Web Usability

Just wanted to cover a few updates and wanted your feedback too. First up are the photo pages. Click through to the A Week in Tokyo page for example. If you keep scrolling, the page will continue to load previous photo articles until you hit the end of the Internets meaning that you can get to the content you are looking for without a load of clicking.

You can also do the same for Japan and Figures and anything else in the Category menu at the top of the screen.

This technique of web usability is known as "Endless Scrolling" or "Infinite Scrolling." I noticed that Kotaku implemented the same although you need to click a link at the bottom to load more.
Folks who are interested in this can get a JQuery plugin from infinite-scroll.com - they have a Wordpress plugin and its Search Engine friendly too.

To find other previous items, for now you need to click on the "View More" link just after the 6pack on the top page - which brings me to a question...
When looking for previous DC content, do you search or paginate through pages?
If its a recent post then I would paginate but if its from a while ago I do a search.

The Anime Store is now open too which uses the Amazon API to pull in the latest products sorted by Best Selling order - meaning that you can see whats hot and whats not for figures, anime and ecchi stuff. The store is automatically updated daily.
The link to the Anime Store is currently available in the Category menu at the top of the page.

You can also see releases by month too - I will increase the count of items on the pagination pages and probably make them infinite scrolling too.

After migrating to Mirai Gaia on the temporary theme, many of you requested that I bring back the old theme which I did.
Lately however, I've been hearing feedback that the top page is a still confusing.
The main problem I'm hearing is that folks don't know what to click on ^^;
The top page style is known as a Magazine format which highlights some news and allows the user to click through. Similar sites are Alafista and Kodomut.

Another site to use the magazine layout is CNNGo. Hmmm, the bottom left corner seems to be featuring posts from dannychoo.com ^^;

Would like to ask what you think of the current top page and any improvements that you would like to see. I'm not going to try to please all (because I will fail miserably) want want to make sure that most of you are happy ^^