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I have successfully made a background of my picture and uploaded it to YoWindow, that is I can now see it under the heading "Landscapes". (at least that is what I think it means, am I wrong?) I have the default weather widget on my blog, but would now like to use my own background. I am not good at HTML, so I would be very grateful for some help in adjusting the code. My picture has ID: Marathounta weather_12D6F5CC74E.
Gloria

Gloria wrote:I have successfully made a background of my picture and uploaded it to YoWindow, that is I can now see it under the heading "Landscapes". (at least that is what I think it means, am I wrong?)

No, you're right - congratulations! If you see your landscape with some clouds moving (depending on the weather of course) everything's fine!

Gloria wrote:I have the default weather widget on my blog, but would now like to use my own background. I am not good at HTML, so I would be very grateful for some help in adjusting the code. My picture has ID: Marathounta weather_12D6F5CC74E.
Gloria

I assume you've generated the code for the widget for your blog on this site, right: http://yowindow.com/weatherwidget.html ?

At the end of point 6 there's a link to a page where some help is given for those who want to put their own landscape on a website.
Have you already read this page and if yes, can you tell us at which point you don't know how to proceed? Which things on this help-page are unclear to you?

Additionally there's a link to a complete list of parameters for the widget.

Ikarus, thanks for your speedy reply. I think I must have downloaded from another page because I can't remember seeing that link! :?
Actually, my blog is on blogspot.com and I don't know how to upload anything like an xml-file to that site. I suppose I must ask them about that. I had hoped that it could be done with just some adjustments to the html-file....
Ah well, back to the drawing board!
Gloria

Ikarus,
By the way, why is it that the weather widget with the default background loads direct when I post the code into my blog, but that there so much more difficult to use my own background even though I have uploaded it to the YoWindow site?
This is probably a stupid question, but if you don't ask you'll never know anything.
Kind regards,
Gloria

Gloria wrote:Ikarus,
By the way, why is it that the weather widget with the default background loads direct when I post the code into my blog, but that there so much more difficult to use my own background even though I have uploaded it to the YoWindow site?
This is probably a stupid question, but if you don't ask you'll never know anything.
Kind regards,
Gloria

When you create a landscape for YoWindow and use it in the desktop version you do not upload it to the YoWindow site!
It's just saved (the .png-file or the .swf-file topgether with the .ywl-file) onto your own computer in the directory of your choice.

When you want to use a landscape of your own you have to upload all necessary files to your webspace and adapt the html-code - but as you posted in the "Question"-subforum you've already learned about the flashvars-parameter.

Last but not least: "Stupid is as stupid does." (Forrest Gump) And asking questions definitely is not stupid!

Good morning Ikarus,

And thank you for your patience in answering my questions. I have learned a lot and I shall now be able to puzzle this out given a little time.

Have a good week!
Kind regards,
Gloria

Also, why is it that the weather widget with the default background is loaded directly when I send the code in my blog, but there is so much more difficult to use my own background, but I downloaded it YoWindow site?
This is probably a stupid question, but if you do not ask, you never know anything.

Hi Asim,
welcome in our forum. You are right, if you don't ask, you never will get an aswer
Did you follow this tutorial? http://yowindow.com/widget_and_landscape
And it would be helpful to give us your URL, so we can see what happens on your website.
Werner

Thanks, Mallorca, for sharing the tutorial, though it was little of help for me, since i still cannot open SWF files inside YoWindow..

Hi Asim,
again, please give us your URL so we can have a look at your website.
Werner