Promoting your events

To add an event to the events calendar simply go to 'My events' and click on 'Add an event'. The information below provides a brief description of the editing options available on the Add New Event form.

• Event Details
• Event Title
  • Event Summary
    This summary appears on your My events page and the main events calendar.
  • Description
    Give a good description of your event here.
    Useful Tip:
    You can also add an image by clicking on the tree icon on the edit bar.
    
• Event Times and Dates
  • Start Time
  • End Time
  • Date Range
    Useful Tip:
    If this event takes place every day over a number of days,
    enter the start and finish dates under Date range.
  • OR Specific Date(s)
    If the event occurs on one day or a number of separate days, enter these
    dates under specific date(s) separated by commas using the format dd/mm/yyyy.
    
• Venue and Event Contact Details
  • Address 1
  • Address 2
  • Town
  • City
  • Postcode
  • Country
  • Email Address
  • Telephone
  • Website Address
    
• Activate the event booking form? (Advanced members only)
  This allows visitors to book a place at your
  event by submitting a form which is emailed to you.
  • FROM Email Address
  • TO Email Address
  • CC Email Address (optional)
  • BCC Email Address (optional)
  • Email Subject
  • Custom Email Message
    
• Set date for publishing this event
  • Display From Date
    Select the dates for when you want this
    event to appear in the events calendar.
  • Display To Date
    Leave clear if you want the event
    to remain live indefinitely.
    
• Select categories or search tags for this event
  Selecting catagories will make it easier for
  visitors to find your event.
  
  
  • Event subject
  • Type of Event
    
• Upload a thumbnail image for this event?
  • Current Thumbnail Image
  • Upload Thumbnail Image
    This thumbnail image will appear on
    pages across the website where the
    event is previewed (including in the search results).
    
• Optimise this event for search engines?
  Meta data is information about a web page which is used
  by search engines to decide where to place the page in its listings.
  • Friendly URL
    This allows you to customise your URL and make it shorter so that people find it easier to remember.
    For example, if you enter Johnsevent
    the URL will be www.galleries-online.co.uk/Johnsevent.
    Please note, type it with no spaces and without these characters: & / ? % etc.
  • Meta Page Title
    This will appear as the title of the page in search engine results.
  • Meta Description
    Enter a short description of the event.
    
• Activate comments for this event?
  Allowing visitors to leave comments is a great way to get feedback on your event.
  You have full control over what comments are visible on the event page.
  • Activate Commenting
    Tick box to allow visitors to leave comments for this event.
  • Moderate Commenting
    Tick box to only allow comments to go live once you have approved them.
  • Suspend Commenting
    Tick box to stop further comments being left for this event.
    
• Make Live?
  • Make live in your space
    Untick this box if you wish to remove this event from view on your pages.
    
• Save
  Click to save your changes.

Please contact us if you have any questions about completing this form.

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