Feature of the Week: Profile Sections
I’m going to set a goal for the project to launch (and blog about) one new feature a week. Sometimes they’ll be big features, other times they might just be a small tweak or backend improvement, but no matter what, at least one improvement a week. This week’s new feature is profile tabs, driven by a request to have a way to see an individual user’s entire meal history.
By breaking out the profile into several specific sections (right now just an overview and the meal list), I can provide that info in a meaningful (if not yet formatted) way. The tabs are fetched via AJAX as you request them and then cached them locally. This is a broadly useful enhancement — once the tab switching has some decent formatting, I’m going to roll it out to user accounts as well to make it easy to manage your overall settings, email and MMS access, Facebook and Twitter linking, and some planned meal tracking options.
You can see the new profile view in any profile — for instance, http://www.mealstrom.com/user/profile/alex.
See you next week,
Alex
Info tab:
Meal list tab:
