Google calendar helps keep you and your staff in sync.
Publishing a Google Calendar to a website can be accomplished in a fairly easy manner. Google automatically creates the website coding necessary to embed the calendar into your site, you simply need to access the site design files or the blogging platform dashboard of your site. You can also sync the calendar with your desktop applications and customize the look and feel of your calendar to mesh with your site.
Synch the Calendar to Your Desktop
Popular desktop calendar options, such as iCal, Outlook and Sunbird all sync with the Google Calendar so you can keep all your events up to date and coordinated properly. Google calendar provides the tools for keeping teams or assistants on the same page for scheduling meetings and events. The help center on Google is extensive, so finding the methods for syncing your calendars should not pose a major challenge.
Google Creates the Embed Code
Google makes posting your calendar to a website easy by providing the code for embedding your calendar. Located in the settings section of your Google calendar account, you will find the necessary HTML code for placing the calendar with your site. This code will communicate with Google Calendar and will pull the calendar into your website and automatically sync it with any edits made within your account to the calendar.
Customize the Calendar
Located in the same location as the HTML code for your calendar are the settings for customizing your calendar. You can alter the size, color and additional calendar aesthetics to better match your website. Know the exact location and the dimensions of the space on the website prior to this stage so you can create a calendar that matches the available space on your site. You may also wish to alter your calendar settings so that the public can see your events, depending on your goals for posting the calendar. The public settings can be found when creating an event.
Placing the Calendar on Your Site
Adding the calendar to your site will take some HTML knowledge or familiarity to place the calendar code in the correct space. If you are using a blogging platform, the user-forums will have the proper directions as to add you calendar. In most instances a blog will not need you to access the HTML code of the site, you will simply need to paste the Google HTML to a text widget or blog post and then add the widget to your sidebar or publish the new blog post. If you are placing the calendar code within a website and are unfamiliar with HTML editing programs, this step will require a web developer. Once placed on your site, the changes to the calendar within your Google account will automatically update and you will not need the web designer again once the calendar is published.
