Wall Calendars Key Terms

Learn about key terms for wall calendars

By Adah Chung

Wall calendars are useful for keeping track of appointments, planning ahead for events or even as a promotional item for your business. They can be a good communication tool within your business to keep track of your tasks and timelines for goals. As promotional items, you can customize wall calendars with information or photos about your business. Whether you use a wall calendar to communicate with your office staff or whether you want to make wall calendars to promote your business, learning about key terms for different types of wall calendars will help you decide on the right wall calendar.

Academic calendar

An academic calendar is especially designed for the academic year. They generally start from July or August and go through July or August of the next year.
Try: Tri-Point Products has an example of an academic wall calendar.

Dry erase board calendar

A dry erase board calendar is a calendar printed on a white board. This allows you to use dry erase markers to mark on the calendar; it can be easily edited, as the markings are erasable.
Try: Flex-A-Chart shows pictures of dry erase board calendars.

Decorative calendar

A decorative calendar is one in which a monthly picture is provided along with each month of the year. The entire calendar can be centered on a theme, such as animals or nature scenes, so that all the pictures associated with each month are related.
Try: At-A-Glance gives a description of decorative wall calendars, as well as providing examples of them.

Custom printed calendar

A custom printed calendar is a calendar in which you can design the photos or logos that you would like placed on each month's page. You can also select from photo templates to put together your own custom calendar.
Try: Vista Print demonstrates how you can create your own custom printed wall calendar.

Message centers

Message centers incorporate calendars into other task functions into one wall board. There are many variations of message centers, such as having pockets for mail, weekly task bars, bulletin boards or a plain white board for communication notes to others.
Try: Mead has a selection of message centers to view.

Printable calendar

A printable calendar is one in which you can print yourself and use as you need. This is a cost-effective way to get a wall calendar, because you can find and use free templates to print your calendar.
Try: Hoover Web Design has a variety of free printable wall calendars for you to download and print.