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[shanobi187]

hi, I love this site and I'm on it all the time. The only thing that I could think of to improve it at all would be the addition of a wind meter that's linked to your area. Looking up what the weather is doing is pretty much the only thing kite-related that I don't go through this site for. Just a thought. Thanx again for the great site!
-shane

[John Barresi]

Good suggestion Shane, have you seen such a widget that we could embed?

[shanobi187]

Kitelife, on Mar 10 2009, 02:53 PM, said:

Good suggestion Shane, have you seen such a widget that we could embed?

I believe if you log on to the weather channel that they have something like what i was talking about (did a little research after posting)

http://www.weather.c...l?from=hp_tools

[John Barresi]

I think I tried to have a go with that one a while ago and didn't find it to be user-friendly on the admin side.

[The Kite Shoppe]

How about this one:

http://www.usairnet.com/cgi-bin/launch/cod...UO&state=WA

and it is very easy to change the location

[John Barresi]

Interesting site T, but we're looking for a widget, something produced by a weather service which we can insert into the Kitelife forum pages, and allows our members to set their own weather location to pop up when they log on.

[shanobi187]

I'll keep looking around, maybe i can find one through different avenues then i've explored so far. I'll let you know if/when I find anything

[John Barresi]

Thanks.

[shanobi187]

I have been searching for a while and I keep finding dead ends. There's a place on yahoo where you can apparently make your own widgets but I've never tried to make a widget before. I'll give it a shot (possibly on friday if it's slow at work) and see what i can come up with, but as of yet the best one i've seen is the one i already left a link to. I'm still searching though. I'm actually kinda amazed that there isn't one readily available.

[John Barresi]

Well, it's simple enough to add one with a fixed weather location (i.e. Portland, OR)... But having one that you as a visitor can set to your own locale is a bit more challenging as we have visitors from all over.

Also, the presence of Laptop and PC weather widgets probably negates a lot of the need for people.