neat weather widgets for Aus websites

[hills]

A mate of mine, Laurie, runs a website called Seabreeze that focuses on the weather conditions for wind based sports and a forum on which I'm an admin. He has created these widgets that can be added to your weather website if you're interested.

http://www.seabreeze.com.au/Widget.asp

I'm still playing with my stylesheet, but you can see my 7 day forcast on my mainpage on my website.

Let me know what you think.

[MickinMoulden]

Looks good!
I'm going to add this. I see you've also added a large display of the current temperature at the top. I'll think I'll add this in the <title> so that it shows on the internet tab.
I'm also looking at adding weather alarms that send emails to Facebook, but that's another thread post!

[hills]

AAAARRGH!! I've just spent an hour editing style sheets on one PC and reviewing the web page on another PC trying to get rid of a "." in the new widget, only to find it was a spec of dirt on my PC screen

Thanks Mick, Feel free to copy any of my screens, mind you for really good screens, I'd copy Bob's: http://members.aussiebroadband.com.au/muster/index.htm

This all started because I was trying to incorporate a BOM forecast in the main screen, rather than the default one. The best I could come up with was using another one of Laurie's widgets and setting the unwanted text to 0pt and colour=white. Its still work in progress.

[tjaliwalpa]

AAAARRGH!! I've just spent an hour editing style sheets on one PC and reviewing the web page on another PC trying to get rid of a "." in the new widget, only to find it was a spec of dirt on my PC screen

Thanks Mick, Feel free to copy any of my screens, mind you for really good screens, I'd copy Bob's: http://members.aussiebroadband.com.au/muster/index.htm

This all started because I was trying to incorporate a BOM forecast in the main screen, rather than the default one. The best I could come up with was using another one of Laurie's widgets and setting the unwanted text to 0pt and colour=white. Its still work in progress.

Phil,

Had a real giggle when I read the above 'trying to get rid of a "." in the new widget'.

Regarding my index.htm, it uses three frames (left, top and bottom), with a menu.htm in the left frame, a heading in the top.htm and the bottom or main frame containing weather displays.

Took me a while to develop. Anyone wanting help, I can assist, but you would want to have a commitment to learning frames and fiddling with menus (both ccs and java scripts) and of course menu links.

Unfortunately (or fortunately - for my aging brain), my provider does not have a server with PHP, or I would be delving into learning PHP. Plenty of time for that in retirement in 4 years time.

Bob

[tjaliwalpa]

Oh, and yes Phil, I shall probably include your Widget on my website. It would be great if it could reflect a more local forecast than Adelaide for my site.

Bob

[MickinMoulden]

I've just put a forecast on my website, but couldn't do the one from seabreeze because it doesn't include Darwin! (and nothing outside of Australia)
I've used the ones from WU, but I know I've done it all wrong, and will probably never update, so it will be back to the drawing board I think.

[hills]

No worries, there are many many more sites than what he has listed in his source info. I've asked for a list and will put it up here when I get it.


EDIT: here you go, just got this: Darwin (11503), this has 7 days forecast.

Sorry Bob, there's a couple of sites nearer to you, but they don'y have forecast info, just current.

[hills]

Actually here's what I've got. Not all sites have forecast info though.

1 Perth
6 Mandurah
9 Perth Airport
14 Bridgetown
15 Broome
16 Bunbury
19 Margaret River
21 Gnaraloo
26 Dalwallinu
29 Esperance
31 Eucla
34 Geraldton
41 Kalumburu
49 Manjimup
55 Norseman
57 Onslow
64 Shark Bay
100 Brisbane
101 Brisbane Airport
153 Cape Otway
154 Cerberu
156 Combienbar
159 Falls Creek
163 Gelantipy
167 Kilmore Gap
168 Latrobe Valley
170 Longerenong
172 Mallacoota
174 Melbourne
178 Mortlake
185 Orbost
186 Port Fairy
189 Redesdale
190 Rhyll
192 Sale
193 Scoresby
194 Sheoaks
204 Yarrawonga
227 Sydney Airport
266 Sydney
274 Noarlunga
275 Nuriootpa
282 Adelaide
284 Terrey Hills
294 Omeo
317 Innisfail
327 Ingham
328 Townsville
330 Charters Towers
334 Casterton
345 Nhill
347 Warracknabeal
349 Heywood
350 Weeaproinah
352 Cranbourne
353 Phillip Island
354 Wonthaggi
357 Kyabram
358 Tatura
360 Beechworth
361 Benalla
362 Corryong
367 Strathbogie
368 Castlemaine
369 Lake Eildon
370 Maryborough
372 Noojee
375 Gabo Island
376 Lakes Entrance
377 Point Hicks
395 Marble Bar
403 Roebourne
413 Leonora
426 Kalbarri
432 Lancelin
441 Albany
444 Ravensthorpe
451 Narrogin
460 Merredin
462 Northam
468 Ballina
469 Cape Byron
473 Grafton
479 Coffs Harbour
481 Forster
482 Kempsey
485 Port Macquarie Airport
492 Maitland
500 Singleton
502 Armidale
507 Inverell
513 Liverpool
521 Bowral
526 Point Perpendicular
528 Batemans Bay
529 Bega
533 Merimbula
536 Moruya Heads
540 Bathurst
543 Katoomba
544 Lithgow
555 Cooma
557 Goulburn
560 Perisher Valley
565 Yass
588 Parkes
596 Cabramurra
605 Wagga Wagga
610 Deniliquin
612 Hay
621 Broken Hill
10902 Newcastle
10911 Port Macquarie
10915 Cairns
10916 Moruya
10932 Broome Airport
10939 Learmonth Airport
10943 Carnarvon Airport
10978 Port Augusta
10987 Ceduna
10989 Kyancutta
10991 Port Lincoln
11005 Port Pirie
11020 Victor Harbor
11028 Murray Bridge
11029 Keith
11034 Robe
11035 Coonawarra
11050 Cairns Airport
11056 Townsville Airport
11060 Mackay
11094 Biloela
11112 Gold Coast
11124 Warwick
11160 Ballina Airport
11162 Taree
11164 Port Macquarie
11167 Newcastle
11189 Nowra Ran
11193 Merimbula Airport
11209 Walpeup
11217 Rutherglen
11218 Dartmouth
11235 Portland
11289 Sunshine Coast
11373 Central Coast
11408 Low Head
11418 Cape Sorell
11436 Friendly Beaches
11448 Hobart
11473 Exmouth
11503 Darwin

[tjaliwalpa]

Phil,

Thanks for the list of sites. I notice there are a number of missing numbers in the sequence. I wonder what these may be for.

I've come up with an idea for my website which I shall trial. I've constructed a menu for Seabreeze forecasts. I have put one option under this already, namely Australian Capitals (pity about Canberra). My concept is to construct regional centre menu items for each state.

Bob

[hills]

Great idea, looks good!!

[WestOz]

Great thanks Phil

[hills]

no worries, that 7 day horizontal widget looks good on your main page!!

[MickinMoulden]

Thanks for the Darwin Widget, works great. Used a 740px width so that it matches.

[MickinMoulden]

no worries, that 7 day horizontal widget looks good on your main page!!

Phil, thanks for the widget once again. I need you to do something for me. When I view my website it works fine (on both my computers), however, Cumulus friends in Europe are saying that it comes up with

Website Under Review

You are seeing this page because the system administrator of 000webhost.com is currently checking this website for malicious content. This redirect page will be removed once we finish manually checking all files on this account. Since we check over 100 websites per day, it can take about 2-4 hours to complete. If you are the owner of this website, you will get an email confirmation once it's done. If you are a visitor, please come back later.

www.000webhost.com is the most popular free web hosting provider, and as such, suffers from abusers. Around 5% of users sign up here just to start hacking or phishing websites or causing other problems. So, in order to survive, we must monitor what our users are hosting.

We are sorry for the inconvenience, but checking all content manually is the only way to provide you with the most secure and reliable service. If you find any illegal websites on our network, you can report it here.

Can you open this page to see if it works in SA for me please? http://www.mickinmoulden.comze.com/index.htm
Thanks heaps.

[hills]

Yep, works fine for me!