Updates to The Old Toy Guide

We have just completed the next phase of development work to The Old Toy Guide that included adding pagination to the section pages, modifying the navigation on the site news section and adding more functionality to the content management system to support these changes.

The functionality added to the section pages includes breaking the lists down into smaller pages with 10 toys/models in each page. We did this to speed up the page loading as some of the categories have grown to include 80+ items. The method adopted to navigate between pages is a fairly standard design. It includes each page number as a link to that page with a next and previous page link and a first and last page link. To help those wishing to view all the toys/models in the section we maintained the previous all in section list by adding a further link to display a long list of all the toys/models in the section.

The site news section has been updated to add a navigation system similar to that of a standard blog. Each page has now been broken down into monthly news articles. The navigation method is not a standard one, we implemented a bespoke javascript design. Basically, it invloves writting a Javascript array to the page when it is loaded containing an entry for each month that has a news article added during that month. This array is then used by the window.onload event to build up the navigation pane using the Javascript DOM. The new navigation pane can be found in The Old Toy Guide Site News section.