May 3, 2007
Cool AccuWeather.com widget
Take a scroll a little ways down my page and look at my new toy in the right sidebar. I just installed a weather widget from AccuWeather .com. You’re always asking me what the weather is like in Hawaii. Now you can see it every time you come for a visit, whether I’m standing by to tell you or not. Right at this moment it’s 73 degrees F with light winds out of the East at 6 miles per hour. There’s even weather radar function. It’s got an enlarge button; wait a second and I’ll tell you what it does. Ah, nice. It takes you to a map that is large enough to tell that there are light rains in my neighborhood right now. (Yep, it’s raining right now.) Click on “weather forecast” or “weather maps” and you’ll be taken to their site where where you can get more detailed reports along with all the latest weather news. Look around while you’re there. You’ll find some community features on their site and free web, blog and nature features. (If you’re a weather geek like my dad was you’ll especially enjoy the vidoes of severe weather, too.)
I got to select the color and dimensions for my weather widget. That’s because AccuWeather .com netWeather v3.0 is customizable so you can select feature that feel just right for you. I like the sidebar placement, but if you want a larger widget placed at the bottom of your page you’ll even have a video viewer and some other advanced functions. Did I mention that it’s free?
Shall we discuss my technophobia again? No need this time! I installed it in about two minutes using three easy steps. I put in my location and language preference, selected a theme that goes with my blog and and copied and pasted the code that was generated. That’s it! Easy enough even for me! My Spanish-speaking friends? Gotcha covered because you can select either English or Spanish. Very cool. I’ll let you quit reading now so you can go get your own free weather widget.
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Posted by skeet @ 5:59 pm • Internet; the WWW, PayPerPost
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May 3rd, 2007 at 8:25 pm, brettbum Says:
Hey Skeet,
Congrats on the new PR4 rating! I know you worked hard for that.
I just noticed as I was manually typing your site into the address bar that you have a double ’ss’ between skeets and stuff for skeetsstuff.
You might want to consider setting up your .htaccess folder to redirect mis-spelled domains to your correct domain.
ergo if I type skeetstuff.skeeterbess.com by accident, your .htaccess file will be smart enough then to know what I mean and it will automatically redirect me to skeetsstuff.skeeterbess.com
Plus, if anyone gives you a link and types and drops the 2nd s, the link will still work and you will still get a PR benefit out of the deal too targeted at your actual blog and not the mis-spelled site.
May 3rd, 2007 at 11:10 pm, skeet Says:
Mahalo for that advice and the congrats Brett. I had an .htaccess folder edit function in my admin panel when I had my old template. There is none that I can find in admin for the new custom theme. Any clue where that would be hidden now?