Useless i.ph Widgets

October 27, 2009

I’ve been tinkering on how to customize this blog whenever I get the time to do it. I’ve been at it for several days now and it’s quite a challenging thing to do, as my web development know-hows are only in the minimal. The cheapskate in me wouldn’t spend shit for a web host, so I must rely only on freebie goodies that you can find readily available in the net. Enter Scribd, Twitter, and all sorts of widgets. They do well enough serving their purposes. 

One thing that irks me a little though is the fact that the side bars of this template is too narrow for the most of the widgets I’ve found. I had to let go of several cool-looking ones simply because they wont fit in either of the side bars. I tried resizing the width to 155 pixels only to find out that i.ph automatically offsets the widgets about 10 pixels on all sides, off-centering the mini apps. Look at my Twitter and MyBloglog widgets to see what I mean. I like how this template has sidebars on both sides, but they could have made them wider, 200 pixels at least..

I also checked out the Widget Box in the “edits” panel, but still - the same problems - the widgets won’t fit in the side bars. They just look nasty cut and off-centered. I wish somebody in i.ph could do something about this. Or at least they could take out the offset when installing the widgets if they can’t adjust the size -or they could show us how to turn that off. That shouldn’t be so hard to do.

Anyway, I chose i.ph because the domain name looks a lot more personal than let’s say, www.jrldorado.livejournal.com, et al. That is very appealing enough to me that I’d put up with their limited features.

I leave you now with a widget I found in their widget box. And then tell me, “how on Google Earth could this fit in the side bars?”. Never mind the purpose. 

Stay safe, people. 

 

 *Btw, Manoy gig tonight at Freedom Bar!