Weather widget
Use the new widget button on the toolbar to add weather to your page. As always, use the edit button on the panel to choose your city! Expect more widgets, and send us your suggestions…
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January 25th, 2006 at 4:55 pm
Saw the “Add Widget” on My Protopage this morning and clicked - what a nice surprise, thanks! Though I’d personally rather see more days of the forecast rather than take up two slots for day and evening (took me a minute to figure out that the blue banana hiding behind the cloud was a moon ;-)
January 25th, 2006 at 4:58 pm
We’ll add some more options and we’re considering a ‘compact’ mode - send us your suggestions and we’ll try and accomodate them. We’ve also been notified of a site that will let you add weather RSS feeds to your Protopage - you can find it at http://www.rssweather.com (thanks to Hari)
January 25th, 2006 at 5:05 pm
I would love to see a WYWO (While You Were Out) Note Feature.
The idea would be that we could have preformated notes to take phone messages for our office which would share the same protopage. Rather than sending an email and not knowing if the other staff person got the message, we can post a WYWO Pad. Once the delete it, we know that they had returned the call.
Just a thought!
January 25th, 2006 at 6:38 pm
Sweet feature! Can’t wait to see more widgets. In Regards to Cliff’s note, a general “Panel Copy” feature would be super - that way you make whatever template you want, store it on a hidden page, and then spawn copies. Or better still, if you could customize an existing note type (like a WYWO) and then have an option to “Store as widget”, and then you could spawn new copies of your template right out of the widgets menu… Just thinking out loud…
January 25th, 2006 at 7:53 pm
an essential feature. i think you´re going in the right direction.
January 25th, 2006 at 8:31 pm
absolutely lovely! :) thanks.
January 25th, 2006 at 9:10 pm
I would like to see a TV Guide Widget. That is the one thing I miss from My Yahoo.
January 25th, 2006 at 10:12 pm
VERY NICE! Thank you!
I would love to see a widget for checking web mail for Gmail and Yahoo
January 25th, 2006 at 10:50 pm
Love the new weather widget, great job. How about a radar map too? Which brings me to my next suggestion, panels with tabs, that would be great.
January 25th, 2006 at 11:15 pm
Are you going to allow others to create widgets for use within Protopage? (Similar to Yahoo Widgets?) The capability will increase rapidly if this is allowed. Not sure about the implementation difficulties in this environment.
January 25th, 2006 at 11:32 pm
Nice widget! Thanks for including the Humidity. I am one of the few who actually need to know that everday.
January 25th, 2006 at 11:47 pm
Great job on the weather widget! I’d love a “compact mode” version.
Other ideas:
* Gmail/Yahoo/Hotmail notifier
* Send-to-Phone SMS (I made my own by modifying google’s sms firefox extension, but I imagine lots of other users aren’t savvy enough to do that.)
* Quick Email Compose (user provided SMTP settings)
* To Do list with a simple “add” text box and little [x]’s next to items to remove them
* Alarms/Reminder panels that will pop up at specified times.
* A send-to-other-person’s-protopage option on the panel’s dropdown (people could have an “inbox” page of sorts?)
January 26th, 2006 at 2:23 am
I was wondering when you guys would get around to putting this up, thanks! Would love to see more widgets coming up. And keep up the good work!
January 26th, 2006 at 10:20 am
It would be good to have a forum to share tips.
Anyway, if you’d like to embed google (the web page) in a panel, so that you see the search results on your protopage page, create a sticky note with the following HTML:
I’ve not got it resizing properly on the vetical, that is why there is the hardcoded height — I suspect you could do something with dynamic properties to make the height depend on the parent object’s height.
Regards,
Damian
January 26th, 2006 at 10:25 am
Whoops — looks like the HTML got filtered out.
You can see the “Embedded Google” here, complete with source: http://www.protopage.com/dmehers
January 26th, 2006 at 11:05 am
Wonderful widget - want to alert you to typo though - it’s Celsius not Celcius
January 26th, 2006 at 11:51 am
Will the weather widget eventually include more non-US/N. American cities?
Schöne Gruße aus Göttingen, Deutschland.
January 26th, 2006 at 2:57 pm
Great feature - I was using a http://www.rssweather.com feed on here but this is much better looking. The number one feature I am waiting for though is Gmail support.
- Homeless Brian
January 26th, 2006 at 6:58 pm
I love it. I have it on my personal protopage (Moreorless). I love protopage a good deal. I’ve made a swell grammar and essay guide using your site - keep it up - I love it very very much.
January 27th, 2006 at 3:37 am
The night cloudy one looks like a banana split.
yummy.
January 27th, 2006 at 5:25 am
Thanks to everyone that has written in, both here and via our feedback form. We’re in a constant struggle between returning emails and building new features - so we apologize if we have not yet returned your email. We massively appreciate you writing in however, and are paying great attention to your bug reports and feature requests. Next up, the Gmail/POP3/IMAP email inbox preview widget…
January 27th, 2006 at 8:07 am
I just love protopage, but I miss som widgets:
- I kind of a guestbook, but more like a notepad, where visitors (or yourself) could write a message or something, maybe like a chat.
- The oportunity to write in the calender, add birthdays etc.
- Javascript
- The oportunity to choose if news from the rss feed, should open in the same or new window in firefox.
- Gmail
- Make the “about - log in - etc”-tab stand still, one place!
Thank you for a great page!
January 27th, 2006 at 12:01 pm
Thanks for the new feature. Awesome! Better than the RSS I was pulling in dull-text =)
January 27th, 2006 at 12:12 pm
I HIGHLY, ****HIGHLY**** recommend you all add this feed to your Protopages. Of course, be sure you increase the minimum number of entries shown in full screen mode…
http://feeds.feedburner.com/BabesOnFlickr
January 27th, 2006 at 8:45 pm
Two ideas I like to see implemented:
(1) a table of contents panel(possibly derived from a link panel) linking all the pages. I’m currently up to 10 pages filled with sticky notes and having trouble remembering the subject matter for each page.
(2) Signature sticky notes for team projects using prototype. Each member’s sticky note has his name on his note, or possibly color coded by team member.
keep up the good work.
January 29th, 2006 at 10:22 pm
I have 20 protopage pannels in my protopage and I can’t get to page 2 and 3 because of the annoying weather widget.
January 30th, 2006 at 7:58 am
Wow, that’s a power user. We’ll see if we can make the virtual page numbers smaller after you add more than a certain number, so that they don’t overlap the widget button on the toolbar as easily. In the mean time, a quick fix is to hold down the CTRL key and use the mousewheel to increase/decrease the font size. This only works in Firefox, and you’ll need to refresh the page after you change the font size so that Protopage can recalculate the page dimensions.
January 30th, 2006 at 9:38 pm
We’ve got airfare feeds if anyone is interested in creating a fare tracking widget for proto page.
February 1st, 2006 at 4:10 pm
the haze looks like a blurry german flag. that and the italian banana split… can we get something that looks like fish and chips?
February 1st, 2006 at 8:28 pm
If it helps we can change the icon for ‘rain’ to the Union Jack
February 1st, 2006 at 8:43 pm
lol, every protopage developer is a comedian :-) Am I the only one who is seeing strange blurred images inside my new widget? I thought it was a single corrupted image somewhere but it looks like several have got problems? I made an Edit to the data and things came right again though?? Weird….
February 1st, 2006 at 8:46 pm
Oh, and PS. about the number of pages being hidden away by the new Widget section, can we not simply add Widgets to the existing Add Panel section? Or better yet, have it ‘as-is’ for new users but let us power users turn off the icon text in that bottom left bar so we’re left with just the icons and a little more space? Just some thoughs from rainy England.
February 1st, 2006 at 10:21 pm
We’ve not heard of an intermittently ‘blurry’ image problem yet - unless you’re talking about the icons for haze and fog etc, which are supposed to be blurry. If it happens again, please do send us a screenshot.
February 1st, 2006 at 10:52 pm
Hey guys.. some great ideas floating around here.. below are some things I would absolutely love to have:
- A To-Do List, possibly able to be separated into categories such as school, work, etc. An essential feature :)
- The ability to make panels that are editable by the public like a wiki, so people can leave me messages.
- A hotmail / g-mail widget that shows you the first 5 or so e-mails in your inbox (see google’s customized home for an example)
- Skinnable panels?
- The ability to remove the HUD, perhaps by adding a Show/Hide link to the ‘Powered by Protopage’ title area?
- Love the idea of the compact mode on the weather widget, and I’d prefer different graphics and possibly text labels too.. a sun and moon doesn’t really cut it for rain and the like :)
Some of these would be easy to accomplish, others.. not so much, but do keep up the GREAT work.. me and my friends LOVE your service!! :)
February 1st, 2006 at 10:53 pm
Oh, btw.. the blurry images may be due to him using a dial-up download accelerator program.. such as AOL’s TopSpeed technology or NetZero’s 3G.
February 2nd, 2006 at 12:34 am
Thanks - please keep sending in feature requests via our feedback form, because we can then keep tallies and ask questions by email.
Re: blurry images - good point. We’ve also heard that in the UK, 3G data cards will compress images without asking, to make their wireless speeds appear faster than they really are. Apparently Vodafone’s 3G service doesn’t even let you disable the lossy compression!
February 2nd, 2006 at 3:14 am
Nice new feature, potentially very useful.
However, I’d still like to see panels expand and minimize based on the amount of text in the specific panel.
Width and length(height) of the panel would increase/decrease according to amount of text in the panel at the time.
February 2nd, 2006 at 3:15 am
By the way, I did ask for this feature via e-mail, but I never got a response. I’d say I sent in the ide about a month ago.
February 2nd, 2006 at 10:22 am
Re: blurry images again. I’m seeing the blurry image again this morning and the descriptor does say it it Haze, but the image is terrible if it is accurate? Take a look at http://www.quikinternet.co.uk/pp_weather.gif to see what I mean.
Who supplies the images? weather.com or the PP team?
February 2nd, 2006 at 2:13 pm
I would find it useful to be able to drag links between panels.
February 2nd, 2006 at 5:26 pm
Hayden Yale: the weather icons are supposed to look like that
however, i think they are a bit confusing.
my favourite all time weather though was from weather.com for Djibouti in Africa that just said “DUST!” in big letters… clearly been watching Little Britain.
james
February 2nd, 2006 at 5:37 pm
Yes, the ‘blurry’ icon is the icon for Haze. Haze is, well you know, hazy.
February 2nd, 2006 at 6:34 pm
From the look of the graphic, I would say Haze has a drinking problem :-)
February 4th, 2006 at 6:13 am
The site is down what is happening?
February 4th, 2006 at 6:43 am
Yes, down since a long while already….
That makes me realize how much I’ve grown dependant of Protopage!
February 4th, 2006 at 8:06 am
Protopage still down!!
…how on earth am I going to access the rest of the internet if my beloved start page doesn’t work?!
February 5th, 2006 at 4:41 am
@andy:
i think most of the users like the way the panels react to text now, which is word-wrapping and allowing you to manually define panel sizes. this allows you to get a set layout on your ‘desktop’ without having to worry about dynamically resizing panels. after all, how hard is it to adjust the size of a window? :)
February 5th, 2006 at 4:14 pm
Well Andrew, actually, on my page 1, I can’t move or resize any panels at all… there’s no problem on any other pages, though… So THAT’s how hard it can be!
At some point I thought I’d move these panels to page 2 or 3 if I wanted to resize them…. but hey, the edit-menu disappears on me as soon as I move the cursor down to the appropriate menu entry. Actually, only the “edit” option on that menu is really available to me. Again, this only happens on page 1.
I’m still hoping to get a reply to an email I wrote about this some time ago, but I understand they get lots of email. No wonder! :)
February 6th, 2006 at 1:41 pm
Apparently, I’ve solved my above problem :)
February 9th, 2006 at 7:40 am
Canada seems unsupported :(
February 12th, 2006 at 1:36 am
i was so happy to discover this widget AND that paris was working until… i realized that it was weather backcast and not forecase! it’s now sunday and the forecast is for friday and saturday, not sure what the main sun is about since it’s night out…
February 12th, 2006 at 4:16 am
lol.. canada.
April 6th, 2006 at 7:58 pm
Mmmm… Site looks good! Real good!;-)
April 7th, 2006 at 2:08 pm
I love this site! My very best wishes to its owners!
April 8th, 2006 at 4:17 am
Nice site 0_o….i love it:-)
April 8th, 2006 at 5:25 am
Great site! Good work;)
April 8th, 2006 at 7:24 am
Hi! This site is really good! Thank you
April 8th, 2006 at 3:13 pm
Great article. I am just sad I dont know how to reply properly, though, since I want to show my appreciation like many other.
April 17th, 2006 at 9:19 pm
April 18th, 2006 at 8:01 pm
Ooo.! Gut Seite:) Sehr schoen!
June 12th, 2007 at 12:43 am
thanks!
May 20th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
Maybe its just me, as in something I have inadvertently done, or maybe it is Protopage, but none of my Weather Widgets work anymore. They are all stuck on the same day with the same weather and same temperature. Is it IE, or is it Protopage? Or something else. Any ideas?