Brett Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 Brett, Looks great. I will buy the theme if you dont for some crazy reason win. =P Thanks! I am probably going to go ahead and move forward with this design, even if it does not get picked up here. I will let you know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MACscr Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 I would HIGHLY recommend writing a WordPress plugin that lets us place the order modules and such on our WordPress sites. This way we can pick whatever design we want easily. I'm not sure if I can even explain how badly I've been wanting something like this... were talking about a new design, not functionality. Lets stay on topic here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeremyhaber Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 Hey Everyone; Here is my submission for the competition: http://whmcsaddon.com/images/template_competition/whmcs_template_homepage.jpg We completely removed the portal idea from the homepage. This is very web 1.0. Instead we replaced it with a nice looking area that will help sell your products, notify customers of announcements, and let them view your recent tweets. http://whmcsaddon.com/images/template_competition/whmcs_template_homepage-loggedin.jpg This is the same open concept as before just what is shown when a user is logged in. http://whmcsaddon.com/images/template_competition/whmcs_template_account.jpg We really cleaned up the account page. Made it simple. This only shows important information. Whether or not the clients balance is paid up or needs to be paid your client will always know in a simple glimpse. We removed the unpaid invoice section as it really just did not belong on this page. As well we added in a recent message section. This is a place where users can read or reply to recent ticket activity or recent emails sent out to them. This is a hybrid between viewing tickets and viewing emails. http://whmcsaddon.com/images/template_competition/whmcs_template_product.jpg We made it real simple for your users. Everything is nice and organized for your users convenience. Everything is in its own section and self explanatory. We added a neat little quick buy feature for addons. Instead of showing the addons in the old fashion table style it is more practical to show your users all available addons for the product. This is to help you sell your addons. The idea behind this is that your users will be completely aware of what addons are available for them and with a single click can add or remove any addon. And finally to top everything off, we spent a lot of time organizing the WHMCS menus: http://screencast.com/t/RUrTOdax http://screencast.com/t/uzr0jJPU http://screencast.com/t/jgxy4NvRfEF After so many years of using WHMCS the one thing that always got to me personally was trying to get to the product page easily. The "Manage" menu allows your users to easily get to any of their products or services with you in a glimpse. This removes the need to click "My Products and Services" and then locate your product. Hope you enjoy it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grizzlyware Josh Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 were talking about a new design, not functionality. Lets stay on topic here. Actually, Matt did say this in the initial post: Your design may make use of functionality not yet present in WHMCS Also, nice clean design Jeremy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MACscr Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 Actually, Matt did say this in the initial post: Also, nice clean design Jeremy! Correct, but integrating whmcs into another site wouldnt be what i would call a template design. Also, to counter the compliment on Jeremy's design. I think its actually quite bad and dated looking. Especially the colors and gradients. Im personally pulling for Bretts clean and modern looking design. Plus im betting his source is clean. =) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grizzlyware Josh Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 Correct, but integrating whmcs into another site wouldnt be what i would call a template design. Also, to counter the compliment on Jeremy's design. I think its actually quite bad and dated looking. Especially the colors and gradients. Im personally pulling for Bretts clean and modern looking design. Plus im betting his source is clean. =) Agreed, I was just reiterating the fact for the truly 'last minute' designers. I do like Bretts, I wasn't getting into a competition with you on that, don't get so defensive.. People should be put on a wall of shame for poor code... sorry but it is the bane of our lives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeremyhaber Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 Im personally pulling for Bretts clean and modern looking design. Plus im betting his source is clean. =) My source would be clean as well and meet all the coding standards. Bretts source would just have a lot less HTML elements. Simply because of the way his is designed over mine. Source really is not what people should be voting on though. Matt will probably have some quality control on it anyways. It is really about the design concepts in general. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Driss Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 Some of brett's suggesting are good and can be implemented on any existing theme... tabs for example are something that is great to have in the domain management page.. I didn't design that page but if I did I would've done the same... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InterServed Posted September 4, 2011 Share Posted September 4, 2011 Brett all the way so far from my view ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vt6 Posted September 4, 2011 Share Posted September 4, 2011 Brett all the way so far from my view ! +1 10 characters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cape Dave Posted September 4, 2011 Share Posted September 4, 2011 I like Driss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoilodiaz Posted September 4, 2011 Share Posted September 4, 2011 Hi, wow, i really like your design MGarden really nice work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLHC Posted September 4, 2011 Share Posted September 4, 2011 Hello everyone!We have created layout for the competition with Paul from redsunflowerstudio.com . Our main goal was to make homepage and clientarea MUCH more intuitive. We have grouped Support, Order etc to the boxes so the users may find what they are interested faster. Many of the features on the default WHMCS template are not useful. The design created by Paul is also modern and clean so WHMCS look more professional. The new feature we have created are the "notices" on the client area. User will see the most important messages like - "your domain will expire in xx days" or your account has been set up etc. Home Page: http://redsunflowerstudio.com/whmcs1/home.jpg Client Area: http://redsunflowerstudio.com/whmcs1/client_area.jpg Invoices List: http://redsunflowerstudio.com/whmcs1/invoices.jpg We will also post the second design later today. Looks good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InterServed Posted September 4, 2011 Share Posted September 4, 2011 Looks good. I second that. Very very promising. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLHC Posted September 4, 2011 Share Posted September 4, 2011 Hello againAs promised, this is the second layout. The main improvement here is the "Quick Order" feature, that allows you to place comparison boxes (and other) of your services on your homepage of WHMCS. Its slightly different than the first one. Home Page: http://redsunflowerstudio.com/whmcs2/home.jpg Client Area: http://redsunflowerstudio.com/whmcs2/client_area.jpg Invoices List: http://redsunflowerstudio.com/whmcs1/invoices.jpg Once again, nicely done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Revolution Posted September 4, 2011 Share Posted September 4, 2011 Hello everyone!We have created layout for the competition with Paul from redsunflowerstudio.com . Our main goal was to make homepage and clientarea MUCH more intuitive. We have grouped Support, Order etc to the boxes so the users may find what they are interested faster. Many of the features on the default WHMCS template are not useful. The design created by Paul is also modern and clean so WHMCS look more professional. The new feature we have created are the "notices" on the client area. User will see the most important messages like - "your domain will expire in xx days" or your account has been set up etc. Home Page: http://redsunflowerstudio.com/whmcs1/home.jpg Client Area: http://redsunflowerstudio.com/whmcs1/client_area.jpg Invoices List: http://redsunflowerstudio.com/whmcs1/invoices.jpg We will also post the second design later today. MGarden, you have my vote! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Driss Posted September 4, 2011 Share Posted September 4, 2011 After 2 requests here the domain and product management pages Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhavicp Posted September 4, 2011 Share Posted September 4, 2011 Wow there are some great designs here!! Can't wait until voting begins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Driss Posted September 4, 2011 Share Posted September 4, 2011 Wow there are some great designs here!! Can't wait until voting begins I agree.. this is beginning to be interresting (btw good job MGarden) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InterServed Posted September 4, 2011 Share Posted September 4, 2011 Seems that we have a winner , MGarden from my point . You got my vote. If by any chance he wont be the winner I'd sure be interested to buy it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Driss Posted September 4, 2011 Share Posted September 4, 2011 A few days ago... I said that my first idea was to list a few products on the homepage as Featured.. but I wasn't sure if it was possible to do it since there is many product types... and even custom product types... I know as a webdeveloper that when designing applications like WHMCS where everything is dynamic and can evolve... you need to stay as "generic" as possible so everything can fit without breaking anything else... I'm still not sure but here is a basic version of the featured block in the homepage... it got the product type, name, 3 properties and the price Would be great of Matt can give us his input about this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cape Dave Posted September 5, 2011 Share Posted September 5, 2011 A few days ago... I said that my first idea was to list a few products on the homepage as Featured.. but I wasn't sure if it was possible to do it since there is many product types... and even custom product types...I know as a webdeveloper that when designing applications like WHMCS where everything is dynamic and can evolve... you need to stay as "generic" as possible so everything can fit without breaking anything else... I'm still not sure but here is a basic version of the featured block in the homepage... it got the product type, name, 3 properties and the price Would be great of Matt can give us his input about this. I like this idea ALOT! I like the simplicity of this design best. Wow! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Posted September 5, 2011 Share Posted September 5, 2011 Wow, Driss and MGarden I hope both of you are selected as winners and both of your designs are incorporated into future releases of WHMCS. Beautiful work by both of you. Absolutely beautiful. -Roger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WHMCS CEO Matt Posted September 5, 2011 Author WHMCS CEO Share Posted September 5, 2011 Thanks for all the entries everyone. The competition is now closed for entries. Will post news on what's happening next shortly. Matt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msaunders Posted September 5, 2011 Share Posted September 5, 2011 Hello againAs promised, this is the second layout. The main improvement here is the "Quick Order" feature, that allows you to place comparison boxes (and other) of your services on your homepage of WHMCS. Its slightly different than the first one. Home Page: http://redsunflowerstudio.com/whmcs2/home.jpg Client Area: http://redsunflowerstudio.com/whmcs2/client_area.jpg Invoices List: http://redsunflowerstudio.com/whmcs1/invoices.jpg I like this also , very nice . It would be really great on the domain list screen if each domain had had quick access icons to each specific function i.e renew / edit dns / registrar lock / edit nameservers etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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