As of writing this, we have almost completed populating the website with all of the information that our collaborators have requested we include. We’re not completely happy with the aesthetics yet, but we hope to improve that over the next week with the guidance of the collaborators. We also have not implemented all of the features, and some of the additional things that they have requested over the past week, and plan to work on that next week. One of these tasks is to follow an “Amazon model” and have related links at the bottom of many pages. For example, when looking at an accommodation on the website, there would be images and links at the bottom showing other things in the same area, including other accommodations, attractions, restaurants and businesses. The goal of this is to encourage users to explore the website more and learn about more things. While we have not implemented this yet, we have determined how this would be accomplished and created a “model” on one of the pages.
We also switched the primary language of the website to Romanian, after discussing this option with our collaborator. For areas of the website that are static, Wix allows editors to automatically translate text boxes using Google Translate for the secondary languages. By switching the website to Romanian, this will allow our Romanian counterparts to create new content in Romanian, and use Google Translate to easily translate then verify the content in different languages. As we did this, we made all of the static content multilingual, with both a Romanian and English version available. Additionally, we implemented multilingual capability on dynamic pages. While Wix doesn’t have support for multilingual in databases, we were able to easily code this into these pages using Wix’s Corvid API, which checks which language the user has selected and fills text boxes with the appropriate material. While this requires both languages to be available in the database, it made for an elegant solution to the gap in multilingual support.
We have also finished making the filters on the events page work. These allow users to put in any combination of event type, start date, and end date, and filter the list of events. This will make it easier for users to identify events relevant to them. We will also be adding location filtering next week to improve this system. Over the next week, we plan to finish the website with the additional features and improve it based on any feedback we receive from our collaborators.
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