Designing the Dashboard View

The purpose of the dashboard view is to give event organizers and volunteers an “at-a-glance” view of the most pertinent information regarding their event, with links to get to where they need to go. This will be their starting place when they come to work on their event.

We’ll discuss the design more as we go along, but to get started, create an empty file called TekDays/grails-app/views/dashboard/dashboard.gsp, and add the following code:

bigger.2/TekDays/grails-app/views/dashboard/dashboard.gsp
 
<html>
 
<head>
 
<title>​TekDays - Dashboard​</title>
 
<meta​ name=​"layout"​ content=​"main"​ ​/>
 
</head>
 
<body>
 
</body>
 
</html>

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