Google Calendar

Our lives have become so busy and hectic that we frequently rely on using a calendar for recording events for either personal or private use. In looking at different mashups, I noticed that many now use the Google calendar on their websites. There are many advantages to using the Google calendar, one of them being, that it is free! There are also many decisions that must be made before the calendar is in place. Some of the business decisions that will have to be made include deciding whether to make the calendar public or private, which people will have access to the data (groups, individuals etc.) and who will be able to edit or have just viewing capabilities.



Embedding the Google calendar into a website is a fairly simple process. The Google calendar has different tabs that can display the calendar either by day, week or month. Entering information in the Google calendar is very simple process . By clicking on a specific date you can enter information instantaneously. The following YouTube video will demonstrate how to use the Google calendar once it is in place. There are so many wonderful options, too numerous to mention, but from everything I've read this seems like a great feature to incorporate when creating your website.



There are so many wonderful options, too numerous to mention, but from everything I've read this seems like a great feature to incorporate when creating your website.