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« on: June 07, 2010, 11:05:31 AM »

Hi all,

After many many time spend I'm ready to publish this hotel and travelguide for lake garda in italy.  It's almost ready to be indexed to the search engines but some grafical stuff has to be done in the next weeks.

If you have some feedback or suggestions to share please reply.

http://www.gardalink.com

To see the jReviews component in action look at this: http://www.gardalink.com/en/accomodations.html

Regards
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« Reply #1 on: June 14, 2010, 05:29:20 AM »

Hello,

I saw your site on reviewsahoy and I was so impressed I came back here to see if I could find some tips on how you made your right hand search column on your hotels pages.

Would you care to share your technique?

Your site is so clean and refreshing. Great job.

Brian
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« Reply #2 on: June 15, 2010, 04:01:05 AM »

Hi Brian,

the search module is the standard advanced search module from jReviews with my custom fields inside. The only things i change are the headers of the varius field groups and putting some CSS classes in the global CSS of my jReview template.
For the headers I add language strings to the original Joomla language.ini files in the language folders in my Joomla root.

here is a code snippet of the module:
Code:
<!-- HEADER -->
<div class="jr_mod_search_header"><?php echo JText::_'JR_SM_HEADER' ); ?></div>
<div class="jr_mod_search_grp_header"><?php echo JText::_'JR_SM_TYPE_HEADER' ); ?></div>
<!-- TYPE -->
<div class="jr_mod_search_text"><?php echo JText::_'JR_SM_TYPE' ); ?><br />{category}</div>
<!-- DESTINATION -->
<div class="jr_mod_search_text"><?php echo JText::_'JR_SM_DESTINATION' ); ?><br />{jr_location}</div>
<div class="jr_mod_search_text">                       
<input type="submit" name="advanced_button" value="<?php __t("Search");?>" class="button" />
</div>
<div class="clr"></div>
<!-- STARS -->
<div class="jr_mod_search_grp_header"><?php echo JText::_'JR_SM_STARS' ); ?></div>
<div class="jr_mod_search_text">{jr_stars}</div>
and so on...

All the mods applied to my site are already done by others here on the forum or explained by Alejandro in the documentation area... Eccept the language strings in the Joomla! core language files... this choice where done after varius tests in the jReviews language files without luck...

It will be nice if Alejandro will add the language like in other Joomla! components in the Joomla! language folders... I have to add my strings on the core language files before every Joomla! update...

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« Reply #3 on: June 18, 2010, 06:58:12 AM »

Nice!!   Cheesy

Did you add all those posts/accomodations mechanically or automatically (using a API from a bookingsite for example)?
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« Reply #4 on: June 18, 2010, 08:06:15 PM »

Expedia's affiliate program gives you access to downloadable csv database of hotels worldwide.

https://www.ian.com/ian/signup/affcenter.jsp
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« Reply #5 on: June 19, 2010, 10:23:35 AM »

@David

I'm not using the data from booking.com to avoid duplicated content in google index, the desciptions are similar to the ones from booking.com but not the same.

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« Reply #6 on: July 31, 2010, 03:17:27 PM »

Well done Mr Bergmannn!
Very nice site!
Excuse me,  I don't understand and I haven't seen it here is how did you make the other boxes visible after the search!?
This is very cool and I would like to do something similar. Please, could you give me some direction where to start?
Thank you very much! Smiley
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