Staff: 4 Website / database UI quality of life improvement suggestions
Posted: August 22nd, 2020, 4:18 pm
I'm posting here because the hover-over of the description of this section says 'Discussion regarding the site itself':
I have three 'quality of life' improvements I'm wondering if could be implemented on the site:
1- Add a preference to have the 'ThemeInfoBox' (aka the small triangle) be able to be expanded, or have it expanded by default all the time. It's incredibly annoying to have to selectively click each one to get the information I'm looking for because it's hidden, I don't see the point. All it saves is maybe some very minor scrolling. I'd rather have immediate access to the information instead.
Example:
2- For Album / iTunes / Singles pages (like Uncaged XIII for example: https://xylotthemes.com/#!/themes/wwe/uncagedxiii), it would be immensely helpful if the ThemeInfoBox would have the information on the actual theme, instead of then having to do additional manual searches for each entry when trying to look up information. If you didn't want to recopy the theme information (since it would understandably cause needless duplication to keep updated as well), you could at least use the little 'Jump to borrowed listing page' lightning bolts
that link to the page that has the information. Even that would be a massive improvement.
Just this isn't helpful:
3- It would be extremely nice if the database search would allow for partial searching, or moreover, being able to search for secondary information like song titles. EG: If I search for 'Out From The Shadows' it should come up with a result to Sting's WWE page.
4- Mostly wishful thinking: It would be nice if there was a way to export the theme database information on the website information to an Excel Spreadsheet or Google Sheets document. There was someone here who apparently created and maintains a sheet of the information on Xylot, this name could be @BretC? Here's an older example copy of it: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... =492179931. Having the option to export something or keep that updated would really be nice.
I have three 'quality of life' improvements I'm wondering if could be implemented on the site:
1- Add a preference to have the 'ThemeInfoBox' (aka the small triangle) be able to be expanded, or have it expanded by default all the time. It's incredibly annoying to have to selectively click each one to get the information I'm looking for because it's hidden, I don't see the point. All it saves is maybe some very minor scrolling. I'd rather have immediate access to the information instead.
Example:
2- For Album / iTunes / Singles pages (like Uncaged XIII for example: https://xylotthemes.com/#!/themes/wwe/uncagedxiii), it would be immensely helpful if the ThemeInfoBox would have the information on the actual theme, instead of then having to do additional manual searches for each entry when trying to look up information. If you didn't want to recopy the theme information (since it would understandably cause needless duplication to keep updated as well), you could at least use the little 'Jump to borrowed listing page' lightning bolts
that link to the page that has the information. Even that would be a massive improvement.Just this isn't helpful:
3- It would be extremely nice if the database search would allow for partial searching, or moreover, being able to search for secondary information like song titles. EG: If I search for 'Out From The Shadows' it should come up with a result to Sting's WWE page.
4- Mostly wishful thinking: It would be nice if there was a way to export the theme database information on the website information to an Excel Spreadsheet or Google Sheets document. There was someone here who apparently created and maintains a sheet of the information on Xylot, this name could be @BretC? Here's an older example copy of it: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... =492179931. Having the option to export something or keep that updated would really be nice.