There is a another force.com developer meeting for Seattle coming up this Thursday. If you are in the Seattle area and want to meetup or learn more about developing on the force.com platform please stop by.
Just a friendly reminder that this Thursday, April 1st at 4:00pm will be the our monthly meeting.
The meetings as always will be held in the West Monroe Partners office located at:
1215 4th Ave, Suite 1010
Seattle, WA 98161
This session will be an open forum so bring any questions, problems, and/or issues you have so we can discuss with the group.
If you have something cool you’d like to show off or present let me know and we can arrange for you to speak at one of the upcoming sessions.
To be honest I sort of feel bad about writing this post. I have already reviewed, ranted about, and tweaked the new salesforce.com UI, but here comes my third consecutive post related to this. I promise my next post will be about something super cool and radtaculous you can do with salesforce!
We hoped to enable the new UI in the next few weeks and like any good admin or developer I checked all of our custom Visualforce pages to make sure everything still looked and worked correctly. Everything started out so smooth. Everything was looking good. My basic, and for the most part, static Visualforce pages seem to work fine.
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In my last post (you can read it here) I was ranting like an angry hippopotamus about the new salesforce.com UI released with Spring 10 and what I think it should look like. This follow up post will show you how to make the changes I proposed in that post a reality.
Before we work the magic and make the new UI even better I want to expand on some of my thoughts regarding the new UI. Some may say it is “change” and change is hard, you just need to get used to it. Not true. Change should never be hard. Change should be something better. It should be a measurable improvement over the previous version. A perfect example of this was the recent redesign of cnn.com. This was a massive improvement and nearly everyone everyone applauded the changes. Change was easy because it made our user experience better. I don’t hate the new salesforce UI. I don’t even not like it. There is just something about it that doesn’t feel right. I can’t place my finger on it but I think the changes I’ve made below will make a huge improvement. Blah blah blah, enough pointless blabbering, let’s get to the good stuff.
Since the original post I have had some time to get comfortable with the new UI and several of the changes I initially proposed probably aren’t needed. My first stab at changing the UI was also a bit bold, too bold. I took my changes of the UI to the extreme to really emphasize the direction I think the new UI needs to move. In reality the changes needed are much softer. What it came down to in the end was eliminating the massive amount of white space in the record detail section and bringing back the old style page block section separators. So how do we do this? Greasemonkey to the rescue!!!!
The first ingredient of awesomesauce is to install the Greasemonkey plugin for the Firefox browser. You can download that here. Greasemonkey allows you customize websites with fancy pants JavaScript.
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UPDATE: See the follow up post here: Improve the New Salesforce UI with Greasemonkey
The new salesforce.com UI has been rolled out to all instances as of March 6th and the feedback is starting to roll in. Based on the feedback I have heard, direct and indirect, is that there appears to be four groups of people. A few people that love it, a few people that like it, a lot of people that are undecided, and a lot of people that don’t like it. This is probably not the distribution of feedback salesforce was hoping for.
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Heads up that if you are a Force.com/Salesforce developer or want to learn more about force.com development in the Seattle area there is a meeting this Thursday, the 4th.
The meetings as always will be held in the West Monroe Partners office located at:
1215 4th Ave, Suite 1010
Seattle, WA 98161
When: Thursday, March 4th, 2010
Start Time: 4:00 PM
This session will be an open forum so bring any questions, problems, and/or issues you have so we can discuss with the group. If we finish early, we can maybe grab a beer at one of the local bars downtown.
If you are interested even a little please stop by.
This story starts some time ago. I have been complaining about the system/debug log in salesforce.com ever since they released what I would consider version 1.1. You can see my post here, Please fix the Debug Log!, pleading for salesforce to fix the debug log. This was back in July of 2008! From what I can tell there has only been two noticeable changes with this debug log. I will refer to them as version 1.1 which was implemented around the time of the message board post above and the the most recent Spring ’10 incarnation which I will refer to as version 2.0.
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