Just wanted to give people a chance to look at my new design for a 2nd Alternative Dashboard. This new versions is in it’s very early stages of development and may or may not be working when you check it (especially if I’m working on it at the time) so be patient! I’m working on it this weekend, adding in the next few rows of data. If you have some ideas for me, drop me a note here.
I like the ajax switching of metric and imperial, there should be 3 official standards though, a UK one
that uses MPH, Co, MM, and MB i aint just referring to your script i mean in general.
I dont know why many of us in the UK use it like that, (or is it just me) no, im sure there’s others :?
Having said that, i remember years ago, snow depth was always in inches, but somehow ive changed to
mm, perhaps its because its rare to see over an inch over here lol
Its a good clean concept, i do like it, what do you plan to add to it or are you playing it by ear?
Row 1 - All the most current “needed” information about whats happening!
Row 2 - Temperature data, Wind Data, Barometer Data and Probably Humidity
Row 3 - Rain/Snow Data including last 7 days (not sure what to do for those with no snow need)
Row 4 - Solar, UV, Clouds, sun and moon data
Row 5 - Almanac data
My thoughts are to develop some kind of lightning alert rather then posting all the strikes (mulling that around yet)
More because it looks different rather than how I would do it… having everyone’s site having the same cookie cutter template look is “boring”. Like to see people take the templates and then make them their own by changing what and how they look. Some do, most don’t.
The problem is, most people don’t know how to make changes that work. That’s why I like to try to give people options in my scripts so they can make things different to fit their sites needs. Also hope to document more in the code so people can make changes easier.
I’m thinking they will as I’ve added it to my system now so it would be hard to pull it out to do more work on the old version. Here is the list of where everything I’ve done is at and is going:
Alternative Dashboard was finished at version 4.00 with some minor bug fixes - 4.23 was last version
Alternative Dashboard with Merrkats Java Script will be Version 5.00 currently in beta and will be the last
Alternative Dashboard 2 is in development and uses Merrkats Java Script
Since I’ve been spending a lot of time at my computer lately, I’ve been playing around some more with my latest idea for a new alternative dashboard. If anyone wants to make suggestions or comments, it can be viewed at:
Right now line 1 and the first column of line 2 are pretty much done, the rest is going to be a real jumble of random crap for now as I re-fill the dashboard. No idea when or if this one will get released for now though.