I just uploaded our powerpoint presentation for tonight. You can get to the powerpoint here.
Just in case we have problems with the Kayak API, I took some screenshots of the program being fully functional and uploaded those slides as well.
You can view our Iteration Three site at http://yipe.emich.edu/~ltabor/kayakers.html
or
Go directly to the search feature http://yipe.emich.edu/~ltabor/search.html
See everyone at class later!
Davida's Blog Lori typed a blog entry about fixing some errors and we are kind of lost about our error page because the api isn't working.
I just got really lucky and the api went down shortly after I typed my last blog. It stayed down for about an hour. In that time, I got the error handling all set up AND TESTED! and It works now, yay!
I made some more additions into the powerpoint as well, I will send it to u guys tomorrow afternoon, I still have a few more additions to do in the morning.
Hey Group.
i fixed the hotel links in the sidebar so that the map will re-zoom when clicked like I had it set to do originally. I also fixed the sidebar so that it is in a descent place for both IE and Firefox. It was quite interesting that in firefox it moves the div more to the left than it does in IE. I think the position it is in now looks good though.
I'm not sure how to fix the error page though, because the api was down again tonight and I seem to get different errors each time it is down. Sometimes the error is that one of the objects doesnt have a property, but othertimes it just says "exception thrown and not caught." I have no idea how to fix this!
Davida's Blog But anyways, I have summarized the reviews into three categories: Good reviews, Bad reviews, and Suggestions.
Thanks for doing the summary of reviews Davida! Looking over them, it looks like most people were concerned with the format and functionality of the site. Since the format has been changed and is much more eye-catching, that leave functionality. I will work on the error page some more as Prof. Gibson suggested, I will try structuring my if statement around the object instead of the status. I didn't even think to do that orginally, so that was a great suggestion.
Another suggestion was to let someone know if something was spelled wrong. I'm not exactly sure how that could be accomplished other than sending the user to an error page for a city, state combo that returns no results.
Thanks again for the summary!
Tanika's Blog Hey Guys, I was wondering if any of you had access to DreamWeaver. If not, is there anyway that I can download it for free?
Hey Tanika, you can download a 30 day trial version of Dreamweaver 8 here. Hope that helps :)
I fixed the issue regarding the kayak api going down over the weekend. I added a function to detect if the status != 200, to redirect the user to an error page.
Nathaniel's Blog Then I also made a version 10 which is also in the file the only change that I made was add two drop down calendars for the check in and check out dates
Great job with the calendar updates Nathan. I have added the code to the site. I did make a couple minor adjustments to the calendarpopup file though. It didnt seem to take into consideration that if the box is on the other side of the page, the calendar popup went off it as well due to its anchor points. I just changed it so that it went over 200 to the right (that way it didnt disapear off the page). The reason I did this was because I reformated where the search was on the page. It is now on the left hand side instead of the right.
First of all, the reviews that I received were harsh to say the least. They did not give constructive criticism, most of them were cruel and insensitive comments regarding the supposed malfunctioning of the site. The worst thing is, it seems like most of them were run at a time when I was either working on the site, or the kayak API was down. Overall I was extremely hurt by the reviews.
One comment I will quote on was "it looks like it didn't have a lot of time put into it." I have worked extremely hard on this site putting in at least ten hours a week working on it since the beginning of the semester, somtimes more. I feel like I have made significant progress since Iteration One and am proud of my acomplishments. This is the very fist time that I have ever created a mashup, or a php file and I personally feel that it was a valiant attempt for a first-timer. To receive comments such as, "They are basically telling you that their site sucks and to go elsewhere. It just looks horrible all together, I wouldnt have spent more than two seconds here if I didnt have to, it was a complete waste of time." is extremely hurtful.
Professor Gibson's intentions were honorable with administration of this extra credit assignment. I was hoping to have suggestions that I could somehow use to enhance the site. However, these comments did not accomplish my expectations.
Nathaniel's Blog There are a few problems with version 9 when I click the Hotel link a 404 not found error page comes up.
I mentioned in class that I currently have the hotel links disabled, which would be why you are getting that error. It is not a problem with the code. The page you are getting directed to is http://hi which does not exist. The links are broken into many pieces including single and double quotes and are easy to accidently screw up so I did not have it completely finished last class. I am still working on this.
Nathaniel's Blog Ok on the our website you will not get any results if you put the same date both places.
There is no reason for the kayak API to support a one day search. I do not know of many hotels that you wouldn't spend the night in. Therefore the checkout date would be the next day. If you feel that error handling is neccesary for this, then it would be great if you could incorporate that into our code.