I learned two nifty new things this week- how to set up a Google Map, and how to install and customise a PHP calendar. I feel chuffed that I’ve crammed something useful into my poor tired brain, and both of these tools will come in very handy for lots of future projects.

Custom Google Maps are reasonably complicated, as they require a lot of javascript and the plotting of latitudes and longitudes. I created one on oxfamireland.org for our very popular Oxfambridal shop. But Google also have MyMap, a handy tool for more complex maps - and I used it for setting up a map showing the locations of all the Oxfam Ireland shops.

The first customised, editable calendar, also for Oxfambridal, was set up using Easy PHP Calendar. This is a nice little application that only costs $20 per domain, and which creates flexible and customisable calendars.