Site Tips

Site Conventions

• The site strives to maintain a clean, intuitive, and easy-to-navigate design.
• Considering your privacy, I decided not to use the frequently used browser cookies or Google Analytics.
• Every page uses the same header at the top of the page, footer at the bottom of the page, color scheme, and styling.
• The header on every page has helpful links and tips:
  • Home icon: quickly navigate back to the site Home page;
  • Navigation bar: quickly navigate to the main Collection image walls;
  • Navigation tips: see the main tips to utilize each page effectively;
  • Search bar: search all the content on the site.
• The footer on every page has helpful links:
  • About: learn about me;
  • Blog: learn about site changes;
  • Site Tips (this page): learn how to navigate the site better;
  • Feedback: send me feedback or a message.

Site Icons

Navigation
	Home	Navigate to site Home page.
	My Story	Navigate to corresponding story page for collection.
	My Collection	Navigate to corresponding image wall for collection.
	My Creations	Navigate to corresponding image wall for my creations.
	Detailed Image	Navigate to detailed image.
	Video Link	Navigate to video regarding the item (e.g., trailer for movie, demo video for robot, etc.).
	Homepage	Navigate to the homepage for the movie/series.
	IMDb Page	Navigate to IMDb page for the movie/series.
	More Info	Navigate to page with more information for item.
Informative
	Browser Back	Indicates browser button should be used to navigate back.
	Missing Image	Indicates item image is missing.
	In My Collection	Indicates item is in my collection.
	Users	Indicates metric from users like IMDb Users movie rating.
	Loading	Indicates page is still loading.

Movies Page Customization

• The Sort and Filter options on the Movies page can be customized with parameters on the URL.
• This allows you to bookmark a customized Movies page to your liking!
• To start by playing with some base settings:
  1. Go to the Movies page.
  2. Click the Sort and Filter button to open the options panel.
  3. Select the desired options for your ideal weekly new releases browsing.
  4. Click the link to Bookmark current options from here.
• You will see that the URL structure looks like this: https://bondihobbies.com/movies/?key=value&key=field:value....
  • key can be a variety of values.
  • value (when it is a simple value or when embedded like field:value) can be preceded with a ~ (tilde) to indicate negative or inverse. For example, sort=~Release is a reverse sort on the Release Date, and, filter=Genres:~Animation is to exclude movies/series with the Animation genre.
• Considering this structure, you can customize the URL based on one or both of the two approaches below:
  1. User Interface Control
     • key represents the option names displayed on the page, except with no spaces:
       • Some option name exceptions:
         • Substitute TV with Series.
         • Substitute Rating ≥ with MinRating.
       • You can also use ViewTitle for a caption in the header to distinguish the view, passed in one of 3 forms:
         1. Title
         2. Label:Value
         3. Label:Value:secondary info
     • value represents the values displayed on the page, except with %20 in place of spaces.
     • For example, Focus:My%20Reviews, Sort=~Reviewed, and MyRating:true.
  2. Database Fields Sort/Filter
     • key is filter or sort.
     • value represents the fields in the database.
       • When using the filter key, value can be in one of two forms:
         1. field indicating a field existence requirement;
         2. field:value where the : (colon) can be replaced by >, <, ≥, or ≤ for applicable fields (e.g., Release, Review, Year, My Rating, usrRating, etc.).
       • The field name typically matches what you see as field names in the lightbox window. Here are some field name exceptions:
         • Substitute $$$ with Revenue.
         • Substitute Ratings with usrCount.
         • Substitute YouTube Trailer ID with Trailer.
         • Substitute Alt. Title with Alt Titles.