Running Calendar version 5 design

Posted: October 12th 2012 Filed under: Blog

The New Zealand Running Calendar design version 5 went live yesterday. The main layout is basically the same but the event page listings have undergone a major re-jig to make it easier to see information at a glance.

Changes made

font size increased, made slightly lighter
background colour and defined border added to page outside the content area
background colour of date boxes in the calendar listings changed to green (to match the new boxes on the event listing pages)
moved the social sharing buttons from the top left (outside the main content area) on all pages to within boxes on selected pages only
modified event listing pages to show the region, type of event, dates, distances and useful links in large easy to glance at boxes
added additional classifications for events; the full classification list is as follows: on road, off road, track, beach, certified, kids, rogaine, team, relay, mud, obstacle, women only, wheelchair

Event classifications

As noted in the final bullet point above, there are now a bunch of classifications for events. This required a little automation, followed by the manual review of 420 event pages to make sure the classifications (and other basic information) were correct.

These classifications will all be searchable once I overhaul the search function in the next two weeks. For now, "On Road" searches match on road and track, and "Off Road" match off road, beach and mud. All events will be classified at the very least as one of these five types.

When the search is overhauled, it will also include the ability to search multiple regions at once. So, for example, you could search Northland, Auckland, Waikato and Bay of Plenty in one go.