Now that we know the basics of creating custom widgets, that is to say, dijits for our web applications, let's put our knowledge into practice. In this part of the chapter, we will transform the single-page application code we wrote in Chapter 1, Your First Mapping Application into a dijit that can be used with any map. We'll then use that dijit
in a map application that can be expanded to include other dijits as well.
We finally received feedback from the Y2K Society about the census map we created in Chapter 1, Your First Mapping Application. They liked how the map worked, but felt it could use more polish. After a meeting with some group members, here is a list of their feedback:
The application should have sections at the top and the bottom to show titles and a little bit about the society
The colors should be warm and cheery, such as yellows
Get rid of the plain black line work of the census layer data
The application should let us do...