Can you guys help test?

[andegre]

If anyone would like to check out the new structure of the website (and homepage design). Go ahead and check it out below.

Also, I'd like to "performance" test the few pages that work so far.

The ONLY pages that work are:
1) Rankings by weight
2) School page (this now contains roster, eligibility breakdown, depth chart, schedule, and team info pages), only 3 of these 5 (roster, depth, schedule) tabs work right now though

Would you guys mind just navigating around between these few pages just so I can get an idea of performance, or see if there are any bugs in my database connection code?

Thank you!

http://testwrestlestat.azurewebsites.net/

 

[tikk10]

Nicer looking. I like that you can filter rankings by conference.

Re the Team pages, definitely an improvement to move the sub-menu to the horizontal top than have it run down the left side.

 

[andegre]

Actually, on the current site, you can filter by conference, I just didn't "advertise" it. All of the conferences next to each wrestler are underlined, indicating they are a hyperlink. That will filter to that conference. This new way makes it very obvious that you can filter by conference...

Regarding the sub-menu/left nav stuff. Are you saying.......oh, you mean having some of the left-nav/sub-menu stuff as "tabs" (ie the Roster, Eligibility Breakdown, Depth Chart, Team Info, etc). Yes, this was done because of the new framework that I'm using is almost 5 times faster, I figured I'd just load all of that information once, then you can switch between each view that you want, with IMMEDIATE results (no lag/request to the server).

Keep in mind, I will STILL have the left-nav stuff once the page is done. It will have stuff like "Update Starters", "Team Rankings", other stuff like that.

 

[tikk10]

I get that you're still working on it and that some left nav stuff will be back, but where the options are essentially filters, it's simply confusing to have them on the left; having them on top reinforces that what you'll be seeing next is a subset of the larger set. I think it'd be more intuitive to also throw the other weights on top from within each weight ranking, rather than the left, maybe as a pulldown.

"X" weight class rank page is the most common next destination from "Y" weight ranking page, I'm guessing (is for me anyway) and it gets lost on the left sitting under other left-side links.

 

[andegre]

So like I did with the tabs (roster, eligibility breakdown, depth chart, schedule, etc) on the team page, do the same thing for the rankings pages (it would have 125, 133, 141, etc). Then could do the same for the team rankings page (dual ranking, tournament ranking).

I see two potential issues with that so far, 1) since I'm displaying rankings for ALL wrestlers at a weight, that's alot of data, multiply that by 10 and it's downloading a HUGE chunk of data in one shot to allow for tabbing through them, and 2) The number of tabs may wrap to a new line. I know when I view on my phone, even for the team page, it only has 2 or 3 tabs per line.

Or maybe I do the tabbed approach, but figure out how to wait to do the request to the database until they actually click on the tab...

 

[tikk10]

Well, I'm not suggesting you necessarily pre-download all the weights, just, as a matter of user interface, make the other weight links more accessible.

E.g.,

 

[andegre]

Ok, I think the tabs will work fine if I only load about the top 25 or 33 wrestlers at each weight, then it will still be a fairly small download size. Then if the user wants to see ALL of the rankings for that particular weight, I can have a link that will go to a dedicated page for that (similar to how it is now on the current site).

 

[andegre]

Here's another question I have.

If I go with the tabbed-style page of rankings, where there are 10 tabs for all weights, showing the top 25/33 at each weight, is the /rankings/all page needed anymore, which shows the top 12 at all weights on the same page (http://www.wrestlestats.com/rankings/nextyearall Or will the new tabbed version be sufficient?

 

[andegre]

I get that you're still working on it and that some left nav stuff will be back, but where the options are essentially filters, it's simply confusing to have them on the left; having them on top reinforces that what you'll be seeing next is a subset of the larger set. I think it'd be more intuitive to also throw the other weights on top from within each weight ranking, rather than the left, maybe as a pulldown.

"X" weight class rank page is the most common next destination from "Y" weight ranking page, I'm guessing (is for me anyway) and it gets lost on the left sitting under other left-side links.

Hey, so I went ahead and implemented the tabs for the rankings page. If you recall from the current website, there's a "Rankings All" page where it shows the top 12 wrestlers at each weight on the same page. I've replaced that with this tabbed version that shows the top 33 guys at each weight, but you obviously have to tab through to see all weights. Then, each page will contain a link to the FULL rankings for that weight.

How do you like this? Or do you think it was better having all weights visible on a single page?

http://testwrestlestat.azurewebsites.net/rankings/wrestler

Old/current version: http://www.wrestlestats.com/rankings/all

 

[tikk10]

I think that's great. I never saw the utility in seeing the top 12 from each class on the same page like you currently have it. But I do think tabbing the weights on a single page like this makes a lot of sense.