If you are a Windows Live Calendar user, then you might want to share your calendar with your friends. How to do that you ask?. Now with Windows Live Calendar, you can create a calendar badge that you can post on your blog or website.

* Example of embedded Windows Live Calendar

Through the embedded calendar, you can move forward and backward in time by clicking either a date or the month arrows.  The event list shows events starting from the highlighted day. It will show as many as will fit within the badge’s height.

Here’s how you create a badge:

1. Click on the calendar that you’d like to share — you can find your list of calendars on the left side of the page.

2. This brings up the calendar settings page. Click Edit sharing, and then Share this calendar.

3. Check the box for Make your Calendar public, and then click Get your calendar links.

4. Click Preview in a web browser—the pop up shows a URL like this:

http://kuanhoong.calendar.live.com/calendar/My+calendar/index.html. For the calendar badge URL, the two important parts are your user code e.g. (kuanhoong) and your calendar’s published name e.g. (My+calendar).  You will use these values in the final step.

5. Build the HTML snippet for the badge using the user code and calendar published name. Take the following HTML code and replace [user-code] with your user code and [calendar-name] with your calendar’s published name. You can then re-use this HTML snippet anywhere you want to show a badge for that calendar.

<iframe src=http://calendar.live.com/calendar/badgeif.aspx?user=[user-code]&cal=[calendar-name]></iframe> [via]