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MyDungeonRunner is a Google gadget which displays the Dungeon Runners character you choose, on your own website.
Add this gadget to your blog or website
From the ‘add this gadget’-page, the most important preferences to choose is the name of the character you wish to display.
It works best with the default width of 260 and height of 315.
Once satisfied with your settings, click ‘Get the Code’ and instantly, one of Google’s programmers will write a javascript for you looking something like this:
<script src="http://gmodules.com/ig/ifr?url=http://[...blahblahblah...]“></script>
You’ll see it appear on that same website beneath the ‘Get the Code’ button.
Paste the line of script Google gives you to the location you wish to display your character, such as your blog sidebar.
Add “MyDungeonRunner” to your iGoogle page
In the event you are the one who hasn’t started blogging yet, or for some reason use iGoogle anyway, you may instead or also add this to your iGoogle page. Just click the big blue button on that page.
Now the gadget will be on your iGoogle page, but not yet displaying the character you wish to see. Go to your iGoogle page to configure the settings, though if you clicked the big blue button like I said, you should already be there.
Click the down arrow button in the upper-right corner, and select ‘Edit Settings‘ in order to edit your settings.
Again, of primary importance would be the name of the character you wish to display.
Where can it be used?
You can use this on your own website, where ever that may be.
You cannot use it on any website that prevents you from adding javascript (except iGoogle), but those are in fact not your web sites.
Despite what some might tell you.
Social networking sites in particular are fond of referring to the pages they allow their users to customize as their users’ blogs, or weblogs, or journals, or just web pages.
However, calling something by this or that name doesn’t make it so.
If a page is your page, then you can add links to your friends without requiring they sign-up with a particular service, you can modify the appearance and functionality of it beyond a set of pre-determined configuration options, and you can add javascript such as the above if you want.
If you just discovered that you have no web page that is actually your own, here are a couple of great places to get one:
You’ll still be able to link to your friends’ profile-pages, on whatever social network site they have joined, but of course their ability to link back to you will depend on whether their website’s owner allows them to do it.
If you’re a very good friend, you might suggest that you’ve all been tricked. A ‘trade-off’ in which you give up accessibility and control, and in exchange you only get less accessibility and control, so someone else can have the hundreds of millions of dollars that you (collectively) are worth, just doesn’t seem like a very good deal.
But if you are not a very good friend, pointing-out the obvious there will just piss-off your peeps. Nobody wants to hear that noise.
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