It turned out this Evanced calendar program is pretty good. There’s nothing shockingly new and innovative about this particular calendar over any other, but it’s functional and it certainly does everything I want. Evanced hosts the calendar for us because it’s a lot easier than dealing with our IT and Security departments.
Staff can add, modify, and delete events at any time.
There are two views for the month: a calendar view and a list view. The list view seems a little grey and dull, the text would benefit from a little more breathing room. The calendar view shows the whole month at a glance but these fly outs keep, well, flying out every time you mouse over an event. That can get annoying pretty quickly.
We’ve had a handful of complaints from customers (not about fly outs, more about the confusion that change often brings) and, so far, no one has written to say they love it but I suspect that’s par for the course. The “handful” are probably that same group that complains no matter what, and it’s rare when someone takes the time to pass on a compliment.
On my library site though, it’s saving us a lot of work. As I said in an earlier entry, we used to recreate our branch events on age-specific pages. No more, we just link into the Evanced calendar and let it do the work.
