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I'm trying to get some ideas about how to develop a web login screen. I'm using DynamicData Webforms, so most of powerful frameworks offers a lot of options, but I'll be very grateful to read your suggestions.
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beyond the functionality, I'll want to read your view-point about the presentation model, i said, im using fx3.5 so improve more than 2 textbox for a single login or using the login aspx control, i have in mind use silverlight but is possible to "light my webapp" that is build in webforms and dynamicdata with out change all the presentation layer?
More Undestandable: Example of using Extjs as Presentation Framework for View Layer, but my project is webforms so this will be nice for MVC.net i said cause is more flexible in json concerns
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Please have a look at 65+ examples of login screen for some inspiration...
65+ Login form design
I would say that it depends on your application. If you are developing a public web site where you want to drive up the number of registered users and increase the click count on your publicly available pages, then a full-featured* login or a convenient login control on each page makes sense. If it is an intranet application where login is required to access anything, then a simple login page with minimal information is appropriate. You also need to decide if login is persistent across browser sessions or not and whether you want to give the user a choice, that will determine whether you need a "remember me" button or not. You also want to provide links to contact information and basic help (or a means to recover a lost id/password) if appropriate.
by full-featured I mean something similar to #Danny's suggestion that other parts of the application be easily accessible from the login page.
I do not like when website have only 1 field than you need to press a button, than it's a field for the password : In two steps.
Keep it simple and minimalism. I suggest you to have your login screen in all windows when the user is not login and not have him to go on a login page.
Have 2 textboxes : email (or username) and password.
A button to submit.
A link for "Forget your password".
A checkbox to "remember me".
The trick to a good login screen is to make it as interesting as the rest of your application, and give users useful links and other information there, as well as within your app (anything that doesn't require credentials, of course).
Take a look at the Facebook login page for a good example. In addition to the normal login infrastructure, you can search for users from there, sign up for the site, see their policies, etc.
the trick is make it as minimal as possible learn from google UI
This book is great book for UI design does not take your much of time to read Dont make me think
Keep it as simple and friendly as possible. It is important to make it the key focus if it on it's own screen so minimise the page to only show what you need, otherwise make it prominent in the header or sidebar.
For design and layout inspiration check out Pattern Tap or box.mepholio.
For the best user experience and form completion time, top aligned labels and a left-aligned submit button are good way to go if you have enough vertical space eg http://www.sanchothefat.com/projects/forms/login.
This resource can be useful too.
http://webdesignledger.com/inspiration/interface-design-loginsignup
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This is related to the language of a website like FB, amazon, booking, etc.
When you open one of this sites, or when you click on the search and goes to the site, it opens with a language by default.
There is custom dimension (Cd-session- diatect, or something like that) that is the langueage of the site, but is the last one you had in your session. Would anyone know what is the custom dimensions in Google analytics to filter by this "first visit"? I heard there is something to filter by the first time you visit the site but I cannot find it.
Thanks,
A custom dimension, by definition, does not exist by default. So you should create a custom dimension like the one you are already looking at but with hit scope instead of session.
In this way you can see which language of the site was active on the landing page, which is the first page of each session.
I need to add a custom element/mini-app/extension to CRM Dynamics sales such that it shows globally on all pages that the user navigates to and also can navigate the users urls when certain events happen.
What options exactly do I have to satisfy the above criteria?
The screenshot below shows a sample area that I need to build the app within as an example.
Id imagine there are many use cases where customizing a global element is worthwhile, especially since custom applications may need to be built.
I understand I can use the Resources to create a SPA such as angular which is running so long as the URL stays at the SPA url. But for our use case, we are looking to allow end users to be able to navigate the CRM using the custom controls. but when something happens in a another subsystem, we need end users who are logged into the CRM to instantly view data that is important to them.
Is this technically possible?
Unfortunately this is not feasible. There are some concepts to show learning path like that. It won’t satisfy your need.
I understand what you need, like a news feed or ad rotator for rolling content but context specific flyout area which is always pinned. There is no OOB option or customization/configuration available for achieving this. You can initiate this concept in Dynamics Ideas.
Like you said there can be a HTML web resource developed & embedded in a dashboard, this is very limited for your requirement.
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I think you are looking for Channel Integration Framework which will help you to configure third party CTI apps.
In CRM V9, they have introduced a new API call for 'Panel'. This panel loads to the side of the screen, and can display content regardless of where the user moves throughout the entire application. I've played around with it a bit for my own person reasons at work, but it looks to be exactly what you're looking for.
The call is 'Xrm.Panel.loadPanel(URL/WebResource)'
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/customer-engagement/developer/clientapi/reference/xrm-panel
However, the feature is currently in development, and should only be used in production at your own risk.
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So I actually saw a full ajax site somewhere (I forget where) and thought it would be something new and fun to try. I used an old site I had built and put it on a new server. With a little bit of jquery and ajax, I was able to make the entire site work on one page load.
My question is, what are some pros and (more likely) cons to this method?
Please note - the site works through a semi clever linking function. Everything works perfectly fine if the user doesn't have javascript enabled, the newly requested page loads like it would on any other website.
More detail -- Say the user loads the homepage of the site, then logs in. When they log in, the login box fades and reappears with user info. Other content on the page loads as necessary upon logging in. If they click a link, lets say "Articles", one column on the homepage slides up and slides back down with the articles. If they click home the articles slide up and the homepage content slides back down. Things like posting comments, viewing profiles, voting on things, etc. are all done through ajax.
Is this a bad method of web design? If so, why?
I am open to all answers/opinions.
IMO, this isn't "bad" or "good". That depends completely on whether or not the website fulfills the requirements. Oftentimes, developers working on AJAX-only sites tend to miss the whole negative SEO impact issue. However, if the site is developed to support progressive enhancement (or graceful degradation depending on your point of view), which it sounds like you have, then you're good. Only things to prepare for are times when the AJAX call can't complete as expected (make sure you're dealing with timeouts, broken links, etc) so the user doesn't get stuck staring at a loading icon. (The kind of stuff you'd have to deal with in any application, really.)
There are plenty of single-page websites out there using heavy JS and AJAX for the UI and they are great. Specifically, I know of portfolio sites for web designers and web app development teams that use this approach. Oftentimes, the app feels a bit like a flash app, but without the need for a special plugin.
"Is this a bad method of web design? If so, why?"
Certainly not. In fact, making web-pages behave more like desktop applications, whilst remaining functional to ALL users, is the holy-grail of web-design.
I say, as long as you consider ALL your users, i.e. mobile/text-only/low bandwidth/small screensizes then you will be fine. Too many developers just do it for their huge 19" screens and 10Mbps, that users to get left behind through almost no fault of their own.
It depends on the user
This relates closely to UX, IMHO, though of course it's on-topic for programming solutions.
All-AJAX is often called "managing state" 12 years after this Question was asked.
From my experience in:
Creating a platform for API plugins
Creating two of my own CMS web apps for different purposes
Managing many different WordPress.org sites for different purposes
Managing my own cloud servers for both PHP-AJAX and Node.js doing these calls
...it depends on what is most efficient for users.
Consider these scenarios:
Will users be clicking around this website all day long or for at least an hour adjusting many different options and <form> inputs?
Or will many users visit briefly to perform just a handful of quick tasks?
State-managed / all-AJAX is by far best for scenario 1, with Facebook and Gmail as prime examples.
Whole-page loads are more efficient for scenario 2, like blogs, especially with pages linked directly from search results. That might apply to webstores like Amazon, maybe, where users search Google to find one or two products, then leave.
Philosophically, I've heard that the difference is about the number of users and traffic, but I don't quite agree. It's more about how much clicking and <form> sending the primary target user will be doing.
We have a web app that is heavy on AJAX and it is very customizable so we need something that will click on every link in it to make sure that none of the forms/pages break. I know that there are lots of spiders/crawlers out there but we haven't been able to find one that's easy to implement and works with AJAX and allows you to have a session cookie.
Well, considering you asked this question over two years ago I doubt you'll have much need for the answer. But in case someone else comes across this question from a search engine, here's my suggestion:
Use Selenium http://seleniumhq.org/ or IEUnit https://code.google.com/p/ieunit/ to automate a browser itself. They both operate on top of a JavaScript engine so you can write a few lines of code to click on every anchor tag in your site.
I have a problem that I feel is best implimented in a stand alone windows application, but needs to pass data to a web page that is already open.
Is it possible to pass the data directly to the web page?
If so, what is the best way to go about it?
(Its my first question, so go easy on me!)
This is not going to be an easy problem to solve, but I think it's possible by hosting the web-page in a browser embedded in a .NET application. This Code-Project article might help
Also this article talks a bit about accessing the DOM through a C# application.
Have you got any requirements on language? And can you add a bit more detail about exactly what you're trying to achieve?
EDIT 1: Watij is a web-application testing framework for Java. You can use it to fill in text-boxes, click buttons etc. I think it might fit your needs and, if it doesn't, it's open-source, so you might be able to hack it to work. There is a whole family of Wati* products - Watin for .NET, Watir for Ruby, etc.
Getting access to external web pages are not permitted due to security credentials.
But you can open and write to a web page via winInet APIs.
Please go through the article
http://www.informit.com/library/content.aspx?b=Visual_C_PlusPlus&seqNum=107