Widgetizing your Blog is the new thing to explore here on Beautiful Beta. Ramani shows how to add random Einstein quotes to your Blog. Phydeaux3 started all this showing Flickr Puppies, and even Hoctro now shows a Flickr Zeitgeist widget. So it is time that Beautiful Beta follows these fellows, with a useful Weather Forecast Widget. And ofcourse a tutorial on how to create this widget on your own Blog and make it easy-to-install for your readers.
You have to follow 3 easy steps:
Step 1: Create the Widget
Go to WeatherReports.com, scroll down and click Add WeatherReports To Your Site.
In the next screen, enter your city, select the colors and style of the weatherbox. After entering all your selections, you will go to the next screen automatically. Take a look at the preview, and select and copy the HTML-code.
Step 2: Add the Widget to your Blog
Add an new HTML page element to the sidebar of your Blog. Paste the code that you copied into the page element, and set its title to "Weather Report".
Don't save it yet, but go to step 3.
Step 3: Add an Install-button
Now we are going to add a button, that installs the widget on your visitors blog when it is clicked. In fact, we'll add a form with several input fields, but only the button will be visible. Here we go.
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