7/2 - 7/6 (Week 6)

  • Jul 05, 2012
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This week I met with Genevieve and we talked about how to integrate tags and magic sort. We decided that the Suggested Worlds area on the world show page should contain a collection of all the worlds with relevant tags, and that this collection of worlds should be sorted by popularity (i.e. remixes, likes, views). A little time was spent brainstorming ideas about how to display the top search result for challenges, worlds, and users so that it is clear what type of item is being shown. Site-wide color coding might be a good way to identify the different item types, but we decided that that doesn’t seem immediately necessary, so we’re going to hold off.

Mostly this week I’ve been trying to make headway with magic sort and playing around with the CSS on the world partial. I went back to the planning phase for magic sort for most of Monday this week, to figure out how to combine the helper methods I’ve been writing. I can get information about how an item (world, challenge, user) relates to another one, but linking together that information in conditional ways is proving challenging. (i.e. I know when User1 shared a world, and that User1 and User2 liked the same world, but it’s tricky having the sort only consider the ranking/importance of the first part based on how important the second part was.)

I took today off from magic sort to clear my head. I worked instead on the CSS for the world partials. I made a page-turning icon, which at present is visible on mouseover, and can be clicked to get more information about the world. It’s been a fun day, and the partials are on their way to becoming more kid-friendly and interactive. The plan is to use tomorrow to get the partial resized and using clicks rather than mouseovers to shift the displayed information, and to go back to magic sorting on Monday.

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  • caitlin

    caitlin said:

    <p>I'm not sure about the best way to implement this all in ruby/rails is either, but I feel like the web must know. We certainly can't be the only ruby/rails project that wants to use a more complex sorting metric. Have you poked around to see if someone has written advice on the right structure for doing this?</p>

    Posted on Jul 06, 2012

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