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The revamp is here for Google Calendar!  It is a different look and feel from the current calendar.  Here is a brief overview in case you decide to turn it on, once you have the option. Once you are able to use the new Calendar, you will see this blue button added to the top between your view options and the More drop-down: When you select to Use new Calendar, you will see this screen.  Note that in addition to clicking GOT IT, you have a second option to CUSTOMIZE - If you select to customize, you will have 2 options (as of this blog post) - the fist to set the density of the information, and the second to choose the color set -   Right now there are limited options for each of these - Now, when you click on an event, you see many more details about the event, and can even interact with some of the details without opening the event up in the larger event window -   Additionally, invitations are reverse colored if you have no...

Google's updating of Sites was much needed.  It was feeling/looking outdated and it was still in the world of WYSIWYG website creators.  There are many reasons to switch to the updated Sites, including the following: Resides within Google Drive: you can create new sites and access your existing sites right within Drive, no going to a different location User interface is more intuitive: actions are much more intuitive on the new sites ADA Compliance: the new sites works hard to force you to be compliant, which means a limit in some features.  It is still the user content that can break this, but the dynamic layouts that adjust to devices, color contrasting within the themes and ease in adding Alt Text to images are game changers from the old sites Some of the cons: Loss of the page-level sharing: this will only impact a small percentage of people, but for me it was key in having part of a site viewable to the public and part of it private to select people. Ad...