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This is a great start. The user profiles are a nice touch and it definitely solves the problem.

I can see how a developer would see this as a perfect way to organize tours, but I don't think is how non-developers would organize them. For example, I think of a guide to a city as one big collection of places, organized into categories, rather than seperate lists of places. I think a map on the guides page with all of the places from all of this lists would be very useful. I also feel that lists should have an order to them, so someone could visit one after another, like a tour of the city. The site could use some general polish as well. I think this would be a good site to be responsive, as it would be useful on a phone.

Other than that, I think its great. The analytics integration (keeping track of views) is pretty cool. Is that using third party analytics or did you create your own?

Thanks for the feedback! I definitely will think about the new hierarchy you mentioned.

As for the analytics integration, the site is running in Rails 4, and is using the impressionist gem https://rubygems.org/gems/impressionist

I created a website where you can creation recommendation travel guides for friends.

For example, if you were to ever visit Orange County, that guide would hopefully give you an overview of the city.

Any feedback or comments would be appreciated!

Nice idea! Your server crashed before I could test the site fully, but I did find a tiny css bug: http://imgur.com/kSliFCL (Chrome 40.0.2214.85 beta (64-bit), OS X Yosemite)

Yikes! Sorry I'm rebooting my vps now!

Ok site is back up! Sorry about that!

I still like what you're doing here, but I feel that data entry should be more user friendly, more dynamic. As it is, it looks like something you would use for the backend, like an improved version of phpmyadmin. Tagging would be useful. It would also be great if you could pull more content from the linked websites and maybe base the design around shorter descriptions. Shorter content, which I assume would be more common than detailed guides, makes the pages look kinda empty.

Hope it helps. I'm only writing this because I'd probably use the service if it gets more polish. Oh, and it would be nice if I could make my guides private, so that I could use the site not only for past journeys, but for planning as well.

Thanks for the feedback! You are right, I am grabbing the extra data from the linked websites, but I don't think it is displaying properly.

I'll also add a private field as mentioned. For tags, would you want to tag both guides and lists or just one of them?

Both, I guess. If the user is searching for a romantic location, then it's a guide tag. If he knows where he is going already, or if it just isn't a themed trip (other examples for themed trips: art, nightlife, family, outdoors...) then list tags (or even list item tags) are more useful.

Ah sounds good. Btw I fixed the problem where some data wasn't showing (the lists should show more location now). Also I added the capability of private guides.

Travels? You didn't say travels in the headline. I want to recommend books, movies, recipes, things to do in their own street. My friends sometimes deserve a bit of my wisdom.

Ah apologies on the headline. Initially the site was for all recommendations, but I just tweaked it to be more location specific.

So I'm just kind of curious, on the site you would create recommendation lists outside of guides? Currently on how the site is set-up is for lists to exist in a guide, but I'm thinking of breakdown that up.

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