More Website Stuff

Moving to the Home page from another tab is now noticeably faster than re-loading it; the website now only needs to load everything the first time you visit.  In addition, we added a new table to keep track of users' friendlists and only need to record those once.  There are a few more tables in the database for keeping track of some things, but they haven't been filled with stuff yet.

Also fixed a few minor errors.

Layout Changes and Future Goals

We decided that it would be better to split our single big page into a bunch of smaller pages in order to reduce future server load. Don't worry though, since our tabbed layout has stayed the same.

In the future, we will want to just have 4 main pages.

•  A Homepage listing some popular predictions
• The list of predictions and their current probabilities
• User's status (what prediction shares they own and what they are bidding on)
• Help (how to play, how to get more information)

When you access a single prediction, you will be given information about the prediction such as when the market closes, and what prices it is being traded for. You can then post a bid; if the bid can be fulfilled, it will be immediately transacted.

This last step needs to be done. We also want our site to look nice.

We also have issues with HTTPS still, which we are trying to resolve.

Where to put Leaderboards and how we're gathering data will be done later. Perhaps another database table could store the latter.

Since we're close to going live, we will want a playground/test area so that we can continue to make improvements without impacting our live site.