I was off placement sick yesterday, so I found myself with some more deals to add to the Thriftway Site. I've now got quite a few holiday destinations to find attractive photos for. I fired through those pretty quickly, having gotten the process pretty well memorised these day. Doesn't help with the quality of information, as I've no tourist destination knowledge, but it gets them up there.

Other than this I spent a lot of the day working on the site, tweaking some aspects slightly and overhauling some aspects of the site a great deal. The majority of the work was undertaken on the Thriftway Travel Home Page, to bring it in line with the rest of the site. This involved adding the blue bars to the top of most sections, which helped highlight the Flight Search.

I was also able to rework the front page rotator to be a lot smarter than it had been previously. Beforehand it would always attempt to rotate the deals, which looked rather pathetic if there was only one deal on there. It was also odd to have the previous and next buttons there in such a case. Now, courtesy of an increased knowledge of the Wordpress coding, I was able to adapt it so that these features were only enabled whilst there was more than one deal to display. If there is only one, then they don't display and it has always been set up to disappear from the page in the event that there are no posts to display.

On the topic of better understanding the Wordpress coding, I have finally worked out where the code is that allows me to remove certain categories from the list of deals people can access. This might make people wonder "why?" but it is for a very simple reason. I have the flash banner on the site set up to make use of a Wordpress Category. This allows people to easily add or remove deals from the flash rotator. These posts lack the content of actual deals, but were still accessible. This has now been changed.

Tomorrow will probably consist of me finding images for the deals currently on the site and wondering why the heck I'm finding it so difficult to stay alert/conscious for a full working day. I find myself almost totally drained of energy from about 4:30pm.

Posted by Wulf on May 14, 2009, 7:12 pm