How to add a yourminis widget to Journals

As previously announced, you can
add mini-applications (aka widgets) to your AOL Journal very
easily.

This update shows you how to take a widget
from yourmini's and add it to your
Journal.

1.   First, pick a
widget.   Yourmini's has thousands of widgets to use
from - from photo's,  search, to do lists, video's
etc.  You can choose a widget from the Yourmini's gallery
which is here.


For this example, I'll assume you chose the "Flickr"
widget.

2. On the widget page, you can do a few
things:
 - Customize your widget
 -
Re-size it
 - Copy the widget to another
site.

3. Customizing. 
All
Yourmini widgets have a menu that allows you to customize the
widget.  This menu is shown in the top right hand corner of
the widget.     See
below.



The
first menu is the color menu - you can change the color of the widget
using this option.

The second is the detailed
options.  Click on the down arrow, and you get the options -
e.g. in this example you can show photos from a user (enter the user
name)  or a tag describing the photos (e.g. cats). Selecting
one of the options allows you to customize the widget. If you have
photos on flickr, enter your username and you will see
them.





4. 
Re-sizing.  You can re-size the widget by grabbing the bottom
right corner and dragging with the mouse to
re-size.

5. Put the widget on your
Journal.

- To do this, you must "grab the
code".   So go to the menu again and click on "Copy
Me".  You will get these options. 


-
Click on the first option, to grab the code.  Then hit "Copy"
which copies the code to the clipboard.

- Now go
back to your journal entry and put it in HTML mode.



-
Finally paste in the code you copied.   Hit CTRL+V to
do this.


That's it.   It
may seem very long to do this, but it is actually not once you get the
hang of it.  

Tags: aol
journals, yourminis,
widgets, willspeaking