trackcamping.com Data Exists
Track Camping
http://trackcamping.com
The owner of Trackcamping.com came to me asking for various additions and changes to
be made to his site. The site itself is powered by YaBB, but he wished to have several
customizations done.
- The front page of Trackcamping.com is an entirely new page. The most intricate part was
making the "Last 10 active message boards" section (currently top center). This involved
reverse engineering some of the YaBB files, and then acquiring details from other YaBB files
to generate something that was acceptable to the owner.
- The Tracks, Drivers & Info section is not part of the YaBB software. I created the template for him
to work within, and he populated it with the appropriate data.
- In the *Tracks sections, I identify where the user is using GeoIP, which then uses a 3rd party tool
to allow creating points at the user location and the track location, and then scrolling the map
automatically between the two. This is to give the user an idea of direction and distance.
Using the same information, we generate the "Get Driving Directions from your estimated location" link,
which then pulls up Google Maps with driving directions from that location. Generally (approx 90% of the time)
the directions will be accurate from the city the user is in. The user also has the option of
providing a start address either on the form on Trackcamping.com, or once they've reached Google Maps.
- Using 3rd party software to collect RSS feeds, Trackcamping.com includes recent NASCAR news from
a variety of news sources, showing the most recent news. On the main page, this appears on the right side.
The 3rd party software does an excellent job of collecting the news, but the presentation is done
completely with custom scripts, as this type of presentation was not the intention of the RSS reader's author.
- Other customizations have been done, such as adding Google Adsense, and a 3rd party calendar software.
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