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Calendar Creation
Creating and Naming your Calendar
Before creating your calendar, you would be wise to join the Calendars
Net Private
Email List (form is on home page). There may come a time when we have to make changes to
Calendars Net that you will need to know about in order to use your calendar. So far we haven't
made any such changes, but it could happen. We have been sending out about two messages per
month. We also won't give your email address to anyone
else or use it for any other purpose.
To create a calendar, click on Create a Free
Calendar above. Enter a name for your calendar. It can have up to 16 alphanumeric characters.
It cannot have spaces or punctuation (periods, colons, semi-colons, slashes, etc). It is
just like naming a DOS file without an extension. The name of your calendar is in fact
its file name.
If you have forgotten your calendar's name, contact Calendars
Net and tell us what you think the name might be and what unique words may be in your
events. We can then search the database for the unique words and give you the name, with
confidence that you are indeed the creator of the calendar.
If you want to change the name of your calendar:
- You can abandon the first calendar and create another one. If you do, please contact Calendars
Net and tell us to delete the calendar you have abandoned. OR ...
- If you want to save the events you have already entered, contact Calendars
Net and tell us to change the name of your calendar.
Your Calendar's Address and Linking To It
If You Do Not Use the Email Notification Feature
The Email Notification feature sends email to your list of addresses when an event on your
calendar is added or changed). Your users will probably never use this, so use this web address
for your calendar:
www.calsnet.net/NAME
where NAME is the 1-16 character name you entered when creating the calendar.. Give this
address to those who will be using your calendar, or put this hyperlink in your web pages:
<a href=http://www.calsnet.net/NAME>Calendar</a>
If you want your link to have this small calendar image, use the code in blue:
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<A HREF=http://www.calsnet.net/NAME><IMG SRC="http://www.calendars.net/ical2.jpg" ALT="Calendar" BORDER="0"><BR>Calendar</A>
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The calsnet.net server is not only faster, but it also avoids any Acess
Problem due to User's Firewall, which is described below.
If Your Users Do Use the Email Notification Feature
In this very unlikely event, then the web address for your calendar is:
www.calendars.net/cals/NAME
where NAME is the 1-16 character name you entered when creating the calendar.. Give this
address to those who will be using your calendar, or put this hyperlink in your web pages:
<a href=http://www.calendars.net/cals/NAME>Calendar</a>
If you want your link to have this small calendar image, use the code in blue:
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<A HREF=http://www.calendars.net/cals/NAME><IMG SRC="http://www.calendars.net/ical2.jpg" ALT="Calendar" BORDER="0"><BR>Calendar</A>
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Better Access with Alternative Calendar Servers
During USA business hours on weekdays, the www.calendars.net/cals server sometimes gets
very busy. This can cause delays or even timeouts. Often, hitting Refresh or Reload on your
browser will produce the page you want. A more effective method is actually to click on some
other web site, then return to your calendar. This tends to flush out caching that may be
showing you an error page . . . in error.
The best solution is to help us spread the load by using our other servers. All of the servers
for the free calendars use the same data files, so it does not matter which server you use.
You (and others who use your calendar) can switch servers whenever you want, because all
of these servers point to the same data for your calendar.
If you do not use the Email Notification feature, then you will get faster service by using
this address to access your calendar:
www.calsnet.net/NAME [of calendar]
Even if you do need the Email Notification feature, you can often get faster service by
using one of these servers:
www.calsnet.com/NAME [of calendar]
www.calendars.net/c/NAME [of calendar]
www.calendars.net/cal/NAME [of calendar]
www.calendars.net/calsbackup/NAME [of calendar]
www.calendars.net/other/NAME [of calendar]
Here is the HTML code to link to each of these alternative servers:
<a href=http://www.calsnet.net/NAME>Calendar</a>
<a href=http://www.calsnet.com/NAME>Calendar</a>
<a href=http://www.calendars.net/c/NAME>Calendar</a>
<a href=http://www.calendars.net/cal/NAME>Calendar</a>
<a href=http://www.calendars.net/calsbackup/NAME>Calendar</a>
<a href=http://www.calendars.net/other/NAME>Calendar</a>
Please do not use any of the server's port numbers (8187, 8194, etc.) you might notice in
your calendar's address shown by your browser. These may change in the future, which will
break your link. But the various virtual directories listed above will remain correct. Linking
to the virtual directory name instead of the port number allows us to direct hits to servers
that are currently up and running. So please also tell your users not to bookmark addresses
that show the port numbers.
Finally, some users may have found Calendars Net via other domain names that search engines
index (such as www.calendar.org or www.schedules.net, etc.) that actually point to www.calendars.net.
Your calendar's name is as indicated above, part of www.calendars.net.. These other domain
names may presently work, but we may later use these names for other purposes.
Another way to speed up access is to reduce the size of your calendar by deleting very old
events. On the main Calendar Settings menu you will find the selection Delete Month Events.
You can use this to delete entire months of old events, making your calendar load a little
faster. Note that this function deletes only individual events and does not delete periodic
or duration events.
For more information, please consult Calendars Net Setup.
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