I spent most of yesterday working on making some changes to the Thriftway Travel site. In particular I was implementing the new, jQuery based, flight search. I ran into a few problems along the way. The first noticeable one was that whenever I implemented the jQuery search (after updating the jQuery library and adding jQueryUI) was that the central block of the site no longer worked properly. Originally it was a section with three tabs, each set up to pull content from a specific category. It is currently a placeholder whilst we work on other details of the site, but it still needed fixed.

The original tabs were created/managed using an archaic version of the jQuery UI tabs, which had caused the problem as I implemented a new version, which messed up what had already been in place. Attempts to switch the old tabs over to the new version didn't work well at all. This gave me a chance to rework how things were working for that section. The end result is a carosel that rotates between as many deals as we want. It matches the look and feel of the site, and provides a much more flexible method of presenting deals on the front page.

Posted by Wulf on April 1, 2009, 10:37 am