Korny's Simple Dashboard

This is a very simple html dashboard, for managing my local bookmarks. It's all html/css/javascript, so can be hosted very easily - in fact you can host it trivially just by copying the whole "public" directory to DropBox.

Note this will only work reliably on a modern browser - it might be OK on ie7, but really it's been tested on Chrome, Safari and Firefox, and nowhere else.

See a working sample dashboard at: http://kornysietsma.github.com/dashboard/

Goals:

• simple - to deploy, to edit, to understand
• fast - I could use something like the Google Desktop if I wanted lots of bells and whistles; I just want a clean set of my regularly used bookmarks
• clear - Every browser has it's own bookmarks, but they are a tiny bar at the top of the page. I want a nice visible set of pages so it's easy on the eyes, and the brain

Hosting / Running

• Copy everything in the "public" directory to a web host, or even just a local file system.
• Open "public/dashboard.html" in a web browser.
• Enjoy!

Editing tags

All tag data is in the file public/javascript/dashboard_data.js. There is no server. To edit the tags, edit the data file, and reload the browser.

One day there might be a server to host this data via a JSON api, and a UI to edit it, but so far editing json by hand has been good enough for me, and a lot less work!

New There are now special attributes for mobile versions (currently based on browser width - resize down to 600px and you'll see the mobile version):

• d_only = true - this tag is desktop only
• m_only = true - this tag is mobile only
• m_url - special value of url for mobile (i.e. m.delicious.com)
• m_title - special value of title for mobile (i.e. short names for small screens)

A section with no visible tags won't show up. (There is no other way to disable a section - sorry, if you are keen, fork it yourself!)

Building the css

There is almost no "build" step in this site - but if you want to change any css, you'll need to buld the css from the base .scss files:

• install ruby - any version should do
• install Sass - see the Sass site for more, or if you have ruby and rubygems set up, "gem install haml" should do it.
• edit the scss files in views/scss
• run "./precompile.sh" to build the public/stylesheets/dashboard.css file
• or run "./watch_all.sh" which will run a background task that automatically rebuilds the css from the scss source whenever a file changes.

The dashboard.css file is checked in as a convenience - you shouldn't ever edit it directly!

Other notes

This has grown over the years from a range of original html/css files on my local machine. The original concept came from Ryan Allan's dashboard: https://github.com/ryan-allen/dashboard

see separate TODO.md file for future plans.

Much of this was bootstrapped from code in my Loosely Coupled Web App Skeleton code.