Some thoughts on Reviews
Alex,
I've been playing around with LinksPHP a bit. As you know I've been using a review system on my site for a while so I thought I jot down a few of my thoughts on the current review system (also drawing on the experiences on my site) Some of these things my be easy to do already, some may more be questions that suggestions, all of them are meant as constructive input and not criticism so I'll leave them with you to think about:
1) Add the ability for a review owner to modify a review.
2) When trying to submit a review for an item already reviewed. When prompted whether to overwrite the old review, add the option to modify the current review.
3) Summary of Review Ratings (not Vote ratings) on links page - how about a star rating that shows the average of all star ratings
4) How many reviews will be displayed per page? Add an admin option (like the one in Setup/Build options for links) to set how many reviews to view per page.
5) Add admin option on how to sort reviews. i.e. Latest review at top of page, "most helpful" reviews at top...etc
6) Add option to format review field - My reviews are typically pretty long with several paragraphs. reviews should be formatted , with line breaks as they were entered.
7) When clicking on a reviewers name, all their reviews are shown...but it does not show which link each individual review were written for!
8) Option to view the top reviewers (either by number of reviews or by usefulness of reviews)
9) Top reviewer icon (per i.e. Amazon. Icon next to a Top 10 / 100 Reviewer's name)
10) Ability to show the first x reviews below the link on the "detailed" links page, with additional review pages depending on the setting in (4) above
11) Option to replace the review number/ review rating chart with a different indicator. i.e. stars.
12) Delete | Edit review links to show up next to reviews for editors and admin to easily remove a review from the browser
13) Mark "New" and "Updated" (see 1 above) reviews just like Links
Alex - You guys have a really nice foundation for a review feature. Most of the functionality I mention above already exist for Links. With a bit of additional effort you can extend this to Reviews. I hope you'll take a little bit more time up-front and turn Reviews into a really strong asset.
Thanks for adding this! Can't wait to see the final result.
Safe swoops
Sangiro
I've been playing around with LinksPHP a bit. As you know I've been using a review system on my site for a while so I thought I jot down a few of my thoughts on the current review system (also drawing on the experiences on my site) Some of these things my be easy to do already, some may more be questions that suggestions, all of them are meant as constructive input and not criticism so I'll leave them with you to think about:
1) Add the ability for a review owner to modify a review.
2) When trying to submit a review for an item already reviewed. When prompted whether to overwrite the old review, add the option to modify the current review.
3) Summary of Review Ratings (not Vote ratings) on links page - how about a star rating that shows the average of all star ratings
4) How many reviews will be displayed per page? Add an admin option (like the one in Setup/Build options for links) to set how many reviews to view per page.
5) Add admin option on how to sort reviews. i.e. Latest review at top of page, "most helpful" reviews at top...etc
6) Add option to format review field - My reviews are typically pretty long with several paragraphs. reviews should be formatted , with line breaks as they were entered.
7) When clicking on a reviewers name, all their reviews are shown...but it does not show which link each individual review were written for!
8) Option to view the top reviewers (either by number of reviews or by usefulness of reviews)
9) Top reviewer icon (per i.e. Amazon. Icon next to a Top 10 / 100 Reviewer's name)
10) Ability to show the first x reviews below the link on the "detailed" links page, with additional review pages depending on the setting in (4) above
11) Option to replace the review number/ review rating chart with a different indicator. i.e. stars.
12) Delete | Edit review links to show up next to reviews for editors and admin to easily remove a review from the browser
13) Mark "New" and "Updated" (see 1 above) reviews just like Links
Alex - You guys have a really nice foundation for a review feature. Most of the functionality I mention above already exist for Links. With a bit of additional effort you can extend this to Reviews. I hope you'll take a little bit more time up-front and turn Reviews into a really strong asset.
Thanks for adding this! Can't wait to see the final result.
Safe swoops
Sangiro
Some thoughts on Reviews