The new boards page is now Live. Hopefully it will be quite self explanatory to use, their are tool tips for all the buttons so you can easily explore what each button does. Please report any bugs or suggestions here.

One area that has yet to be completed is tagging the boards and setting the difficulty level. This is a manual process so I am looking for some help doing this from the board review team or anyone else who is prepared to help.

I've posted up a spreadsheet here - what I need is 'x's in the column where you think the tag should be turned on. The Difficulty setting can be one of 'Simple', 'Intermediate' or 'Advanced'. I have done 'Global Warfare' for an example. Let me know your gmail address and I will set you up for editing.

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Amde-LBDUI7QdGNOVWJtQ1dJaWJHV1BUWEd0dEJGQ1E&hl=en

new boards page isn't quite working correctly. all boards are right justified or something as they are all in a single column on the right-hand side of the page

Can you try a refresh?

tom wrote:

Can you try a refresh?

 gimme a bit of credit. that is the first thing i usually do to see if it fixes it, then a shut down of open IE windows and try again.
you must be working on it now, as no boards appear now.

Which version of IE? It works fine in IE8 / FF3.5+ / Chrome.

Very stylin!

Bugs:

• When clicking Info on Project Resistance, nothing happens.
• All Ratings links in the Info popup link to Medieval Europe

Suggestions:

• Ability to select All Tags since the Clear Tags button looks way too much like a close that view button.
• Ability to click on the Board Name in the Info pop-up to take you to the Board page.
• Ability to Start Game from the Info pop-up.
• Open Games link in Info popup take you to the filter of Open rather than your default (ie http://www.wargear.net/boards/view/AstroGear+2210/Games%20List?viewselector=Open which is what the link in Open Game of a board page takes you to).

Questions:

• What's Hidden boards?
• Is the number of boards to show on the Home page really set to 9?  Perhaps the titles of those can take you to the full board list of those Views.

That's all I have for now .  Again, very nice job!

Is the ability to sort by Number of Players Favorited not a good filter?  Ie not a big enough sample size yet?

Raptor's board page shows 8 maps on the home page in each of the three subset but mine shows 10.

I think I'd add as a suggestion to have Favorites on the Home page as well.

Yertle wrote:

Is the ability to sort by Number of Players Favorited not a good filter?  Ie not a big enough sample size yet?

I originally had this on there, I could add it at a later stage. Right now there's not much data.

Bugs:

• When clicking Info on Project Resistance, nothing happens - will fix this
• All Ratings links in the Info popup link to Medieval Europe - fixed

Suggestions:

• Ability to select All Tags since the Clear Tags button looks way too much like a close that view button - you can click on the reset view button to accomplish the same thing
• Ability to click on the Board Name in the Info pop-up to take you to the Board page. - will add
• Ability to Start Game from the Info pop-up. - you can start a game from the WarGear logo icon on the top menu above each board, I didn't think it necessary to duplicate this on the info page as well.
• Open Games link in Info popup take you to the filter of Open rather than your default (ie http://www.wargear.net/boards/view/AstroGear+2210/Games%20List?viewselector=Open which is what the link in Open Game of a board page takes you to). - will fix

Questions:

• What's Hidden boards? The hidden boards is just so you can hide any that you're not interested in seeing.

This new board page is top notch!  Great work!

awesome! Glad to see it up. :) 

Viper wrote:

Raptor's board page shows 8 maps on the home page in each of the three subset but mine shows 10.

 nevermind I figured it out.  it loads enough maps to fill however big your browser window is.

tom wrote:

Which version of IE? It works fine in IE8 / FF3.5+ / Chrome.

IE7

How about the ability to click a right arrow allowing you to see the next set of boards in descending order?

On the all boards display it would be nice to have a line that says "Displaying x boards out of (total number of boards)"

That way you would know how many boards are not being displayed by a certain filter combination.

tom wrote:

One area that has yet to be completed is tagging the boards and setting the difficulty level. This is a manual process so I am looking for some help doing this from the board review team or anyone else who is prepared to help.

Can't Duel, Capitals, and Modifiers be automated?

By the way, I've started at the bottom of the page and working my way up.  I could definitely be swayed in some of the "x" I have or haven't made.

What's popularity?  Something other than just Games Played?  Mainly stems from why is my Neverland board more Popular than my Micro Mission board (most easily seen when filtering by my name) when Neverland has 300ish games and Micro Mission has 700ish?  (Even sorting by just Popularity, Micro Mission appears to be lower than other boards if judging just on Games Played.)

Same thing appears to be with Bowling...

Does it have something to do with Versions?

*edit* I'm banking on the Versions thing, as Octagons is last with 140+ games played, but just came out with a new version.  Seems like it's getting reset somewhere (other than the Board View page)...but seems like it should be based off of the all-time games played and not just the most recent version.  IMO.

The link next to Designer's name in the Info pop-up that is supposed to take you to the designer's board designs is wrong: ie http://www.wargear.net/players/view/Edward%20Nygma/Board%20Designs

Has 'view' instead of 'info'

I'd question if that link is really needed since the link to the profile is right there (and it makes me think a Flash Player should open up since it uses the same icon), but it's small and doesn't hurt, although I would recommend a new icon if possible.

Title/Version number in the Info pop-up runs into two lines and over other text when the board name is long.  ie Check out Cumberdale's Bomb Factory Info popup.

Ohhh and I think I see why you added the link to the designer's board page...I don't think I'm a fan of the ability to see any/all boards/designers when on a Profile >> Board Designs page....