West Seattle Saturday: Check out the calendar!

Over the past month-plus, we’ve been somewhat laboriously converting the WSB West Seattle Events calendar to a new format – instead of the old cluttered page of text, it’s, well, a real online event calendar. Today, with 22 events on the list from 9 am to 9 pm, we invite you to check out the page for yourself. Same address as always – westseattleblog.com/events – but each listing leads to its own page; mouse over any line on the page, look for the plus sign, click it to expand that line for the basics on that event, and to see the listing in its entirety, click “read more.” Those links will each take you to an event’s standalone page, usually including a map, and when possible, the entirety of the original announcement. So this enables us to bring you many more details about what’s happening. We’ll still publish daily highlights roundups here on the home page most days, but this morning, time is short, and the list is long, so we invite you to take a minute and explore. Have a great Saturday!

Irukandji March 31, 2012 (9:19 am)

HUGE improvement, thoughtfully done. Thanks so much!

WSB March 31, 2012 (9:33 am)

I forgot to mention that this was on the wishlist for more than a few people when we had our “reader survey” last year. We have been working steadily to implement many of the things people asked for (including the restaurant guide and weather page) and there’s still more in the works :) – p.s. just added one more event to today’s lineup so now there are 23. And our apologies to anyone whose event got lost in the shuffle in recent weeks as we worked on this … TR

April March 31, 2012 (9:56 am)

TR and WSB,

Thank you so much for all you do for us WS folks! We sincerely appreciate all your hard work. Love this new interactive calendar! You guys are simply the best in the biz.

april

Kevin March 31, 2012 (9:59 am)

Thank you WSB! You guys have done a fantastic job on this. A very valuable reference tool.

happy March 31, 2012 (10:40 am)

Love the new calendar– great work, WSB!!

Chaucer Wells March 31, 2012 (11:10 am)

Huzzah! Fantabulous! Thank you!

Julie March 31, 2012 (11:47 am)

Nicely done!

WSB March 31, 2012 (12:36 pm)

Thanks for the kind words – I do want to point out we didn’t develop the software; our content management system is open source WordPress, and many awesome people are out there developing options to use with it. This one is called All-In-One Event Calendar and I literally have been looking for something like it for YEARS – finally, a team in Canada invented it! And our fab tech guy Josh adapted it and some of our site underpinnings so they could work together. I have seen some other local sites using it for their event calendars too – WS Little League, North Delridge Neighborhood Council – so its appeal is getting around. But our intent has always been to have West Seattle’s most thorough event calendar, with everything from community council meetings to festivals to donation drives to concerts and way beyond, and this is the first thing that could really accommodate that … we’ll write up a more detailed walkthrough story sometime soon, including some of our requests re: HOW to submit events! – TR

HBE March 31, 2012 (12:58 pm)

I’m wondering if anybody knows about diy or inexpensive Easter bunny photos right now? There was some Santa ones that I found out by looking here on the WSB and have tried to keep my eye out for bunny ones but haven’t seen any. Does anybody know if there are some going on anywhere?

sam-c March 31, 2012 (3:31 pm)

I think it is a great improvement and very useful- thanks!
however, it does take much longer to load than any other WSB page- like 6 X longer.

WSB March 31, 2012 (3:43 pm)

Sam, that’s good feedback, would like to hear from others. I can configure it to put fewer events on the page BUT the problem is that currently the “more events” is NOT intuitively placed at the bottom of the page, it’s buried in the cluster of stuff at the top, which we currently cannot change, and I don’t want people to miss the fact we have almost an entire year of stuff blocked – TR

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