How to make changes to the calendar

The events list is edited manually via the events.inc include file, accessed via the admin site. (editing the links list is done the same way)

• Log into the Publish/Admin site
• Go to 'EXTRA' which is on left of admin start page, towards bottom
• Click on 'edit include files'
• In the first column, click the 'edit' link next to 'Liverpool'
• Click 'events.inc'

You will see the html code for the events calendar. Anything surrounded by angled brackets < > is an html 'tag' - these are used to format the text of the web page and are not displayed.

Below it in the 'preview' you can see how the code actually displays the text on the web page.

• Delete out of date events. Add in any new ones - below is a template you can use for reference.
• When you have made changes click 'Save'.
• Check the preview to see that your changes have worked ok.

You can edit it as many times as you want to, and the preview section will show the changes immediately. (But the public website won't show the changes for a while)

It's a good way to experiment with what the different html tags do, learn how they affect the text - just make sure that when you have finished, you leave the events calendar in a presentable state!

Event template

you can copy and paste this into the events.inc file and replace capitalised text

<strong>DATE</strong>TIME<a href="http://LINK TO MORE INFO ABOUT EVENT"> <b>EVENT NAME</b>SHORT DESCRIPTION OF EVENT</a>
<br>

example:

<strong>Fri 27 Jan </strong> 9.30am-4.30pm <a href="http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/liverpool/2006/01/331859.html"> <b> Tackling Racism Together</b> 1 day conference to look at how trade unions together with the local community can unite to combat racism. </a>
<br>

-- MariaNg - 26 Jan 2006
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