Designing admin panels

The administrative panel of the site is a section hidden from visitors, which is necessary to manage the resource. Here the administrator (s) work with both the site structure and the content. The administrative panel, or admin panel, allows you to create, modify and delete pages and sections, text, media content – within the framework provided by the content management system (CMS) used. In addition to the fact that the admin panel should be convenient and fast, another requirement for it is the ability to work with the panel of a person without programming skills and non-interference in the software part of the site.

The administrative panel of the site is a section hidden from visitors, which is necessary to manage the resource. Here the administrator (s) work with both the site structure and the content. The administrative panel, or admin panel, allows you to create, modify and delete pages and sections, text, media content – within the framework provided by the content management system (CMS) used. In addition to the fact that the admin panel should be convenient and fast, another requirement for it is the ability to work with the panel of a person without programming skills and non-interference in the software part of the site.

That is why, when designing a new site, the programmers of AVADA MEDIA also pay great attention to the design of the administrative panel. Design starts with creating a use case diagram. This is a very important document that allows you to understand and see exactly how the administrator interacts with the panel. And for this, of course, you need to know a number of other things:

• site update frequency;
• intended CMS;
• resource complexity (how many pages it will contain);
• what kind of content will be placed there;

• what rights should be granted to the administrator – changing the structure or only content;
• how the resource is supposed to be promoted.

We’ll take all this into account when creating a use case diagram. The next step is drawing up a prototype of the admin panel in Moqups. This will allow us to create a layout taking into account the UX – user experience, which we revise and optimize for specific tasks. The main principle is to minimize actions in the administration panel in order to speed up work and reduce the number of errors.

In most cases, content management systems already have a built-in admin panel, but just as often it simply does not suit your tasks, and you have to develop a new one. It is better to spend time and money once creating a good panel than constantly wasting these resources on working with an inconvenient one. And design is a prerequisite for development. For example, not all admin panels allow you to write alternative text and add meta tags to photos – we take this point into account when designing. It is imperative that you need a convenient interface for an SEO specialist so that he can add the correct descriptions of resource pages – those that are well indexed in search engines.

Easy and hassle-free, the administrator should:

• edit texts and write links in a convenient editor;
• change the site menu, add and remove items;
• add media content and add meta tags;
• change the site template as a whole, if necessary.

All this cannot be done without a convenient admin panel. The developers of AVADA MEDIA are ready to take on the most complex projects and implement them gracefully and on time.