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Creating a weekly calendar in CSS

The 2007-02-03 at 21:02 by Loïc d'Anterroches filed under (X)HTML/CSS.

Most of you know that I am developing a conference organizer/manager application for the ECCE 6 conference. This is not a small conference with nearly 1500 abstracts and 3000 authors. In a conference, most of the time, you have themes and then in each theme you have several sessions. The in each session you have a series of presentations, where each presentation is selected based on the quality of the abstracts through a double blind review. Yes, it is a interesting workflow to manage and now it starts to be complicated.

How do you provide an easy way to assign a given presentation to a given time slot?

It looks simple, but do not forget that reviewers and theme coordinators:

• is a volontary job - they do not want big learning curve for the application.
• are well-known scientists, which are by definition very busy - this means they do not want to waste their time.
• are at the top in their field, so they like quality - this means for me a bug free application.
• are often a little old - this means they know the basic of web browsing, but better not to play too much with AJAX & Cie.

I think I found a solution by reducing at each step the number of decisions to be taken to the absolute minimum to go one step ahead. For example, when a theme coordinator takes the decision that an abstract is accepted as an oral presentation, I do not ask to give a time slot at the same time.

And now I remember, if you want to see time slots, take a look at this nice weekly calendar.

Respect des standards et rendu homogène

The 2003-11-01 at 00:25 by Loïc d'Anterroches filed under (X)HTML/CSS and Articles.

Vous codez votre site avec les recommandations du W3C sous les yeux, vous le validez correctement, et au final le rendu est différent selon les navigateurs qui normalement respèctent les standards… que faire ?

CSS Tabs, la navigation avec onglets

The 2003-09-22 at 15:45 by Loïc d'Anterroches filed under (X)HTML/CSS and Articles.

En mixant CSS et listes vous pouvez obtenir une navigation par onglets jolie et avec sémantiquement du sens. Cet article propose une explication de 2 méthodes pour faire des tabs avec des listes, ainsi qu’une série de liens vers d’autres implémentations.

Icônes de pages web, la favicon.ico

The 2006-01-17 at 21:16 by Loïc d'Anterroches filed under Articles and (X)HTML/CSS.

Avec Mozilla, Internet Explorer et K’onqueror, vous pouvez maintenant avoir une petite icône au niveau de vos signets ou dans la barre d’adresse. Cela permet de faire ressortir votre site dans la liste, c’est plutôt bien pour les fréquentations. Son nom : favicon.ico.