Building a Web Site For Dummies®, 3rd Edition

Providing Weather Forecasts on Your Site

I figure that most of the people on the Net spend almost all their free time indoors, but amazingly, they still maintain a fascination with what’s happening outside. Okay, I admit that I have to drive through the outside world sometimes, and the guys from marketing often take their laptops and cell phones to the beach to “work.” But all you really need to know is whether a thunderstorm is coming your way, right? And if that bright flash and the sudden puff of smoke from your modem don’t tell you that, what can? Still, you just can’t please some folks, and if your visitors want to check out the latest weather conditions and forecasts, who am I to stand in their way?

Weather.com (at www.weather.com, of course) is the online version of the Weather Channel. If you’re not familiar with that channel, you obviously don’t get cable TV. It offers some really nice weather graphics that you can put on your Web site.

To add all this wonderful weather wizardry to your site, follow these steps:

1.	Go to the Weather on Your Website page at www.weather.com/services/oap.html.
2.	Scroll down the page and click the Get It Today button.
3.	On the resulting page, shown in Figure 12-13, click the Sign Up link in the upper right corner. Figure 12-13. Click the Sign Up link for new users. [View full size image]
4.	On the Set User Profile page, shown in Figure ...