Lusion Technologies is currently a baby in terms of hosting company size (we only run two servers, with a little over 300 websites) even though we have been around for almost five years. Over the last few months we’ve been pushing Lusion, with some new advertising and this blog, but now we’re starting work on our largest project (especially since we’re only a two man team at the moment) — a control panel designed and built specifically for our clients.
In my spare time I’ve been working on the back end for a custom control panel from scratch, and we’re busy linking together design elements for a couple of control panels, designed to suit our clients much better than our current licensed control panel software (CPanel). While we will still offer CPanel hosting for a long time coming, we’re trying out some new stuff with this control panel which should make everyones lives easier.
I’ll write about the design guidelines for the control panel soon, but as for the front end design, we are designing it to be as interactive and easy as possible. For the new style pages, I’m using the mootools (http://www.mootools.net) JavaScript library, which allows us to code some amazing things very quickly (I will write some decent mootools examples at a later stage)
You can see a demo of a possible menu system I linked up this morning at http://www.lusion.co.za/tests/2008-06-18/menu/ — If you know what you doing have a look at the source code, and you will be able to to get an idea why I love mootools so much 
There a couple other possibilities too:
http://www.lusion.co.za/tests/2008-06-18/menu-tabs-v/ — with tabs, still vertical switching though
http://www.lusion.co.za/tests/2008-06-18/menu-tabs-h/ — with tabs, horizontal switching
http://www.lusion.co.za/tests/2008-06-18/menu-tabs-hv/ — with tabs, horizontal and vertical switching
Tags: cpanel
