If you have gone shopping for a web application recently, you would have noticed how a majority of them talk about the all-conquering dashboard they have while trying to lure you. And not without good reason. A dashboard is your handle to everything you have hired that app to do, and a good dashboard an easy-to-grip one.
What makes a dashboard good, you ask? A whole bunch of things, and then some more. But fundamentally, users want their dashboards to be clean, provide context like targets and benchmarks and be customizable. And in this post, we will take you through 5 web apps whose dashboards we find to be highly inspiring.
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You may have often wanted to export charts as images from the backend and email them to users, especially to senior management, who love getting insightful charts & dashboards delivered straight to their inbox. Or maybe you’ve wanted to automate these reports for convenience. While we have your back covered with our server-side Export Handlers for various technologies, we realize that these still require client-side rendering using a browser, which can sometimes be a hassle. Also, recently we’ve been getting requests for a way to export charts without having to render them at client-side. This got us thinking about how to do this in a way that is simple, and yet, works across all server-side scripting languages. Read the rest of this entry »