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Creating a weekly calendar in CSS

The 2007-02-03 at 19:22 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.

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