bgk Posted February 8, 2008 Posted February 8, 2008 Hi All, I've put a new search interface together. Let me know what you think!
polisciapp Posted February 9, 2008 Posted February 9, 2008 I really like the old interface much better.
BadWolf Posted February 9, 2008 Posted February 9, 2008 Love the new one. Much easier to read, much faster search, and I like that it defaults to chronological order within the search. Thumbs up!
flyingwalrus Posted February 9, 2008 Posted February 9, 2008 The new one is vastly superior to the old user interface.
bgk Posted February 9, 2008 Author Posted February 9, 2008 I really like the old interface much better. What particularly do you like? What's missing? I designed the old interface, and it seemed to have everything I needed at the time. But I did some research over the past few weeks and saw that people really didn't like that interface! So I thought that if I made it more like a search engine, which is fairly intuitive to most people, I should please everyone... I guess not :-) ... Happy to take on suggestions!
sarah4153 Posted February 9, 2008 Posted February 9, 2008 I enjoyed being able to look at everything that had come in for the past day or so on one page, but this is much easier to use. The search function works! :-)
el217 Posted February 9, 2008 Posted February 9, 2008 I like the look of the new interface, but I think it could use a bit more functionality, like allowing us to choose the number of results displayed (10/20/100/all) or to sort by header (e.g. school name, program name, etc.). Also, the Google ads on the right side overlap the results if the window is too small, so if you could fix that it'd be great! ETA: If you're only going to have one date, I think it's much more important to have the notification date, rather than the posting date--since what matters is when the school made contact, not when the poster found this site.
rising_star Posted February 9, 2008 Posted February 9, 2008 I would like more results shown per page. Like maybe 10, 25, or 50 as options. And I agree about showing the date someone heard from the school rather than the posting date. good work, bgk!
grreapsphos Posted February 9, 2008 Posted February 9, 2008 No! Old interface was MUCH better. i agree we need to be able to see the date of notification, as that is the only important date. and agree with britdreams that there need to be more results per page. search function works well, but can only see the last dozen results or so without searching for something specific, so many results will be lost! Agree should have option to show last 50,100,all. Also would be better if the results window was larger. It is the minority of the screen on my page. If this isn't feasible, maybe at least have pages to scroll through all results. Argh! (sorry, as you can see I'm a bit stressed by this whole applying to grad school thing)
bobwhoops Posted February 9, 2008 Posted February 9, 2008 Visually it's fine. But a lot of the functionality is gone and it would be nice to have that back.
bgk Posted February 9, 2008 Author Posted February 9, 2008 Thoughts now? I've added a sort and a number of results. I'll have to do something clever with the front page, and seeing most recent results ....
rising_star Posted February 9, 2008 Posted February 9, 2008 Definitely improved. I really like the blue, btw. The font size is a bit small so I always end up enlarging it in the tab.
polisciapp Posted February 9, 2008 Posted February 9, 2008 I guess I'd still like to see more results when I first log on. That way I can just scroll down over the past week of results instead of having to type in my program name. Also, a sort function right off the bat would be good so I (1) wouldn't have to enter in my search to sort and (2) it would sort the most recent data. Make sense?
checker Posted February 9, 2008 Posted February 9, 2008 I like the sort, but I would also like to see more results when I first log on. I also miss being able to look at all of the results. Looking at all of the results sorted by date would be awesome!
pabsta Posted February 9, 2008 Posted February 9, 2008 The new interface is better. However, more detailled search options should be made availlable. For instance, it would be great to allow users to specify in which field the query should be run (all ? name of school ? , etc. ) Great job anyways !
bgk Posted February 9, 2008 Author Posted February 9, 2008 OK. I'm done for now. Unless the thing explodes and dies horribly, this is the new interface for the rest of the admit season. I need to get back to my REAL work :-). If you have any MUST HAVE features ... post them here and I'll see what I can do :-) Good luck with your admits all! I'll keep checking in on the forums to make sure all is well.
bgk Posted February 9, 2008 Author Posted February 9, 2008 The new interface is better. However, more detailled search options should be made availlable. For instance, it would be great to allow users to specify in which field the query should be run (all ? name of school ? , etc. ) Great job anyways ! Interesting idea - but that is why I re-wrote it! Looking at the logs for the old system, many people were just entering things into any box like a search engine. So I figured I'd give them that. If you want to do specific search, you can still use the old interface. I have no plans to delete it :-) Cheers
whentostop Posted February 12, 2008 Posted February 12, 2008 It took me a couple minutes to adjust, but now I'm finding the new one much improved.
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