WillFord384
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TeddyUrsadorable said:That's something we really need, even if it was just copying the vendor's published sizing.
One could simply find their size, and see what diapers will fit them.
Yeah, just putting in the published sizing would be a lot easier than doing linear measurements and figuring it out from there. This information would then appear in the table for each diaper that currently has slots for the backing type, taping method, style, etc.
Then there could be a page where you choose your waist size from a list and it shows the diapers that have the best match, like where your size falls close to the middle of the stated range. But there would still be several problems to overcome. For one thing, different companies will have different sizing methods, so in one case you can trust the stated sizing and in another you want to size up if you're close to the next size, and so on.
Also, presumably you'd want to search on a combination of size, backing, taping method, style, weight or capacity, price, and so on. All of that would be easy in a dynamic web site with some custom code behind it, but right now all of the custom code is for creating the 1,600+ fixed pages, and it runs on my local PC. As far as I know there's no way to create a dynamic search feature.
So unless I figure something out there, the best we can do is add information that appears on these static pages, like the published sizing or as I mentioned earlier, links to the ADISC reviews.
If someone knows how to create a page that does a dynamic search, I'm happy to provide them with my complete data set. Once this page works I might be able to host it alongside the wiki so there would be no extra cost. The search results would be links to the wiki.
Think of the wiki as it currently stands as just the first cut, an experiment. I published it for the first time less than six weeks ago. The data and photographs I've collected are presented as a bunch of fixed wiki pages because that's the best thing I could think of to start with. The data could be used in other ways.
In a sense that's already happening with the new "post on ADISC" feature. You could use the wiki to get some text that you paste in a post on ADISC, and you could delete the link to the wiki. So now you just have a bunch of photos that don't link to anything. They just serve as content on ADISC. This is fine because the point is not to drive traffic to the wiki; there's no advertising and I don't even see any page view stats. In fact, if the wiki got too popular it would slow down to a crawl until I upgraded my paid hosting account. Since the wiki is not an end in itself, I'm willing to give away all of the data and photos to anyone who has some use for them. Maybe that person will think of a much more useful way to present the data, and that might include a dynamic search like we've been talking about.
ETA: One idea for a creative individual: Maybe someone could string a lot of the photos together into a slideshow on YouTube celebrating all the cool characters and designs on some brand of diapers, and then if viewers seem to like it they could do the same for other brands.
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