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After several months of work, I'm pleased to unveil the first of a series of major updates to the T2W website that will be rolled out in 2010 - the new Reviews section.
What's New
Below you'll find a summary of the changes between the old and new versions, but if you'd prefer to jump right in, then you can access it at it's new address here: http://www.trade2win.com/section/reviews/
Apart from the visual differences, it's worth mentioning this whole section has been re-coded from the ground up by a new team of in-house developers, this means that we can roll out updates and changes much easily now, and we already have plans to roll out a further set of new features, this time next week.
By far the easiest way to see how reviews have changed, is to compare old with new. So I've attached various before and after screenshots along with some commentary to hopefully give you a better idea.
Screenshots: Reviews Home (Old/New)


Before, the old home page for the reviews was fundamentally broken; it didn't list the latest reviews as the title on the page suggested, but instead listed the latest products/services added. Since we haven't added any for some time, this page would always stay the same
Now, apart from the new look 'n feel, the first difference you'll notice is that we display a list of the top rated product/services across all categories (eg. books, brokers, data feeds etc). You can easily re-order these by number of reviews, and most recently added products/services. We also display a selection of the most recent reviews in the sidebar, and feature the most helpful reviews voted for by members.
Screenshots: Reviews - Brokers Category (Old/New)


Before we had a simple listing of all the brokers in this category, unfortunately the re-ordering wasn't working.
Now it's identical to the new Home page with the same features outlined above but the scope of the information displayed is now limited to the category you're in ie. Brokers.
Screenshots: Reviews - Search Results for 'FXCM' (Old/New)


Not real difference in features between the two, but now the information is more clearly displayed.
Screenshots: Reviews - FXCM (Old/New)


Again, not much difference in terms of features except that you can now re-order the reviews by how helpful members thought they were. But again, the design is much cleaner and easier to read.
Some known issues (due to be fixed in next week's release)
Coming soon
What's New
- Brand new design.
- All coding re-written from scratch (much easier to make further improvements).
- Easily see at a glance where a product/service is ranked in it's category.
- List of related products/services.
- New ways of sorting products/services and reviews.
- All coding re-written from scratch (much easier to make further improvements).
- Easily see at a glance where a product/service is ranked in it's category.
- List of related products/services.
- New ways of sorting products/services and reviews.
Below you'll find a summary of the changes between the old and new versions, but if you'd prefer to jump right in, then you can access it at it's new address here: http://www.trade2win.com/section/reviews/
Apart from the visual differences, it's worth mentioning this whole section has been re-coded from the ground up by a new team of in-house developers, this means that we can roll out updates and changes much easily now, and we already have plans to roll out a further set of new features, this time next week.
By far the easiest way to see how reviews have changed, is to compare old with new. So I've attached various before and after screenshots along with some commentary to hopefully give you a better idea.
Screenshots: Reviews Home (Old/New)


Before, the old home page for the reviews was fundamentally broken; it didn't list the latest reviews as the title on the page suggested, but instead listed the latest products/services added. Since we haven't added any for some time, this page would always stay the same
Now, apart from the new look 'n feel, the first difference you'll notice is that we display a list of the top rated product/services across all categories (eg. books, brokers, data feeds etc). You can easily re-order these by number of reviews, and most recently added products/services. We also display a selection of the most recent reviews in the sidebar, and feature the most helpful reviews voted for by members.
Screenshots: Reviews - Brokers Category (Old/New)


Before we had a simple listing of all the brokers in this category, unfortunately the re-ordering wasn't working.
Now it's identical to the new Home page with the same features outlined above but the scope of the information displayed is now limited to the category you're in ie. Brokers.
Screenshots: Reviews - Search Results for 'FXCM' (Old/New)


Not real difference in features between the two, but now the information is more clearly displayed.
Screenshots: Reviews - FXCM (Old/New)


Again, not much difference in terms of features except that you can now re-order the reviews by how helpful members thought they were. But again, the design is much cleaner and easier to read.
Some known issues (due to be fixed in next week's release)
- Some categories, are lacking sub-categories, so for example, brokers should be further sub-divided between Forex, Stocks, Commodities etc. These will be added.
- When viewing a category the reviews in the sidebar show reviews across all categories and not just that category, as it should do.
- When viewing a category the reviews in the sidebar show reviews across all categories and not just that category, as it should do.
Coming soon
- Every product/service will get it's own review thread in a new forum, where reviews will get automatically published, and members can comment on them. This way you'll never miss a review again. (due this week)
- Members can add new products/services if they're not already listed.
- View a list of all reviews written by a single member.
- Integration between your User CP profile information and the reviews.
- Members can add new products/services if they're not already listed.
- View a list of all reviews written by a single member.
- Integration between your User CP profile information and the reviews.