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Last Updated: April 22, 2008 0:26 AM

Calendar Design Experiments

Created with MS Entourage

1. Muted blue & gray theme with tiled gray'd down native plant background illustration on a white background. Event description text in calendar's day squares are hot linked to event details inthe right side column frame. If there are many event details too lengthy to show on right, details will scroll up and down when event in day square is clicked. This web calendar solution has what is sometimes called a "liquid" design because text wraps on the fly and day boxes and text box sizes adjust with resizing of browser window or to different website visitor's monitior size and resolution, something not typical in most calendars produced by most web calendar creation programs such as iEvents calendar in example #3 below.
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2. Dark & light olive and beige-tan colors with one larger flower outline image with white areas replaced by a color keyed beige-tan background. The calendar has all the other features listed in #1 example. Obvioiusly, the biggest drawback to this version is that the background flower illustration is in full color with dark outline edges to be a proper backdrop to the text in the day boxes of the calendar. This version was primarily an experiment in rapidly altering the default blue gray theme produced by Entourage by only editing what is called a "style sheet" (CSS), flower image scaling and altering part of the illustration to adapt to the color theme in the overall calendar.
   
   Once a color theme is decided upon a native plant illustration could be reduced to grey outlines and given a kind of semi transparent or "ghost like" low contrast effect that probably would allow text in day boxes to be acceptably legible.

Created by iEvents

1. A static graphic image calendar produced by a calendar program named "iEvents". The web based Calendar is not "liquid" in it's behavior and has limited interaction in browser and no event details in main window. This is the most typical type of web based calendar produced by most low cost calendar creation programs.

Constructive comments and suggestions related to alternate color themes and/or improving the functionality and usefulness of the calender design experiments are encouraged. Please send them via email to either the Umpqua Valley Chapter's webmaster or the Chapter's President, Sam Friedman.