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Hi,

Just thought I want to put this beta site out for public review. It's a prototype of a cms/bookstore engine I am working on using google app engine.

The total work so far is clocked at about 7.5 hours -- using Gaelyk is really productive if you know Grails.

Comments and insights will be appreciated. http://www.bestbooks100.com

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rorrr
The images are set to

    width="1" height="1"
So they are not showing up.

Also I don't see a point to that project. I can just go to amazon and sort the business books by user reviews:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=sr_nr_n_0?rh=n%3A283155%...

seymores
I got the same problem too, it's caused by your AdBlock. It's just a prototype for a cms for bookstore, so ya, it'd be useless for amazon power users. :-)
riffmaster
nice ! is there a way for visitors to vote on their favorite books & you order books based on that ?

maybe even add a few if you missed out something ??

revorad
That's a really nice and simple idea. You could turn it into a game, where people vote by bumping their favourite books against others.
ScottWhigham
I see a blank wooden background in FF6 and Chrome 13.
seymores
Adblock -- I love learning new shits everyday. :-)
dorian-graph
I'd love it if there was more space below the title image. :P Otherwise, it looks okay. 2 small things that came to mind is the hover effect on the book images and the possibility of having a small blurb in the hover box for each book?
seymores
hmm, you should see a popup with description when you hover.
sek
Who has the time to read all that stuff?
smokestack
Sorry, I feel like I'm missing something. It's pretty, but is this only Amazon.com's business category sorted by "Bestselling"?
seymores
Thanks for the time, ya time being, just a prototype to display amazon best selling books.
parasitius
Am I missing something?? If you can find people that prefer to view it on a sexy wooden background and can affiliate link them... WHY NOT? Amazon's pages are super busy.
eliot_sykes
One thing with top x lists is they can suffer from not showing good older titles in favour of recent more hyped titles. Wonder if there is a way to account for this? So it is a more of an all time top x list?
theitgirl
the pop-up that shows up when you hover on image is not updating..it keeps showing info of the first book i hovered over.