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Admin Theme ~ Expression v1.0.2

Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2011 2:18 am
by myshko
[update] Expression Version 1.0.2 is now available

You download directly from http://bit.ly/exp-theme (expression-admin.tar.gz, 501kb)

Or you can download it from the cmsms themes site.

Please report any bugs and suggestions at the end of this thread.

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Hi All,

I've updated my admin theme and just wanted to share in case people find it useful.

Expression Admin Theme
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For now, you can grab the theme here: http://bit.ly/exp-theme (expression-admin.tar.gz, 499kb)

A modern theme (built in cmsms 1.9.4.2) so some stuff may not work in very old versions of cmsms.

It's nothing fancy or special, just clean and usable. The output is smarty templated, so if you want to change things it's a little easier.

I've tried it in IE6 to IE9, Firefox 3.6 / 4, Opera 11.11, Chrome 11 and Safari 5 without too much hassle. IE6 is a bit creaky, but when isn't it?

There are likely still some bugs here and there.

If it works and people find it useful, I'll tidy it up and put it into the themes area.

Any bugs or suggestions, just let me know.

Thanks!

Mikey

Re: Admin Theme ~ Expression

Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2011 4:50 am
by winkelman
Hi Mikey,

thx for sharing your admin theme. Looks great, works great!
myshko wrote:The output is smarty templated
This is in my opinion the biggest goal we are waiting for a long time ... maybe this could be the base for CMSMS 1.10 (hello devs ;)).

Re: Admin Theme ~ Expression

Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2011 5:00 am
by myshko
That's great, thanks Winkelman.

Yeah, the smarty thing just makes it that little bit easier to set your markup.

If you want to change anything, all the templates are in /templates/ (oddly enough) and a quick look at expressionTheme.php gets you started.

Thanks again.

/m

Re: Admin Theme ~ Expression

Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2011 10:12 pm
by andre_designer
yeah, finally a serious theme. Nice and clear.

Now i can my potatial customers giff a serious cms. why put you this theme not by the other themes on the cms made simple website http://themes.cmsmadesimple.org/Downloa ... hemes.html .There belongs it.

But thumbs up.
Keeping up the good work.

Very nice!! really very nice.

Re: Admin Theme ~ Expression

Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 11:44 am
by andre_designer
how get i the same login screen as you have.

How i do that!!??

Re: Admin Theme ~ Expression

Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 12:52 pm
by myshko
Hi andre,

Thanks for the comments and for putting the theme in the right place!

To change the login screen you need to set the expression theme as default under 'Site Admin > Global Settings > Default Administration Theme'

All users will now see the expression login screen, but can override their own default theme in their User Preferences.

I'll try and bundle the source files for the login and CMS logos so you can edit them in photoshop or whatever.

Thanks again,

M

Re: Admin Theme ~ Expression

Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 1:13 pm
by andre_designer
thanks cool

Re: Admin Theme ~ Expression

Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 11:10 pm
by paulbaker
Very smart, myshko, great job.

Hey, to me the left hand nav looks a lot like the admin theme of *whispers* wordpress.

;)

Re: Admin Theme ~ Expression

Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 4:57 pm
by myshko
Hi Paul,

Thanks and *whispers* it's all there in the theme name sir ;)

A little familiarity can go a long way and save everyone time when learning a new UI.

Kind Regards,

M

Re: Admin Theme ~ Expression

Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 9:12 pm
by fearmydesign
myshko wrote:Lo All,

I've updated my admin theme and just wanted to share in case people find it useful.

Expression Admin Theme.....

Mikey
Thank you for this theme... this is actually the first time that I am doing this, so I want to do it correct... how do I upgrade an admin theme? I don't want to mess this up...
I see that under Layout/Theme Manager I can import one, but not sure if this is for the admin or website themes??

Thanks again for your help.

Re: Admin Theme ~ Expression

Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 5:45 am
by andre_designer
Hi

it is not so difficult .
  • unzip the tar.gz to your local disk with a unzip-program
  • upload the directory expression with a ftp-program (such as filezilla) to admin->themes
  • Select your theme by My Preferences
  • And select by global settings also your theme (Default Administration Theme)
thats it. Thats all.

Re: Admin Theme ~ Expression

Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 1:58 am
by fearmydesign
andre_designer wrote:Hi

it is not so difficult .
  • unzip the tar.gz to your local disk with a unzip-program
  • upload the directory expression with a ftp-program (such as filezilla) to admin->themes
  • Select your theme by My Preferences
  • And select by global settings also your theme (Default Administration Theme)
thats it. Thats all.

Thank you, it worked perfect

Re: Admin Theme ~ Expression

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 5:51 pm
by lapak
Hi, at first thanks for great theme. It's first really usable admin theme for cmsms :)

Although, I found some bugs conected with default cmsms tinymce wysiwyg. With pages, everything works fine, but with other modules like News or HTML Block, I have some problems. In News module, Tinymce just looks silly (screenshot atached), but in HTML Blocks, It don't work at all and I get php error messages (screenshot). I'm using newest version of cmsms in czech language.

Here is version log from cmsms:
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Cms Version: 1.9.4.2

Installed Modules:

CMSMailer: 2.0.1
FileManager: 1.1.0
ModuleManager: 1.4.2
News: 2.11.3
nuSOAP: 1.0.2
ThemeManager: 1.1.4
TinyMCE: 2.8.4
Guestbook: 1.3.2
Captcha: 0.4.1
CGExtensions: 1.25.3
CGFeedMaker: 1.0.11
SiteMapMadeSimple: 1.2.1
Gallery: 1.3.2
MenuManager: 1.7.6

Config Information:

php_memory_limit:
process_whole_template: false
output_compression: false
max_upload_size: 8000000
default_upload_permission: 664
url_rewriting: internal
page_extension:
query_var: page
image_manipulation_prog: GD
auto_alias_content: true
locale:
default_encoding: utf-8
admin_encoding: utf-8
set_names: true

Php Information:

phpversion: 5.3.6-pl1-gentoo
md5_function: Zap (ANO)
gd_version: 2
tempnam_function: Zap (ANO)
magic_quotes_runtime: Vyp (NE)
E_STRICT: 0
E_DEPRECATED: 0
memory_limit: 64M
max_execution_time: 20
output_buffering: Zap
safe_mode: Vyp (NE)
file_uploads: Zap (ANO)
post_max_size: 132M
upload_max_filesize: 16M
session_save_path: Nekontrolováno, protože je aktivní open_basedir
session_use_cookies: Zap (ANO)
xml_function: Zap (ANO)

Server Information:

Server Api: apache2handler
Server Db Type: MySQL (mysqli)
Server Db Version: 5.1.56

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Do you have any idea, why this is happening?
If you will have any questions about these problems, feel free to contact me, and I'll try to provide the most informations as i could...

Thanks

Re: Admin Theme ~ Expression

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 7:36 pm
by andre_designer
i had something familar with the php errors when i remove cgextensions. and when i install cgextensions again the php errors where gone. so maybe it lays on cgextensions.

but i'v other problem with mc factory. On a small screen 19" 4:3 i can't reach all the fields on right side in mc factory. Maybe its more a problem from mc factory because in the rest off the modules i can reach all the fields. But it would be nice if this was fixed.

Re: Admin Theme ~ Expression

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 8:31 pm
by myshko
Hi guys,

Thanks for the feedback and bugs, very much appreciated as I can't check every module.

I'll take a look at these over the weekend with the affected modules to confirm the issues and I'll post an updated version with fixes.

Again, much appreciated.

If anyone has any tweaks they'd like for specific modules, please let me know before then.

Regards,

Myshko