Admin Tips

[Steven]

A feature request to myself: A tips section on the dashboard that changes on each page refresh or each day.

[Static]

Hey, that's a good idea. I'll start working on it right away!

Would you like it better to have a random 'tip' every time, or a certain order?

[Steven]

Well I was thinking it would be best to have like a 'tip of the day' section so I guess it would be a bit annoying if it could display the same tip two days (or even more) in a row, so a certain order would be good.

[Steven]

Actually I think the whole dashboard needs a major revamp. It's a bit linear at the moment. It would be better if things were displayed in a grid format so it also uses the space on the right side.

[Static]

How about something like
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Code:

┌───────────────────────┐
|┌─────────────────────┐|
||          News          ||
|└─────────────────────┘|
|┌─────────┐ ┌─────────┐|
|| Version  | | Statistics||
|| Login    | | Tip of Day||
|└─────────┘ └─────────┘|
└───────────────────────┘

[Steven]

Yeah, good idea to display the news at the top.

[Static]

Is it ok if the tip stores a cookie, or do you prefer a db setting? I'll also work on that layout.

[Steven]

Yeah I guess that's ok. Is there a maximum number of cookies a website can store? Anyway if so I'm sure it will be more than 2.

Just so you know, this probably won't make it into v1.1 so there's no rush.

[Static]

Quote:Is there a maximum number of cookies a website can store?

It depends on the browser. Some browsers allow only up to ten cookies.
As for not rushing, I'm almost done anyway.

[Steven]

The other way would be to look at which day of the month it is and display a message according to the day. That obviously works best if you have about 30 messages. It could still work though. If you have 10 messages then on the 11th day of the month just display message 1 and on the 12th day display message 2 etc.