Changing Appearance
Connect Daily allows you to customize the appearance of your calendar and integrate it into your current website. The Customizing Appearance help topic contains information on how you can make the calendar look like the rest of your website. The Web Site Integration topic contains information on integrating Connect Daily into your site's design.
Connect Daily also has built in tools to get you started quickly. Here's the short version:
- When you first login, click on the Change Colors link to set your colors. Select Custom Color Definition to specify your own colors.
- Click on the link to Edit Custom Header to set the heading displayed on your calendar, what links you want displayed, and upload a logo.
To let visitors to your website see the calendar, you'll need to create a link to your hosted calendar. Generally, the URL will be something like:
http://your_organization.mhsoftware.com/
We can also create a virtual host name that people can use to access the calendar. Using a virtual host will allow your visitors to see a URL like http://calendar.yourdomain.zzz/
. To use a virtual host name, create a CNAME record that points to your_organization.mhsoftware.com. CNAME records are also sometimes referred to as ALIAS records.
In Internet terminology, host is just another word for a computer. For example, if I refer to the host name for our website, I would refer to www.mhsoftware.com.
When a web browser sends a request for a web page to a server, it tells the web server the name of the web host that it wants to get the page from. The web server then directs the request to the proper files and sends them to the client.
Sometimes system administrators will run many tens or hundreds of websites on the same computer. The computer that hosts these sites has one internet address. Using DNS, the names for these tens or hundreds of computers is configured to be the address of the host computer. This process is called virtual hosting.
Virtual hosts require a two part configuration, the DNS resolution and the application server. Each part must be properly configured for virtual hosting to work.
See Also: Creating a CNAME or Alias for Your Calendar