Introducing JungleDragon tag display modes »
FERDY CHRISTANT - JUN 8, 2010 (07:29:09 PM)
Last week I spent an entire week of leave on JungleDragon development. This week I will be sharing the progress in little bits and pieces. Today's topic is Tag display modes.
Tags are visible across Jungledragon in various places. They are one of the primary ways to navigate content. The dedicated tags screen currently looks like this (click to enlarge):
Note: please do ignore the tags above the search bar, this is food for another forthcoming article.
This screen provides a way to browse, sort and search tags. As you can see, tags are visualized in a table and are all of equal size. What's new is that JungleDragon now supports two additional display modes for tags. You will find these to the right of the sort bar.
The first new display mode for tags is "Cloud". This does what you expect, it visualizes tags in different sizes based on tag popularity (click to enlarge):
And of course, sorting and searching works in this tag display mode too. Finally, the coolest and most powerful tag display mode is "Pictures" (click to enlarge):
I'm finding this last display mode to be very usable. For each tag, the most popular image within the tag is visualized as a thumb. Quite a distinguishing feature, especially when combined with type ahead searching.
As with image lists, members are able to save their preferred display mode for tags. From there on, they will always see tags in their preferred display mode. Like image display modes, tag display modes are integrated into the reputation engine: The better your reputation, the more you see per page. Of course you will see a good set of results even without being a member.
Finally, the Tags screen now also supports search highlighting (click to enlarge):
All in all the new tags screen provides a powerful blend between browsing and searching for tags. Do you agree?
Tomorrow I will have a similar post, this time talking about user display modes.
