... 

[datahell]

Your answers reminds me the way my girlfriend thinks. She, as you, need to see the whole picture in the proper colors etc to get the idea. I did not asked you if the color is good or the icons/buttons. I asked you about the design idea / structure of the whole thing as a replacement to the existing one.

These pictures are also a part of a templates, you can change templates if you dont like one! "Vampire" is the code name for the development release. Elxis 2007 will NOT be named Vampire. Elxis 2007 code name will follow the Elxis usual naming.

Thanks for your answers, it's ok.

[Ivan Trebješanin]

Well... If everybody is giving you their observations about colors, that means that everything else is OK. I would consider that fact as good one. 

[datahell]

So, windows Vista do not have many followers in this forum 

[rentasite]

One of them is me datahell. But im moving to Windows Svista. 

[datahell]

ahahahahhaha 

For our international friends: Svista in Greek meens shut down!

[Ivan Trebješanin]

Now I know two words in greek: Patatas and Svista.... thanx 

[BlackStar]

Actually SVISTA means "delete them" in greek...... KLEISTA means "shut them down" (however we imply SVISTA as "shut them down" but this is not proper by the grammar's rules).