Website Tools: Adding a Full Featured Calendar to Your Website

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Edited & published by Michele McDonough (87,891 pts ) on Jan 29, 2009

Are you looking for Website Tools to spice your website up? Why not add a full featured calendar to your website? The tutorial below will show you how to get the calendar and use it.

Bravenet Online Calendar is a great calendar to add to your website. With free website tools, you can plan and share events with your visitors, change the view of the calendar, customize it the way you want it and more. This is a nice calendar with a lot of features. This tutorial will show you how to use the Bravenet Online Calendar. You will first need to navigate to the Bravenet Calendar, which can be found here.

When the page loads, you will see the Green button at the bottom of the page. This is the Get Your Free Calendar button. Click that button to start your installation. If you are not a member, you will need to create an account to access these free website tools. Creating an account is free. If you are a member, you will need to login. On the next page you will see the page where you will need to setup your calendar. Let’s go through the different steps of using free website tools.

The first field is where you will need to enter the title of your calendar. Enter what you want in this field. Enter your homepage url in the second field. The next section is your email notifications section. Read through this section and select the options of your choice. The next field is the holiday icons section. Again, read through this section and make your choices. Once you have the calendar set up, click the Save and Continue button.

The next page will show the different types of calendar buttons. Look through the buttons and find the one you wish to use. Beside the button, you will need to copy the code. Then paste the code to your site. Once you have copied the code and pasted it, click the To Service Manager button on the code page.

In the service manager section, you will need to customize your calendar the way you want it. This is also where you will add, edit, and delete your calendar events. Make sure you setup your options for public posting. If you do not want any and everybody posting on your calendar, you will need to change the settings under Privacy Settings. Once you have finished with your calendar, click the View Service button to view your calendar.

It is important to rememeber that not all free website tools are created the same. Bravenet Online Calender is a premium choice in free website tools for all web developers. Free website tools are fantastic for the beginning web developer and the advanced web developer. Wherever free website tools can be used in place of for pay tools, the money saved is better than the money spent.