Venue seating maps - jquery-plugins

I would like to ask for suggestion for any 3rd party plugins or software to could help with the generation of interactive seating maps.
Something like where an admin can draw out a venue and create the seating areas/seats , give them names / prices for each section.
I would appreciate a few pointers.
Thanks

There is JQuery-Seat-Plan plugin and with a little of customization, you can make event organizer be able to design his own seat map.
I'm currently doing something like this.

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Selectable categories and products in magento admin

Goal
I am upgrading a custom in-house module for magento EE. The module groups clients together and has special rules that can be applied to the group or individuals of the group. I need to add an extra tab that allows, on a per group basis, to select items and/or categories. When they are selected people within this group will not be allowed to see those categories or products.
What I have
I have the the tab created and I know what I need to do on the front-end to achieve my goals. The issue is creating the selector. I have played with it for a couple hours and made no real headway as of yet. I have only been doing magento development for the past 5 weeks, so I am very new to this framework.
What I need help with
I would like to select the categories and items in the same fashion as when you go to Catalog->Categories->Manage Categories. The left column has a tiered list. I would like to have one like this but with check boxes for selection. When looking at Promotions->shopping cart rules->actions(tab), select a rule, choose the actions tab. In the second fieldset, if you add a new rule 'category' and then select the icon for the tiered tree that is exactly what I want. Same idea for products, its okay if the look is different. Just need to be able to do it both ways.
I need to be able to store the selected values, and retrieve them (easy once I know how to store them).
Please provide any code, guidance, or links to tutorials which are in the ball park. It would be much appreciated. I'm sure the generic option of being able to select things in this manner would be helpful to all.

Modify Contact Associated View to include prospects

We have Contact Associated View that displays all customers. These are people who have bought one or more item from the high street shop or online. But we also have a set of customers who goes to the shop and signup for news letters and offers. In our setup these are called PROSPECTs.
My current view (Contact Associated View) only displays customers but not prospect and I was wondering what is the best way to include them in this view? I don't want to create another cusom view as I don't know what the criterias are.
Also, if there is any way to find out what criteria is used to create Contact Associated View and if it is practicle to make changes in it.
Any guidance or tutorial link would be much appreciated.
Many thanks
EDIT: I manage to create a custom view under CONTACT which SUPPOSE to list all customers who purchased or didn't purchase item from that shop.
Simple check like Customer equal y;n
but when I view contacts from this view, it only list customers with purchase. Is there any master condition that is overwriting this condition or am I missing some thing? (forgive me if I sound stupid but I am from SharePoint world where master CSS rules takes over local CSS rules)

Product calculation by custom dimensions in Magento

I already asked this question (like many before me) in the Magento 'How do I' forums and have not received any answers/ideas.
I want to create a customisable product (picture/mirror frames) by size (height/width) enabling the user to enter the size.
I have seen this done in another Magento site with the ability to select unit of measurement which is another excellent feature I would like to use.
Any ideas on how to achieve this would be greatly appreciated.
Take a look at custom options of an product. There is little documentation, but here you can determine attributes without fixed values like normal attributes have.
You can find the 'Custom options' tab while editing a product in the menubar at the left.

Need a creative way to post employee bios

i need to find a creative way to post employee bios.
right now i just have it in a table, alternating bio and pictures, like this:
person 1
[picture] [bio]
person 2
[bio] [picture]
person 3
[picture] [bio]
person 4
[bio] [picture]
its really hard to maintain when i need to add or remove a person.
could anyone suggest an extension i could use for this?
it does not have to use a table, just look good(creative) and be easy to maintain
thank you!
I would suggest the best way would be to create a category for your employees then use a category blog layout with multiple columns. This would give you a nice first page where you could have name+picture, and then upon clicking their name you view an individual page about that person.
Should you choose this solution (I am assuming 1.5). Create a category for employees and create an article for each employee within this category. Seperate the photo from the main content using the "read more" button.
Then goto menus->main menu->"new"
The type you want to select is articles -> category -> category blog layout.
On the next page, pick the category you created earlier on the RH side, and just below that you can specify how many columns and how many employees to view per page.
Hope this helps, the same method loosely applies to Joomla 1.6, however, categories are setup differently.
I found a solution - DJCatalog Extension did the trick :)

Magento add rate options to products

i wanna add the option to vote for a product or give a rating, you know, the 5 stars, the user pick an amount, i don't know if i can do that in the backend, untill now, no result, i need someone to guide me with this, maybe i need a new module, or maybe just configure the backend and wow, its done.
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Refer to this forum post. Basically, you need to go to admin Catalog>Reviews and Ratings>Manage Ratings to set up the options for Ratings, and then assign them to your store view. The default templates should then show the Ratings html widgets.

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