Google Calender

Googles much anticipated online calender went live today. Loaded with helpful features, you can now have all your appointments
and events stored in one place.

You can create multiple calenders, say one for work events, another for sports and another for your social life.

Some of the features are:

Calendar Sharing: Set up a calendar for your company softball team, and share it with the whole roster. (Your shortstop will never forget about practice again.) Or share with friends and family so you can view each other’s schedules side byside.

Invitations: Create event invitations, send them to friends, and keep track of people’s responses and comments, all in one place. Your friends can receive your invitation and post responses even if they don’t use Google Calendar themselves.

Quick Add: Click anywhere on your calendar where an event belongs (or use the Quick Add link), and start typing. Google Calendar understands whole phrases like “Brunch with mom at Java Cafe 11am on Saturday,” and will pop new events right into your agenda.

Gmail Integration: Add your friend’s Super Bowl party to your calendar without ever leaving your Gmail inbox. Gmail now recognizes events mentioned in emails.

Search: Find the date of the Baxter family BBQ (you knew it was sometime this summer). Or, search public calendars to discover new events you’re interested in and add them to your own calendar.

Mobile Access: Receive event reminders and notifications on your mobile phone.

Event Publishing: Share your organization’s events with the world.

Its free, looks good simple to use and all you need is you google account to login

If you come from the old school of web designers or learned web design from an older book you probably construct your webpages using html with a table based layout. However things have certainly moved on. Now the focus in creating seo friendly pages is to use valid xhtml and css to style the page so that there is the minimum amount of code for the spider to have to trawl through in its search for the text on your website.

A classic example of a table based page would probably have hundreds of lines of code with the actual text hidden in a mess of font and table tags.

The beauty of css is that you have complete control of the structure of the code i.e. you can place your main body text and h1 one tag straight after the head section.

And of course css allows you to export all formating to an external file so that the xhtml code in the page is kept to a bare minimum.

Here is an example of a well formatted xhtml page using css for styling:

Thanks to Adam for the code http://www.adamskalak.cz/