It's been about a year since we released the free Access theme for activeCollab, and since then we've learnt a lot about activeCollab and how we believe its user experience could be further improved.
With that knowledge and our passion to improve user experience, we have created the first premium theme for activeCollab called Modern. Some of its features include:
- Liquid Layout Design - Make the most of your screen real estate with scaling widths
- Classic Icon Bars for Recent Activities - Identify easily "at-a-glance" your project's activities
- Highlighted Action Fields - Input fields for comments, search, attachments, tasks etc. are highlighted to prompt action
- Untouched Default Logo - Your logo will now always survive theme upgrades
- It's Icon-tastic - Option lists and Sidebar functions are made clearer with those helpful little graphics
- Customizable Background* - Modern is designed to adapt your business or website's branding through a background image. *Results vary depending on your background, and typically darker images work better. (We'll make some 'how to' guides and examples on this, plus we’re planning to expand this to customising the colours for links etc.)
The Modern theme is currently in a beta testing process (thank you beta testers!) and should be available for purchase soon!
Until then, stay tuned and let me know if you have any questions on it - oh, and have a look at the attached images for a sneak peek of how it’s shaping up :)
In my opinion, ACCESS was the first premium theme quality wise! You guys just didn't charge premium prices for it :) The new theme is looking great, I know a lot of people will love this theme, I love the slick clean feel of it -- and the professional finishing touches. It's a HUGE improvement from the default theme... I'm hoping to use it with some of the people we're referring to AC.
Personally I prefer the colors of Access theme and I don't really like the idea of transparent "windows" thing...
About the tabs I still prefer the Access theme a lot because I also don't really like the "chrome" like tabs...
But... thats just me :) Generally speaking the theme rocks! its just that I got used to the Access theme a lot... does that theme provide an iphone theme too?
It would be nice to have a live - private - demo so we could check it out more :) Please tell me if we can have a live demo so we could send a request on any mail you will provide :)
@Gert - Sorry for not getting back to you on your questions sooner. Answers below:
1. Modern 1.0 has just come out of beta and is now available for purchase from our new ActiveCollab Themes area on our site. (This will now be the 'hub' for all Premium Themes for AC by us)
2. Pricing - There are 2 types of licenses available
a) Single "Individual Theme" License - Cost per theme basis (Modern currently priced at AUD $69.00)
Includes lifetime support & 1.x upgrades
b) AC Theme Club Membership - AUD $99.00
Includes lifetime support and upgrades on ALL of our current and future themes for activeCollab.
Some updates on the Modern theme:
- Introduction of a "custom.css" style sheet means your customisations will better survive theme upgrades
- Introduction of a "print.css" style sheet means we can better control how things are printed (much work to come on this however)
- Many, many, smaller updates to get it functioning better with activeCollab 2.3+.
Our ActiveCollab Themes area is functional but under development. Hopefully in the coming week I'll have better screen shots/demo's etc. available over there. :)
btw- Congrats to anyone who won a Creative World prize in the activeCollab Giveaway :)
A couple of questions:
1. What is the status update field in the ticket screenshot? Is that your own custom mod or does it come with the theme and will it survive an Ac update?
The 'status update' field you can see on the Ticket Details screen shot is from the Planning Module by appsMagnet guys :) Modern has been styled to integrate with many 3rd party modules.
Re: "live demo" - at the moment we don't have any real 'demo' available sorry, but I'm working on getting better screen shots that display the theme's enhancements. I'm also planning to have some actual 'demo pages' for testing parts of the theme in browsers etc. (hopefully not too far away)
It's been about a year since we released the free Access theme for activeCollab, and since then we've learnt a lot about activeCollab and how we believe its user experience could be further improved.
With that knowledge and our passion to improve user experience, we have created the first premium theme for activeCollab called Modern. Some of its features include:
- Liquid Layout Design - Make the most of your screen real estate with scaling widths
- Classic Icon Bars for Recent Activities - Identify easily "at-a-glance" your project's activities
- Highlighted Action Fields - Input fields for comments, search, attachments, tasks etc. are highlighted to prompt action
- Untouched Default Logo - Your logo will now always survive theme upgrades
- It's Icon-tastic - Option lists and Sidebar functions are made clearer with those helpful little graphics
- Customizable Background* - Modern is designed to adapt your business or website's branding through a background image. *Results vary depending on your background, and typically darker images work better. (We'll make some 'how to' guides and examples on this, plus we’re planning to expand this to customising the colours for links etc.)
The Modern theme is currently in a beta testing process (thank you beta testers!) and should be available for purchase soon!
Until then, stay tuned and let me know if you have any questions on it - oh, and have a look at the attached images for a sneak peek of how it’s shaping up :)
Cheers, Leon.