Bizzydoo.com - Looking for Feedback!

By mamanerd on 24 Nov 2014 at 15:58 UTC

Bizzydoo.com is the most convenient & trusted way to find local things to do with kids. It was created using Drupal 7 and the Bootstrap theme. It's currently being hosted with Pantheon. I would love any feedback, suggestions, or ideas for improvement. Thanks!

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WorldFallz commented 24 November 2014 at 19:53

excellent-- well done. I had a little trouble with the lack of contrast in the activity filters, but otherwise love it. How were the activity filters done btw?

Thanks so much for the

mamanerd commented 8 December 2014 at 20:19

Thanks so much for the feedback! I agree about the lack of contrast in the activity filters. I will fix that shortly!

As far as how I did it... everything from the "Search for activities within..." through the "Find Activities" button is a Views Exposed Form. For the filters underneath, I made a block to generate all of them. Each filter link goes to a Views page and then I did some modifications in hook_views_query_alter() based on the filters.

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WorldFallz commented 9 December 2014 at 00:19

cool... thanks for posting back.

Nice job!

ccgearig commented 9 December 2014 at 19:15

Overall, this website is great! It's very aesthetically pleasing, easy to use and useful. You use exposed filters very well when filtering events by different categories, too. On activity pages, you make good use of an events calendar and of several different nodes to display information about the content. I would consider making the photo gallery node optional depending on if the event has any useful photos, though.

I would make it more clear that the activities shown are mostly congregated around a single area of the country. Also, it's kind of annoying to filter results by activity theme, type, age, etc because the page has to refresh each time one selects a new filter. Maybe consider looking at options to either use fewer filters, or make this a bit faster if possible. The social media icons in the individual descriptions of activities aren't integrated well into the design.