Introduction

You will start with your own personal calendar, or home calendar, which only you have permission to alter and update. Creating more calendars is easy, and in fact quite useful to organize everything going on in your life. SmartCal allows you to create as many calendars as you need.

You can think of a calendar as a container, a container which holds events. An event can be almost anything, like a birthday party, a financial meeting, or a playoff match -- anything with a date or time associated with it.

You can also give your friends access to your calendar so that they can see events on your calendar, or even post events on your calendar. You choose how much access to give and who to give it to.

Using subscription, you can see events from multiple calendars all on a single calendar. You may even want to recommend your calendar to friends so that they can subscribe and see all your events.

Calendar Views

A calendar's events can be viewed in a variety of ways. The different views are useful at different times, depending on what you are doing. You can set your default view by clicking on the button When looking at a calendar, you can change views by clicking on the tabs such as: daily, weekly, monthly

How To Switch Calendars

You can always get to your calendars through your My Calendars page, but the easiest way is to

Go to any calendar. The easiest way to do this is to click the button:
Choose one of your named calendars from the selection list at the right

How To Create A Calendar

Click on the button:
In the section labelled My Calendar List, click the button:
On the resulting page, fill in as much information as you see fit. All you have to is supply a title, but you can enter various things, such as a default location and address.
You can optionally supply a logo for your calendar. Enter the URL of where your logo can be found. You can also link your image to a web page -- just provide the URL to your site. Your logo will be scaled to fit in an appropriate space, so we need to know the dimensions of the image to adjust its size properly.
You can choose an alternate color scheme for your calendar from the list provided. To see a sample of what the color scheme will look like, click the button:
Click on the button: