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A link list with SELECT ratings might look like this:
Try clicking on the links in the example above and see
what happens.
The HTML behind one link in such a list might be:
<a onClick="javascript:rateWindow('you.rated.it',
'http://www.antro.uu.se/',
'Anthropology in Uppsala',
'general');" HREF=http://www.antro.uu.se/>
Anthropology in Uppsala, Sweden </A>
- Current research, on-line sale of books and publications. Information
about our undergradute course and gradute program.
<img
src= "http://we.rated.it/select/rate?a=get&cs=te
st/contents&icon=startrans&uri=http://www.antro.uu.se/"> |
The black code above is the code before addition of
SELECT, and the red code is the code which add when you add SELECT to
your web pages. If you only want to provide SELECT in the simple way
described above, you can do it immediately, you do not have to ask us
for permission. But we are interested in your telling us what you have
done.
Leeting people rate your own web pages inside the pages
To let people rate your own web page inside the pages,
inserte following code into your web page:
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<a
href=""
onClick='
window.open("http://you.rated.it/select/rate?a=srate2&contents=1.0&service=general&uri="
+ document.URL,
"displayWindow", "toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,
status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes, resizable=yes,width=600,height=200");
return false'>(Awful)
<img alt="Awful!" width=15 height=15 vspace=2 align=middle
border=0
name=dice1 src="http://we.rated.it/SELECT/icons/dice1.gif"></a>
<a href=""
onClick='
window.open("http://you.rated.it/select/rate?a=srate2&contents=3.0&service=general&uri="
+ document.URL, "displayWindow", toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=no,
menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=600,height=200");
return false'>(Mediocre)
<img alt="Mediocre" width=15 height=15 vspace=2 align=middle
border=0
name=dice2 src="http://we.rated.it/SELECT/icons/dice2.gif"></a>
<a href=""
onClick='
window.open("http://you.rated.it/select/rate?a=srate2&contents=5.0&service=general&uri="
+ document.URL, "displayWindow", "toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,
status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=600,height=200");
return false'>(Average)
<img alt="OK" width=15 height=15 vspace=2 align=middle
border=0
name=dice3 src="http://we.rated.it/SELECT/icons/dice3.gif"></a>
<a href=""
onClick='
window.open("http://you.rated.it/select/rate?a=srate2&contents=7.0&service=general&uri="
+ document.URL, "displayWindow", "toolbar=no,location=no,
directories=no,status=no,menubar=no,
scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=600,height=200"); return
false'>(Good)
<img alt="Good" width=15 height=15 vspace=2 align=middle
border=0
name=dice4 src="http://we.rated.it/SELECT/icons/dice4.gif"></a>
<a href=""
onClick='
window.open("http://you.rated.it/select/rate?a=srate2&contents=9.0&service=general&uri="
+ document.URL, "displayWindow", "toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,
status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=600,height=200");
return false'>(Great)
<img alt="Superior" width=15 height=15 vspace=2 align=middle
border=0
name=dice5 src="http://we.rated.it/SELECT/icons/dice5.gif"></a>
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Aggregate and collaborative ratings
At present, SELECT only provides ratings based on combining
ratings in the SELECT data base in the same way for every user (aggregate
rating). We are, however, working at developing collaborative ratings,
based on the ratings made by other people with the same ratings as yourself.
What we are offering now, to you, is however only aggregate ratings.
Services offered
The main facilities of the SELECT services, which we
are offering, are:
- A method for users to input their ratings on web
pages.
- Display of the aggregate ratings on a web page adjacent
to its link in the you subject tree page.
- Access to a rating server, to which you can send
operations through HTTP in XML format to submit and retrieve ratings.
- Experienced Perl, C, C++ and Java developers who
can adjust SELECT to your needs (we do not promise this service free
of cost to anyone, ask us what we can provide in your case).
Implementation variations
This can be implemented in different ways, and we can
adjust our implementation to your needs. Below are listed some variants
which we can provide depending on what you prefer.
Anonymous ratings and spamming
Instead of allowing anyone to rate a web page anonymously,
the right to submit ratings could be limited to certain people. The
advantage is that this will make spamming (cheating SELECT by providing
lots of high ratings on your own web pages) more difficult. The disadvantage
with this is that it will take much longer time to get a good selection
of ratings on web pages.
Or we could require that a raters first identifiy themselves.
Their identification could be checked by sending an e-mail to them,
which they must reply to. This does not give very high security, but
is probably enough to stop most spamming misuse of the rating facility.
Ratings on web pages within the same domain as the e-mail address of
the rater can then automatically be blocked, if you so wishes.
Making SELECT optional
Users could be allowed to choose whether they want to
use the rating facility or not. you would then store a cookie on this
user, with the text "wants-ratings" or "not-wants-ratings" and people
with the cookie not-wants-ratings would see the web page exactly as
you works today, without SELECT rating facilities.
How to submit ratings
The method of inputting user ratings can be any of the
following choices:
- A popup-window, as what happens when you click on
the links in the example.
- A frame
(this is only a mockup, not a working demo).
- Users who want to provide ratings, could go to our
server
and drag the "Rate
this" link to the toolbar in their web browser. After that, they
can click on "Rate
this" in the web browser toolbar, in order to send in their ratings.
Disadvantage: People may forget to provide ratings if they have to
remember to click on a link in the toolbar of the web browser.
- Your own software which submits ratings using the
standardized SELECT
protocols, based on HTTP and XML.
How to retrieve the one to five stars
The method of providing the one-to-five-stars can be
either:
- As in
the example in the beginning of this web page. Advantage: Simple
to implement. Fast display of all parts of the you web index page
except the actual rating images. Disadvantage: These rating images
may be slower, however, since they are fetched separately each of
them from the SELECT server.
- By lettingyour server request the ratings of all
the links in a page from the SELECT server unsing the standardized
SELECT
protocol. This can be done in one single TCP transaction where
you sends a list of all the URLs, and the SELECT returns the ratings
in a single response. You would then use the response from SELECT
to generate one to five stars. Advantage: Faster display of the ratings,
less network load. Disadvantage: You web index page is not shown until
the ratings have been fetched from the SELECT server.
Red stars or dice?
The format of the rating icons could be either one to
five stars 
or a dice with one to five dots  .
Here
are some different icons. For technical reasons, the web page should
contain width and height of the icon. This means that with the method
described in (a) above, all the icons have to be as wide as for five
stars. To hide this from the user, the stars have to be at the end of
a paragraph. With dice, you can instead put the ratings in the beginning
of the paragraph. This is not a problem with method (b), since then
your server can generate the correct width of the row of stars.
The five stars we have developed are intentionally small
and unobtrusive, but perhaps they are too small and too unobtrusive
- we can make them larger and more visible if you so wants.
We can also, of course, make other changes if you so
wish.
Multiple ratings
If the same user rates the same web page more than once,
SELECT only stores the latest of ratings. This will not work, however,
for anonymous ratings.
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