Find-Your-Adventure

Thank you very much for taking the time to view our web-app! We hope you are able to swiftly navigate through the interface and get to your National Park Site of choice as soon as possible! Make sure you pack your gear, supplies, and clothing according to the conditions at the specific park site, especially for longer trips. Have a great time and enjoy your adventure!

Table of Contents

• Description
• Design Elements
• App Preview
• Links
• Credits

Description

This is a one stop shop website that gives you everything you need to know about a national park site in one place, based on your preferences. We want to help users like you spend your precious time at one of America’s national park site, not online trying to get there.

Usage

• Search Form

  1. Enter your starting address or a state and click the search button.
  2. Choose a button to advance: topic or activity.
  3. Choose a topic you would like to learn about or an activity you would like to do inside of a national park.
  4. Choose a National Park that meets the criteria you are searching for.
  5. Click the star button if you want to favorite that national park.

• Search Bar

  1. Enter the name of a national park and click the search button.
  2. Choose a National Park that meets the criteria you are searching for.
  3. Click the star button if you want to favorite that national park.

• Favorite Parks

  1. Click a favorite park to go to the specific details page about that park.

• Extra Buttons

  • Click the home button to return to the home page.
  • Click the "Topics or Activities" button to go to the Topics or Activities page.
  • Click the back arrow button if you need to go back a page.
  • Click the star button if you want to favorite a national park.

Links

• Website: https://siegelal7.github.io/Find-Your-Adventure/
• GitHub Repository: https://github.com/siegelal7/Find-Your-Adventure

Design Elements

We chose to design our web-app using only one url and using DOM manipulation and event listeners to change the content as needed.

JavaScript

• Clean User Interface
• Server-Side APIs
• API Key
• Parameter Queries
• Dynamically Updated HTML and CSS powered by jQuery
• Document Object Model Manipulation
• Local Storage
• JSON
• AJAX
• Logical Code Structure
• Sequential Order
• Objects
• Arrays
• Global and Local Variables
• Functions
• Methods
• Event Listeners
• if...else Statements
• for Loops
• Comments

Bootstrap

• Grid System
• Navbar
• Carousel
• Card Decks and Cards
• Forms
• Buttons
• Alignment
• Sizing
• Spacing
• Icons

HTML

• Logical Structure
• Sequential Order
• Links to Bootstrap, jQuery, JavaScript, and CSS Files
• Concise Descriptive Title
• Semantic Elements
• ids, Classes, and Elements
• Modals
• Forms
• Dropdown List
• Buttons
• Comments

CSS

• Background Image
• Animation
• Hover
• Z-Index
• Float
• Alignment
• Padding and Margin
• Opacity
• Font and Text
• Colors
• Height and Width
• Comments

App Preview

Home Page

Home Page with Favorites

Topics or Activities

Topics Page

Activities Page

List of Parks Page

Specific Park Page

Future Development Ideas

• Include U.S. Territories in the database.
• Add descriptions to the website to help the user navigate the pages.
• Add more details to the description page of each national park site.
• A separate page for the user’s favorite parks.
• Use the National Park Service API to dynamically populate the topics and activities.
• The ability to...
  • Search for multiple criteria at one time.
  • Search for a national park site based on distance preference.
  • Clear the favorites page with a clear button.
  • Email or text the directions to the user’s mobile device.
• Create a trip to a national park site.
• Share the trip with others through social media.
• An assessment to help the user figure out his/her national park site preferences.

Credits

Sources

• National Park Service API - https://www.nps.gov/subjects/digital/nps-data-api.htm
• MapQuest API - https://developer.mapquest.com/
• jquery - https://api.jquery.com/
• Bootstrap: https://getbootstrap.com/

Collaborators

• Navdeep Puri - https://github.com/NavdeepDP
• Andrew Siegel - https://github.com/siegelal7
• Zach Drummond - https://github.com/zachdrummond

License

Copyright (c) 2020 Navdeep Puri, Zach Drummond, Andrew Siegel

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.