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Airline Mogul => Suggestions => Topic started by: 1993matias on January 28, 2012, 10:46:08 am

Title: Spacing in the purchase aircraft table
Post by: 1993matias on January 28, 2012, 10:46:08 am
Hi!

Is it possible to add some spacing between the data in the 'Purchase Aircraft' page? Like it is now it looks very, very cramped; you have to read it slowly to read what it says. Sometimes you mistake the number of seats for the model number.

(http://i330.photobucket.com/albums/l405/skoleboss/random%20things/spacing.png)

Is it a Gulfstream I24? Is the engine a RR Dart 529-8X135?

Pretty annoying
Title: Re: Spacing in the purchase aircraft table
Post by: StephenM on January 28, 2012, 11:50:42 am
Hi!

Is it possible to add some spacing between the data in the 'Purchase Aircraft' page? Like it is now it looks very, very cramped; you have to read it slowly to read what it says. Sometimes you mistake the number of seats for the model number.

(http://i330.photobucket.com/albums/l405/skoleboss/random%20things/spacing.png)

Is it a Gulfstream I24? Is the engine a RR Dart 529-8X135?

Pretty annoying

When you put it like that, you definitely can see the possibility of making mistakes.

Here are two options for the change, select which one you prefer: http://verifyapp.com/p/18250
Title: Re: Spacing in the purchase aircraft table
Post by: norge on January 28, 2012, 12:01:18 pm
I like that second one.

I actually mistook the Gulfstream I to be 124 seats in the first one...
Title: Re: Spacing in the purchase aircraft table
Post by: StephenM on January 28, 2012, 12:19:34 pm
Slightly off topic norge, but I like your logo. Pretty cool.  :)
Title: Re: Spacing in the purchase aircraft table
Post by: 1993matias on January 28, 2012, 12:26:47 pm
I think a few more (horizontal) pixels of spacing (2 or 3) would be great, as it is still a bit cramped. But it already looks better :D
Title: Re: Spacing in the purchase aircraft table
Post by: StephenM on January 28, 2012, 12:47:21 pm
I think a few more (horizontal) pixels of spacing (2 or 3) would be great, as it is still a bit cramped. But it already looks better :D

The problem is the bigger it gets the harder it is to fit all the information in without text wrapping etc. Great for widescreen computers though!
Title: Re: Spacing in the purchase aircraft table
Post by: norge on January 28, 2012, 12:59:02 pm
Slightly off topic norge, but I like your logo. Pretty cool.  :)

Oh, thanks!  :D
Title: Re: Spacing in the purchase aircraft table
Post by: Cloudscraper on January 28, 2012, 01:15:09 pm
When you put it like that, you definitely can see the possibility of making mistakes.

Here are two options for the change, select which one you prefer: http://verifyapp.com/p/18250
Horizontal spacing of the 1st option, vertical spacing of the 2nd.
Title: Re: Spacing in the purchase aircraft table
Post by: cjp on January 28, 2012, 04:17:29 pm
Just a thought. How about right justifying all the numerical columns. You have to add a little right margin to make sure it doesn't crowd a text column to the right. Right justifying allows you to read down the list and see them in order better, for example it would be obvious which planes are 10 million euro or more. It would also eliminate the crowding to long text in the left column.
Title: Re: Spacing in the purchase aircraft table
Post by: StephenM on January 28, 2012, 07:33:00 pm
Just a thought. How about right justifying all the numerical columns. You have to add a little right margin to make sure it doesn't crowd a text column to the right. Right justifying allows you to read down the list and see them in order better, for example it would be obvious which planes are 10 million euro or more. It would also eliminate the crowding to long text in the left column.

That is probably worth considering as well. The whole process is likely to be revisited in the future to improve it and at that stage I will definitely consider this suggestion.

For the moment 88% of respondents voted for the option I've just deployed to the site. So I hope its better!
Title: Re: Spacing in the purchase aircraft table
Post by: 1993matias on January 29, 2012, 09:05:14 am
It looks better already :D
Title: Re: Spacing in the purchase aircraft table
Post by: 1993matias on March 03, 2012, 09:23:30 am
Please note the spacing hasn't changed in the 'request aircraft' section :)
Title: Re: Spacing in the purchase aircraft table
Post by: StephenM on March 03, 2012, 11:09:57 am
Oops will take care of that next week too.