Google Apps Hacks

240 GOOGLE APPS HACKS

Now click the link “add gadget” in the bottom right to open the gadget directory. Pick the gadget you

like by browsing the directory or performing a search. There’s so many different gadgets that you

can try just searching for your topic at hand—for instance, I’ve searched for “global warming” to nd

a gadget called “Global Warming Daily Tip.” Select the gadget and congure it if needed, and conrm

with OK.

You can now click the Preview link on top to check whether the design appears as you want it to.

Make design changes where needed—you may need to select an element and switch to the HTML

editing mode at times, for example, to adjust the “width” and “height” attributes of an inline frame

element—and you’re ready to go live with the page by hitting the Publish button.

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Preparing the page to make place for a gadget

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Gadgets are the spice of home page cooking: add too few, and

your page may taste bland . . . but add too many, and you’ll turn

people’s stomachs. Cook wisely!

Google gadgets—from search tools to weather information to clocks and games—are perhaps best

known for being used on the iGoogle home page (see Chapter 6). But many gadgets are also able to

live outside that space and migrate to the Google Desktop program, as well as most web pages or

blogs, including Google’s Blogger, and sites cr