[Imc-uk-features] [Imc-uk-process] calendar pre-live preparation

[Genny]

feedback on new calendar...

looks good to me.

things that i came across while posting.

Tags - I didn't know how to create a two-word tag.  On flickr, you 
enclose tag in inverted commas and it appears as two - or more - words 
in a single tag.  I tried the same and I think it's appeared as two tags 
one beginning with ", the other ending with ".  If this can be done, it 
would need a few words of explanation on the publish form.

Are the tags going to appear anywhere else apart from the front page of 
the calendar?  I wanted them when I was on another page and couldn't 
work out how to get them back again.  maybe a link to tags somewhere on 
each page?

Links - would be useful to be able to put in two links when publishing 
an event, one to a relevant indymedia article, the other to information 
about the event on external website maybe.  Will it use relative or 
absolute links for other indymedia articles?

Calendar view - those little arrows in calendar view could do with text 
on hover to explain where they're taking you: next/last month or year. 
Being slow, I took a while to work it out!

View options - guess this might be in hand - but it would be helpful to 
have the current view mode (calendar, month, week, day) indicated by a 
highlight / different colour or something.

Month list - doesn't appear to be in date order yet but I'm sure it will 
be :o)

Display of month list events - I wonder if it would be easier to 
visually scan for events if the date was displayed first.  I'd perhaps 
use a slightly smaller text for the first line - date/event - and a 
slightly larger (but still smaller than the other) text for the second 
line - address of event, with the two lines closer to each other and a 
more distinctive gap between separate entries.  In the publish form 
there was a box for city, region or neighbourhood.  I think it would be 
useful to display this on the second line, before the actual address, 
because then the first thing you'll see is London, Cardiff or whatever, 
rather than an address which may not be meaningful unless you happen to 
know it.

Calendar view - might be useful to display the city/region/neighbourhood 
field on the calendar so you can see where the event is without 
following the link.

OK, that's my two-penn'orth.

This is going to be fantastic!

cheers

genny





yossarian wrote:
> Genny wrote:
>> Hi Yoss
>>
>> At the moment, the link seems to be producing an error message, but I
>> did manage to get to it yesterday and it looks pretty good to me -
>> like part of uk indymedia rather than a completely different site, and
>> looks like it'll have a variety of view options which is great.
>>
>> If I can get into it on Mon/Tues when I'm home again, I'll post some
>> events and send you some feedback.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Genny
> 
> I was messing with the server configuration to see if I could reduce
> memory requirements, that's done now (although some work on server
> stability remains to be done).  People should now be able to post test
> events.
> 
> Y
> 
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