[UCIMC-Tech] events calendar on UCIMC homepage missing?

[Barry Isralewitz]

Hi Josh,

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 04:40:24PM -0500, Josh King wrote:
> Hi Barry,
>
> Thanks for the feedback. I am actually working on the menu right this  
> second, and am aware of the click problem with the calendar. My  
> intention is both to have an event calendar sublink and have the  
> "Calendar" parent link function (if I can figure out why it is not). I'm  
> fixing it right now and should show up in the cache within the next 5  
> minutes.


  I can access the main calendar easily now; thanks for the fix!

  By the way: didn't mean to imply that 'hey, this is broken' was my
main response to the recent site changed.  My main response is 'awesome,
this website looks great and will do great things for IMC and all
involved groups!'.  Thanks for all the work you are doing.

        Cheers,

  
        Barry

>
> Barry Isralewitz wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>>   I can't see the link to the regular IMC events calendar
>> http://shows.ucimc.org/calendar
>>  on the main IMC homepage.
>> http://ucimc.org/
>>
>>   That is: exciting to see that new Staffing Calendar on the homepage.
>> The homepage may need an additional change: add back a prominent
>> link to the UCIMC Shows/Staffing calendar   
>>
>> Details/suggestions:
>>
>>  From the the horizontal menu "Publish!, calendar, booking,..."
>>   the message to a site-visitor seems to be "there is only one calendar,
>> and it is the staffing calendar".  
>>
>>    More important than a misleading appearance: I can't find any link 
>> to the calendar, the Events (Shows) calendar,  in this
>> menu.
>>
>>   A click on "Calendar" does not take me to any calendar, instead
>> performs a  submenu show/hide toggle. (tried this on both a  Mac and
>> Linux Firefox).   A click on "staffing calendar" takes me to (no 
>> surprise) the staffing
>> calendar.
>>   Apologies if I'm out of the loop here on website/scheduling changes or
>> similar, or just missing something obvious..
>>
>> Suggestions:
>>     1) Add a link like "Events Calendar" at same level of "staffing
>> calendar"
>>      or..
>>     2a) Make "Calendar" a single-click link, like "donate" is (instead of
>> 'toggle submenu' button / submenu header.      2b) Move 'stafffing 
>> calendar' link off of main page top menu.  Do
>> majority of visitors to site need to know about staffing coordination,
>> or are they only looking for building events?  Don't want a potential
>> visitor to too-easily get to a calendar that has no events on it, then
>> visitor thinks "nothing is happening. 
>>
>>    3) Change the menu "publish!, calendar, booking,..." so that clicks
>> on all toplevel menu entries go to an appropriate  web page, instead of
>> -- as now for some items -- toggling visibility of submenu items.  Mouse
>> hovers over any item with subheadings will then alwys show these
>> subheadings.  A single click on either type of  menu item (e.g.)
>> publish! and submenu items (e.g. "News Story") will take user to
>> appropriate web page.
>>
>>
>>   The curent "toggle-menu-visibility" behavior has some problems:     
>> the toggle isn't needed -- submenus auto-hide after mouseover
>>     the toggle hides vital naviagation information for rest of page visit!
>>     works differently from no-subitem top-level menu items like "donate".
>>
>> Current horz. menu hierarchy...
>>     * publish!
>>           o News Story
>>           o Audio
>>           o Picture
>>     * calendar
>>           o staffing calendar
>>     * booking
>>     * volunteer
>>     * rental space
>>     * about us
>>     * donate
>>
>>         Cheers,
>>
>>         Barry
>
> -- 
> Josh King
> --
> "I am an Anarchist not because I believe Anarchism is the final goal,  
> but because there is no such thing as a final goal." -Rudolf Rocker
>
>



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