Espatriare.net - MODx, jQuery, Google Maps API, Facebook Connect API

Hi there,
my name is Gianfranco and I am an Italian twenty-nine years old front-end developer.

The site I show you is Espatriare.net, a social service offering the possibility to create a link among Italians emigrated abroad for not being satisfied of the quality of work and life in Italy.

I have developed Espatriare.net on my own, as a personal project. The site is under beta test yet.

I have converted all the MODx snippets’forms (like eForm, FDM, WebLoginPE, ..) in ajax-form using jQuery. The same is made for the login via facebook connect; the GMaps are populated by JSON using Ditto, and so on.

Any feedback is appreciated!

Hi Gianfranco,

It’s very nicely designed and a great idea for a site.

Welcome to MODx.

wow - Gianfranco - that’s an impressive website you’ve accomplished!

one thing i noticed is, that the buttons at the top don’t respond immediately (could be my browser though FF3 WinXP), and the one to the right "Partecipa" isn’t active yet i guess...maybe add some kind of styling to the hover state of those buttons ( or differnt styling when you actually click on them ) ...an additional possibility to zoom out would be great too

other than that an outstanding project you’ve got there!

ciao, jan

*edit: "buttons at the top don’t respond immediately" now it’s responding quick ("Partecipa" too)...was my connection

Zoom would be a nice feature and I think the initial setting should be a little wider. It’s a long way to scroll to the USA where I think there are a few of your potential contributors.

Hi Bob, Hi Jan, thank you for your comments, very useful! I have added the zoomIn - ZoomOut buttons, thanks!

Hi Gianfranco, I’m Roberto, another italian user of MODx

I am currently developing a site for a museum, I’ll publish link when it’s finished

You did a great work; may I ask you to have some private messages (in italian ) to share tips and tricks about MODx? I’m not good at Javascript and AJAX, whereas it seems to me that you are.

I want to make the site I’m developing "younger" with some AJAX (consider that now it is STATIC HTML ), and I also want to avoid the usage of Flash as much as I can.

BTW, I’m going off topic

I remark, you did a nice job, and you showed MODx’s power

Cheers,

Roberto

Hi Roberto, thank you for the compliments
I have replied to your questions in a private message.

Gianfranco

Very nice thanks for sharing! : )

Very nice concept. The site is pretty and original

Hi!
I’m from Croatia and I seen this topic just now... I must admit it’s very original and pretty site

Now... for your quote:
Quote from: gianfra at Oct 18, 2009, 02:23 PM

I have converted all the MODx snippets’forms (like eForm, FDM, WebLoginPE, ..) in ajax-form using jQuery. The same is made for the login via facebook connect; the GMaps are populated by JSON using Ditto, and so on.

Can you help us other MODx users with how did you did that? Maybe share some snippet with us?


Take care