Dashboard Widgets for iWeb

It would be great if Apple added the ability to add pre-canned coded widgets for inclusion into iWeb – This would allow us to add such things as local weather, Ski reports, stocks, webcams, news feeds etc...
Just drop a widget onto the page as you would any other type of media, posistion it where you want it, job done!
Possibly link this to .Mac and give me a reason to keep my account now that i don't use Homepage.
Any thoughts?

I made my point of not to volunteer my info in this
forum, because some one here called my work hack, let
that be known.
I'm not punishing anyone, it's my way of controlling my works.
Cyclosaurus:
I don't think you are trying to punish anyone either... I really don't. But I think the entire iWeb community here stands to benefit from your renewed presence and hopefully continued and constructive thoughts. It is your prerogative as to how and with whom you choose to share your brilliant work, but honestly speaking, I think a lot of the new people around here won't know anything about your brilliance unless they are able to not only see but also to share in it. And that's the spirit of these forums anyways, don't you agree?
As the person who ostensibly called your work a hack, I just wanted to say that I never intended to cause you so much personal anguish. You know yourself the best, so I won't pretend to understand fully how my comments affected you so. It's too bad you decided to withdraw from the forum, especially in the way that you chose to do it. Fortunately for you, I don't think that many people saw the full extent of your lashing out against me.
Having said all of this, I want to apologize publicly for whatever disrespect that you interpreted from my comments. I have moved pass this, and I would have expected you to do the same by now. So take this for what it's worth. You don't need a welcome sign from me in order to participate here -- no one does. I welcome everyone as always, just as I was made to feel welcome. Stay and share if you like....if you don't, then don't. But let's let bygones be bygones. What do you say?
James

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With all i am pasting the code provided by these services into the HTML Snippet box. I am using the popup functions, since without doing so requires the HTML Snippet box to be resized unacceptably large obscuring other links on the page. The widgets are published fine, however the link they provide when posting to social networking site or included in an email add an additional extension on the URL that just links to an image of the widget. (i.e. http://web.me.com/fknott/CrystalCove_Properties_2//Home_files/widget1markup.html) the URL should end Home.html.
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On my Blog entry about [Favicons|http://www.site49.eu/Leo/Tips4Mac/Entries/2009/2/15_Favicons.html|Add favicons to iWeb websites] you can find some screenshots on how to use TextWrangler as an automated search and mass replace tool.
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Just wondering if anyone has any ideas on how to create an upcoming events snippet for an iweb page. Here's what I would like to do: I am an athletic director and would I have entered all of my school's athletic contests into iCal. I would like to set up something in which iWeb can pull the events out of iCal (I have mobileme) into a "week at a glance" type of display on our athletics page (made with iweb). Ideally it would automatically update so that as events are completed, the next events would show up.
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Hi
i don't mean to be a noodge, but 4 days ago i posted
a simple request asking if i could get support here
for some questions i had as regards some snags i ran
into making dashboard widgets. while other people's
questions about ruby/rails, c and objective c and
even powerpoint (shouldn't that be in a microsquish
support forum??) have been responded to.
You shouldn't take the lack of response as a personal insult The nature of these forums (fora?) is that people respond to those messages where they can help and don't respond when they can't help. FWIW I've got two unresolved questions dating back to Mar 17th!
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