About North Texas tango teacher and event sponsor creativetango.com tango calendar accounts.
You can always get to this page using the "Calendar Login" right hand menu link from any creativetango.com page.
You can only update calendars by logging in to your creativetango.com account or by requesting John to make changes. Additional accounts may be created by request to John.
Get your login and initial password from creativetango administrator John Trimble john@creativetango.com 214-924-8300. You can change the password. You can also request additional creativetango.com accounts for spreading the duties around. And with a bit more effort, you can share update duties with your entourage without creating additional creativetango.com accounts (they'll have to create their own google calendar account).
John will give you the html code to place calendars of your own events on your own web pages; if you use this system, you will be able to make simultaneous updates to as many websites as subscribe to your calendar with a single update at creativetango.com.
Your students and friends can subscribe to your calendar (any calendar they wish) if they have a google calendar account or use any web dav enabled computer, pda or phone calendar. iCal, which is included with recent Macs, is just one example of such a calendar.
Creativetango.com consolidates the individual calendars that result from your updates here: Milongas Classes Events Other cities
More categories may be added.
Additional help (beyond what's below) is available by clicking help at the top right corner of
any calendar account screen.
How to login and make your updates
Add new events to existing calendars with the Create Events link on the upper left.
Add new calenders, share your calendars with creativetango.com or others, and get the code you need to embed your calendars in your own website by clicking Settings on the upper right
You can also access other creativetango services, such as send and receive emails at your creativetango address or share Word, Excel, Powerpoint or other documents, with your fellow teachers and sponsors, with students, etc. I will not provide support on all these other features, though. You'll have to consult the online help.
To edit an existing event, click on it in your own calendar. If you're simultaneously logged in to your creativetango.com account, you can just click on your events on the creativetango.com tango calendar pages and edit from there.
Click any text area to get an editable field
The background color changes for fields you are editing. If the field you want to edit has the background color, click on it to edit. All editable fields are selected in the picture because I clicked on them individually.
If your address is 2714-1/2 Greenville, please enter 2714 in the Where field, or it will not map properly. (Using "1/2" throws the map off.)
The fields are yours to change up as you like. However, please keep What simple. What shows on creativetango.com. Lengthy items may displace others, and by doing so find themselves displaced in turn. How much of the What field shows varies by the viewerÕs computer and browser, so rest assured that no matter how much you tweak to get the What you want on your computer, it could look different on someone else's computer.
I hope you agree that level or description (e.g. Intermediate or Fantasia) is the most appropriate What item to put for classes.
- Please be sure to include your contact information in the Description. I have found that when I enter my email address in the calendar, I have not had any issues with spammers as a result. Even so, I did not enter email addresses from TejasTango, choosing instead to leave it to you to decide which, if any, email addresses to include.
- Please enter accurate address including zip code in the Where field
- Please enter accurate dates and times in the When field.
- You may also add your website address. If you include http:// it will show in most browsers as a clickable link, but may not generally be clickable if you don't.
If you make a change to a repeated event, a popup will ask for more information. This is real handy for changing one event only out of a continuing series, such as for example when a Dunn Bros milonga moved to a different week of the month for one month and then returned to its regular schedule.
Save is your best friend. Creativetango.com is pretty good about saving for you, but to be safe, please save all your hard work spent entering or updating an event. I have found the system to be incredibly reliable over many years of use with several organizations, but I do know some people who forget to save.
You may create additional calendars. They will only be shared on creativetango.com if you share them with me (john@creativetango.com), and tell me by email where you would like them to appear. But you do not have to share every calendar with me. You could keep private calendars for yourself, your students, other purposes than tango, etc.
Click Settings in the upper right corner
There are loads of settings on the general page, but the ones that interest us are on the Calendars tab
Clicking on a calendar name takes you to calendar details. Note that you have control of the Calendar name. In getting everything in place, I relied heavily on one or two letter codes to group calendars by name according to teacher/sponsor Eg. R for Reese. FW for Terri and Paula and their successors in Fort Worth.
Now that the structure is in place, the names of the calendars donÕt matter so much to me, so long as they are descriptive and friendly. The only restriction I impose is that you may not use is anything that falls alphabetically before ÒAll.Ó The first name on the list identifies the calendar that shows up on creativetango.com, and I insist that these be consistently descriptive of the combined calendar. If your name is Aardvark, you will simply have to use a nickname or some other descriptive label.
You can only change the name of your own calendars, and remember that whatever name you choose will show up on CreativeTango.com.
I hope many of you may choose to take advantage of the calendar system by embedding your own calendars on your own websites. IÕd appreciate it if youÕd please link from your website calendar pages to the consolidated calendar on creativetango.com. I intend to maintain an inclusive universal north Texas tango calendar in the tradition of tejastango.com, and I believe this system adds value to your websites and an extra incentive to keep up to date by being able to post to two or more websites at once.
