Comments on: Web 2. Point. Oh?

By: brad.

brad. — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 21:11:12 +0000

hmm, strange...it goes to my event list for me.

oh, wait...i see what you mean. it was the hyperlinked "Blue Ridge BMW CCA" link...yeah, that one went to the buddy list by default from the 30boxes badge.

if you click on the list of events it takes you to the full event list page. i've just now changed the hyperlink to go to the full calendar now.

i mainly wanted the badge because it showed and at-a-glance view of the calendar...the word press calendar widget didn't look as good, too small. but 30boxes doesn't have a good url input for what i need as far as downloading forms and such...easier to do that on my event details page.

thanks for the troubleshoot!

By: db

db — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 16:39:52 +0000

Cool!

Except, when I click the link, it doesn't go to the calendar. It goes to your buddy page. Maybe it's because I'm already a registered user?

By: brad.

brad. — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 15:26:50 +0000

update: i added a badge to our chapter website. seems to work fairly well. easier to read than the little WP calendar i was using before. check it:

http://www.blueridgebmwcca.org/

thanks again, db, for all all your WP help!

brad.

By: brad.

brad. — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:48:54 +0000

well, so long as they could see what i've entered in the calendar, that might work. i don't have a message board installed for our BMW club site as we had one that was hosted off site for free by justracing.com so i didn't want to have folks re-register for a second forum when i re-did the website.

i just like the look of the 30boxes one better than any of the other webcalendars out there. i'll give it a shot and see what happens. thanks!

brad.

By: db

db — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 21:14:17 +0000

I haven't since our message board system has a really slick calendar built in that automatically ties in with the message board thread.

I can see this being useful for a car club (or multiples). But to get the full use out of it, your members would have to sign up for an account at 30boxes, and a lot of people, for whatever reason, still don't like to do that.

By: brad.

brad. — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:35:56 +0000

hey db, have you fiddled at all with using the 30boxes calendar with any of the car club sites you've set up.

i might see how it works with our BMW chapter's site.

brad.

By: db

db — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 21:11:00 +0000

I have checked it out. Only briefly. The UI looked slick and confusing. I’m going to check that out more in another week or so.

By: chris

chris — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 20:31:17 +0000

Hey- I played around a little more with the 30boxes site- this is slick! Integration with flickr! This will be great for my wife and I in terms of having a joint calendar…

db- have you checked out http://pipes.yahoo.com/ ? The UI is pretty slick…I’m trying to create an RSS mashup with whiteroofradio and motoringfile as well as the flickr pools and frappr maps into one “pipe.” I think I may need to peruse the help forum for a while…

By: paul

paul — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 19:25:31 +0000

I like twitter though it sure is slow to load most of the time. But my current WP theme doesn’t have a column wide enough to put the box in. And my CSS skills aren’t up to the job of widening it seems….

By: db

db — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:04:09 +0000

gCal is great, don't get me wrong! But 30boxes does a few more things. The biggest thing is its ability to let me see posts from sites (that I link the feed for) on the grid for the day they are posted. Flickr and del.icio.us work the same way.

And the plain english entry.

And the UI. It's easier to share calendars, setup more calendars and all that I think. Sharing a calendar in gCal is kind of a pain I always thought, same with setting up a new calendar.