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For example, you might have a special gathering on the first Monday of every month. If you create your calendar page manually, you would need to edit the web page and enter each event by hand, and mark down each date for the next few months, which is very time consuming and tedious task. On the other hand, most website calendar software would allow you to simply enter a rule to define a repeated event. You simply need to define a rule for a repeat event once, and have it automatically applied and displayed correctly on your website calendar for all future weeks, months or years.

Your web site visitors can scroll through the calendar to see events in the coming months or even years, and if additional information are entered, they can click on a date to see the full details. If you have repeat visitors check your website often for upcoming events, functions, concerts, trade shows etc, then adding an online calendar to your website will certainly give a very useful tool to them to find date specific information easier and quicker. An website event calendar can be done in various ways. Many websites install event calendar script developed using PHP, or PERL programming language. The advantage of these script based calendar is that they are usually open source code which can be modified by experienced web programmers for seamless integration with an existing website. And once installed, website administrator can update calendar information through a control panel.

However PHP or Perl script coding is not easy to learn for everyone. Most business web site owners are not programmers, and the cost would become too high to hire a web programmer just to install a website calendar. That's why flash calendar component has became more and more popular in recent years. A flash calendar often provides a high-tech look and feel, with smooth graphics and animations. And inserting a flash calendar to a website is much easier than modifying a script based calendar. User can easily add, edit or remove calendar entries without any programming --- as flash calendar usually comes with a XML file for user to update calendar data by using a simple text editor without any scripting. There are also flash calendar creation software which comes with a full WYSIWYG windows editor. Users can easily define their events, select a calendar template, set calendar title and headers, and then generate the HTML code automatically for copy and paste to his web page.