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| #Post#: 1546-------------------------------------------------- | |
| navigate between different pages | |
| By: ChibiM Date: July 1, 2013, 8:06 am | |
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| Just another thing I noticed. | |
| When Im using a touchscreen (kindle fire) and I surf the web, I | |
| usually have a little difficulty to go to the next page on many | |
| websites. | |
| So I would suggest to change the layout of the pages index (dont | |
| know how to call it) at the bottom of the pages. | |
| When a thread has many posts, you have to go to the next page | |
| quite often, and at many website, like CPF the NEXT button is | |
| only a very small | |
| triangle icon. So its really hard to press that button. | |
| Some websites have this organized much better. | |
| So I put a few options together of some flashlight related | |
| websites, and give my suggestions. | |
| http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2890/9181840507_a36b3f133e_z.jpg | |
| Lets start from the TOP. | |
| CPF has this not well organised (I know they have a mobile | |
| version as well, but I don`t use that at all) | |
| Its really hard to click on the little triangle to go to the | |
| NEXT page. | |
| But it has a text box with LAST (which I never use) | |
| They do have nicely spaces numbers, so it would be okay to | |
| navigate, using the numbers instead of the next button. | |
| intl outdoor | |
| Intl outdoor has this better organized by showing the NEXT | |
| button clearly. | |
| (But they don`t have a LAST button, which I think almost nobody | |
| uses anyway) | |
| but the space and size of the numbers 1 2 3 etc are too small | |
| DX.com | |
| I would suggest to copy the DX.com layout.. somehow that looks | |
| really clear and easy to click, | |
| also with using my mouse with my laptop. | |
| The space between the numbers 1 2 3 etc.. are well spaced, and | |
| it is easy to navigate between the pages. | |
| The numbers are also nice big enough to click on. | |
| and there is a clear NEXT button to go to the next page. | |
| Goinggear | |
| This is again not the way you should do it. The numbers are too | |
| small and too close together!!!! | |
| and the Next (little triangle is wayyyy to small) | |
| but it has a very nice feature to choose how many titles you can | |
| see per page! | |
| Thats a really nice feature. | |
| Manafont | |
| Numbers are too small, and not nicely spaced. | |
| I like the DX layout with the numbers actually sitting in a | |
| square box.. | |
| Manafont does have a nice NEXT button. | |
| Kaidomain | |
| Number are nicely colored in blue. | |
| Spacing is well done. But I keep going back to DX with their | |
| numbers in the square boxes.. that really helps. | |
| The next and last button are too small. | |
| wallbuys | |
| Nice to choose between 40 80 or even 120 lights per page (I know | |
| that this may not be desirable on a flashlight forum, instead of | |
| a flashlight shop) | |
| I like the orange colored box around the number to see on what | |
| page you are. Many websites only have a BOLD letter, which is | |
| still not easy to see, I like this with wallbuys. | |
| they also have a nice NEXT and LAST button | |
| Fasttech | |
| They have many numbers. Which may be a little too much? maybe | |
| not. at least when it is nicely spread on the page, and not | |
| crammed in a corner. | |
| it depends on the size of the letters. But they also miss a nice | |
| NEXT button.. | |
| it has a bigger triangle than CPF for example, but its still not | |
| as clear as a nice NEXT button. | |
| When possible, I would suggest; | |
| Have a clear NEXT button (not sure if you need a Last button, | |
| because thats not used often) | |
| Have the numbers well spaced. | |
| Use a colored box (or number) to show at what page you are, | |
| rather than a BOLD black number. | |
| Would these changes be possible? | |
| #Post#: 1547-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: navigate between different pages | |
| By: Spasmod Date: July 1, 2013, 9:37 am | |
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| Hi Chibi, | |
| It's a very valid suggestion and something we ourselves would | |
| like to improve. The problem is that it's a core part of the | |
| style template we use and isn't something that can easily be | |
| changed without advanced knowledge of CSS coding. | |
| In the meantime though I will try to find a solution because I | |
| too would like these page navigation buttons to be a lot more | |
| user friendly for mobile browsing. | |
| The forum is configured for Tapatalk though so that's always an | |
| option. I've never used it myself but hopefully someone who does | |
| could give us some insight ? | |
| Thanks again | |
| Spas | |
| #Post#: 1563-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: navigate between different pages | |
| By: _the_ Date: July 2, 2013, 3:31 am | |
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| I agree most parts of the OP, but please don't remove the | |
| "Last"-button. It is used when checking latest news from a | |
| rarely visited thread.. | |
| #Post#: 1564-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: navigate between different pages | |
| By: ChibiM Date: July 2, 2013, 3:50 am | |
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| _the_ has a valid point. I didn't think about that in threads, | |
| I was more thinking about having 100`s of threads in a forum, at | |
| which I won't use this Last button at all, but inside specific | |
| threAds I actually use it sometimes. | |
| Thanks for pointing that out! | |
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