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| Posted by alamoangels at Jan 29, 2008, 3:42:16 PM |
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Re: Problems with Embedding my calendar into my webpage (in an i-frame) Hi There -  Thanks for the sample. This isn't exactly what I had in mind but it gives me a lot of good ideas for how to accomplish what I need. I have found a few tricks that will work really well with my needs. 1) For the calendar that I have embeded on my website I have actually taken the MS Publisher print version of my calendar & turned it into a single GIF image block that takes up most of the page. I have then used image maps to create a hotspot over each event. The image map program that I used is called MapEdit. It is a really AWESOME shareware program that is only $15 and what's even better is that if you are purchasing it for a non-profit organization, then the cost drops to ZERO, ZIP, NADA... AS IN FREE!!! Here is the link to their website http://www.boutell.com/mapedit/ 2) For the links to the events, I have finally figured out how to incorporate the work that I have done in localendar into my own site. For the longest time I couldn't figure out how to link directly from the hotspot on my calendar to the event detail pop up on localendar. The workaround for that is this... When you are in the viewing mode (i.e. not signed in to the administrative area of your calendar (or you can simply go directly to your public calendar in a separate window) and click on the event to bring up the pop-up. Once the pop-up is up then you can right click anywhere on that window and select "View Page Info" (at least that is the command from within Firefox) and it will give you the actual URL for that particular pop-up window. I then copied that URL and pasted it into the field in my image mapping software that asks for the link that the visitor would be directed to when they click on the hotspot. 3) One of the other wonderful advantages to using localendar vs. simply making your own event detail pages (other than the amount of time saved!!) is that I can also create a link to the list view of events for that month, without RE-ENTERING the data. This is especially important if you have a clientel (as we do) that would be rather likely to be visiting your website via a screen reader for the blind (i.e. JAWS) or other adaptive text to speech technology. I have finished the January calendar and it is up on my site You can visit it by clicking here If the above link does not work you may simply copy & paste the following URL: http://www.alamoangels.org/EventsCalendar08/January_08.html Thanks again for all your efforts! ~alamoangels |
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