Surviving Garments Database Online!

[hrj]

Yes, it's finally ready for people to try to use it. This isn't quite even a "beta" version -- more like an alpha-and-a-half version. What's online at this moment is the ugly simplified fall-back version that I knew I could get to work. Tomorrow morning I hope to upgrade this to the slightly more elegant and more flexible version that SK worked up for me (while I was finalizing the fall-back version). The main difference is that the more elegant version allows for multiple selections in some fields that the fall-back version only allows single selections in.

And, of course, there are all sorts of upgrades and improvements that I have on the to-do list. But at least I have something functional to debut for Kalamazoo.

Oh, right, the link. Here it is: The Surviving Garments Database.

Comments

[hrj.livejournal.com]

One quick observation having run a garment parameter search -- would you consider placing at the head of each returned record a short descriptive "name" of the item

That's something that's really been bothering me as well. There isn't an easy fix, since it will involve adding a new field and then populating it individually. (None of the existing fields would really serve the purpose.) But I agree that the current layout makes it hard to figure out at a flash exactly what garment is being described. The other identification-related feature that's on the to-do list is to add a simple line-drawing of each item. Again, this will take a bit of work to create, but would immensely improve the user-friendliness.