Different ways to display schedule
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i’m using the latest version, on a MAMP install, OS X El Capitan (latest one).
Thanks for your plugin, works great, but I’ve got some hopefully useful feedback.
I have a suggestion regarding the different ways to display the schedule.
Currently it doesn’t allow you to display show descriptions, and there are the following problems:
- Every time you want to create a show with a different description, you have to create a new show every time (e.g. a presenter who does 2pm-7pm weekdays has the description “Presenter gets you home with the latest traffic and travel on the Home Run” and for his weekend show 6sm-10am “Wake up on Saturday morning with Presenter”
- There is no way to show descriptions in the schedule.
- Jquery with rollover and description for presenters should be supported (as in these examples – this link,
and another version of the same site from the Internet Archive. In the first example, the image is resized to 120px x 120px and the schedule displays vertically with scrolling; in the second example, the images are automatically resized to 105px x 105px and it is horizontal, plus it displays times of shows in 24 hour format with the show descriptions.
Both these rely on table and div according to the HTML of the site, as well as jquery. - This method for displaying the schedule (with dates) is used here on the Pulse 1 site but it has one difference; all images are auto-sized to 80px x 45px and the show descriptions run underneath. Midnight is displayed as the word midnight, not 12:00AM or 0:00am or 00:00 but there should be the option to display it that way. This one uses a mixture of both div and li in the html code.
- Finally, there is this version, which also uses a list-like format, but has 24-hours timeslots, and images are auto-sized to 116px x 63px. It uses li in the html.
All three of these display methods and the option to add show descriptions for the presenters without having to create a new show every time should be added.
One other idea… for the DJ pages, maybe have DJ pages with show info, maybe do them like this (and have the option to hide shows etc.):
I hope these can be looked into for whenever the next version gets released.
By the way, these would not infringe on copyright, since it doesn’t protect ideas only expression of them (as it’s a radio schedule, basically).
Other than this, I think the plugin is great and like the way it works.
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