Welcome to the software information page for the Weather by W.a.R, a highly customizable iGoogle weather gadget perfect for real-time weather retrieval. Read on to learn more about the Past, Present and Future of this customizable weather widget.
PAST
Originally started as a simple experiment, the idea was to take a single text field and turn it into a one search, one result data retrieval tool. After having some fun with the concept we decided to build something useful, a weather widget. Simplicity has and always will be the driving force behind our fast and user-friendly weather widget.
PRESENT (Weather by W.a.R version 1.1)
To use it as an iGoogle Gadget:
- Click this link to add Weather by W.a.R to iGoogle.
- On your personalized iGoogle home page find the gadget labeled "Weather by W.a.R"
- Type your preferred location in the text box to retrieve the real-time weather information for that area.
- See the Advanced Settings and Tips and Tricks sections below to learn how to configure your new gadget through the iGoogle "Edit Settings" panel.
To embed the gadget into Blogspot:
- In the Layout: Page Elements mode, click "Add a Gadget" and search for "We Are Ronin" to find our weather gadget.
- Click on the gadget labeled "Weather by W.a.R" to enter the gadget configuration screen.
- Now you have a choice:
- Click "Save" to Embed the gadget with all the default Blogspot settings.
- Configure your gadget with custom settings (see next step) and then click "Save".
- See the Advanced Settings and Tips and Tricks sections below and learn how to get the most out of your new gadget!
That's all there is to it. No logins. No configuration. No nonsense. Everything works right out of the box! Of course if power and control is what you crave then read-on ...
IMPORTANT NOTE: When editing advanced settings iGoogle and Blogspot often require you to logout and log back in before you will see all of your changes take place. We know, it's lame but there isn't much we can do about it... sorry.
- Location - Use this setting to define a custom default location. If you accidently delete your cookies, your preferred location will still be saved by Google.
- Lock - Lock the gadget to a preferred location. Run several copies of Weather by W.a.R on the same page by locking each one to a different location.
- Theme - Choose from different weather icons to give your weather widget a more personalized touch (more themes coming soon).
- Size - Choose between "standard" and "mini" sizes for a perfect fit on any page. The "mini" mode is Perfect for the narrow blogspot sidebars (found in most default Blogger templates).
- If you leave "Location" blank you'll see weather for New York, NY instead of an empty box.
- Every time you change your location, your preferences are saved automatically.
- Get creative and search for new locations with ease! Search for a city, a state, a zip code, a country, a village, a town, anything! We'll show you the best possible match almost instantly.
- Do not delete the "weather_location_preference" cookie. We use that cookie to automatically save your preferred location.
You can see Weather by W.a.R in action at the bottom of this page. If you like it, consider leaving us a nice rating and review on our Google Gadget page.
FUTURE
Here's some of what we have in store for future releases:
- Designer Themes and New Icon Sets for a little variety. With a different themes and icon sets to choose from we hope to have a little something for everyone!
- Optional Sign In for users who prefer to save their settings on our server instead of as a cookie.
- Multi-platform Release because the world is bigger than just Google. Our goal is to make our real-time weather retrieval application available to Yahoo!, Facebook and MySpace users, among others.