Check out the new widget for Glam Media! That's right, we do color skinning now. It's pretty obvious from the code how to do it; you just change the hex values of color1, color2, and color3
<script language="javascript">
PD_WIDGET.keyword="auctionid:glam";
PD_WIDGET.height="250";
PD_WIDGET.width="300";
PD_WIDGET.color1="0xffc2f6";
PD_WIDGET.color2="0x333333";
PD_WIDGET.color3="0x5d5d5d";
PD_WIDGET.create();
</script>
note that using"auctionid:glam" will get you the Glam question of the day!
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Making Blogger work with the Predictiwidget
As you can see, I have been able to make this Blogger blog widgetizable by expanding the right column. Actually, Blogger makes it relatively easy, so while I still don't forgive them for omitting a simple "Make my blog 1024 pixels wide" option, I found it fairly easy to do.
To start, this will all be a lot easier if you select one of the 'stretch' templates. Then when people come with their new-fangled 1024px wide monitors, this will already be done for you. Even so, But if you just have to use one of the others, you can do the following:
Click on Layout, and then Edit HTML.
- Under #outer-wrapper, set width to 980px
- Under #main-wrap1, set width to 600px
- Under #main, set width to 600px
- Under #sidebar-wrap, set width to 365px
- Under .main .Blog, set width to 600px
Even if you can use one of the 'stretch' layouts, I'd set:
- #outer-wrapper width to 55%
- #sidebar-wrap width to 45%
I'm CERTAIN there are better ways to do this. Has anyone found any?
To start, this will all be a lot easier if you select one of the 'stretch' templates. Then when people come with their new-fangled 1024px wide monitors, this will already be done for you. Even so, But if you just have to use one of the others, you can do the following:
Click on Layout, and then Edit HTML.
- Under #outer-wrapper, set width to 980px
- Under #main-wrap1, set width to 600px
- Under #main, set width to 600px
- Under #sidebar-wrap, set width to 365px
- Under .main .Blog, set width to 600px
Even if you can use one of the 'stretch' layouts, I'd set:
- #outer-wrapper width to 55%
- #sidebar-wrap width to 45%
I'm CERTAIN there are better ways to do this. Has anyone found any?
New Life for Blagnich!
Perhaps this blogging thing isn't so lame after all. As I reach my one year anniversary at Predictify, I'm finding that my priorities are shifting more and more from engineering to the business side of things. To wit, we finally finished a gorgeous widget:
...and now I'm trying to figure out how to make people aware of it! One of the challenges with a product like this is that most of the major blog hosting services still only give you 160px wide side columns, which is a bit outdated. You may notice that most of the larger blogs have 300px columns, as they have noticed:
1) Most people have screens wider than 600px now; the average is 1024
2) You can make a lot more money off of several 300x250 ads than you can off of one 160x600 ad
Of course, it doesn't seem like most blog for the money, they do it to express themselves, share knowledge, and ... what? I guess that's the whole point of writing in this space!
So tell me, noble readers, if indeed you exist, why do you blog? And why do you read blogs?
...and now I'm trying to figure out how to make people aware of it! One of the challenges with a product like this is that most of the major blog hosting services still only give you 160px wide side columns, which is a bit outdated. You may notice that most of the larger blogs have 300px columns, as they have noticed:
1) Most people have screens wider than 600px now; the average is 1024
2) You can make a lot more money off of several 300x250 ads than you can off of one 160x600 ad
Of course, it doesn't seem like most blog for the money, they do it to express themselves, share knowledge, and ... what? I guess that's the whole point of writing in this space!
So tell me, noble readers, if indeed you exist, why do you blog? And why do you read blogs?
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