Last week, someone found Wordpress Shuttle | Administration Redesign Project. It looks very cool in my opinion. At least, it gives me smell like enterprise application. Anyway, flexibility might be decreased. We have to talk about each part one by one.

• Navigation menu - Actually, I don’t like horizontal menu at the top of the page because lacking of scalability. You can’t have too many menu items. I know that it is bad design to have lots of menu items. However, it is necessary in some cases.
• Left pane - I like this idea to have instruction guides based on current menu and context. Anyway, it might take large worthy screen area on the left hand side. If this pane is resizable or collapsible, I will love it alot.
• Content pane - This pane seems to be very flexible. In fact, it depends on the developer to paint this area.

Drupal 4.7 will never let us develop something comparable to above design because it is too flexible in implementation. Actually, I should call it "hard-code". In Drupal, we always concern about flexibility in term of extensibility. Everything are generated from well-formed data structure to make theming easier. Drupal still needs Form API version 2.0.

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