Another John Ford special is hot off the presses and ready to be served. Yes, John Ford is a front-end engineer God. No, he does not pay me to say such things. He simply makes cool shit work on the intertubes, super fast and to spec.
I swear I could take on Silicon Valley if I only had 20 John Ford clones.
What we have to the right is a dotmatrix project event calendar. As new gigs are scheduled, we post the event to Upcoming.org, add them to the dotmatrix project group over there and this fansy, shmansy, customized badge dynamically displays updated show dates within our custom design. It’s not revolutionary or anything, but I dig it.
The super cool thing about this particular pimped badge is that now you can use it as a promotional widget on your own blog, Live Journal, web site, etc.
Yes, you — the person who says that he digs live music, but never seems to finds the time to hit a show. I know you — you tell your girlfriends that you’re going to check out this awesome underground band at this totally cool spot, and then you bail to watch a Sex in the City rerun.
Tell me I don’t know who you are.
So now that you blog and participate with every social network known to man, you can wash away your live music dissing sins by simply posting the following code into the sidebar of your WordPress, TypePad, MovableType or Blogger blogs:
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.dotmatrixproject.com/badge/"></script>
For those of you whose sidebar is a different size than the default 210 width here at HQ, simply use the following code and customize the width setting to your liking:
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.dotmatrixproject.com/badge/?width=210"></script>
Down the road we’re going to support various visual themes and potentially accept styles submitted by you, our loyal readers. We do things like this because we love you. And because without your uncontrolled fanatical support of this here project, it’s not going to go anywhere.
So if you love music and want a pain-free, cost-free, time-free, guilt-free way to support your neighbors trying to gain exposure in an industry that’s tougher than ever to catch a break within, well, you know what to do.
-Sean
i had to replace the quotation marks to get it to work and it renders a little weird for me in ie. but other than that, nice. thanks.
thanks much for the add, CM. i’ll tell john about the rendering issues.
FYI… I’m working on an iframe version for people who can’t use <script> tags such as users of wordpress.com and myspace.com. It’s a bit tricky since iframes don’t automatically adjust the height. Since the widget height can change due to how many upcoming events are listed it creates some kinks. We’ll post it as soon as it’s finished.
Any update on this Sean …. I’d love to know so I an add it, too.
I scaled it down to 120 wide and it’s displaying perfectly.
awesome. thanks, billy!