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 Posted: 24 January 2008 at 11:08pm |
Thanks Bruce...not sure if I understand the page display thing or the 2 sets of icons option but I really do believe this unusual right to left approach will be confusing and inconsistent.
However, I'm sure some renaming of the graphics would be a workaround if I really have to (although I still prefer using standard software packages).
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Posted: 25 January 2008 at 9:15am |
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If you look on the following page:-
http://forums.webwiz.net/forum_topics.asp?FID=24
You will see that the ratings are against the right hand column and look better having them this way around when used in this page.
If you use IE 6 or below then you have a completely different set of icons which do not include the blanked out ones which don't look good in GIF format when changing the background colour to anything other than a light colour.
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Posted: 25 January 2008 at 11:31am |
Thanks for your input again and sorry for my persistance which is simply intended to help.
I am using IE7 and I can see that the 5 star icon is right-alligned in the Topics column - that's fine.
However, I still believe that the same icon should have gold stars coming from the left like the group icon and as used elsewhere. We count and read from the left - 2 silver followed by 3 golds will look to many like a 2 rating.
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Posted: 25 January 2008 at 11:38am |
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Thanks for your feedback.
The rating system is still not yet complete, presently working on the blogging tools which is a massive project and plan to come back to the rating system later once we receive user feedback on it to make it available at a forum level rather than board wide.
When the rating system was first started the first place that icons were added was on the Topics page and as it was aligned to the right of the table the stars were placed the same way as it did appear better as the rating was aligned to the right of the table cell in this area.
However, now the system is more complete, it does look odd in other parts. Having it different directions in different places would look confusing, so will be having a look at changing this, which would as you mention be more consistent with the group star images.
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Posted: 25 January 2008 at 11:43am |
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An idea: Use a 5 star icon that has right-alligned gold bits that appear - BUT make the silver ones invisible...that way you only see what its got and are not confused by what is doesn't have....and its cleaner.
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Posted: 25 January 2008 at 11:48am |
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Trying that now, not sure though if I like it or not, as it's not now clear what the rating is out of.
If you look on the topics page it just shows stars next to a topic, and it's not clear that this is a rating. With the blank stars next to it, it is clear that this is a rating and not just some random star images next to the topic.
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Posted: 25 January 2008 at 11:57am |
I like it (just checked your forum)!
People will soon know (they know 3 is more than 2 anyway!). You could say something in text perhaps when you hover over.
Small thing also: the column title "Rating" seems to be TOP in comparison with the other titles.
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Posted: 25 January 2008 at 12:07pm |
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It's not align top, it just has ' style="float:right;"' on it so that
it is at the right hand side of the cell. For some reason and can only
guess because of some CSS browser bug it places it a couple of pixels
higher and have not found a way to get around this.
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