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  • Anders Burla 2560 posts 8256 karma points
    Jun 30, 2010 @ 13:49
    Anders Burla
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    Screenshot of your content tree with famfamfam icons

    Hi all,

    I would like to see what other uses as therir document icons when using famfamfam icons to make the user expirence much more nice :)

    If you would like to share some it would be great to see what YOU do. #h5yr all!!

  • Rik Helsen 670 posts 873 karma points
    Jun 30, 2010 @ 14:34
    Rik Helsen
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    Never used them to be honest, it's one of the lesser important aspects of a website i think. Good structural concept is much more important than icons ;)

  • Anders Burla 2560 posts 8256 karma points
    Jun 30, 2010 @ 14:39
    Anders Burla
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    I think both a good structure and nice looking icons is for the better of the client. But just my opinion :)

  • Rik Helsen 670 posts 873 karma points
    Jun 30, 2010 @ 14:44
    Rik Helsen
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    Example? :)

  • Warren Buckley 2106 posts 4836 karma points MVP 7x admin c-trib
    Jun 30, 2010 @ 14:46
    Warren Buckley
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    I agree with you Anders, that to have icons that visually represent the document type, makes it easier for the client to quickly identify what type a certain node is.
    If all nodes have the same default icon then it can be hard for a client to understand what a node is just by looking at the tree.

    For example I use FamFamFam icons in the popular starter site CWS I created for Umbraco

  • dandrayne 1138 posts 2262 karma points
    Jun 30, 2010 @ 14:51
    dandrayne
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    It's personal taste, but I've seen famfamfam too many times now and prefer fugue icons.

  • Anders Burla 2560 posts 8256 karma points
    Jun 30, 2010 @ 15:26
    Anders Burla
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    This is one of my own sites...

  • Hendy Racher 863 posts 3849 karma points MVP 2x admin c-trib
    Jun 30, 2010 @ 16:51
    Hendy Racher
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    Wow pictures in a post :) and what a great way of seeing how sites are structured.

    I have a habit of splitting content trees into two. A Home node for the site and it's pages, and a Back Office node for data and meta-data (categorisation) type nodes:

  • Anders Burla 2560 posts 8256 karma points
    Jun 30, 2010 @ 16:57
    Anders Burla
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    Nice to see Hendy.

    Could post your Home node childs as well to see how that is structured?

    And what is the pros/cons of splitting in a content and "back office" and not having alle the generic stuff in the website?

    If you link to a thing in the back office the user would get a wierd url like sitename/back-ofice/accounts/companies/test-company - how is that for SEO?

  • Rik Helsen 670 posts 873 karma points
    Jun 30, 2010 @ 16:59
    Rik Helsen
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    I doubt a backoffice is accessible for anonymous users, so seo wouldn't apply.

    generally a backoffice contains data that may be used in other places, but is not shown as is

  • bob baty-barr 1180 posts 1294 karma points MVP
    Jun 30, 2010 @ 19:11
    bob baty-barr
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    here is one of my backoffices with the fam fam icons

  • Anders Rähr 22 posts 46 karma points
    Jun 30, 2010 @ 19:50
    Anders Rähr
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    The produkt pages of http://dk.krenkerupbryggeri.dk/produkterne/1367-premium looks like this in the backend. :-)


  • Anders Burla 2560 posts 8256 karma points
    Jun 30, 2010 @ 19:58
    Anders Burla
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    @anders is that famfam icons?

  • Anders Rähr 22 posts 46 karma points
    Jun 30, 2010 @ 20:00
    Anders Rähr
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    think i manually added the beer icon, rest is famfamfam and famfamfam flags (http://www.famfamfam.com/archive/flag-icons-released/) :-)

  • Thomas Kjær Nielsen 58 posts 88 karma points
    Jun 30, 2010 @ 21:08
    Thomas Kjær Nielsen
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    I think that the icons choosen in the backend is very important to keep a good user experience.

    Combined with the right access rights, you can create a very good working enviroment for the users.

    We get a lot of good feedback because of well chosen icons, and also we do a bit of work where we merge two or more icons, etc. for folder structure.

    Like the "house"-icon to define a website root a lot. The "house-on-page"-icon is used to describe sub-sites.

    This example is in danish though

    .

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