Monday, April 6, 2009

Cleaning the Clutter

Some exciting changes on the site over the weekend. First I increased the text size on the search results, and on the 'My Tiki' listings. I also added a 'contact seller' link on the bottom of each item listings description text. The reason was that it was not obvious to select the button with the question mark to contact the seller.

The BIG change was with the 'My Tiki' page. I separated out all the categories (Items, Real Estate, Jobs, Services) into separate tabs, to allow the user to narrow their view. I also added pagination to the listings so that you are only presented with 10 at a time, like the search results. This will greatly increase the page load time and cut down on scrolling through listings.

Some more minor changes, I removed the listings end date displays and instead chose to put in start date's. I am still displaying the number of day left, which changes to hours:minutes:seconds when there is less than 1 day left. I think that overall it provides more valuable information and cleans up some of the clutter.

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