What kind of calendars do you all like to use? We are a publisher that has a shopper and an outdoor guide and a radio station and we service about 18 counties in the Northern Kansas, Southern, Nebraska areas. A calendar that could be a value added item for our advertising customers would be ideal. I’m looking for a calendar that can handle a lot of entries, i.e., be very busy, and that the website visitor can narrow down by searching for keywords. For example, create a calendar for July for all upcoming auctions in the area, or search for area celebrations for the 4th of July weekend, or any outdoor activities/celebrations for the next 3 months. It would be nice, but not necessary, for the calendar to integrate with a Freeway and/or CMS designed site. Finally, we’d need the calendar to be exportable to text so that we could use our favorite design software to create a print version of the calendar for our newsprint products.
Wow, that sounds like a great idea. There are quite a few free and
paid calendar scripts available at HotScripts, but I’m not aware of
any of them that are particularly Freeway-friendly. By this I mean
that any changes to the look-and-feel of the calendar itself would
have to accomplished in a text editor or a specialized CSS editor like
CSSEdit.
Another issue for you to consider is trust. If you allow just anyone
to post to this, then you have to “harden” the inputs so that
malicious users don’t post a nasty payload instead of a bake sale.
It’s a huge problem these days, with the exploits both well-known and
difficult to guard against.
Certainly do investigate the free/paid scripts angle, but you may also
want to hire a programmer to help you with this, too.
Walter
On Jun 28, 2011, at 12:09 PM, Joe Sporleder wrote:
What kind of calendars do you all like to use? We are a publisher
that has a shopper and an outdoor guide and a radio station and we
service about 18 counties in the Northern Kansas, Southern, Nebraska
areas. A calendar that could be a value added item for our
advertising customers would be ideal. I’m looking for a calendar
that can handle a lot of entries, i.e., be very busy, and that the
website visitor can narrow down by searching for keywords. For
example, create a calendar for July for all upcoming auctions in the
area, or search for area celebrations for the 4th of July weekend,
or any outdoor activities/celebrations for the next 3 months. It
would be nice, but not necessary, for the calendar to integrate with
a Freeway and/or CMS designed site. Finally, we’d need the calendar
to be exportable to text so that we could use our favorite design
software to create a print version of the calendar for our newsprint
products.
We would limit posting to just company employees. We look at this kind of calendar as a thank you to our customers. We are saying if you advertise your event in our print publication, we’ll include our online calendar of events at no extra charge.
Joe
On Jun 28, 2011, at 11:38 AM, Walter Lee Davis wrote:
Wow, that sounds like a great idea. There are quite a few free and paid calendar scripts available at HotScripts, but I’m not aware of any of them that are particularly Freeway-friendly. By this I mean that any changes to the look-and-feel of the calendar itself would have to accomplished in a text editor or a specialized CSS editor like CSSEdit.
Another issue for you to consider is trust. If you allow just anyone to post to this, then you have to “harden” the inputs so that malicious users don’t post a nasty payload instead of a bake sale. It’s a huge problem these days, with the exploits both well-known and difficult to guard against.
Certainly do investigate the free/paid scripts angle, but you may also want to hire a programmer to help you with this, too.