New Personalized Tabs in User Profile

[sangiro 26]

Heya all,

I've added some personalized content from the site to your User Profile view. I will continue to build this out. The idea is to bring your contributions to the site into one area from where you can easily manage it and where others can view what you have out there. You have to be a registered user to be able to view these tabs!

If you click on any username you will still see the user profile but now with 3 Tabs:

• Profile - The Profile tab brings you back to the user profile


• Reviews - The Reviews tab will show you all gear and DZ reviews the person has written in the Gear and Dropzone databases


• Classifieds - The Classifieds tab will show you any gear the user has for sale in the classifieds at this moment

An additional word on Reviews. Please look at the attachment. People often don't fill in all the fields when they submit a review. This is a great opportunity for you to modify and update all your old reviews and also make sure you've provided all the information. A complete review summary will look like the one in the attachment. To read the actual review text, click on Read this Review on the right.

There are a few components that are often missing. If some of your reviews don't have some of these, go update it! (numbers on the graphic)

1. Review Subject - Your review should have a review subject. Users often forget to enter a short subject.


2. Recommend - A little thumbs up or thumbs down graphic will appear depending on whether you recommend the item (or DZ) you reviewed or not.


3. Star Rating - A star rating (1 to 5) with 1 low and 5 high will appear if you remembered to rate the item or DZ.


4. Pros and Cons - Fill in the Pros and Cons of the item you reviewed. Shorts sentences or a few key points.


5. Modify your Review - This link will only appear if you actually view your own review summary. Others will not see it. This gives you a quick way to get your reviews up to date.

Rest of this should be pretty clear. Enjoy!

Safe swoops
Sangiro

[QuickDraw 0]

Nice touch Sangiro.
Any plans to have more personal info built into them tabs ?

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[skydyvr 0]

This site just gets better and better . . . thank you.

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[andy2 0]

what a monumental leap foward!

Seriously thanks for changing things around, its the small things that make forums like these nice to use. Obviously you've thought about this stuff quite a bit. Rock on dude!

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[sangiro 26]

Somebody noticed!

Here's a PM I just recieved:

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just curious, how come that I find 276 reviews of various gear posted under various names, but all the links lead to your profile?
Looks a little strange to me!

Could you please just clarify that, for me?

Hehehehe! Yes I sure can!

People were able to post gear reviews (not dz) long before Dropzone.com had a login system and usernames. When I implemented the login system a few years ago I did not want to loose those reviews, and obviously the names that people posted them under did not exist as actual usernames on the site.

So, with no usernames to associate the reviews with, I migrated all the reviews over under my name. When you view the review, the name the person entered at the time will still be displayed. Then name simply links to my profile. No, I did not write 276 gear reviews!

I will associate them with username = "admin" in the near future to get them out of my "sandbox".

Safe swoops
Sangiro

[sangiro 26]

Ok - I fixed this.

Safe swoops
Sangiro