Submit: Changue overall appearence

[Isaac Uribe]

Hello everybody, first of all, I'd like to wish you a
great year 2004, and also thank you for the great work
you've done with this software.

I live in the beatiful city of Querétaro, México; and
I attend to the Technological Instute trying to get a
degree on Computer Sciences!!

I work overnight/holydays shifts on a Manufacturing
Plant as a Technical Support Staff, I installed a
RedHat/Fedora server with the common stuff:
Apache/PHP/Perl/MySQL for an
Intranet/Knowledge-Database based on MOS
(http://www.mamboserver.com/) and we have been using
Nagios for monitoring for about 4 months.

Nagios worked out-of-the-box for me, the only complain
I had was the look & feel of his web interface, I
think it was too spartan... and the left frame was
taking space I needed for the
"user-suplied-coords-status-map-view" So I started
tweeking to make it look as close to the website as
possible.

I made a lot of changues on the HTML layout of the
CGI's, but I'm getting to the point where an update to
next version will be a really time-consuming work.
So I thought, that I might contribute a little bit,
I've read about the plans to move everything to a
PHP-based interface, which I know will make it easier,
maybe even to implement a template-based system. I'm
far from a Web-Designer, but right now, I'd just like
to move the "table height=100% widht=80% font.. <b>"
out of the CGI's and into the stylesheets.

So, I just started again (on a test server of course)
with just the main html page (index.html), and the
CCS/JS stuff, which is what I'd like you to have a
look on:

Compared aginst nagios-cvs.tar:
 configure diff of configure
 configure.in diff of configure.in
 html_index.html.in diff of html/index.html.in
 html_Makefile.in diff of html/Makefile.in

Not included in nagios-cvs.tar:
 html_images_menu -> html/images/menu
 html_stylesheets_menu -> html/stylesheets/menu
 html_stylesheets_style.css ->
html/stylesheets/style.css

Deleted from nagios-cvs.tar:
 html/side.html.in
 html/main.html.in

All of these files basically just replace the framed
start page with a top included menu one, menu wich was
taken from MOS interface. The thing I like here is
that you can define the menu items on the separate
file html/stylesheets/menu/items.js, so when I
included it on the CGI's, it wasn't necessary to
compile them when modifying the menu items.

And one last thing: Why is it that you have different
CSS names for the same thing?, I mean, like
checksENABLED = eventhandlersENABLED = statusOK =
hostUP , etc. = green, maybe I'm missing something,
but I might think that having just an OK-Enabled-UP =
green, would be enough, making it easier to do an
overall changue, and still having the chance to do a
changue on just one particular stylesheet.

Regards,

Isaac Uribe

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