EVery MOnth project home page

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Purpose and project outline

Purpose The object is to provide an infrastructure for the display of a web page to show events that repeat on the Nth day of each month.
This could be used for clubs and societies with a fairly regular meeting schedule to advertise their events and those with a particular interest to find activities of a certin category in their area.

Project Here we'll
(a) create a design for UI and system,
(b) implement it using interesting web technologies
(c) eventually have a working showcase
Note that this is not really a visitor's guide, more of a resident's what's on reminder.

Main screen basics

This is the sort of thing most page visitors would see although we can make the details a lot more sophisticated.

Subject Folk clubs Location Essex Time Evening

	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
First		Feering Feering-folk-session					Maldon Blue Boar folk session
Second				Witham Sing around Braintree Bongo workshop
Third			Maldon storytelling
Fourth
Fifth					Varies Fred's occasional fire-folk
Last					Maldon Blue Boar accoustic night

Some
advert

Search
advertisers

Mon 3rd JulyWyvenhoe dance club. Special guest Bobbie Shaftoe.More

Wed 5th JulyDengie Folk. New venue! Red Fox, Latchingdon.More

Thu 6th JulyAnyone going from Witham area to Tilbury Irish session? Call Dave on 01234 567890More

Singers wantedTerling singsong club needs more members.More

Mouse-over events would give details. Flags/colouring would be used to indicate current status, for example some event may be suspended or subject to uncertainty.

Hosting and management

The scale of hosting is an interesting issue. In theory the most efficient scheme would be to have a single site for all events covering a large area. This would work so long as the system could be designed so that there was no human need to assess, coax, mangle or monitor the content.

The folk scene is a classic example where many areas have guides. These could be run one per individual area. In Essex for example there are dozens of sessions. For economies of scale and managing advertising it seems best to have one single site for all british folk and use key words to select an area.

It is assumed that advertisments in this context would be specialist. That means a booking, serving and reporting system is needed. On the other hand Stan's sheet music can target an audience of likely customers quite simply.

The dynamic club promotions section is something to keep visitors returning to the site.

Interactions

General viewer

What's on when? (General)
Visit EVMO front page
Input subject and area selections
Mouse-over for standard event details
Click for more information if provided
Bookmark page for revisits.(URL includes selection criteria)

What's happening? (News)
Visit EVMO front page.(If bookmarked then selections will be done already)
Check the status of events of interest
Scroll the news section

Where can I find?
Visit EVMO front page.(If bookmarked then selections will be done already)
Use alternative key words to search events
Search advertisers by key word

Tell me more
Visit EVMO front page.(If bookmarked then selections will be done already)
Click button to register for daily/weekly/monthly email of changes and news
Input email address and frequency. (Email sent immediately...)
Link in email needs to be followed to activate

Event organiser

Add my event
Register (Unless registered)
Use persistent email link1 to access organiser's control page.
Click the Add event button.
Input event description, key words and categories, links to more information etc.
Preview and accept.

Register me as organiser
Input email address and basic details. (Email sent immediately...)
Link in email is used as access credential.1

Edit event or contact details
Use persistent link in registration email1 or bookmark to access control panel page.
Click the appropriate editedit etc.

Add/Edit news item
Use persistent link in registration email or bookmark to access control panel page.
Click the appropriate add/editedit etc.

Advertiser

How do I advertise etc.?
Information screen with rates, conditions and etc.
Register (As above if not already.)
Use persistent email links 1to access advertiser's control panel

Add/edit etc.
Select action from advertiser's control page.
Add/edit key information and upload artwork
Agree placement terms etc.
Make card payment

View statistics
Select statistics from advertiser's control page.

View payments
Select payments from advertiser's control page.

Site manager

Approve pending changes, news and adverts?
From site control page select pending queue
Preview then select allow/query/block

Purge unmaintained events
From site control page select events
Sort list by status. See event lifecycle below
Review and optionally suspend purging of unmaintained events

View usage statistics
From site control page select statistics

View users
From site control page select registrations

Miscelaneous

Report inaccuracy
From main screen or event details or news item use Report inaccuracy
Input simple 'feedback' form with categories of issue eg. Defunct, moved, suspended, mis-described, bad experience etc.
Offer option for event organiser to contact user directly.

1Persistent, bookmarkable, personal URLs are sent in registration emails used for access, as opposed to login with password.

2Whilst the roles of Email subscriber, Event organiser and advertiser are different, behind the scenes and as a matter of architecture we will have a single record type of registered user. A RU might be all three. screens such as control panels and lists the manager might see are common with the appropriate bits 'switched on' as required.

Interface model

Screens
Main event display	AJAX interactions to adjust display.
Email registration	Complete form. Validate. Send access email.
Report inaccuracies	Complete form etc. Create complaint and attach to event. Notify event organiser.
Event organiser registration	Complete form etc. Validate. Send Access email.1
Advertiser information and registration	Display terms, rates etc. Complete form etc. Validate. Send Access email.1
Print/Mobile version	Long list version of dates and news top and tailed by adverts.
Get new access link	Complete email address etc. Validate against registerd users. Send Access email.1
Subscriber control panel	Email frequency, subject keywords, and unsubscribe settings2
Event organiser registration	See above
Advertiser information and registration	See above
Event organiser control panel	Contact details, lists of events, messages, news items
Event details add/edit/delete	Form and upload. Send to events queue.
News details add/edit/delete	Form and upload. Send to news queue.
Send message to manager	Form and upload. Send to messages queue.
Advertisers control panel	Contact details, lists of adverts, payments, statistics etc.
Advert details add/edit/delete	Form and upload. Send to adverts queue.
Send message to manager	Form and upload. Send to messages queue.
Manager's control panel	Approvals-pending queue, Subscriber/Event org./Advertiser list, Messages list, Event list, configuration settings, events/news/ads lists
Approve/deny event change/News item/Advert	Tick/cross beside list of details. (Cross->Why message to submitter. Possibility of blacklisting submitter/IP address.)(Tick->possibility of making submitter 'trusted')
Registered users listing	(Subscribers, Event organisers and Advertisers are not really separate entities.)2
User details/actions	Send message, change status, 'delete'.2
Inaccuracy reports	List of (outstanding) reports with actions of cancel/alert organiser/flag event dubious or OK or suspended
Event listing	Tools to schedule and deal with event reviews
News listing	Manage and prioritise news items
View statistics	Usage, ad views, ad clickthroughs
Configuration settings
Handle messages	Reply etc.
Emails
Registration/Access URL	Send a personalise and persistent 'login' URL 1
Please review event	Ask event organiser to confirm details of event. Sent automatically according to schedule or as response to inaccuracy/complaint
Approved!	Tell that event, news item or advert has been approved my site manager
Latest info	Newsletter for subscribers containing changes and recent news.
Message from manager	General purpose information/request from manager to registered user.
Thanks for your message	Acknowledgement of feedback or inaccuracy report.
(None)	All incomming messages done via screens.

Data model