[thelist] Examples of excellent control panel usage

[David Ulevitch]

I am beginning to redesign the web frontend for my DNS service and I was
wondering if you all could do a coulple of things for me.
1) I was wondering what things (either words or URL examples) you hate
about web control panels and interfaces and things I should try to avoid
at all cost.
2) What things does a frontend to DNS _NEED_ aside from good docs and
help?  I was thinking of having two interfaces, a simple "wizard-like"
interface and then one for power users.  Is that a good idea?
3) What are your favorite "management" sites?  Examples of excellent
design for sites that are used to manage things like DNS. (Think of
something like webmin or some kind of server admin tool) [feel free to
look at my existing setup at everydns.net which works but is a total mess
and is the reason for the redesign]
Thanks so much,
David Ulevitch
Founder, EveryDNS.Net

ps: If anyone is interested in helping us remake our frontend let me know
offlist. (skills: HTML+++, CSS++, and conceptual understanding of PHP +
SQL)