Buying a car has changed dramatically in the last few years. Most buyers use the Internet to view different models, compare price and options. Most buyers have pretty well made up their minds about what they want before entering a car dealership. Most dealerships have an Internet Sales Department with their own sales manager. You call, email or text the dealership's Internet sales manager to verify the car is in stock, schedule a test drive. This simulated application is one like those used by the Internet Sales Departments to find you the right car. Most dealerships carry a good inventory of the popular models. They also have arrangements with other dealerships to find cars they do not have in stock and trade inventory. This cloud-based application is a simulated version.
Load autoSearch.html, we need to test it out. follow these steps.
Load the autoSearch.html into Notepad++
Save the application.
Click on Run
Launch in Chrome
There should be a Header colored dark lavender, two columns: Nav, the leftmost column which is beige, the Article column which is the column on the right is lavender and the Footer which is dark lavender.
Click in the top box to search for a car.
Start typing the car you are searching for. You do not even have to complete your typing and a list of cars matching your choice appears below. There are seven columns: model, engine, color, location, msrp (manufacturer's suggested retail price),location and specs. The data base represented by this application represents the automobile and truck inventories of more than one dealership. (A-D) are the names of the dealerships. The mileage is quoted as city and highway driving miles per gallon.
Now drag the right edge of your screen to the left until you see a color and column change. This is what the application will look like on smaller screens.
Day 3: Finding Vehicles
Printout the worksheet before working on this part of the project. Worksheet
Question 1: You a customer that wants a Toyota Limited Tacoma pick up truck with a towing package. Which ones would you recommend? Put your responses on the worksheet.
Question 2: Your next customer is looking for a car with a 3.4 L V6. How many are available? What color choices are there?
Question 3: You are Dealer A. What is your total inventory of vehicles?
Your next customer wants a very fuel efficient car. What would you recommend that Dealer C has in stock.
The next inquiring person wants a ruby flare pearl truck. What would you suggest? Who has these trucks?
Day 4: adding cars to the inventory
The auto transport just pulled up to Dealer A and unloaded the following vehicles:
Tacoma RD Sport
2.7 L 4 cylinder
silver sky metallic
Dealer A
$32,095
18/22 MPG
towing package, safety package, LED running lights
After loading the autoSearch file into Notepad++, scroll down and examine the sections. The first section of the file contains the style tags. These are formatting tags that tell the browsers how the text, pictures should look. They start of line 6 and end of line 317. On line 268 the line tells the browser to look for smaller screen like cell phones and tablets All the code that follows here is designed to format the material so that it fits in one column instead of two. The script tags start of line 319. The lines between these tags are written in javaScript and they are the code that allows us to search. There are 6 different search functions: 0-5. They are model, engine, color, location, msrg, mileage.
Follow these steps to add the cars to the total inventory.
Put these items into the table in the autoSearch.html file.
Our inventory is in a table. It has columns and rows.
The new vehicles are also in a table , lines 451 to 1508. It contains 7 columns and 12 rows.
Each vehicle occupies a row.
Rows are identified by a beginning <tr> and ending tag </tr>.
Each feature:model, engine, color, location, msrp, mileage and specs occupies a table cell. abbreviated as td
Table data also has mark up tags. The beginning one is <td> and the ending tab </td>
Load the autoSearch.html into Notepad++.
Scroll down to the end of the last item in the table. Start adding your additional vehicles on line 1505
Key in the data and mark up tags for each vehicle.
Save and test the file.
Day 5 Exchanging Vehicles
Dealer B needs a Land Cruiser and wants to swap some of their vehicles for one that Dealer D has. The vehicle in question for Dealer B is $84,565. Use the the location search to verify that Dealer D has a Land Cruiser that is brandy wine mica in color. Dealer B says that they are willing to trade for a gray Corolla SE worth $18,700; a black Tacoma Limited valued at $37,350 and a super white Camry XLE worth $28,650 for the Land Cruiser and some cash. If you think this deal is equitable, make the trade in your inventory.
Dealer C needs to record some sales from yesterday.
Tundra SR crew cab, celestial silver metallic $35,400
Rav 4 LE silver sky metallic $35,500
Avalon super white $35,500
Delete the table rows containing these vehicles. Save and test.
