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Testing New JFP Feature: Restaurant Listings and Ratings

Hey all -- Vince has been working hard in the background on a new feature here on http://www.jacksonfreepress.com -- Restaurant listings and user reviews! It's ready to roll in "beta" format now, so please visit:

http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/index.php/restaurants/

and see what you think. If you're logged in, you can leave star ratings and mini-reviews of your favorite restaurants.

Also, please be serious in your reviews, as we're hoping that even the reviews and ratings that we complete at this time will be able to remain up and running with the tool goes "live."

Use this thread for bug reports, suggestions or kudos. Thanks!

Update (8:45 PM 10/08/08): Error finally fixed; pages are working now. -vince

Previous Comments

ID
138825
Comment

UI Concern: Rate This on primary listing pages do not do anything. They should either be AJAX-ified for quick rating or link to the detail page. *** If they do, they don't in Safari 3/Mac 10.4.11...

Author
kaust
Date
2008-10-08T10:03:04-06:00
ID
138834
Comment

Great idea! If we don't do anything else in Jackson, we definitely eat, so I'm sure the site will come in handy. I'll play around with it.

Author
LatashaWillis
Date
2008-10-08T11:28:08-06:00
ID
138835
Comment

Knol, I'm having the same problem using Safari 3.1.2 for Windows. I click on "Rate This" and get a blank screen.

Author
LatashaWillis
Date
2008-10-08T11:32:39-06:00
ID
138836
Comment

knol, LW... yeah something went wonky behind the scenes with those pages. working on that right now. i swear they worked last week...damn office gnomes...

Author
vince
Date
2008-10-08T11:38:44-06:00
ID
138840
Comment

I'm a PC, and my rating screens are blank also.

Author
GradyGriffin
Date
2008-10-08T12:31:19-06:00
ID
138842
Comment

Keep 'em coming...this is why we beta test. ;-)

Author
Todd Stauffer
Date
2008-10-08T13:12:29-06:00
ID
138844
Comment

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I'm testing on my Mac Firefox 3.0.3, Safari 3.1.2) and PC (Firefox 3.0.3, Safari 3.1.2, IE 7.0.57) , and get a blank page whenever I click on a restaurant or a rating link. Will be happy to send screenshots/etc. if you like.

Author
Deirdra Harris Glover
Date
2008-10-08T13:33:13-06:00
ID
138851
Comment

FIXED!

Author
vince
Date
2008-10-08T19:43:46-06:00
ID
138852
Comment

Also, Logan the Intern deserves kudos for populating our database with damn near every restaurant known to mainstream Jackson!

Author
vince
Date
2008-10-08T19:46:38-06:00
ID
138853
Comment

Earlier when I was on the beta-beat, I got what looked like a bad XML/XHTML output including EE code. Very bizarre. Happened twice on a VERY slow load of the page. Don't have screenshots but can tell you I saw all the EE hooks including header, footer, and content. Not sure if anyone else has experienced that, but I'd check error-reporting to see if it's on and public and/or check the error logs to see what happened a few minutes before I placed my previous comment.

Author
kaust
Date
2008-10-08T20:57:11-06:00
ID
138857
Comment

This will be a great feature- thank you for doing it!

Author
Rico
Date
2008-10-09T00:04:01-06:00
ID
138859
Comment

After rating a restaurant, I get a blank page and have to hit the back button. This is on IE7

Author
Puck
Date
2008-10-09T08:13:11-06:00
ID
138860
Comment

Also, what happens if you want to edit your rating? Maybe change something from a 4 to a 3 or revise some spelling?

Author
Puck
Date
2008-10-09T08:18:39-06:00
ID
138861
Comment

Also, I noticed some bakeries missing - Obie's, Campbell's, That Special Touch I know we are supposed to send this to events(at)jfp.com but it might be cool to do a web form that allows the user to classify, maybe upload a graphic (small of course), etc.

Author
Puck
Date
2008-10-09T08:30:24-06:00
ID
138862
Comment

Sorry for all the comments! But what about a number of reviews? Like (**** for 4 Reviews) because let's say you just got one review and you got a bad review - it would only average out to 1 star. In other words, it might be misleading. Again, sorry for all the comments :)

Author
Puck
Date
2008-10-09T08:46:14-06:00
ID
138882
Comment

Vince, After I submit my review, it goes to a black page. Not sure if that is just me or everyone.

Author
Sophie
Date
2008-10-09T22:01:15-06:00

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