Add additional content to sidebar?

Hi Roel

That really is a very kind offer! Thanks!

I really don't mind on the technology behind it - whatever is easiest to create & maintain (option 2, by the sound of it) - but I'm personally am happy styling in CSS. Rather than go into lots of description, I've done a mockup to show the kind of thing I had in mind - see below. Hope that's useful? Will try to check back here over the weekend in case of any questions.

Jay

https://yapics.com/a3307rgEZ12

Hi Roel

I've been giving it a try and it looks very good - many thanks!

I do have some feedback / suggestions, though, for consideration:

1) Due to the short length of the lines of text (as a result of the narrow width), the 'text-align:justify' and 'text-justify:inter-word' (line 233) aren't ideal, resulting in some large gaps between words, in particular when you get this:

        | for   a  demonstration   follow |
        | this                               url: |
        | http://www.luxsoft.eu/lcforum |
        | /viewtopic.php                      |

... so I'd suggest either left alignment by default, or a user option to select the alignment, rather than having to hack the code?

2) Again, due to line length, it might be useful to be able to select the date format used - so rather than 'Saturday 9 December', the option to use 'Saturday 9 Dec' or 'Sat 9 December'?

3) Line 30 - $evtWin selects whether clicking on the title opens an event window. It would be cool if another option was to be able to open the attachment (if one exists)

4) Lines 54 to 57 - Margins & Boarders. Maybe have this section come before the color settings? I was trying to make the border disappear by setting it to transparent, but setting $CBORD to hex #00 doesn't work - before finding there was an on/off switch in the next section.

5) Add an 'official' option to set a border corner radius?

6) Add an official option in the CSS to style the <br> tags in order to add a few pixels of padding between sections of the event text (as on my mockup)?

7) Line 263 - This adds an H5 tag to the date. However for search purposes, it should perhaps be the event title that takes the heading tag?

8) I see that I can format URLs by changing the inline CSS, but maybe there could be an official option to style this too?

Hope that's helpful - and once again, thanks very much for doing this (at all, let alone so rapidly)...

Jay

Hi Roel

Thanks again for the quick changes! I've added a couple more notes, using numbering as above:

6. Yes, line height can be changed, but this affects the gaps between all lines, not the gaps between the sections of the event (e.g. the separation between 'venue' and 'category', etc.). There's probably a more elegant way of doing it using divs, but styling the <br> tag works, e.g adding this to the CSS section.:
   br {display:block; margin-top:5px;}

7a. The header tag isn't always working as intended. If the date and title are on separate lines ($tt1Line = 0) then the H5 tag isn't applied to anything.

7b. Maybe the H4 and H5 tags should be reversed, so the title takes the more important tag?

Regards

Jay