[RELEASE] - Nicer Control Panel for 1.1.5

I remembered a few posts a little while back where people were complaining about the (relatively) plain look of the vB control panel, especially when compared to the UBB control panel.

I've always had a slightly altered control panel for my vB, so as I was applying my modifications to the 1.1.5 version today, I thought I'd share it with everyone else.

The functionality is identical, although some hyperlinked controls have been replaced with forms (in particular, long lists such as the list of templates have been replaced with multiline <select> elements)... In use, this version produces html pages of about the same size as the original version, sometimes smaller, and is very quick and intuitive to use.

Anyway, here's a few little screenshots, and a link for you to download the modifications if you like them.











<download link removed pending...>

To use this, simply upload the files in the zip archive into your forums/admin folder, overwriting the existing files. You will want to backup your original files first... just in case.

If Jelsoft want to include this modified version with future pre-2.0 releases, just go ahead and include it.

Cheers all. Enjoy

[Edited by Kier on 01-02-2001 at 06:14 PM]

I've looked really hard at my code, with the goal of rewriting my code as an installable hack for the original files, but unfortunately there's just so much code that writing an install script would be almost as much work as creating the thing in the first place.

The Jelsoft guys have always had the URL where I have currently got this thing hidden, so as soon as they have a working members'-uploads area, or something like that, it could become available.

I've been running this thing on my board for quite some time now, so i think that testing is all but done.

Someone will have toped it with a better version