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It's Back! The Calendar List View Needs Your Help

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It's Back! The Calendar List View Needs Your Help
preaction · 2/29/2008 11:05 am

I was just coding along one day, minding my own business, just enjoying the cyber-scenery, when it hit me: The Calendar List View that everyone's been clamoring for could be easy to implement with the new techniques I've learned from the Gallery.

So I sat down, mulled it over a bit. What would it need right away? What wouldn't it need? Would I ever find a polyester shirt that's both breathable AND stylish? In the end, I went as simple as possible, and a few hours later I had it. A brand new view for the Calendar to fill some of the last gaps from the old Events Calendar.

But I'm no designer, and Steve is currently so busy he could barely make time for the icons we needed for the Gallery asset. This put a damper on my excitement, but only for a moment: We could ask the community to help us out.

Since there are those of you who will want to make Calendar List View templates (or even people who have already made them and applied them to hackish SQLReports), why not use those efforts and earn some karma too?

Announcing! The Calendar List View Template Contest! 

Using the new 7.5.4 release, or the 7.5.4 demo site, make a template for the Calendar List View and submit it as a WebGUI Package to the Packages section of the Contributions area.

The Rules

  • Templates MUST be valid XHTML Strict. Use the W3C's Markup Validator to confirm.
  • Templates must be submitted by April 18th, 2008.
  • Finalists will be picked by me (Doug), and then voted on by the community-at-large.
The Rewards
  1. First Place: 20,000 Karma points and your template goes into WebGUI as the Default Calendar List View Template
  2. Second Place: 10,000 Karma points
  3. Third Place: 5,000 Karma points
The Recommendations
  • 7.5.4 was released with Help on the template variables available to the List View. Use it to your advantage.
  • Since it's an asset template, how the data is formatted is more important than backgrounds or style. A clean, easy-to-read layout will go further than one bogged down with images.
  • Adding a screenshot to your entry will help it get noticed by the community-at-large.
  • Don't feel constrained to match the current Calendar templates (Month, Week, Day, and Event). Sometimes it's good to be unique.
  • Feel free to ask questions on the WebGUI Forums or on the WebGUI IRC Channel (#webgui on irc.freenode.net). Use the Community Wiki or buy the Plain Black Designer's Guide. Any resource you can.
  • Semantic markup will earn points with me, which could be useful if there are a lot of entries.
  • Okay, maybe I am more of a designer than I first led you to believe.
Ask any questions about the contest here. Any questions about how to create your entry should be directed elsewhere.
 
Good luck and have fun! 

 

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