Petition for Feature Drop-Down Boxes on Insertion of New Ads

[Marco Morais]

Good afternoon,

Since there is a major interest in having the Ad Insertion changed from tree mode to drop-down boxes, i'd like every user to post their interest in this post, as a way of showing Flynax how important this feature is for all of us.
Currently when one of our users want's to insert a new classifieds ad, they'll have to use a tree to select the sub-category where they want to place their post. This translates "old" methods, which doesn't tag along with all the great features of Flynax Classifieds Software.
Personally, i think the drop-down boxes form translates a faster and cleaner website.
If we compare the user experience, for sure it's quicker to use two or three drop-down boxes than going to roll down the page to search for the or category and sub where they want to insert.
My opinion is that It's a well deserved enhancement for Flynax.
I give the Flynax team the hand, there have been a lot of features update and upgrade lately, so please, just consider this one as well.

Ps: can't we make a poll on this, i'm sure you'd be surprised on how many people would actually want this.


Best Regards,

Marco

[Riba]

While the tree method is not perfect, I don't think that drop-down form is much better. It is also very cumbersome if there is a large number of categories to manage. What I feel would be the best method is a drill-down navigation, as shown for example here:
http://www.designchemical.com/lab/jq...ugin/examples/

This should be easy to implement as a replacement for the tree menu.

[Marco Morais]

Well, after going trough some of the major players, one thing i've noticed... they-re all using the same style of menu.. and if anything, although it won't enrich the the user experience in any way, it'll actually make the bridge between systems, so making them a lot easier to use. So as Petrache Nicolae showed and well, in the attachment, most of the more advanced "players" are using inline menus with sub-categories.
Anyways, heres another example of what could be..
Option1 - http://codecanyon.net/item/jquery-in..._author=slashc
or getting a bit crazier..
Option 2 - http://codecanyon.net/item/jquery-in...review/2871420
Yet another one...
Option 3 - http://codecanyon.net/theme_previews...dition?index=4

Open to some other options, if anyone else cares to share, but please, if possible share sites with snippets or something alike, so we can try and join a few ideas. Perhaps we can make a vote on it later on and ask Flynax for something more or less specific.

[Marco Morais]

And yet a few more examples.
Inline
http://codecanyon.net/item/javascript-huge-vertical-menu/full_screen_preview/307334
Drill-down
http://codecanyon.net/item/jquery-dr...review/2852431
Vertical Menu
http://codecanyon.net/item/css3-hori...review/1086420
http://codecanyon.net/theme_previews...-menus?index=1

Any comments anyone?..

[Marco Morais]

Well, i don't disagree, anyways, one way or the other, i think any change that eliminates the tree, and implement's drop down or drill-down is welcome.
Although i do have to agree with you regarding the drill-down, not a bad choice since it'd leave room for categories to grow without limitations.
Anyways, count you in for the support of the petition?

[Riba]

To be honest, both (or all three of them) work fine for me because I have a limited number of categories. I do think that drill-down navigation has better functionality and aesthetics, compared to the other two, but yes, I do think that improvements are welcome in this regard.

[Marco Morais]

If you are visiting this thread, i can assure you this subject in debate here, surely is of your interest.
Being of general interest, i'd like you to submit a reply to this thread stating your opinion, and if you agree this could enhance your classifieds website, then please let us know.
This is a matter of asking Flynax for this development, and Flynax will only look into this, if there are enough people demonstrating some interest in it's development.

Kind Regards to Everyone,

Marco Morais

[Ahmad Raza]

Seems like we all have our own opinions. In my understanding, the quickest and ideal way is to have the ad submission done in a single page. When user lands on ad posting page, he should be shown a category Drop Down, from where when he selects the category and then the ad submission form is displayed. That way we can maximize the ad posting, its speedy and very less intriguing.

Step 1

Only Category Drop Down



Step 2

Rest of Ad submission form shows up after selecting category

[Petrache Nicolae]

true. each has his own vision on this depending on his site. in my case, i prefer the one from www.okazii.ro wich is better than the dropdown or tree or drill-down (since i have a large number of categories/subcategories). looks like i will have to pay for that customisation...

[Marco Morais]

true. each has his own vision on this depending on his site. in my case, i prefer the one from www.okazii.ro wich is better than the dropdown or tree or drill-down (since i have a large number of categories/subcategories). looks like i will have to pay for that customisation...

Nicolae, in regards to the "menu" itself, giving that the area of interest here is for the insertion part, i'll have to disagree with you.
By far, the simplest way for the selection would be the drill-down, since the user, can go up or down a level in a simple way.
The objective of this petition is to ask Flynax to develop the ad insertion form feature making it quicker and shorter.
It's all about end user experience.