Tabs Come to the Accessible Administrator Template

My project creating an Accessible Administrator Template is coming along. I've restructured part of it. The different submenus lacked clarity so I switched to a tabbed menu and moved them above the toolbar icons. This makes it more obvious what section you are in. As you look at the graphic you will also note that I have pulled out most of the styling, going back to almost a wireframe. Once I get the functionality in place, I will look at adding more styling back in as well as updating the icons/images as appropriate.

The weblinks component layout files have been redone and I've started user testing. I expect that more changes will need to be made when I get the results.

The toolbar icons currently use a table layout. The html code for that is buried within the Joomla library and I need to work up a patch for that.

The good news is that the MVC work on the backend has been picked up by a number of volunteers so I should be able to devote more of my time on the various layout files.

There have been some good discussions on the developer-cms google group on usability changes for the backend. I expect that I will be implementing some of those, but I haven't done so yet.