The ability to control a server remotely using a friendly web-based GUI is very handy. Novell makes some fairly nice web-based management tools but the same cannot be said for Linux. Webmin exists but I have always been put off by the fact it all looks like it was put together in the early 90's by someone who was in the process of going blind. Recently there have been some more cleaner themes out for it but still nothing to write home about. So to fill in the time and try out some cool new things and brush up on my poor Perl skills I have put together my own, far more tasteful theme for Webmin.
I haven't touched basic Webmin engine but I have pretty much replaced all the graphics and added dropdown menus and a snazzy, AJAX based search tool (that looks funnily enough like another well known search tool). Everything is done is CSS and Javascript and the theme seems to run okay in the browsers I've tested it in (IE/Firefox/Safari). The results are pretty cool and within a week or so I should have all the bugs ironed out and have it online for downloading.
In the meantime here's some eye-candy.....
David Harrison's musings on collaboration and I.T.
