WIN1205-02 AVROD App Development Upgrades

The thought of virtual tourism itself is exciting as this provides the users to traverse across the globe but how exciting will it be if you are actually able to meet some people who share similar interests as you,  just like when people do meet others like them when they physically tour these sites? So we came up with linking this site to popularly used social media sites like Facebook, Instagram and twitter which allows the users to share their experience chat with other user, discuss and rate their experiences by providing suggestions to the new users and creating storyboards.

Used temporary domain to go live with the website as we needed additional assistance to host it via AWS which may take some time and hence some options like the linking google database where the users can register using their gmail id, also the we faced an issues with search bar where the countries are to be listed in the alphabetical order. This issue is immideately resolved once the website is shifted from a temporary domain and is hosted on AWS. One of the major drawbacks that we noticed while testing our prototype version is that in the phone number option the website is taking all numbers including the negative numbers and symbols instead of just digits from 0 to 9 and so we fixed the issue by making changes to code so that website only accept the phone number with digits from 0 to 9.

The final result is the working live website which meets all the objectives that are to be met by allowing the users to register to the AVROD using their Gmail, Phone number and also directly registering with AVROD by creating a username and password which will stored in the created database and browse through all the available archeological sites using optimised search option which bases search on alphabetical order in different countries and continents by growing through all the webpages allocated to each site and also share their experiences on the social media platforms like Twitch, Facebook, Instagram, twitter that are linked through the website by the visible icons.

Website Link: https://www.avrod-dev.tk/

Working on this project with people you are not at all familiar made me realise how difficult it is to start feeling comfortable and come to agreement on one single point and have a Starting point but eventually it became quite a effective team with different perspectives.  It also made me realise how important it is to meet the set deadlines and go by the scheduled timelines as every next deliverable is a predecessor and necessity to work on the next deliverable and hence a delay in one led to a delay of the entire project by one week. It also took a missed note for me to realise how important it is to maintain the proper documentation keeping track of everything. Having different perspectives yields positive results but not with small setbacks like eventual conflicts between the team members with the only positive being that they are managable as conflict resolution can happen with just sitting down and reaching a compromise. The major takeaway is adapting to any situation without sitting back and complaining Loke now where this entire project is done without even the team members meeting each other physically and just working each others part in their personal computer instead of college resource which would have made the work much easier and also simultaneously consulting each other along with the mentor just virtually which actually led to some lapses in communication, this situation and environment would have been unimaginable before, but as desperate situations call for desperate measures, we were able to adapt to the situation and complete the project successfully within the deadline