The context of network admin vs site admin is non-obvious

[simonwheatley]

(I can't see anything on ​http://make.wordpress.org/ui so I'm putting in this ticket.)

While I like the idea of switching between Site Admin and Network Admin, the current implementation provides very few visual clues as to which you are in at the moment (see attached screengrab). Previously you could glance at the menu and see where you were in the stack, top equaled Network and bottom equaled site. I think we need it to be obvious at a glance where you are.

Some suggestions to make things more obvious:

• Prepend "Network" to all titles as per "Network Dashboard", e.g. "Network Users"
• Differentiate the title icons somehow (maybe a badge?)
• Distinctive colour/tonal change in one or more places, perhaps the top bar (with the (W) WordPress logomark and site title?
• Errr... any other suggestions?

[simonwheatley]

Limited clues on context (screengrab)

[nacin]

I wonder if "Network Dashboard" would be enough. Perhaps using the super admin key icon instead of home, too.

The only differences are the title in the admin header, and "Site Admin" versus "Network Admin" near the logout link.

[ryan]

(In [16474]) Titles for network admin and global dashboard. see #15477

[JohnONolan]

@simonwheatley - for future reference, if you can't see anything on the UI group blog then don't hesitate to comment on it - the only way it'll grow is if people use it.

[JohnONolan]

Closing as fixed for 3.1 - new ticket for any further improvement requests pls.

[simonwheatley]

Replying to JohnONolan:

@simonwheatley - for future reference, if you can't see anything on the UI group blog then don't hesitate to comment on it - the only way it'll grow is if people use it.

With this in mind, I've posted some thoughts <a href="​http://make.wordpress.org/ui/2010/11/23/summary-for-november-23rd-2010-ui-chat/#comment-677">over there</a>.