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Most of the pages in the admin panel had a very similar design. The admin panel was the place to have an overview of all
the information about the specific parts of the video platform. The design was similar to that of a table, where at each row
you could read about different information. The designer and I came to the conclusion to use this kind of table design,
after discussing it for a while. A table is very natural to people, even if they haven’t worked with it before. With this design
people can quickly find the information that they are looking for, and they would always have a good overview of the
information that was available.

You could select any of the rows and perform actions on it. In the case of the videos page, you had the ability to select the
videos and then delete the selection or activate/deactivate the selection. These 2 functionalities were also available for
every single row. 2 other functionalities that was available for every row, was the ‘preview video’ functionality and the ‘edit
video information’ functionality.

Although I was set back a bit with the new manager requirement, the coding of the parts in the admin panel went very
smoothly. The functionalities of the admin panel pages were not that complex, all that was needed was to make sure that
information would be displayed and actions should be possible to perform on the information.

After this I started to work on the categories, tags, comments and banners page. These were all very similar, most of their
functionalities were the same, and most of the information that they were showing was the same or in the same style.
Creating of the pages would mean I had also done parts of other pages. In figure 17 you can find the categories page of the
admin panel. For the categories page one important category was the ‘Uncategorized’ category. This category didn’t
contain any videos, but was working as a container. And admin could quite possibly delete a category either by accident or
on purpose not realizing that the videos would lose their link to the deleted category. For safety reasons I had decided to
make an uncategorized category. Whenever a category was deleted, the platform would look at all the videos in that
category, and if the videos didn’t have any category left that was linked to them; then these videos would be put into the
uncategorized category. And admins could then find out quickly which videos are in the uncategorized category and assign
them another category.

Figure 17: The category page of the admin panel

After the categories page, the banners, comments and tags pages followed quickly. These were very much alike and
working on these pages didn’t require very much time or effort. Very soon I had finished these pages.
Next was the user page; although, this was again very similar to the pages explained above, it still had some smaller design
differences. In figure 18 you can find the users’ page of the admin panel. The designer and I decided that it was a good idea
to keep track of the amount of views that a user got on his/her profile. Every time someone would visit a user profile, the
views of the specific profile would increase. This way the popular users could be track and known to the admin. It’s valuable