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I’ve been using this PagedList functionality that i found from a blog article Rob Conery put up, and a control I found by Robert Muehsig which I’ve really enjoyed using so far.
One of the things that was missing from the functional set that I ended up needing was the ability to page the list, but through issuing AJAX requests instead of the typical post back.
So I went off and extended the existing model to support AJAX requests, and thought I would share it in case anyone else needed to do the same thing.
Just FYI, my wife is very wise. I had her look over the design I came up for the reputation system. She thought it would be easier if the user could just check off the things they wanted.
Sometimes its just better to get a second opinion!
This is the new concept. Not much has changed visually, but the behavior will definitely be different.
So the behavior will be by checking off one of the items from the search you’ll be informing the owner that you’re interested in that item. What happens after that point I’m still working out, but that basically wraps up the behavior for this side. What we have left to do is get the behavior done for the owner’s side.
Now my problem is I need to design a checkbox that will go on the side so people can just to click on.
So far I’ve come up with this, but I’m not 100% satisfied with it. The coloring won’t really get nailed down until we put it up on the site and tweak it to make the color scheme, but you get the idea.
Any suggestions?
I’m working on a reputation system for a site I’ve been recently working on (http://www.serveandtrade.com). I’m going through some ideas so I thought I’d post them on here and see what people think.
Let’s start buy throwing up what we currently have so we can see where we’re trying to go. Here’s a mockup of what a user will see when they search for trades right now.
I have a couple problems with how it works right now.
- I don’t like that it’s in a grid/table format. I have to fix that first. I’m moving more towards something like a list layout.
- There are some things missing that I would like to be able to do. For instance, if I just searched for “can of soup”, and I see that Michelle has the one I want, I would like to have a button/link/something to click on that says “I want that!” Right now the only thing you can do is go look at the trade, or ask a question.
- Clicking on the owner’s link takes you to their profile, but it doesn’t show you what other trades they have, or trades they are looking for. That information could really be useful.
I’m sure there are other things I could think of, but for now I’m going to start focusing on these three and build some mockups to illustrate these workflows.
First, getting rid of the grid.
This search list looks a lot better I think. There are some more features on here then the other one, but we’ll go over those in subsequent posts.
So at this point I’m looking for any feedback. ANY feedback, good or bad… I’ll take it all. I really haven’t made up my mind at this point yet, but I think I’m heading in the right direction.
Next post will be about the “I want it!” feature. Stay tuned!
