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Web Design Question

  • 12-06-2009 09:11AM
    #1
    warrenaldo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 500 ✭✭✭


    I have a page that contains lots of links - it could be anywhere up to 200. At the moment I have them in a ordered list. But its very long.

    I will probably put a search at the top of the page to search them - but if not i would like a nice way of displaying all the links.

    I looked at tag clouds but its not really suitable - as I need them ordered alphabetically.

    Does anyone have any sugestions or even better - a link.


Comments

  • #2
    lukin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,334 ✭✭✭lukin


    Dunno what you are using to create the page, if it's ASP.NET then a datagrid might suit?


  • #3
    Giblet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,027 ✭✭✭✭Giblet


    You could try implementing pagination. If it is ASP.NET, you can setup paging via a datagrid as stated above.


  • #4
    NeverSayDie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 515 ✭✭✭NeverSayDie


    Yeah, pagination/tabs would do the trick - either numerically or alphabetically (as in, have A.. B.. C.. links at the top of the page). Other options might include moving to a tabular/grid layout - as in, use the page's width and split it into multiple columns, will avoid too much vertical scrolling that way - if you do say 4 columns, you'll only need 50 rows for your 200 links.

    You could also look at more clever tricks using AJAX - dynamically update the list as the user types in a search query for instance - like Google's "Suggest" feature.


  • #5
    warrenaldo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 500 ✭✭✭warrenaldo


    Ye, im using Ajax to dynamically update the list - it works well. But its just the fact that the list is vertical. I also have no css on the page as yet. I was just hoping someone could point me at some simplistic looking but slick css that might be nice.

    Pagination is not an option on this - I want to show all the options on one page.

    Thanks for the help so far.


  • #6
    Eoin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,278 ✭✭✭✭Eoin


    Are they, or could they be categorised? If so, you could use some sort of expanding and contracting layout (accordian / treeview etc).


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  • #7
    warrenaldo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 500 ✭✭✭warrenaldo


    No categorys - just a long list. Its more of a design question than a technical question.


  • #8
    NeverSayDie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 515 ✭✭✭NeverSayDie


    Might have more luck here;
    http://boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=23


  • #9
    ron_darrell
    Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 351 ✭✭ron_darrell


    Mmmm interesting. You've asked for advice and then ignored it :) It's a long list. There is no easy way to show a long list if you don't want to use pagination. However you have answered the question yourself in a way. You're already using AJAX to update/create the list. Why not modify the AJAX to create the pagination/categorisation? Add another selector to limit the amount of data to be returned (and also an option to return all of the data for those who want the whole list back).

    -RD


  • #10
    W!zard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 128 ✭✭W!zard


    ron_darrell wrote: »
    Mmmm interesting. You've asked for advice and then ignored it :) It's a long list. There is no easy way to show a long list if you don't want to use pagination. However you have answered the question yourself in a way. You're already using AJAX to update/create the list. Why not modify the AJAX to create the pagination/categorisation? Add another selector to limit the amount of data to be returned (and also an option to return all of the data for those who want the whole list back).

    -RD

    Adding the pagination mentioned above would only require a few lines added and you can keep it tidy enough, iv used this myself and works great.


  • #11
    warrenaldo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 500 ✭✭✭warrenaldo


    Thanks for the help guys - but pagination is not what i need. Im using it in many other places and it works great. But not in this instance.
    im looking more along the lines of a cloud tag type of display. I should have asked in the design/development forum - I will do.

    Thanks again.


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