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Website For Traveling!. The Faculty of Electrical Engineering - Softlab. by : Hammad Abed , Rabie Loulou Supervisor : Viktor Kulikov Spring 2009. Agenda. Goals Environment Preferences Architecture Layers AJAX Improvements Live Demo. Goals.
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Website For Traveling! The Faculty of Electrical Engineering - Softlab • by : Hammad Abed , RabieLoulou • Supervisor : Viktor Kulikov • Spring 2009
Agenda • Goals • Environment • Preferences • Architecture • Layers • AJAX • Improvements • Live Demo
Goals • Design and implement a website for traveling experiences. • Allow users to search, view and share different places to visit. • Help visitors to plan an amazing trip. • Articles basically written by users, and not by administrators. • Of course, learn SQL, C#, .NET environment.
Development Environment and Technologies • Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 • Microsoft SQL Server 2008 • ASP.NET • ADO.NET • C# • AJAX
Preferences 3 user groups have been identified: • Administrators • Regular users • Beginner • Intermediate • Advanced • Guests
Messages • Internal messages system. • Every user can send/receive messages to/from another user. • Reply button. • Save messages in Inbox/Sent messages. • Can delete messages.
Articles Find • We have implemented a search engine to make it easy for users to get relevant articles. The search is done for the country, tags, usernames, or even any word in the article’s text body. • Top Rated articles in One-Click, amazing feature that allow users to find the top rated articles in a second. • Latest articles in One-Click, allow users to find the newest articles on the website.
Categories • All the articles on the website are divided into categories: • Sea & Beach • Religious • Ages - Under 15 • Ages - 15-30 • Ages - Over 30 • Hotels • Hospitality • Cost - Low • Cost - Average • Cost - High • Kids Trip Easy to find articles without searching.
Text Editor • We have integrated text editor with html edit support, so every user can design the article the way he likes. He can choose colors, fonts, size, and even he can insert photos and videos to the article.
Tier 0 – Database • Implementation in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 • Managed by DAL (Layer 1) • Tables divided into groups: • Users – UsersDetails – Messages - Groups • Tours – Countries – ToursVsCategories– Categories • Comments and Ratings which is Users-Tours connection
Tier 1 - DAL Data Access Layer is used in turn by other program modules to access and manipulate the data within the data store without having to deal with the complexities inherent in this access.
Written in C# -- OOP Separates the user Interface from the DAL Enforces Business rules. Exception handling. Functions as the bridge between the web site and the data access layer. Gets instructions from the presentation layer and sends changed objects back into this layer. Tier-2 BLL
Tier 3- Presentation Layer • Css - Cascading Style Sheets • Asp.Net Pages • Master Pages • Asp.Net Components • Data Components - Data Grids, details View. • Standard Components - Button Links, DropDown Lists, checkBox,…
Tier 3- Presentation Layer • Using AJAX technology for effective data access and page loading. • User oriented GUI design. • Providing consistent page layout that supports all use cases.
AJAX • Ajax technology was used in many parts of the website, including: • Rating • Comments • Posting a new article • Messages handling. • More…
Possible Improvements • Security • Email Support • Advanced search • Facebook sharing • Donations to support the website
Demo • Demonstration for the website
Thanks • Thanks for listening , we hope you have enjoyed the presentation.