"Fairy tales tell, as their labels imply, Stories of magic, of creatures that fly, With giants and dragons and ogres and elves, And inanimate objects that speak for themselves, There's romance and danger and plotting of schemes, There's good guys and bad guys and some guys in-between, A fairy tale also reveals some sort of truth, The perils of choices we make in our youth."
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Ella Enchanted

Photos from the Wyndham City Library - CBD Branch

Countdown to Christmas

Showing posts with label Widget. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Widget. Show all posts

Thursday, November 1, 2007

#19 Web 2.0 Awards

I visited two sites at Web 2.0 Awards nominees and created a count-down counter to my daughter's birthday (she's my baby and she is turning 18) and the second widget was for a Melbourne weather widget for a five day forecast.



Going through the various Web 2.0 Award nominees I noticed that there were quite a few websites that we have visited through this exercise of Learning Library 2.0

I decided to take a tour of Web 2.0 Tools Directory and BOY was there a lot to see, but I went to
which is a family tree program allowing you to add family members and information to create and record your family history. And best of all it's FREE.

Friday, October 5, 2007

#11 Library Thing

What a great place to look up books. I registered with Library Thing and had a play around. There I decided to create a library of my own books I own to do with scrapbooking, some of the books I own didn't come up in the Add books, so I did a Suggestions search which found them, then I returned to Add books and added them to my library. Those books I owned that didn't have pictures attached to them, I added. I also added tags of scrapbooking to them and some I added paper piecing.

When I added all my books, I created a widget displaying the books.

Sunday, September 30, 2007

#8 RSS Feeds

I set up a Bloglines account to keep track of my sites that I want updates for. I have 15 entries in my feeds, some are of other library bloggers, there are some scrapbooking feeds, Imdb movie feed and a fun feed for up-to-date Sudoku games.

I also have an RSS link on my blog for any one who wants to add my blog to their Bloglines account, all they need to do is sign into their bloglines account, open my blog and click on the link to add me to their feeds list.

Using RSS feeds, I was able to add a weather watcher, where I chose five cities to give me up-to-date weather.

When looking up Sudoku in my Blogline searcher not only did I find it had a feed I could add to my feed list but also a html script allowing me to add it to my Blog page.

Feedster is a RSS search site where you can find feeds of a topic you are interested in and create what they call a Widget, when you have created your Widget, it gives you a html script you can include on your blog giving regular updates. But it also works just like the blogline searcher where you can find feeds and add your chosen feed to your blogline feed.