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You were unable to verify the Network widget on my blog?
I designed a blidget and installed it on my blog at http://gitanajava-productions.vox.com/ (the RSS is feed://gitanajava-productions.vox.com/library/posts/atom.xml)and on my website (a different URL at MySpace).
The blidget appears in the Widgetbox Gallery; friends and colleagues have been able to install it without any issues. Then, I joined the "Art & Design" Network and installed that widget on my blog website; again, no problems. From the Network widget installed at my blog site, I selected "Add Your Blog"; then, at the "Join the Widgetbox Network" window, I selected "Add yourself to a Widgetbox Network" and chose "Use existing blidget".
At that point, I encountered Problem 1 -- only an older blidget is shown in the drop-down list. That being so, I selected the alternate option "Use your blog URL". At that point, everything SEEMED to run smoothly (added the Vox.com URL for my blog, shown above in paragraph 1) and a thumbnail JPEG, hosted at Photobucket -- everything still AOK). Got the embed code for the Network Widget, erased the code for Art & Design's original install at my blog site, replacing it with the new embed code. The Network widget appears and functions just as it should.
HOWEVER, when I return to the Widgetbox "Get & Install" screen to confirm the installation, I get the following message:
"We were unable to verify the Network widget on your blog.
The blog does not contain the widget code. Please make sure the Network widget is installed on your blog and try again.
Your blog URL:
http://gitanajava-productions.vox.com/ "
So, I try again, this time using the RSS feed "feed://gitanajava-productions.vox.com/library/posts/atom.xml". Same results, same message when I attempt to confirm.
If Dave R. or any of the other fab folks at Widgetbox should wander through the room, you will have my undying gratitude if you can step me through what I need to do differently to add my blog to the Art & Design network widget/blidget.
In a separate yet related matter, it's worth mentioning that when I installed my blog's blidget to the "About Me" column on my MySpace page, it still has two minor issues I don't know how to troubleshoot:
(1) The blidget functions as it should but it appears on the far left side of the right column (i.e., within the About Me section, but just a pixel or two inside the border) -- all my other "add-ons" appear centered in their appropriate columns;
(2) The body of the blidget is detached from the grey tab (?) bearing the words "Get Widget"; that tab IS more or less centered. This blidget, by the way, replaces another Widgetbox blidget which functioned AND appeared as intended, in the center of the About Me column. All of the code for that earlier widget was thoroughly deleted, long before placing the new blidget in the About Me section.
Your assistance on this secondary issue is likewise appreciated. To view the "straying" blidget, go to http://www.myspace.com/blackjack4fun.
Thanks and highest regards to the Widgetbox posse! :-)
The blidget appears in the Widgetbox Gallery; friends and colleagues have been able to install it without any issues. Then, I joined the "Art & Design" Network and installed that widget on my blog website; again, no problems. From the Network widget installed at my blog site, I selected "Add Your Blog"; then, at the "Join the Widgetbox Network" window, I selected "Add yourself to a Widgetbox Network" and chose "Use existing blidget".
At that point, I encountered Problem 1 -- only an older blidget is shown in the drop-down list. That being so, I selected the alternate option "Use your blog URL". At that point, everything SEEMED to run smoothly (added the Vox.com URL for my blog, shown above in paragraph 1) and a thumbnail JPEG, hosted at Photobucket -- everything still AOK). Got the embed code for the Network Widget, erased the code for Art & Design's original install at my blog site, replacing it with the new embed code. The Network widget appears and functions just as it should.
HOWEVER, when I return to the Widgetbox "Get & Install" screen to confirm the installation, I get the following message:
"We were unable to verify the Network widget on your blog.
The blog does not contain the widget code. Please make sure the Network widget is installed on your blog and try again.
Your blog URL:
http://gitanajava-productions.vox.com/ "
So, I try again, this time using the RSS feed "feed://gitanajava-productions.vox.com/library/posts/atom.xml". Same results, same message when I attempt to confirm.
If Dave R. or any of the other fab folks at Widgetbox should wander through the room, you will have my undying gratitude if you can step me through what I need to do differently to add my blog to the Art & Design network widget/blidget.
In a separate yet related matter, it's worth mentioning that when I installed my blog's blidget to the "About Me" column on my MySpace page, it still has two minor issues I don't know how to troubleshoot:
(1) The blidget functions as it should but it appears on the far left side of the right column (i.e., within the About Me section, but just a pixel or two inside the border) -- all my other "add-ons" appear centered in their appropriate columns;
(2) The body of the blidget is detached from the grey tab (?) bearing the words "Get Widget"; that tab IS more or less centered. This blidget, by the way, replaces another Widgetbox blidget which functioned AND appeared as intended, in the center of the About Me column. All of the code for that earlier widget was thoroughly deleted, long before placing the new blidget in the About Me section.
Your assistance on this secondary issue is likewise appreciated. To view the "straying" blidget, go to http://www.myspace.com/blackjack4fun.
Thanks and highest regards to the Widgetbox posse! :-)
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Inappropriate?Widgetbox Posse, hope to see some guidance/feedback on this issue soon. Feel like I'm in the deep end of the pool and my floaties are losing air fast :::glub, glub:::
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I’m drowning!
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Inappropriate?OK, answering the second questions first since they're way easier. Myspace does some really weird modifications to the flash code that you install, and it will mess with the alignment and make the GW button separate from the widget. We informed them of this issue some months ago and they said that they'd look into it, but I didn't get any overwhelming sensation that they would... so there's not much we can do with them modifying the code installed. Sucks.
On to the main attraction. The issue is that your widgets are placed in an iframe. When we're hitting the page to look for the widget code, we're not finding it (since the code isn't on the page, it's in the iframe). Unfortunately, for security reasons, we need that code snippet from the network widget to be directly on the page instead.
I hope this helps and thanks for your patience!
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Dear Dave,
Thank you for the info re the MySpace part of the problem. Sounds like I'm stuck with a "wobbly widget" until they resolve their issues.
As for the iframe thingy: I am blonde, so when you say things like, "...for security reasons, we need that code snippet from the network widget to be directly on the page instead", I'm not sure what that means. :::sorry!::: What, if anything can I do at my end to rectify the situation? The widget looks sooooo good on my page ;-)
Thanks again for your assist! With the weekend holiday disrupting everyone's week, I knew there would likely be a delay in your ability to get back to me, so don't sweat it. -
I wish I could blame wakeboarding and sunburns on missing this, but I'll reserve those excuses for when I really need them!
So when you came to our site and got the network widget, we gave you a little block of code, right? How did you install that on your site? You must have pasted it into some section or file, right? -
Inappropriate?BTW, the "How does this make you feel?" section needs to add this: :-/
Or maybe this: :-~
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Inappropriate?Yo, Dave: you're just trying to make me envy you with the "wakeboarding" remark, aren't you? :-p
I was going to just demo the code I added to the "embed" option on my Vox blog, but every time I've tried to paste it to this page so you could see it, it is whited out. What do I need to do to "de-fuse" it so it will show up here?
Meanwhile, until I can show you the Widgetbox codes I embedded at Vox.com, a couple of notes worth mentioning: Vox recommends subscribers add this string ---- at the top of the embed codes to "stretch" the available space in the left sidebar to allow for the total height of all the widgets one uses, then, end the block of code with this --.
Other than those two required snippets, I pasted the code in exactly as it was provided by Widgetbox (that's not to say though, that I might not have goofed somehow else!) BTW, the pixel allowance for Vox's sidebar width is fixed at 165 px (170 if you don't mind losing a border). -
Inappropriate?Yeah, that's helpful. I think the issue may just lie in how Vox handles it's sidebar. Do they have a 'widgets' section for the sidebar that you're installing this to? The iframe that they're drawing out on the page (just HTML code stuff) has the word 'widgets' in it and it looks like everything that you install to this section is handled like this.
Another option may be hitting Vox at the same time and asking them something like 'why are these widgets that I installed being rendered in an iframe and where can I add code to render them directly on the page instead?'
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Inappropriate?The Vox process: after the subscriber logs in, you click on "Change Your Design", which takes you to this screen:
Then, click on "customize your sidebars" (the only place embeds are permitted outside of one's blog text):
Next, the subscriber chooses "Configure" and that yields this screen:
You paste in your code, click "OK"....and pray! To see how the widget actually will probably appear to viewers, you can elect to "[View Your] Blog", but for an accurate view of what viewers will see, it is necessary to log out and navigate to one's own page. Circuitous, but the only method I've found trustworthy at Vox.com.
Are we having fun yet? ;-)
I’m determined!
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Inappropriate?Yeah, this makes me think that Vix is then iframing in anything you put in the Embed section. They could confirm this, but if this is the case, the Network won't be usable for you. I'd definitely recommend posing this question to Vix support.
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That's a friendly skirmish I'll start tomorrow. Muchisimas gracias for your kind assistance and encouragement. I'll keep you and any interested passers-by up to date on any developments on the Vox front. You probably know this already: Vox is one of the newer Six Apart products, the same folks who brought us Typepad and Movable Type.
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Yeah, I know it can be tricky with the big players like that. But keep at it and if you need to refer back to this thread or me for help, I'm glad to do what I can.
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Inappropriate?To Dave Rhea, GS'ers who may follow this conversation, and the occasional stranger just Googling through for some info:
I sent the URL of all the above to vox@sixapart.com. We're standing by for an answer now. Film at eleven ;-) -
Inappropriate?For the record, here's the letter sent to Vox. Dave, I hope I captured the essentials:
Okay, 'nuff done on this. It's time for Happy Hour at the Starbucks patio!
I'll check back in tomorrow. Best to all :-)
I’m on standby......
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Yup, looks like you got the main point in there: the iframe prevents the widget from doing what it needs to do in this case.
