[thelist] asked to rebuild an eCommerce category/subcategory/product structure

[David Laakso]

ben morrison wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Hassan Schroeder
> <hassan.schroeder at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> So a items-per-page choice, e.g. [ 4 | 12 | all ] would be nice.
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>> Not that that's necessarily less work for you :-)
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>> OTOH, horizontal "scrolling" of 25 items in chunks of 4 means the
>> user has to continually scroll back and forth to compare; I think you
>> would need to provide a "page" locator at least, identifying the group
>> currently in view, and letting the user jump directly to a given "page".
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> It does all sound a little messy, horizontal scrolling never nice.
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For sure!


> How about suggesting to build a simple prototype page to gauge interaction??
>
> Ben
>   


And provide an alternative:

4 divisions with 6 products each.
The first division always open.
Two, three, and four expand/collapse.