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Supply Depot sales calendar

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Wed, 03/06/2019 - 12:13
Nitronicx

I would like to make a calendar of past Supply Depot sales from October 2018 onwards. I tried to experiment a bit with how would such calendar look and I ended up with 2 variants: "vertical" and "horizontal". Which one is better? Or do you have a better idea? Both my variants can be found on the wiki sandbox page: https://wiki.spiralknights.com/Sandbox

There's only October 2018 for now, but for following months I would create new tables where at the beginning would be items still on sale mentioned again (that means the vertical variant would be divided into separate months, it wouldn't be one extremely long table). I plan to make a separate page called "Calendar of past Supply Depot sales" (or something similar) consisting only of these tables.

I think the horizontal variant (x axis = time) looks prettier and that the vertical variant takes a bit too much space, but the vertical table looks easier to modify and "template-ize". I also don't want the tables to be very wide so it can be easier to view on smaller screens (on mobile phones, for example) and if they would be very wide, it's probably better when some items don't fit on the screen (vertical) than have to scroll to see rest of the days of the month (horizontal). But the concerns about width and editing are probably not important because the tables wouldn't be very important or modified too often.

Wed, 03/06/2019 - 15:46
#1
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Bopp
my opinion

I've looked at your prototypes, but it's hard for me to imagine how the final page will look, because I know so little about these sales --- how often they are, how much information should be recorded for each one, etc.

That said, the key consideration for me is that horizontal space is limited while vertical space is not. Everyone expects to scroll up and down, and it matches well with how we generally read, but scrolling left and right is annoying. So I vote that you make the tables narrow (left-right) and long (up-down).

Thu, 03/07/2019 - 13:42
#2
Nitronicx
Expanded!

I tried to add another 2 months to both variants. It may not be relevant to you, since you've already stated by which criteria you would judge, but if you want to have a look, check the Sandbox page again.

The most interesting part is probably December, since there were many many items in the Supply Depot around the New Year. For each variant there are 2 tables for the December 2018: the first has every item listed separately and in the second I tried to couple similar items together to save space.

Thu, 03/07/2019 - 16:17
#3
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Bopp
horizontal

The tables in which the cells are horizontal are prettier than the tables in which they are vertical. Partly it's because, in the latter, individual words are as wide as the table cell, so a single item name is spread across many lines, which is ugly and hard to read.

Of course this depends somewhat on how I've configured my browser. I've configured it as I usually do, so that my test is typical of how I would experience the page in daily life. But of course other users might have other configurations.

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