Re-design and simplify admin area. Let's discuss

Andrei,
One thing I think that's must of any user interface is that user should know his current position and any operation performed on any page, should redirect him to proper target page.

e.g. Right now, in case of multi-store website, when I am changing settings that belong to any particular tab (e.g. Localization Settings) and I change the store, the general perception is that I would want to change the Localization settings of another store, but current interfaces takes us Store Information tab.

This thing must be rectified for all the pages where javascript tabs are being used. A possible way could be to use history api or hash values in the url to keep track of user visited tabs.

Hi Andrei,

Is it possible re-design Admin area using Angular Js?

But I can say that most probably we'll go with AdminLTE. Looks like it's the only actively developed theme today (although there were no commits for the last two months as well). So still thinking about it

Do not forget to consider making the admin area separated from main site URL, it will increase the security a lot and we could use other methods to prevent admin attacks, ip restriction, firewalls, local admin only and etc.

Ivan.