How Do You Create A Great Looking Event Calendar Website?
Web event calendars have the potential to be a powerful communication tool for your organization or project. Unfortunately, many web designers make the mistake of giving event calendars short shrift when it comes to appearance and function. The result is a calendar design that is dull, flat, and not user friendly. With just a little extra design effort you can create an event calendar design that sings. Use a standard calendar view. Most people relate best to a grid that represents a traditional monthly calendar, with all the days in the month shown in a block of four or four and a half weeks. Other more “creative” calendar designs just aren’t as effective. The worst design is a mere list of dates. Make your calendar an intuitive visual experience: stick to the old-fashioned grid concept. Start a week with Sunday, not Monday. Most web visitors have grown up with the traditional concept of Sunday as the first day of the week. Confusion often occurs when Monday is set as the first day in
