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website design
« on: April 29, 2002, 02:54:51 AM »
hi

I am looking for feedback on the current design of the stories archive on my site. Currently it consists of a very larbge table split into sections, only ordered by date added. The thing is , its 79kb

So what i need to know from you people, would you like it to stay in this format, or would you like it to be divided into lots of smaller tables?

Sebbo
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Fret Pearson

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Re: website design
« Reply #1 on: April 29, 2002, 08:30:56 AM »
I just took a look and it seems a bit crowded to me... if I were you I would make it simpler.  I think a first time visitor gets confused by all the pretty colors.    I don't know what you have in mind, but for example, the columns "series" "length" "artist" "images" wouldn't be in there if I designed the table.

I need to read some of those stories sometime.  I'm not really into balloon stuff but sometimes I can enjoy the stories.

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sebreid

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Re: website design
« Reply #2 on: April 29, 2002, 09:54:14 AM »
hmmm, thats quite a good idea.

Id like to keep some of the detail. The series sort of thing is just to try and split it up into sections to hopefully make it easier to navigate.

The Artist info can be removed, just a single field, or marker showing whether the story is illustrated or not.

Length is a bit of an iffy one. I really dont know whether it is needed or not at all.

But yes, it is very crowded, and is no where near finished.

And as for the colours, well i am colourblind, and it makes it easier to read They are also used for basic sorting of the table.

Do you think that it would benefit from having some form of system where the newest stories should be shown at tthe top of the table, the oldest at the bottom.

Going to move the fave authors onto another page, same with the featured authors. This will leave just the recently added and submitted sotires which will be probably, sorted with the newest at the top.

What do you think?

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Re: website design
« Reply #3 on: April 30, 2002, 07:19:32 AM »
Yes, I think newest at the top makes it easier for the people who visit often.  They don't have to scroll down every time.  I think Mark T's archive, in the sorted by date listing, is a good example.

I definitely agree having a page with just the submitted / recent stories, listed by date, will make for a less cluttered impression.

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Re: website design
« Reply #4 on: April 30, 2002, 09:52:06 AM »
yeah, i am going to sort that bit tonite when i put some new stories tonight.

Thanks for the advice Fret