We’ve been back to work on the site now for a few days. Here’s my current to-do list:

• Admin Screen for Editing Wine Entries
• Star Ratings for Wines
• Wine Recommendations
• Comment System
• Pagination for Search Results

As you can see, I’ve made some progress on the search results page. Things are formatted a little better, but the biggest addition is the pagination links at the top which makes it now possible to browse to every wine in the database (we used to show just the first 15 results).

Yahoo! has a pretty interesting design pattern for search results pagination over at their developer network. I decided, however, to mimic the pagination done at digg.com. I’m pretty happy with the results, although I was torn over whether to use numbered pages or alphabetical links. In the end, I thought the numbers were more flexible.

You can see what the results of all this by doing a search on the alpha site.

My code for the pagination is a mess (like a lot of the WineLog code at this point). I might spend some time fixing it up now that it’s working though; this is code that may be useful to others trying to mimic digg’s pagination scheme. Let me know if you’re interested in seeing it and I’ll move it up my list of to-dos.