Interactive Pages, saving, and displaying

  • I am trying to create interactive pages in an attractive format. Here are some examples:

    https://tinyurl.com/o6sq6sk

    https://tinyurl.com/l6zb6cc

    https://tinyurl.com/lv3y3fc

    Some key things that I would like to accomplish are to input data into the interactive user interface allowing visitors to modify the information (icons with pictures would be cool too, but I am fine with text and text boxes).

    Once visitors have entered information I would like for them to be able to save the information as a unique URL that they can post as a link to their friends who can then click and will be brought to the design that someone wanted to show them.

    Also I would like the whole thing to be attractive and useful. In my particular application there is some background math operations with formulas that control output data. It is necessary that my deriveunattractivere not stolen.

    I’m using twenty fourteen theme currently

    Currently I accomplish part of my goal using a calculator plugin. The plugin only offers limited functionality, doesn’t allow my visitors to share information and it is not the most attractive. It is also tedious to format and update.

    My newest idea for a solution was to embed an excel sheet (I am quite talented with excel so this is an much easier format for me on the back end, since I do weekly updates). Apparently embedding an excel spreadsheet into WordPress in a manner that is secure is more difficult than it appears.

    I have looked at an implementation using excel and Microsoft OneDrive, and also google docs and google drive. In all these options there are ways that 3rd parties can download the actual spreadsheet thus getting to my formulas (which I want to prevent). The other problem with embedding (I’ve tried JavaScript embedding, iframe embedding, and HTML conversion of the sheets), is that it forces the sheet into a small box which is unattractive. In addition many embed options are view only and not interactive.

    I did get an HTML conversion and a JavaScript embed to be interactive but it was still in a small 663px x 663px box limited by sidebars headers footers etc… So for a very small sheet this is functional but still ugly and lacks protection of my derived formulas.

    I’ve seen in excel where you can “publish as a webpage” which creates what appears to be some form of HTML file but I cannot figure out how to integrate that into WP.

    At this point I am exploring options of creating a pagelayout to allow a larger view area (thus bigger embed space and bigger spreadsheet. I am very limited in CSS and HTML experience beyond copy and paste, but do not mind learning. I am good at data manipulation and statistical scripting “R”, SAS, Excel etc..

    Here is an example of one of my current calculators:
    https://tinyurl.com/q7l4b89

    And here is a more complicated one, still lacking a lot of the functionality I am seeking.

    https://tinyurl.com/ktntd5v

    Any suggestions ideas etc…are greatly appreciated.

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