Judge A Book By Its Cover - Blog
Sunday, March 05, 2006
Site updates and a new feed
Well, I've been hard at work making the site even better before I really start pushing it out into the web world. Here are the updates I've made: - All covers now have an up to date Amazon price next to them on the results pages, so if you're inclined to buy the item, you know the price without even leaving the site.
- On the Judge A Cover result pages you now get a new chart - Misjudged Covers. This is really cool for seeing which covers people don't like, but according to Amazon customer reviews, are really good. It shows what a difference a good cover really does make!
- I've also spent time improving the code that selects covers for judging and head to head battles. Its random now, with a slight weighting towards those covers that haven't been seen as often as some to help keep a balance. If you do get the same cover twice in a row, I'm sorry, but that is the nature of random selection!
- The code that imports covers now runs daily, so the catalogue of covers will grow steadily. Currently we're up to 318 covers, and given the change to the cover selection code above, I might be able to import a lot more covers soon, but I'll see how we go!
Finally I've created a new RSS feed. Related to the item above, it lists out the new covers imported that day, for the last 10 days, so you can keep track of new covers entered into the site. Then you can come and try to spot the cover, and be the first one to Judge it!
You can find all the feeds available for this site on the Judge A Book By Its Cover on your site page. If you have any other ideas for feed, I'm all ears! Happy Judging!
Posted by Chris at 17:24
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