Designing the SimpleAdmin Theme: Dashboard
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Designing the SimpleAdmin Theme: Dashboard

on Feb 3rd 2012 with 18 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Topic: Admin Theme Design
  • Difficulty: Beginner
  • Screencast duration: 40 mins

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This entry is part 2 of 6 in the series The SimpleAdmin Theme

The SimpleAdmin Theme

It’s time for the second part in our SimpleAdmin screencast series. In the previous video we covered the login page, today we’ll design our dashboard including tables, a sidebar and tabbed interface.

Part 2: Designing the Dashboard

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Series Navigation<< Designing the SimpleAdmin Theme: Login PageDesigning the SimpleAdmin Theme: Forms and Controls >>

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  • http://richardmisencik.com Richard

    Well done :)

  • supprof

    finaly Adi Paurdila is back home
    thank you adi

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  • Chris

    Thank you, Nice tutorial :)

  • http://alokdesai.in Alok Desai

    I love tutsplus, no doubt. The content here is amazing. When I first come across these websites, I was like wow, I am all set for life.

    I have just one complaint though, and maybe I am the odd man out here. Adi, you are an amazing designer and your tutorials are really good. But I wish, there were more of ‘text and screenshots’ based tutorials. I don’t know what is tough, making video tuts or text based ones. But video tutorials seems to become the trend now. There are tons of tons of them out there.

    Ofcourse the quality of tutsplus content is different, and people like you, Adi, make it even better. But I don’t know how to justify myself as I am not too good with words. It’s just that my comfort level is much more with text based tutorials. I can skip some content. I can have a quick glance over what a tutorial is all about. If I lost my focus for a second, I an read the line again (instead of trying to figure out in the video, where to start again from). For beginners like me, who can’t afford high speed internet in a country like India, I have to wait for the buffering, or downloading the video takes a lot of time and space in my machine (space is not really an issue though). I can copy some text that I think is important for me, which I mite forget while working in near future, etc.

    Anyway, as I am saying, I think I am the odd man out here, as all this time, I have been on tutsplus, I have never seen anyone complaining about screencasts, etc.
    Anyway keep up the good work. I do go through the text-based tutorials that comes along from time to time.

    Sorry if I am complaining too much. You guyz are rockstars. Keep the awesomeness coming.. :)

  • http://www.adipurdila.com AdiPurdila
    Author

    Thanks for your comments guys.

    @Alok I understand how text tutorials might come in handy and the absolut perfect tutorial would be text + images + the video version, but that would be redundant most of the times, not to mention the extra work.

    From my perspective, the very first tutorial I made was video, so I don’t have any experience with written ones. But who knows, I might try one :D

    • http://alokdesai.in Alok Desai

      Thanks. It would be great to see one. :)

  • http://dribbble.com/Mahdi MAHDI

    Nice work Adi, Keep it up!

  • Muhammad Raza Ali Khan

    Excellent tutorial !. Very informative. Thank you so very much. Looking forward for the coding part of this video series.

    • Chris

      Same Wonder what version of HTML he will use HTML5 or XHTML.

  • Ramesh

    Adi !! You are the best author in Envato. I have read every single tutorial you have put !!

  • ChrisR

    At the start it says “This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series The SimpleAdmin Theme” does that mean there will be no more parts to this tutorial?

    • http://www.snaptin.com Ian Yates

      Hi ChrisR, it means that this is part 2 of what are currently 2 parts. There are more to come :)

  • Melissa

    Very nice, but where are the coding videos?

    • http://www.snaptin.com Ian Yates

      They’re coming!

  • http://www.integrityinvoice.com Adeniyi Moses Adetola

    Similar to what I used in my recent web app. Nice tutorial as always.

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  • Michael Franz

    what a great tut :) – can’t wait for the next. Don’t take too long time mate :)

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  • mo

    Hey,
    What is the setting that helps position your elements when you move. I notice that temporary guides show up that help you align your elements with respect to other elements when you begin to move them.
    I would love to enable that setting rather than having tonnes of guides on.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profipix Богданов Сергей

    Great tutorial, man.
    Off-topic: How do you open a preview of the image, but not opening the “Preview” app? It looks very handy and very quick.
    Thanks