PHONE/TABLET IMPROVEMENTS

Those of you who read my articles on a tablet or an iphone will hopefully notice a lot of improvement (and more is coming!). I made some changes today to make the site's code a lot more "responsive" to the size of the screen that you're using. So if you are visiting on a tablet or smart phone, you might notice:

  • The logo/navbar is a lot smaller, therefore not taking up half of your screen
  • The 'tabs' are now accessible through a pulldown. There appears to be a lot of bugginess in the code that I stole from Twitter for this; the first time you trigger the menu, some of the stuff "behind" the menu pops through. subsequent triggers seem to work correctly. I am hoping the next version of Twitter's bootstrap fixes this. If not, I'll have to roll the sleeves up and get my hands dirty in jQuery.
  • The sidebar is now gone on articles pages if you are on mobile/tablet, so you get a lot more screen real estate to read with.

Coming soon are improvements to the stats pages! I know in particular the comparison engine is kind of tough to use on a phone. I'm working on it. Erm, that is, every couple of weeks, I work on it.

Categories: Website design

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Shawn Furyan

This is a big usability improvement on my phone (HTC Sensation, Android ICS, Chrome browser, 540x960). It looks best in landscape orientation, because the fields overflow the style elements while in portrait, but it's still quite usable. The only thing that is wonky in terms of functionality for me seems to be the autocompletion in the player comparison tool, but that might be because your tool and my soft keyboard are fighting to handle it. It's still quite useable though, and you can see a lot more data than before on a single screen, especially in landscape.

310 days ago

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Patrick Minton

Yes, unfortunately the javascript on the player comparison tool is super wonky on mobile. There aren't any great options for this (other than the native controls, which means you have to do a ton of scrolling).

309 days ago

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Ty Hicks

Works much better on my iphone. I'm very happy with it, except that the teams page shows the eastern conference twice. Other than that, looks good.

308 days ago

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Xavier Quach

Thank you SO much for these changes. Previously the comparison engine was practically unusable on either my phone or tablet. The multi-select drop down menu is the optimum choice. Thanks again!

308 days ago


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