Tom,

Great module and component. Thanks for all your hard work on this. I'll be using it for our church.

One thing I find frustrating is your use of tables. It has driven you down the path of providing numerous parameters for formatting the output - which even with all the options is constraining.

Have you ever thought about using style sheets to format output? This makes the page SEF and allows the greatest flexibility for presenting.

I would suggest just providing a <div> with an id and lists <ul><li>. Then style the lists into tables using CSS. You could do something similar with your navigation widgets.

Users of the module and component could then fully control presentation by modifying the CSS. It would also simplify your administration screen.

- Nick

The good news, Nick, is that I am currently refactoring the display to do just that. I am working with a user from Japan who is very knowledgeable about css and html combined. The new version will use css for all styling and parameters only for data elements.

We're in the coding stage now but sometime this summer the new version will be out. I will also make it possible for the administrator to have access to the css for editing so they can adjust the style themselves from the admin side.

I was frankly ignorant and a little fearful of css - so it was great to finally "see the light" and get the help to get this going.

Tom

That's awesome news. I'm looking forward to this new release! thanks!

Also looking forward to this new release.

The new release is out - albiet in a Release Candidate form - but this will be the last release candidate before the final production release. See the Downloads section of this website for the latest version of 6.1.

Just wanted to clarify - Tom, correct me if I'm wrong. 6.1 still heavily relies on tables, however, everything is marked up with CSS selectors now, so it should be much easier to style the display.

Is that accurate?
K-