I finally sent my version of Project 2 into the reviewers at Udacity.
I say "finally", as I had basically finished the project about a week ago, but I wasn't pleased with the final result. I didn't change the layout drastically after all, though I did test a two column version, but liked the clean look of the single column look. However, I did figure out a few tweaks to make my version unique.
First, I used info from the Piazza forums to figure out how to update the infoWindows in the Google map to use custom data.
Then, using info from StackOverflow, I found a way to color code the pins themselves.
At that point, I wanted to do something that I had not seen yet - let's map the pins to the places on the resume that they refer to!
After a little tweaking with the helper.js file, I was able to get the pins to show up in the separate resume locations. I was pretty happy with that. I modified the colors of the resume, to make it look less drab, and figured I was good to go.
Of course, sleeping on it brought additional ideas forward, and so I thought: what if you click on the pin in the resume, and it takes you to the map?? It turns out, this was the most time consuming portion of the modifications, as any time I tried to use an <A> tag, it broke the layout of the page in a big way. I finally settled on adding an inline javascript command and a little CSS trickery to get the pins to look like clickable links.
Hopefully, there is enough different in this version for the evaluators to consider it "beyond expectations."
I say "finally", as I had basically finished the project about a week ago, but I wasn't pleased with the final result. I didn't change the layout drastically after all, though I did test a two column version, but liked the clean look of the single column look. However, I did figure out a few tweaks to make my version unique.
First, I used info from the Piazza forums to figure out how to update the infoWindows in the Google map to use custom data.
Then, using info from StackOverflow, I found a way to color code the pins themselves.
At that point, I wanted to do something that I had not seen yet - let's map the pins to the places on the resume that they refer to!
After a little tweaking with the helper.js file, I was able to get the pins to show up in the separate resume locations. I was pretty happy with that. I modified the colors of the resume, to make it look less drab, and figured I was good to go.
Of course, sleeping on it brought additional ideas forward, and so I thought: what if you click on the pin in the resume, and it takes you to the map?? It turns out, this was the most time consuming portion of the modifications, as any time I tried to use an <A> tag, it broke the layout of the page in a big way. I finally settled on adding an inline javascript command and a little CSS trickery to get the pins to look like clickable links.
Hopefully, there is enough different in this version for the evaluators to consider it "beyond expectations."
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