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Need a good event badge
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Posted 8 months ago Ok, one of the sites that I manage, the guy wants to be able to add events himself. He doesn't want a calendar, we have one on his other site and it works for it. What I am trying to find is a way that lists the events in order, and their details. Not one that you have to scroll through page by page. Here is the page it is on right now, I just used a simple table to create it (yeah, I know, cheesy, but at the time it was my only option to give him the look he wanted). http://chuckportercomedy.com/upcoming_events.htm. What I need is a site where he can log in and control the gigs and it publishes to his Web site automatically, all shown on the one page. I checked out two event badges. One of them is too involved (for his knowledge), and the other one seems to be down (not a good sign, LoL). Any information would be greatly appreciated. I hope I explained this well enough. I know I could add a simple guestbook to his site, but he doesn't want it. He wants to keep it just like that. The forgetful fishy........I think??!!?? |
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| Posted 7 months ago So you basically want a event listing. One that contains all the information on one page and you want it updateable by him. I am guessing but you want the old out of date events to just disappear to keep the list as short as possible. Also you do not want to have to go from page to page to see all the events. If there are a lot of events then there may not be a way to avoid scrolling, but avoiding going from page to page can be avoided. Using a datagrid or a dataview like i am guessing you are doing would be the way to go. You would want to have some sort of database to pull from and use the SQL commands to sort the information. On the page load event you could then access the database, get the information within the dates you want in the order you want them and then display them in the table. You can then place the table on a panel and make the panel scrollable. this way you can stay on the same page and scroll through all the events without having to move to different pages or scroll the entire web page. I hope this was not off the mark. Let me know if I am off and try to clear things up a bit for me and I will help you the best I can. =-) |
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| Posted 7 months ago You are on the mark, but what I need is one that is hosted somewhere else, as he will be doing the editing and adding new events. He is a stand-up comedian and karaoke DJ. He is also NOT tech savvy. So I need something that he can use on his own. LoL, yes I know this is asking a lot. I have found some event badges, but they were not user friendly, at least not his user friendly. The forgetful fishy........I think??!!?? |
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| Posted 7 months ago Well, if you use Visual Studio even the express edition which I have seen as a free download you can hook that up to a MySQL database and make it web enabled. That way he can get to a password protected schedule updater and his fans can get to a public event page. I do not know much about badges but I am a seasoned Visual Studio with VB.NET web developer and can answer any questions if you choose that path. =-) James |
