More on Thing 25
OK ... phew ... I am DONE. That was rather painful, but as I wrote below, I went (gasp!) away from the Google widgets and found three great ones at Widgetbox which I found much more useful than the Google gadgets. I especially love my kitty cat ...
After all is said and done, it was another (ahem) time-waster, but I can see that with further use it gets easier and easier. I had to muck around a bit to find the Flickr slideshow that best suited me. One thing I did appreciate was being able to resize the gadgets so that they didn't take up oodles of room on my sidebar.
That's it for now. G'night.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Monday, March 23, 2009
Thing 25 : Blogging tools n' such
Well, so far I dutifully went through and watched all he YouTube posted video clips and found that it doesn't look terribly difficult to add a widget/gadget to my blog. However, the first one I wanted to add (from Google) titled "Children's Book of the Day" (natch) did not properly load. All I got was the little box with the red "x". Hmmm ... I think perhaps it's time to try a (gasp!) non-Google product, so I will poke around and see if I can find something else.
Additionally, when I went back to the "More Things" site, I could not re-load a video that I had just watched seconds before. I received the "this video is no longer available" message. Bummer, I'd wanted to re-check something that I'd seen on the Robin Good series (very good, btw, almost as clear as the Common Craft videos ... tho' those are truly superior for simple, straightforward instructions). I will have to do this later.
My first thoughts, however, are that nearly all of the gadgets suggested are ones that I would not want in my blog. Why would I want to track my blog? No one is looking at it except for me, so that's just depressing. Sound? Nope. I always turn sound off when I visit a site, so I wouldn't want that one either. More photos? I already am satisfied with my Flickr site and if I want to display any stellar photos, I'll post them. So ... I will have to see what else I can find.
More later ...
Well, so far I dutifully went through and watched all he YouTube posted video clips and found that it doesn't look terribly difficult to add a widget/gadget to my blog. However, the first one I wanted to add (from Google) titled "Children's Book of the Day" (natch) did not properly load. All I got was the little box with the red "x". Hmmm ... I think perhaps it's time to try a (gasp!) non-Google product, so I will poke around and see if I can find something else.
Additionally, when I went back to the "More Things" site, I could not re-load a video that I had just watched seconds before. I received the "this video is no longer available" message. Bummer, I'd wanted to re-check something that I'd seen on the Robin Good series (very good, btw, almost as clear as the Common Craft videos ... tho' those are truly superior for simple, straightforward instructions). I will have to do this later.
My first thoughts, however, are that nearly all of the gadgets suggested are ones that I would not want in my blog. Why would I want to track my blog? No one is looking at it except for me, so that's just depressing. Sound? Nope. I always turn sound off when I visit a site, so I wouldn't want that one either. More photos? I already am satisfied with my Flickr site and if I want to display any stellar photos, I'll post them. So ... I will have to see what else I can find.
More later ...
Thing 24 : a blog refresher
And ... we're off and running. I think I did everything recommended (required?) of this thing, but I did not, repeat, did not refresh my Avatar. Sorry, I just don't have the time! To my credit, I did refresh it at least twice in the last go-round, so it's not that old and stale (you'll have to be the judge). I'm glad there are "more" things in this go-round -- I expected to touch base on a few items that weren't covered in the last set and happily, it looks like they're here! So I have that to look forward to. Here we go!
And ... we're off and running. I think I did everything recommended (required?) of this thing, but I did not, repeat, did not refresh my Avatar. Sorry, I just don't have the time! To my credit, I did refresh it at least twice in the last go-round, so it's not that old and stale (you'll have to be the judge). I'm glad there are "more" things in this go-round -- I expected to touch base on a few items that weren't covered in the last set and happily, it looks like they're here! So I have that to look forward to. Here we go!
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