We’ve been thrown a Googlie

Just a quick update: When I started this blog I promised to be honest about our experiences setting up the Post’s new website, so here goes….

One of the features that I think could be a killer USP for us is Google’s neat Calendar widget. We wanted to embed one on the site, and then use it to list all the dozens and dozens of business events in the region.

This was set up easily two weeks ago, and we’ve been busily filling it up since.

Until today. Google Calendar hates Internet Explorer 6 so much it crashes the browser. IE7 and Firefox are fine. Guess how many of our current site visitors use IE6?. .. . . yes, half of them.

We’re now trying to find a solution. If anyone has a mate who works in Google, please ask them to get it sorted for the Birmingham Post as soon as possible.

Tags: birmingham post, google calendar