Some thoughts about the Amazon Plugins
Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 11:27 am
Hello,
I'm still in the process to migrate my Blog to S9Y and I was playing around with the Amazon Plugins.
The biggest part of this entry is not a list of bugs found, its more some thoughts about it, some things about usability and features to enhance this great plugin.
First a little bug:
The "Done" button in the Amazon chooser plugin for blog entries does not work in Chrome. The funny part is: The same button found in the Amazon recommendation plugin is working.
Some thoughts:
Consolidate the "Amazon Media Button" and the "Amazon Recommendations" plugins. I was thinking about something like a library for entered Amazon products: One place to search and enter products, where you can list and view them and select which product is visible in the sidebar or/and in a blog entry. In this way it would be much easier to work with it. At the Moment its a bit cumbersome if i want that a product is displayed in a blog entry and as well in the sidebar I have to enter it in two different places.
Use same ASIN-Syntax in both plugins. ATM the way how an ASIN must be written is differing in the "Amazon Media Button Plugin" the ASIN Looks like "B0035JL3RW,DVD" in the "Amazon Recommendations" it is "B0035JL3RW-DVD". So copy and paste between both plugins needs always a bit of rework.
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Forgot something:
Another nice usability tweek would be the posibility to select multiple results in the Amazon search. In my case I want to add the DVD and the Blu-Ray version of a Movie to my entries or the siedbar so for every version of the movie I need to search it again and add it.
*****Edit*****
I know that these suggestions could lead into very much work but I think this could lead into a very good enhancement in usability for this plugin. What do you think?
Unfortunately I'm not a programmer.
But if some testing is to do I can help.
Best Regards
NF
I'm still in the process to migrate my Blog to S9Y and I was playing around with the Amazon Plugins.
The biggest part of this entry is not a list of bugs found, its more some thoughts about it, some things about usability and features to enhance this great plugin.
First a little bug:
The "Done" button in the Amazon chooser plugin for blog entries does not work in Chrome. The funny part is: The same button found in the Amazon recommendation plugin is working.
Some thoughts:
Consolidate the "Amazon Media Button" and the "Amazon Recommendations" plugins. I was thinking about something like a library for entered Amazon products: One place to search and enter products, where you can list and view them and select which product is visible in the sidebar or/and in a blog entry. In this way it would be much easier to work with it. At the Moment its a bit cumbersome if i want that a product is displayed in a blog entry and as well in the sidebar I have to enter it in two different places.
Use same ASIN-Syntax in both plugins. ATM the way how an ASIN must be written is differing in the "Amazon Media Button Plugin" the ASIN Looks like "B0035JL3RW,DVD" in the "Amazon Recommendations" it is "B0035JL3RW-DVD". So copy and paste between both plugins needs always a bit of rework.
*****Edit*****
Forgot something:
Another nice usability tweek would be the posibility to select multiple results in the Amazon search. In my case I want to add the DVD and the Blu-Ray version of a Movie to my entries or the siedbar so for every version of the movie I need to search it again and add it.
*****Edit*****
I know that these suggestions could lead into very much work but I think this could lead into a very good enhancement in usability for this plugin. What do you think?
Unfortunately I'm not a programmer.
But if some testing is to do I can help.
Best Regards
NF