Using Google to enhance your own website

I HAVE written a couple of articles for This French Life recently that may appeal if the responsibility of running the website falls on your shoulders.

Both pieces use services provided by Google, the first looks at building a contact form in Google Docs.

While the second one describes how to set up an availability calendar, but it wouldn't be too difficult to use one as a What's On guide or a list of future events.

And of course one of the best bits is that they are free, but you can also access each service from anywhere as well as analyse or republish the data in different formats.