All of the hard work and long hours over the last few months has finally borne fruit:
the new version of Kiko Online Calendar has been released.
With a complete application rebuild from our beta, lots of new features and a complete
redesign of the interface by yours truly I think we’ve got something really special.
One of the nice things about Kiko is that your calendar has its own URL that you can give
out to people so that they can view your public appointments. You’ll notice the
link to my Kiko calendar on the right
hand side of the page; go have a look and see how lame my social life is.
Check it out and by all means let me know how you feel about it; comments and/or emails are welcome.
This also means that I am cycling back and catching up on some things around here
so expect 1, if not 2, AjaxScaffold releases this week.
One of which will hopefully end the gnashing of teeth over the lack of sorting and pagination support …hopefully.
PS: Since Kiko has it’s own blog, I’ll be gratuitously praising it on there
from now on.
Wow! Looks waaay better. 100% improvement over the last design–in fact, last time I didn’t even register for an account, this time I’m considering switching.
Congrats on the new look! Impressive.
Marcus: Thanks for the kind words Marcus, obviously we’ve put a lot of time and energy to try and overcome the impression you got from the beta
First off: Kiko looks *SWEET*. I’m going to be playing around with it over the next week or so, see if it fits my needs, but at first blush, it really looks good.
Second off: great to hear about the coming updates to the Ajax Scaffold. I just have one question: since certain big things are being promised, namely, pagination and sorting, how’s the upgrade path looking? Is it going to be as simple as just installing the latest version and it’ll pick up the changes, or will we have to regenerate our scaffolds from scratch? Or will there be a “replace all instances of ‘foo’ with ‘bar’ in your views” type of upgrade option? I’m fine if I have to regenerate the scaffolds from scratch, I haven’t done *that* much customization.. but if I can avoid the pain of redoing the customizations, I will.
Good luck, and thanks for all your work!
Katsushiro: I’m glad your first impression of Kiko is a good one, if there is anything we can do to make it better let us know. As far as an upgrade path currently there isn’t one, you just have to regen. I am just about to post a blog post about this very subject to see what people think should be done about it.
Wow, great job! I played with literally every online calendar I found over the past month, and became so disturbed at terrible interfaces that I gave up and started creating my own app. Still might do that for fun, but this version of Kiko is great. An absolute pleasure to use. I still think a mobile phone interface (just times and events) would be great, but with the RSS feed I can make my own pretty quickly. I at first didn’t care for all the help everywhere, but now I realize it’s the best way to show the full power of things, and appreciate that you can hide or show the help you want to see. Great job, this release definitely set Kiko ahead of all the other calendars out there, in my opinion.
Dave: Thanks for the kind words. Once we get tooltips I’ll be able to remove a lot of the help stuff that is pretty intimidating when you first start out, and can’t cover even half the things you can do in Kiko. We’ll keep working on it.
Great job folks ! i’ve been looking at other projects (planzo, 30boxes, etc.) but Kiko really rocks ! once you’ll have added international support (dates, week starting monday) and iCal/RSS synchro, that will be a hit !
here are a few ideas to make Kiko even nicer :
* a tooltip when you mouseover an event
* a search box to find events
* the ability to “star” an event (see 30boxes) & many more different colors to tag events
* an option to set the default starting view (month, week, upcoming)
* when ical support will be implemented, ability to link directly to an ical file (i.e. to sync it with SunBird/Rainlendar apps)
* themes (very optional to me but i know some folks would appreciate !)
I know you’ve been working hard on this great release, so a big kudos to the whole team, keep up the good work !
It really looks amazing – very very cool. Like a desktop, just prettier. What do you use do make it look so good ? (I’m a programmer, not a designer) – is it all Photoshop ?
Justin: Actually I don’t use Photoshop at all. I use Paint Shop Pro for some prototyping and doing small graphics (which are the only kind of graphics I can do), some small grid graph paper for prototyping and Firefox with the web developer plugin for CSS editing. Except for major UI changes I do everything the CSS editor. Oh, also I use CSSVista forchecking styles in IE.