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Something Useful and Something Fun
25/06/07 22:09 Filed in: Smartblock
I've been having a lot
of fun building Smart
Blocks recently. Today I'm posting two
more. They're both from a vast library of fun
stuff that you can put on your web page
called Google
Gadgets.
They're a lot like widgets, but for you web
page. And best of all they're really easy to
make into Smart
Blocks.
It's mostly just a copy and paste task.
If you want to build your own Smart Block from a Google Gadget, you can use the code from these. You can see how I used the <blocks type=property id=width /> markup tag to let the embedded gadget know how big the block is. That way you can resize the block and the Gadget will resize or center itself appropriately.
Something
Useful
The first Smart Block is just a little calendar. It's a monthly view of the Google Calendar app. If you use thee online Google Calendar then you can even link this view to your own Calendar. I haven't done that though. I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader. ;-)
Something
Fun
And in the not-so-useful category is a nice little koi pond. Some little fish swim around in the pond all day and will follow your mouse if you get near. If you click they get fed and I think they like that. I didn't write this one, I just brought it to RapidWeaver. You should really go thank Adam Bowman for bringing such cool things to our sites.
To Download
1. Click here for the calendar.
2. Click here for the fish.
To Install
1. Download.
2. Decompress the file (Safari does that automatically).
3. Open a Blocks page.
4. Drag the icon from the Finder to a Blocks layout.
To Use
1. Install
2. Open a Blocks page.
3. Open the Blocks Library Window
4. Drag from the Library to you Blocks layout.
5. Enjoy.
If you want to build your own Smart Block from a Google Gadget, you can use the code from these. You can see how I used the <blocks type=property id=width /> markup tag to let the embedded gadget know how big the block is. That way you can resize the block and the Gadget will resize or center itself appropriately.
The first Smart Block is just a little calendar. It's a monthly view of the Google Calendar app. If you use thee online Google Calendar then you can even link this view to your own Calendar. I haven't done that though. I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader. ;-)
And in the not-so-useful category is a nice little koi pond. Some little fish swim around in the pond all day and will follow your mouse if you get near. If you click they get fed and I think they like that. I didn't write this one, I just brought it to RapidWeaver. You should really go thank Adam Bowman for bringing such cool things to our sites.
To Download
1. Click here for the calendar.
2. Click here for the fish.
To Install
1. Download.
2. Decompress the file (Safari does that automatically).
3. Open a Blocks page.
4. Drag the icon from the Finder to a Blocks layout.
To Use
1. Install
2. Open a Blocks page.
3. Open the Blocks Library Window
4. Drag from the Library to you Blocks layout.
5. Enjoy.