No. 26 of Learning 2.1 talks about YourMinis which is all about widgets.
If you have read any of my posts you will see that I have already gone down the road of widgets and I never get sick of them, so of cause I had to get one from YourMinis and then I had to decide what kind of widget I would create. This time it had to be different from all the other ones.
Two of my friends are into scrapbooking (me, not so much in fact not at all but I like their work) have created a blog about scrapbooking and they like to share with you the many ways that you can use their products and to also offer tips and ideas along the way.
My YourMinis is dedicated to them it is RSS feed widget, feel free to check out their site by clicking on the feeds to see what they are up to.
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Showing posts with label widgets. Show all posts
Friday, August 17, 2007
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Rambling
Blogger vs. WordPress
Back in March, I attended a workshop on blogging. I had heard about this and of course had come across them while surfing the net. I went to the workshop because I like to learn new things, you could say I am a learn-a-holic (new word created? Perhaps, I will have to check with my mentor). Anyway as I was saying, I went to learn but wasn’t sure if this is what I would get into.
The presenter was very informative. Her explanations of how things work were easy to follow. We were shown how the presenter’s blog (using WordPress) looked and also shown other alternative sites that one can use to create a blog. One of these was Blogger.com by the end of the night, I was all set to go home and start blogging - that’s the way I get when I really enjoy a presentation, I just can’t wait to start.
And of course I created a blog using WordPress - there is only one post there so I am not going to give the address. I investigated every inch of that site, tried a few things and lost interest.
A few days later I decided to try Blogger. I found that there was more to offer here. At the start I had only posted a few comments and as I became more involved in RSS feeds, joined Web 2.0, I found that other people have been able to add different elements to their blogs and this became a challenge for me.Widgets (third party item that can be embedded in a web page), using HTML/Java scripts, game widgets, clouds widgets, interactive widgets - I love these things - as you can see by this blog I became very enthused by widgets.
I went back to WordPress to see if widgets could be entered on my blog but they are very restrictive in their page elements. I did manage to get a map of Australia added to my blog, whereas at Blogger.com you can add as many HTML/Java scripts types of page elements as you like and they have more interesting options in their other page elements.
I guess it all comes down to personal preferences. If you want fun stuff use Blogger.com, if you are into just a simple blog for writing posts, adding links to other sites etc, WordPress might be for you. I’m no expert, just a simple blogger or maybe WordPress is just too high tech for me.
Back in March, I attended a workshop on blogging. I had heard about this and of course had come across them while surfing the net. I went to the workshop because I like to learn new things, you could say I am a learn-a-holic (new word created? Perhaps, I will have to check with my mentor). Anyway as I was saying, I went to learn but wasn’t sure if this is what I would get into.
The presenter was very informative. Her explanations of how things work were easy to follow. We were shown how the presenter’s blog (using WordPress) looked and also shown other alternative sites that one can use to create a blog. One of these was Blogger.com by the end of the night, I was all set to go home and start blogging - that’s the way I get when I really enjoy a presentation, I just can’t wait to start.
And of course I created a blog using WordPress - there is only one post there so I am not going to give the address. I investigated every inch of that site, tried a few things and lost interest.
A few days later I decided to try Blogger. I found that there was more to offer here. At the start I had only posted a few comments and as I became more involved in RSS feeds, joined Web 2.0, I found that other people have been able to add different elements to their blogs and this became a challenge for me.Widgets (third party item that can be embedded in a web page), using HTML/Java scripts, game widgets, clouds widgets, interactive widgets - I love these things - as you can see by this blog I became very enthused by widgets.
I went back to WordPress to see if widgets could be entered on my blog but they are very restrictive in their page elements. I did manage to get a map of Australia added to my blog, whereas at Blogger.com you can add as many HTML/Java scripts types of page elements as you like and they have more interesting options in their other page elements.
I guess it all comes down to personal preferences. If you want fun stuff use Blogger.com, if you are into just a simple blog for writing posts, adding links to other sites etc, WordPress might be for you. I’m no expert, just a simple blogger or maybe WordPress is just too high tech for me.
Sunday, April 1, 2007
Fun stuff
I told you I like playing with things, at this rate I'm going to have my blog filled with things rather than words. The latest one is from http://www.widgetbox.com/ on this site you have many choices as to what you want in your widget. You can have games, pictures, feeds etc. the choice is yours. I liked the fish tank, I have a feeling I picked this one because I will be gazing into it a lot when I am trying to think of something to say, also there is a game to play if any one is interested, I know a lot of people like Sudoku unfortunately I am not very good at it.
I haven't only been playing, I read all my feeds through Google Reader, I been over to Library 2.0 aka Ning, greeted new friends, a few Aussies one Englander and a couple of Americans. Also been over to Crimespace (also part of Ning) this is a great place especially if you are into crime novels, I meet new friends there as well, I learnt of three new books which my local library does not have (guess who will be requesting them). Made a friend with an author of a book which the library has, it’s a bit surreal talking to someone who lives on the other side of the world and knowing when I read his book I can, in a small way, call him my friend.
Thats it for now off to bed work tomorrow
I haven't only been playing, I read all my feeds through Google Reader, I been over to Library 2.0 aka Ning, greeted new friends, a few Aussies one Englander and a couple of Americans. Also been over to Crimespace (also part of Ning) this is a great place especially if you are into crime novels, I meet new friends there as well, I learnt of three new books which my local library does not have (guess who will be requesting them). Made a friend with an author of a book which the library has, it’s a bit surreal talking to someone who lives on the other side of the world and knowing when I read his book I can, in a small way, call him my friend.
Thats it for now off to bed work tomorrow
Sunday, March 25, 2007
I like this
Thanks to Ellyssa from Library 2.0 I have created a widget via Box.net widget . As you can see I have already added a couple of files of cause they are only test doc. Ellyssa has uploaded powerpoint files so possibilities are endless.
I will try and be inventive with my uploads.
I will try and be inventive with my uploads.
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