Crit my site/design

HungryHippos · 29 May 2011 at 21:01

Working on an internal site for work, this site will be used for monitoring things like disk space, backups etc for all our exchange servers.

Some points:

This is only internal, no customer at the end of this, can do what I want
This curently uses a 2 row tab menu system, if you change the option at the top row the 2nd row also changes. The top row uses jQuery tabs, the 2nd row is just styled with CSS.
I've included a screenshot with a couple of tabs selected so you can see a page in action.
The content will be driven by CSV file paths stored on the web server, these dynamically fill in the content. the CSV files are generated by various scripts we write to take data from various servers.
Table is using tablesorter with the Zebra widget enabled for striping the styles on alternate rows.

So far this is what I have:

http://i54.tinypic.com/157130h.jpg

Any ideas/crits welcomed, i'd say i'm fairly happy with the overall layout, it's not that exciting but it's streets ahead of how it looks atm in my opinion.

Thanks!

FabienO · 29 May 2011 at 21:54

Idea #1. Stop using Internet Explorer.

Idea #2. Pimp your tables with CSS3.

HungryHippos · 29 May 2011 at 23:59

Cheers, reason it's IE is because it's on Server 2008 in a VMWare Workstation VM and I don't want to install FireFox on the server, for testing purposes I.E works just fine.

Could change table to CSS 3 but tbh the ones in the example don't look that great, and I think the current CSS is OK

sharkkk · 30 May 2011 at 00:17

Simple, clean, nice!
Personally think it'd be a nice touch if you showed grouping around the current sort. E.g. as it's currently sorted by server: a border around the 11 disks on the first server, a border around the 11 on the second server etc. Or perhaps a separator between them.... just some way to make it stand out as they hold similar values!

visibleman · 30 May 2011 at 00:47

With Sharkkk, it is simple and clean and straight to the point - exactly what you need for an intranet. And i agree that grouping servers in some way would make it a little easier to read - same row colours or bordering would be good, Table Treeview (something like THIS might work) perhaps.

Looks good though :cool:

HungryHippos · 30 May 2011 at 09:10

Cheers guys!

I was thinking of adding some filters to the top of the pages to allow peeople to search for things, as the data is read in from CSV I should be able to discard rows that don't match the filters and write out the ones that do.

People can then just search for whatever they want to display, because I agree seeing all data can be a little confusing