I'd go with displaying perhaps 5 songs, in a random order, and make them prioritize them somehow. Upon submit, give them your "thank you" message, but also display 5 more songs (no dupes) below it, in case they want to rate some more.
For the "somehow", you could do 5 columns of radio buttons that automatically close out when one is selected. Or a drag and drop reordering. Or up/down arrows. There are a lot of solutions depending on how easy it needs to be, and how much time you want to invest in the UI. cheers, barneyb On 8/1/06, Jeff Small <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been asked to help out a friend conceptually, but I'm not sure exactly > how to proceed. He wants to have a "top 40" voting system where they will put > 40 song titles up on a web page, and people will "vote" on them. > > Sounds pretty simple, but I'm not sure about what would be the best way. He > seems to be leaning toward "we'll put them on the site, and people will put > them in the order that they want them in" but that sounds kinda clumsy and > unwieldy. I can't see people having the patience to REALLY do that. What > about the ones near the bottom? Would people just get tired after about 20 of > them and just submit? What would you do about ones that don't get "votes" or > aren't filled in? What order would you present the songs in? Alphabetical > seems the likely choice, but what about all the songs that begin with "W" or > "T" or the ones shoved to the bottom? Would the songs beginning with A > naturally gravitate to the top simply because of the way they're presented to > the user? > > Do you see where I'm coming from? Has anyone ever built a voting tabulation > system to do something like this? > > I was leaning towards a "points system" where maybe people picked their top > ten songs, and they got a point value based on their ranking. 10 points for > first place, 9 for second, etc, and totaling up all the "scores" each song > gets. > > I realize that a TRUE top 40 system is a system that rewards sales, and so > I'm struggling with how to rectify "voting" for something that would normally > be easily to tabulate. > > Any suggestions, both from an interface standpoint, and the pure tabulations > standpoint? > -- Barney Boisvert [EMAIL PROTECTED] 360.319.6145 http://www.barneyb.com/ Got Gmail? I have 100 invites. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:248571 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
