February 29, 2008 - 3:07pm
Calendar or Event module?
I can't remember which module but it's either the calendar or event module (in drupal) that an import a feed from googles calendar.
I'd be surprised if Joomla didn't have a way to do the same thing.
Matt Farina
Geeks and God Co-Host
www.innovatingtomorrow.net
www.mattfarina.com
February 29, 2008 - 5:32pm
You can...
I don't know what you are looking at, but my calendar has the ability to embed. In this same area, you can customize the size to whatever you like. It seems to work well for me. I just resized it to 160px with all the optional parts off and it seems to work okay. The height gets annoying because of the time zone note, but that's the only thing I noticed.
What don't you like about it?
February 29, 2008 - 6:24pm
Don't like the embed
The embed feature for Google Calendar is nice and looks ok, but it doesn't really integrate with a site well. It's look doesn't change no matter what size you make it. On geeksandgod.com for instance, which is dark in design, would look awkward with the bright look of the Google calendar. To be able to just take the feed and customize the look would be much nicer, even if you do lose a little of the functionality.
February 29, 2008 - 7:11pm
You may want to take a look
You may want to take a look at this thread at ChurchMedia.net. The poster(s) there wrote a script(s) for Google Calendar that helps with the styling of the embedded calendar.
I've struggled with a church calendar for a few years now. I really have enjoyed Google Calendar's easy of use, plus its sharability and the fact that its Google so its bound to only get better.
My biggest problem with Google Calendar is their pathetic attempt at displaying in a website. At anything less than full size it looks terrible (especially in month mode).
I am not a coder - I'm not paid to do web design - and really don't have the drive to spend all my free time coding up a calendar. But I was wondering if anyone has found some code that can take either a Google Calendar API or the xml feed and be able to parse it into an integrated calendar, especially one that can display a month view.