Jeffrey Williams

Hi @paolo

I know I’m overlooking it, but I don’t see how to put my custom fields inside a tab, so that it displays in the main content. There a tutorial for this?

Cheers!

Hi @paolo

Circling back to this.

Yes, I agree that using images all with the same ratio would be better, but getting every single user to post an ad that way, is not realistic. People just want to upload their photo and expect to work. We both know that.

So, it’s incumbent for the platform to be user friendly, otherwise people simply won’t use it, and we’re all wasting our time.

I’ll try the code.

Cheers my friend!

Hi @paolo

Upon further testing, the code is not working. In order to test it, I changed the max-height to 50px, so it would be obvious that it either worked, or not.

There was no change (see attached snapshot)

Waiting for your reply.

Thanks for all your help.

Cheers.

Now that I look at it, it appears that some of the pics in the dummy data have thumbnails smaller that 150px. So while your code limits how big the pics are, if some thumbnails are smaller that 150px, the display still looks uneven. Is there a way to force all thumbnails to be minimum and maximum of 150px?

Thanks!

Hi @paolo

Thanks for the code! However, instead of sizing the GD Listing Carousel, it adjusted the Photo Slider on the Details page of the listing.

How should I tweak the code so it applies to the right element?

Thanks for the help!

Hi @paolo

I’m just trying to help with suggestions to improve GD. You see, it doesn’t matter what logic you throw at it (i.e. “because there is an error”). In coding terms, you and I know that, but that’s not what counts. What matters is the user experience.

Take me for example. I own GD and have been learning to launch it on my site. Even with that knowledge I still didn’t know the purpose of the message was to encourage me to upgrade. I just thought it was preventing me from completing the process. The result is, the user gets confused and simply backs out of the listing process. That’s the last thing you want.

There’s a link to a video I created at the bottom of this message. Watch it and you see that as soon as I select the APPROPRIATE category for my listing (i.e. a dirt bike, listed under motorcycles), in mid-selection I instantly get an error that says “You have reached the category limit of 1 category.” That made me feel like I did something wrong, when I was logically doing exactly what I was supposed to do in order to categorize my listing correctly. That is not intuitive or logical. If that’s my user experience, I know others will likely have the same experience. A confusing experience is the last thing you want for your users.

I suggest the following:

1. Create IF/THEN logic in the javascript. It might say… IF if the category is a child category of a parent category, THEN it is considered one category.

Regarding the upsell message. There has to be a better way to provide an option to upgrade, or at least educate the user on the package he/she is purchasing. I suggest it be done in the package descriptions when the user is making a selection. That is the time to upsell the user. Trying to upsell someone in the middle of processing a listing is just plain disruptive and annoying. People hate that. But if you insist on including the pop-up upsell message, then let the webmaster of the website turn it ON or OFF depending on his/her preference.

A listing process should be clean, simple, fast, and intuitive. You want people to enjoy using it, and think “Wow, that was easy. I think I’ll list another item.” Hitting someone with error messages in the middle of the process is not an enjoyable experience. There’s too many options on the internet, and they will just go somewhere else.

I love GD the more and more I use it. I’m on your side. I’m hoping to help you make it better.

Here’s the video I mentioned: https://db.tt/Jr7qrRROt

Thanks for the help.

Cheers.