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Calendar Solutions in ExpressionEngine
Calendar solutions in ExpressionEngine are familiar and powerful communication tools.
Calendar Solutions in ExpressionEngine
Everybody loves a calendar to keep track of appointments, and websites with calendars hot-linked to content areas and external information sources using EE are interactive site boosters.
Many websites for businesses, associations, organizations, clubs, and retail stores carry a wealth of content, and the most demanding webmasters utilize ExpressionEngine (EE) as their on-site content management system (CMS). Blogs, forums, newsletters, e-blasts, FAQs, news releases, related articles from other sources, announcements, opportunities, and specials are but a few of the dynamic content areas fully managed in an easy to-use solution that allows for individual branding and professional quality publishing, complete with all of the admin and security tools.
One of the great advantages of ExpressionEngine is its constant evolution and updating to meet the needs of website managers today and into the future. The web is, after all, a community, and the EE community is constantly creating new apps and solutions that seamlessly integrates with the CMS program and enhances its overall capabilities.
A key component available to EE users is a robust Calendar feature that maintains a calendar of events and important dates – in daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual formats, or all of them for individual user selection – that completely interfaces with all other content areas within the EE environment and also establishes links to external websites, communities and forums for additional information.
Imagine the possibilities. Let’s say Company XYZ each month holds weekly sales meetings, a company picnic or outing, and regularly hosts training seminars and visiting dignitaries. These important dates are mapped out in a familiar calendar format – from a template or a unique design – and then links through mouse clicks to the meeting agendas, outing information, seminar syllabi, and speaker bios located on other areas of the website or to external sources. Viewers can also make notes in the calendar and personalize their involvement. These calendars are maintained for as long as the webmaster wishes, so for instance a viewer can visit the current month and go back or forward to an established number of months for refresher or planning purposes.
One such EE website built by Unleaded Software for a fly fishing shop in Denver, Trout’s, utilizes the calendar feature within EE to highlight its special events, sales, and the myriad of educational seminars and guest speakers the shop features in its exclusive Fly Fishing Learning Center." The calendar links each item on the schedule to course outlines, speaker bios, and more information on each event at various locations throughout the website.
People are quite used to calendars, whether they use a hard-copy Dateline or the embedded Calendar features available with most web browsers, like Outlook, so the EE Calendar is a welcome and familiar format.
The beauty of it for EE website operators is that the program is so easy to use. Have a sales meeting every Tuesday unless it is the close of a month or quarter? No problem. With one set-up that meeting can be scheduled for the coming year with ease.
Also, EE and its calendar feature integrate well with the most popular online selling tool in the world, Magento, and many of the shopping cart websites built by Unleaded Software are ExpressionEngine sites as well.
Unleaded Software has designed and developed a great many websites utilizing ExpressionEngine and employs a staff of expert designers and developers fully trained in the program and always participating in the user forums and educational opportunities provided by the user community and the software manufacturer. In this way we are constantly on the leading edge of EE developers in the country, and deliver top-notch services to our clients.
Call us today at 855-UNLEADED (865-3233) to discover how we help deliver the power of ExpressionEngine to your website enterprise.
Description -- Solspace Calendar Module
ExpressionEngine users have clamored for a good calendar solution for years, and now it’s here. The Solspace Calendar module is the first true calendar module for EE.
Tired of hacky workarounds to emulate calendar-like behavior in EE? Throw ‘em out. The Calendar module offers up both power and simplicity, giving you all kinds of options to satisfy your calendar needs. Need a simple display of daily activities? It’s easy with Calendar. How about a monthly calendar? No sweat. And what if you want to fully control every table, div, and class that makes up the HTML that will become your calendar? The Calendar module can do that, too.
The Calendar module utilizes the power of EE’s native Weblog/Channel module. Every calendar and every event you create can therefore feature as many custom fields and categories as you like. If you can do it to an entry in EE, you can do it to a calendar or event.
Events in Calendar can recur using all kinds of customizable rules. Need weekly events? No problem. Got a book club that meets on the 3rd Tuesday of every month? Easy. How about a meeting on the first Monday, third Wednesday, and fifth Tuesday, but never on the 1st, 15th, or 31st of the month? Yeah, Calendar can do that, too. (But you should really think about simplifying your meeting schedules!)
Last but not least, the Calendar module can even import and export ICS data. That’s right, you can import from and export to other calendar applications like Google Calendar, iCal, Outlook, and more.
Try it today! 30 day money back guarantee!
If the Calendar module does not meet your expectations, or is not right for you, just let us know and we’ll give you a full refund within 30 days of purchase.
NOTE: If you have MSM (Multiple Site Manager) installed, Calendar will currently only work on the primary Site.
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