Winter time brings plenty of concerns about the weather. The Weather Channel has a little widget to add to blogs, showing the weather for the location picked by the site publisher.
We’re enjoying the first real snowfall of the season in the Murdok home of Lexington. At least those of us who don’t have to drive in it are enjoying it; other people may have a different opinion, complete with language you might hear from Carlos Mencia if he hammered a toe into a table leg in a dark room.
The Weather Channel’s website now offers a way to enlighten your visitors with the current conditions. Their widget, called Weather On Your Website, can be added for free; registration is required.
Once registered, the widget can be customized by shape, color, and of course location. Here’s what one of the four shape options looks like for the local area:
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// Locations can be edited manually by updating 'wx_locID' below. Please also update
// the location name and link in the above div (wx_module) to reflect any changes made.
var wx_locID = '40509';
// If you are editing locations manually and are adding multiple modules to one page, each
// module must have a unique div id. Please append a unique # to the div above, as well
// as the one referenced just below. If you use the builder to create individual modules
// you will not need to edit these parameters.
var wx_targetDiv = 'wx_module_3261';
// Please do not change the configuration value [wx_config] manually – your module
// will no longer function if you do. If at any time you wish to modify this
// configuration please use the graphical configuration tool found at
// https://registration.weather.com/ursa/wow/step2
var wx_config='SZ=300×250*WX=FHW*LNK=TRVL*UNT=F*BGI=seasonal2*MAP=null|null*DN=www.murdok.org*TIER=0*PID=1032963617*MD5=ee7070528a5282b7cd81d0bbdb2a1b54';
document.write('’);
// –>
Site visitors can find their weather through Weather.com’s search box in the widget. It’s a straightforward little application. There’s no social networking, no up or down voting on the weather, just very direct, high quality information.
In other words, it’s a welcome widget in a world of applications that demand more and more of a person’s time and effort to fully benefit from them. Why shouldn’t we talk about the weather, anyway?
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