Weezl and friends Phase 2 -giving it a whirl for Shirl! Testing meal plan for a month

Tsk Tsk Tsk and from one so young tut tut going to bed in disgust:rotfl::rotfl:

Well i was going anyway but it sounded good xx

weezl74 wrote: »

light relief from cleaning is a spreadsheet?

My light relief from the spreadsheet is cleaning!:rotfl:

For me if the spreadsheet is more urgent then the cleaning is light relief and if the cleaning is more urgent then the spreadsheet is light relief. (Otherwise known as procrastination.)

weezl74 wrote: »

OK, who could do the following slots:

weds eve 7.45 pm

saturday 2 pm or 7 pm

sunday 3 pm?

I could do Wed or Sat eve but I don't have any IM/chat things so I'd need to know what to set up first.

weezl74 wrote: »

I'll try that again!

ok ponder this: originally we thought shirl/kitty would do the full month and then need some extra cheap recipes for variety.

Now we're thinking that she starts with some cheap recipes and gradually trusts us and works up to the full thing, is that right?

If so, can people see my point that the website isn't quite navigating right, and needs to have more of an easy-in, getting you started with a few frugal recipes page (s)

weezl74 wrote: »

morag/aless/anyone who thought 'recipes' should contain all shirley's recipes, all kitty's and all our enticing shirley in recipes (approximately 100-150 in total). I like your idea, but as with everything with a website, it creates other quandries we must work round.:)

Please can you have a think about the following quandry:

there would be 2/3 very similar but not identical versions of the same recipe, which would be confusing?

ie if you went for the first time to a website for recipes and their index looked like this, would it not be a bit strange:

breakfast pancakes
breakfast pancakes (2)
breakfast pancakes (3)

to me, that seems as though we made it, thought it was a bit rubbish, so had another go! Which isn't what we're saying!

Also how does the user know which of them to pick?

quandry 2:

150 rows of recipes will look very daunting all shown at once and would mean A LOT of horizontal scrolling. Will the user get daunted and immediately bounce away?

(long contents pages have been shown to create an immediate 'bounce' away from the page. Caused by option paralysis.)


I'd very much appreciate as many people's thoughts as poss before I decide which way to go

How about the following:
The "Planners" page links to pages which list just the planner recipes (i.e. one page with just planner one recipes, one with just planner two recipes etc.)

The "Recipes" page links to "Planner one recipes", "Planner two recipes" then various other catgories such as "Main meals", "lunches", "Breakfasts", "Snacks", "Spreads and preserves", "Baking", "Vegan" etc. Some recipes may appear in more than one category (e.g. marmalade in spreads and breakfast or bread in lunch and baking). Also there could be an option of "All recipes".

If there is more than one version of a recipe due to the different planners, perhaps some means of indicating this can be devised e.g. Breakfast pancakes (P1), Breakfast pancakes (P2)... with a footnote or a sentence before the table explaining the P1/P2 etc. Alternatively, the planner specific pancakes could be linked from the planner recipes pages and then a combined breakfast pancakes recipe (giving variations within the recipe) could be linked from the general recipes pages (i.e. from the breakfast recipes page). (Or instead of a combined recipe, the preferred pancake recipe could be linked from the breakfast page and the other versions linked only from their own specific planner pages.)

SusanC wrote: »

For me if the spreadsheet is more urgent then the cleaning is light relief and if the cleaning is more urgent then the spreadsheet is light relief. (Otherwise known as procrastination.)

How about the following:
The "Planners" page links to pages which list just the planner recipes (i.e. one page with just planner one recipes, one with just planner two recipes etc.)

The "Recipes" page links to "Planner one recipes", "Planner two recipes" then various other catgories such as "Main meals", "lunches", "Breakfasts", "Snacks", "Spreads and preserves", "Baking", "Vegan" etc. Some recipes may appear in more than one category (e.g. marmalade in spreads and breakfast or bread in lunch and baking). Also there could be an option of "All recipes".

If there is more than one version of a recipe due to the different planners, perhaps some means of indicating this can be devised e.g. Breakfast pancakes (P1), Breakfast pancakes (P2)... with a footnote or a sentence before the table explaining the P1/P2 etc. Alternatively, the planner specific pancakes could be linked from the planner recipes pages and then a combined breakfast pancakes recipe (giving variations within the recipe) could be linked from the general recipes pages (i.e. from the breakfast recipes page). (Or instead of a combined recipe, the preferred pancake recipe could be linked from the breakfast page and the other versions linked only from their own specific planner pages.)

You know that sounds great Susan.

I am, however, worried that is a massive amount of work for Weezl so feel she needs to answer honestly to say how long that would take her to do!

weezl74 wrote: »

Hi susan

not a nag but any joy with the shopping list page?

Other things took over my time but I'm expecting to have more time after Wednesday.

BTW If you need anything done that isn't too technical (I *think* you know the limit of my abilities) I'm happy to do so whilst watching Portugal and NK.