Hey, great work on the site here. I'm collecting cars, and it is proving very helpful as I have about 20 Standards left to go... of course I'm finding they are for the most part 4 or 5 on the rarity scale.
Some thoughts / suggestions / questions:
The flash messages that appear when I have added a car to my garage are great. Have you though about positioning the flash_wrapper div absolutely, so it will not affect the rest of your DOM? The benefit here is the rest of the UI elements won't be positioned relative to of the # of flash messages currently onscreen. As a test, I moved it to the top right by adding these CSS declarations:
position: absolute;
top: 0;
right: 0;
This worked great to keep the messages from affecting the UI. The top and right rules don't matter really, the absolute rule being the key there. Alternately,
jGrowl is a great jQuery plugin that creates unobtrusive flash messages a la Mac OS's Growl.
It took me a bit to find the site navigation at the bottom. Have you considered placing it at the top, or maybe even both top and bottom?
I see you're using Datatables, a good choice. I've used, quite extensively, almost every jQuery based grid out there, among others like the amazing grid in
ExtJS. I'd use ExtJS more, but it's a pay product if you want to get paid. All the grid products are an exercise in tradeoffs, though I see that area maturing significantly as HTML5 becomes supported in mainstream browsers. That said, I typically find myself using
jqGrid. It excels at handling large recordsets, and has some very nice integrated features like subgrids, column grouping, column D&D/resize/hide&show, inline/modal filtering, inline/modal editing, etc. I'm actually very excited to see what the jQuery UI guys come up with, as they've been working on their own
grid for some time now. They're taking the best of what's out there, coming at it from a data model perspective, and doing it up right.
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WebFaction. I've heard nothing but good things about them, and they have a large number of "turnkey" technology based solutions.
Thanks for your hard work!
Man, this host is having it rough lately. I might have to look at moving, but the price at this host (FREE) is of course very nice.
