Please fix the folowing inconsistancies in Enhanced Skin

rldev

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The following are some needed fixes for the enhanced skin.

1. The file editor in the admin is too wide and fixed. The information does not fill up the screen so there is no point as it is distracting when the screen changes..
Make it like the Log File Viewer. That looks perfect and is wide enough.

2. Ditto for the File Manager

3. Ditto for the Perl Modules pages.

4. Please fix the logo in the header. Make it so that the words "Direct Admin" do not repeat. This is very unprofessional looking in what is otherwise a very professional looking skin..This is very doable.

5. Please give resellers an easy means of replacing the logo through their Control Panel.with an image or text.
 
Easiest way to stop it from repeating is to go to "/usr/local/directadmin/data/skins/enhanced/header.html" and change line 48 to look like
Code:
<td height=120 align=left style="background-repeat:no-repeat;" background="/|LANG_IMG_SKIN_HEADER|"><img src="/|LANG_IMG_SKIN_HEADER|"></td>
or even
Code:
<td height=120 align=left><img src="/|LANG_IMG_SKIN_HEADER|"></td>
so that it is just the image.
 
Thanks for the tip. However, I want the repeat. It's just that the table should repeat a center/right portion of the image where it is just a line drawing(just before the dots). This way the header is clean and looks uniform. The name nor dots repeat. Properly coded, this is how it should function. Or they could just make the CP a fixed width. Although I'm not sure if others would want that.
 
Floyd,
Are you trying to give me a hard time? LOL. I want a solution done by DA. I do not want to have to edit the header whenever DA updates their skin. What I am asking for is how it should have been designed in the first place. I am not a DA skin designer:)
 
No I am not trying to give you a hard time. I am trying to give you answers.

Anytime I don't like the way the skin looks I just clone the skin and make my changes. DA updates will not overwrite custom skins.

I am not a skin designer either but I know how to edit the skins that are there.

I think saying that your way is the way DA should have been designed in the first place is pretty insulting to the DA writers.
 
I'm just jousting with you:)

How do you clone the skin? The problem I am having is that I do not know there image tags work. I can easily fix the table to make it do what I want. I can also slice the image up to do what I want. I just don't know how to get the images to display. Thanks.
 
I forgot exactly where it is at but there is a directory called skins in /usr/local/directadmin In that directory you can just copy the enhanced skin dirctory and call it something else. Then you can customize anything and DA will not overwrite it when it updates.

You can also look at this http://www.directadmin.com/skins.html
 
Hello,

1) I've set it to 120 intead of 180.

2) the filemanager is stretchy and grows to the size of your browser.
Make your browser smaller, the table will shrink.

3) Perl Modules page should be minimal to the size of the module names. If they're bigger, then it will grow as needed to fit in the 3 columns. If they're very short, then the table will be the size of 1 logo header.

4) http://www.directadmin.com/features.php?id=757
I've added a wordless repeating gif that actually matches up, which should make it much nicer.

5) I'll take a look at the possibilities for adding that.

John
 
This is very good news. I can live with the rest :) Seriously give number 5. a strong look. This is much needed. Thanks again John. You are the man.
 
Number 5. I agree. Plesk has had it for years, and our Plesk resellers loved it; it was an easy way for them to give themselves a customized look.

Jeff
 
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