[wp-design] Re: Dashboard and general links in the admin

[khaled Abou Alfa]

Oh yeah (I've got to stop doing this) we don't have to use these icons (I
was thinking of the same idea, just more rounded ones). To me it just works
better.

On 1/7/06, khaled Abou Alfa <brokenkode at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Right this one is to get a standard solution for how links are generally
> shown in the WP admin. Joshua asked this question, I didn't answer it
> because I was thinking about it for a while. I've got a couple of
> suggestions that I want to run by everyone first:
>
> There are three different types of links in the admin:
>
>
>    1. Internal Admin links - That is links that will take you to a
>    specific area within the admin panel, be it to edit a comment or whatever
>    you must, etc.
>    2. External Links - This is to links outside your site domain in
>    general. That includes in the dashboard but also in the plugin and theme
>    area and manage area etc.
>    3. Internal links - That is links to specific areas on the site
>    itself.
>
>
> I think these areas should be differentiated so that there is no confusion
> for the user. We all use the admin panel enough to know instinctively where
> one link will lead us but to be honest this area is very important to
> distinguish between the links.
>
> What does everyone think of having:
>
>    1. Underlined links without any icons for the admin links (edit,
>    etc).
>    2. The 'standard' external icon next to an external link
>    3. Permalink icon next to an internal link
>
>
> Check the attached image.
>
> Thoughts?
>
>
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