Sueetie’s default Lollipop theme has been updated for the upcoming Sueetie 2.0 release. Go to Sueetie.com to preview what you’ll be seeing when you download Sueetie 2.0! If you’ve been in the Sueetie Community long you know that updating Lollipop is one of the last items on the TODO list before releasing a new version of Sueetie. In this case there are a few more features in the works, but we’re getting close.
Below is the home page of the new Lollipop theme for Sueetie 2.0. What’s interesting is that the panel area now extends across the entire body area rather than displaying a content part at left and paneled content at right. Also, the User Menu has been moved to the body area with a smaller avatar.
The site menu has been moved to the very top of the page. The v2.0 site menu will include dropdown items since that will help admins learn how to style dropdown menus more quickly.
As a strictly Sueetie.com sidebar, I gave some thought to restructuring the site menu. I didn't want it to extend across the entire menubar and needed to consolidate. In the process it struck me that I had to start thinking more about Sueetie.com as a Community and less as a showcase of its collective parts. The "Wiki," "Media," "Forum" and other application navigation points needed to fall into the context of the Sueetie.com community.
You won’t appreciate this until you’re working with Sueetie 2.0, but Sueetie Administration also received a rather substantial upgrade. The main difference is that the body area now extends full page. This allowed me to increase font sizes and improve formatting in a number of areas.
You’ve been with me this far so here's a bonus image of the Administration Area from the first release of Sueetie, circa 2009. It’s actually on an active client site (which we plan to upgrade to v2.0.) If you can read the side panel menu areas, they list the applications and include “Content Parts” and “Reports.” Content Parts had a single content part admin page and Reports and all Application areas displayed a coming soon page. So in other words, apart from the membership functions, pretty much everything else was a placemarker.
The Sueetie 2.0 side panel areas now include Membership, Site Settings, Content Management, Applications, Reports and Add-ons, each with a number a features. I love watching apps evolve, or as Chauncey Gardener (Peter Sellers) says in the movie Being There, “I like to watch the young plants grow.”