Dashboards (What They Should Be)

A dashboard should be a single screen that communicates all the information to do a job. It should tell you at a glance when/what action is required. It should easily open doors to more information. It should create information from data.

#1 problem with dashboards is "poor visual design".

#1 need is more simplicity than sizzle.

Relative Urls for Locals

http://example.com is your domain. Fully qualifying all links on the page causes a round trip to the server. Using relative links ~/look.htm or ~/products.htm saves round trips.

- http://example.com/look.htm
- http://example.com/products.htm