Hello folks, tonight we are going to review what my application is capable of so far...
So the first, and of course one of the most essential, feature that I implemented is the creation of a ride. It is possible to create two types of ride: requested or offered rides are the two possibilities. The creation is done in tree steps; the first one consists of entering the addresses of the ride, the second concerns the details of the trips (days, time, etc.) and the optional preferences for the rides, finally the last one is the confirmation of all the information entered in the previous steps.
Once created, the rides are display in a calendar and separated in two pages depending if they are requested or offered. This type of display has been chosen for a matter or readability. On these pages it is possible to click on the rides to see all their details and either edit them or delete the rides. Within the calendars themselves, it is also possible to edit or delete separately the trips (a ride is made of several daily or weekly trips).
All of this is very nice but the aim of this kind of application is to connect people to each other: the essential feature is consequently the search engine! It is possible to do different type of search here. You can do a regular search with starting point and ending point. Another type of search can be made with only the ending point... and a more unusual search but still possible search would be to only enter the starting point and check where it is possible to go from this start.
I also created a more advance search which can search also for rides near the location you are looking for. The users have the possibility to selected rides around the location in a limit of 1, 2, 5, 10 or
Finally the home page has been made to be as useful as possible: a map of the town you are living is provided with the 6 last rides displayed in it. The user can click on the markers to have more information about them.
2 comments:
I tried your application and I saw that you are using a bunch of intersting option when the lift is created (smoker, car type and so on). It would be intesting to add this options into your search engine. Anyway, looks very nice, user-friendly and very useful so far!
Good luck
Thanks for your comment Tarik.
You remark is interesting and I was actually thinking about implementing this feature in the few next weeks. My "advance search" is not really advanced indeed except the notion of close matches provided by the "ditance" criteria; this is something that I planed to change as well regarding to the outcoming results of my recent user evaluation!
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