Week 7: iGoogle

This was a lot of fun to set up...especially as I haven't gone anywhere near gadgets in Blogger. It was like the lolly shop..I wanted this, that & the other gadget on my site, and I could just have it by clicking. Sudoku, recipes etc....even got the petrol price feed that I couldn't get as an RSS feed from the RACV (but it is disappointing in that it doesn't seem to list the petrol stations I would most go to). There's no problem if you don't like what you choose...you just delete it. I haven't played around much with the "theme" (why don't they say background) or tried editing gadgets yet...had too much fun just grabbing them like a little kid. It's a good tool to gather together the things that I most want to refer to and will think about how I can get some of my "favourites" as links onto the page...I suppose one of these clever developers would have to set it up as a gadget e.g. the rainfall records from the Bureau of Meteorology for the South Gippsland region which I refer to just about daily. Maybe iGoogle could have a setting up type page where they take you through the steps to help you create your own gadget from a favourite website. (How hard could it be??) Maybe there is already a way of doing this that I haven't picked up on yet...can anybody tell me how to do this? Janice, if you know and tell me, you can have a chocolate!