What is the Trumba Tribune website?

The Trumba Tribune website is a demonstration site where you can learn about Trumba® Connect by seeing it in action. We’ve set up a collection of website calendars and other spuds that illustrate how you might use Trumba Connect to establish your newspaper as the go-to resource for local event information.

Here's a path you might follow as you explore the site:

Step 1

Interact with the spuds on this page to familiarize yourself with our event widgets.

Step 2

Visit Display & Locate Events to see how Control and Calendar spuds work together to make events accessible and easy to find.

Step 3

On to Submit Events, where you can see how easy it is to solicit events from community members.

Step 4

At Promote Events, view our collection of Promotion spuds. By embedding these spuds throughout your site, you can generate page views and drive traffic to the full calendar.

Step 5

On the Reverse Publish page, you'll learn how you can repurpose event information you store in the Trumba Connect database for use in print publications.

Step 6

What you put into your online events is what you get out when you reverse publish. Learn about some of the event customization options available in Trumba Connect.

Step 7

Wind up your tour with the Performing Arts and Blog pages, where you can see how specialized calendar views help you promote fine arts performances and raise the visibility of blogs.

What are spuds?

As you probably noticed, we mentioned "spuds" in the introduction above. "Spud" is our name for an event widget. Event widgets play a key role in Trumba Connect.

They play such a key role, in fact, that it’s accurate to describe the Trumba Tribune website as an event widget, or spud, container. This page alone contains three spuds, Date Finder (upper right), Upcoming Vertical Crawler (directly right), and Upcoming Crawler (bottom of the page). Taking a look at these examples can help you understand exactly what a spud is and does.

You can see at a glance that spuds display event information, and that each spud displays that information in its own unique way. You can also see that the spuds have been customized to blend into the Trumba Tribune website.

By moving your cursor over or clicking a date or event description, you can experience the ways in which spuds are interactive.

Spuds are the delivery mechanism for event information that you create and customize in Trumba Connect. By pasting spuds into pages throughout your website (as we’ve done on the Trumba Tribune site), you create an integrated body of event information that keeps your site visitors informed and involved.

I want to know more about how spuds work

Trumba Tribune is a demonstration website for Trumba Connect, a web-hosted online calendar solution. For more information about Trumba Corporation and the Trumba Connect product, please visit www.trumba.com.

Date Finder Promotion Spud

What it does

Navigates to specific dates in the calendar spud.
Click the arrows to move between months.
Click a date to display it on the Calendar spud.
Hover over a date to display a list of events.

What you can customize

Colors (including weekdays, weekends, and dates with events) and fonts.
Show or hide hover popup.

Try it on your own web page

Copy the spud code and paste it into the code for your own web page. Detailed steps

<html><head><title></title></head><body> <div style="width:200px; border:1px solid #000000; margin-bottom:20px;"> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.trumba.com/scripts/spuds.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$Trumba.addSpud({
webName: "trumbatribune",
spudType: "datefinder",
teaserBase : "http://tribune.trumba.com/online_calendars/display_locate_events.aspx" }); </script></div></body></html>

Spud appeal

Experience the power and simplicity of Trumba-forged widgets.

Upcoming Vertical Crawler Promotion Spud

What it does

Displays a vertical scrolling list of upcoming events.
Click an event to open the event details page.
Click See all in the footer to navigate to the full calendar.

What you can customize

Colors, fonts, and padding.
Start and end dates.
Spud height.
Number of events to scroll before starting over.
Whether or not to show white space before starting over.
Scroll mode (continuous, by visible page, or by event).
How long to pause between scroll units.
Whether or not to display border and footer.
Which levels of featured events to display.

Try it on your own web page

Copy the spud code and paste it into the code for your own web page. Detailed steps

<html><head><title></title></head><body> <div style="width:200px; border:1px solid #3576b1; margin-bottom:20px;"> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.trumba.com/scripts/spuds.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$Trumba.addSpud({
webName: "trumbatribune",
spudType: "upcomingvcrawler",
teaserBase : "http://tribune.trumba.com/online_calendars/display_locate_events.aspx" }); </script></div></body></html>

Upcoming Events

Crawler Promotion Spud

What it does

Displays a horizontal scrolling list of upcoming events.
Click an event to open an event details page.

What you can customize

Colors and fonts.
Start and end dates.
Number of events to scroll before starting over.
Scrolling speed.
Whether to show or hide the border.

Try it on your own web page

Copy the spud code and paste it into the code for your own web page. Detailed steps

<html><head><title></title></head><body> <div style="width:500px; border:1px solid #3576b1; margin-bottom:20px;"> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.trumba.com/scripts/spuds.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$Trumba.addSpud({
webName: "trumbatribune",
spudType: "crawler",
teaserBase : "http://tribune.trumba.com/online_calendars/display_locate_events.aspx" }); </script></div></body></html>