Help with rating, please

     

This is not one of my usual posts where I attempt to entertain lightly. This time I’m looking for some advice.

Long story short, I’d like to add some sort of rating system to the next version of the website & am unsure about pretty much every aspect of it.

With this one, you can see there are five criteria:

Scale A castle’s immenseness. Length, width & height.
Buildings A bit complicated, but basically a high number of gates/towers gets a good score.
Earth/Stonework   Stone walls, earthen mounds, moats, ditches.
Accessibility Ease of getting to, i.e. nearness to major transport hubs. But, also good multi-lingual signage, pamphlets, etc…
Nearby P.O.I. Places Of Interest. Basically, the Castle-Town. Daimyo gardens, Samurai homes, temples, etc…

So, entering in the five values creates the radar graph, the key (the bottom five lines) & a rating in %. Clicking on the avatar will take you to a twitter/Google+ account, a blog, whatever. And yes, this all means different people could submit their scores.

If anyone has any ideas to make it better/easier to understand, I’d love to hear from you. Please leave a comment. Oh, the 94% belongs to Kumamoto castle, the other Sashiki castle.

  • http://sixmats.blogspot.com Sixmats

    Could you somehow put the actual words in the graph instead of the letters? I like the percentage.

    What program did you use to make the graph – or did you code it yourself?

  • Anonymous

    I did try that but it made the radar graph tiny. Then I considered (Sc) for Scale, (Bu) for buildings, etc… In the end I just thought A, B, C would be easier to follow.

    I used Google Graphs for the pics. It’s great, you just pass all the attributes in an img url, Google produces the image. Took a few hours to get the first one right, I assure you.

  • http://www.poolofzen.com コールズ・真秀

    I think it is really cool.  Will I be able to search based off ratings for each quality?  I also like SixMat’s idea about the labels.

    Cool Cool.  I like the now format!

    Matt

  • Anonymous

    Bad news first. The labels can’t be helped. Lengthening the labels will shrink the graph drastically. And, well spotted. With the ratings I’ll be able to create real top-10 lists. It won’t be for a while though.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dennis-Boyd/1152601430 Dennis Boyd

    Good idea.