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Lots of links - Design Ideas

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  • 09-12-2009 10:24am
    #1
    warrenaldo
    Registered Users Posts: 500 ✭✭✭


    Folks,

    I have a long list of links/filters (50 or so) down the sidebar of my page.

    I need some way to display them.
    I have implemented paging with next, prev buttons = its OK.
    I have implemented a scroll-bar on them = its OK.

    I'm looking for an idea that's better than OK. Is there anything else that I could do in this situation.

    Please help.


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    [Deleted User]
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    I'm not sure of the nature of the list, so its hard to be specific. Chances are there is a jQuery feature/plugin to do what you want.

    Split them into divs of logical groupings, with headings. Use jQuery to show/hide div when heading is clicked?


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    warrenaldo
    Registered Users Posts: 500 ✭✭✭warrenaldo


    Thanks for the help.

    The data is already logically grouped - and still I cannot shorten the list.

    Its a list of Nationalitys, they have been split into continent.
    I do not want to split them up further.

    So I am left with some pretty large lists.

    Any suggestions would be great.

    I assume there is some jquery plugin but I cannot find anything. Its difficult when you dont really know what youre looking for.

    Thanks.


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    Eoin
    Registered Users Posts: 21,257 ✭✭✭✭Eoin


    Some ideas here: http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055593060

    If you're expecting people to find a nationality, then you could implement an auto-complete textbox at the top of the page using AJAX / JQuery.


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    warrenaldo
    Registered Users Posts: 500 ✭✭✭warrenaldo


    Thanks Eoin,

    You do realise you sent me a link to a previous thread of mine. As you can see I work with a lot of data - lots of links.

    That was an old project - where I ended up implementing auto-suggest. Maybe I should use something similar here.

    Pagination works pretty well here - I suppose I just need to design it in a way that makes it clear whats happening when they click next/prev.

    Thanks for the help.


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    Eoin
    Registered Users Posts: 21,257 ✭✭✭✭Eoin


    Oh right, I thought you were asking the same question for the same project, which is why I linked to your old thread.

    What's the end result for the user? How would they get to the links page, and what does the nationality mean?


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    warrenaldo
    Registered Users Posts: 500 ✭✭✭warrenaldo


    Its a search application. The links are search filters in the sidebar.

    Kind of like this - http://reviews.cnet.com/1770-5_7-0.html?query=phones&tag=srch


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