“Wow how time flies! Remember way back in 2003, when the company decided we needed a fantastic website, with all of the latest bells and whistles? Well we did it, and it served us quite well at first. But it is showing its age now though, isn’t it? I guess it’s time to call the designers and developers and make some changes….”

Does this scenario sound familiar? It’s sometimes hard to believe, but given the rapid speed of Internet growth, the cutting edge technology that companies worked so hard to implement just a few years ago is now outdated and insufficient.  I’ve been working with many companies that are coming to this realization, and an unfortunate trend has appeared. These companies, sadly are completely determined to keep using their 3rd party vendors and service providers.

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Clients often come to us for assistance integrating an events calendar into a web site, and we frequently recommend Google Calendar.  It has a flexible and user-friendly interface for both web site visitors and calendar managers.  What it doesn’t have, unfortunately, is a way to customize its color scheme.

I had the opportunity to tackle this shortcoming for a recent project and you can find a copy of my script below, followed by an explanation of the approach I used. (more…)