The Vatican widget arrived in this morning's post. I put it in the sidebar but the width is 280px which would extend it halfway across the blog. Reducing it to 150px to fit, the heading picture is chopped. I'll leave it there for a bit in case you want to let me know whether it is useful. Perhaps better to put this on the parish website.
Here is the full 280px version:
Not here any more ;-)
Ah! I see that placing the widget in the post blanks out the widget on the sidebar. I'll leave it here for a day or so anyway.
UPDATE: I have removed it now on account of the length of the last couple of posts. The sidebar version works.
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FAther was that by snail mail or electronic post? I sent for the widget but don't recall them asking for a postal address.
Perhaps the Vatican IT department is sticking to its time honoured motto,"Yesterday's technology tomorrow".
Via the widget, I went into the Vatican website to see what the Secretary of State had been up to.
Under Statements of the Cardinal Secretary, the first listed is an address given during the dinner offered in honour of the Bishops of Mexico and Latin America. This was in the Courtyard of the Cathedral of León on 25 March 2012. I was interested to note that it was given in English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish.
These, of course, correspond to the seven Language Sections of the Secretariat (the first headed by our very own Mgr Leo Cushley, Diocese of Motherwell).
Hopefully, in the future more documents will be published in each of these languages.
Fr - sorry, that was a joke. I sent an email on 19 April and received the reply this morning. It would have been quicker by snail mail ;-)
The email refers to "the codex (sic)to be inserted exclusively in the website you have indicated" and then gives a line of code to call up a script from "widgets.vatican.va"
I suppose that means that I ought to ask them separately for permission to post the code on the parish website.
All a bit daft, really because all anyone has to do is right-click on any page that has the widget, choose "view page source" and you can simply pick up the code from there.
You weren't joking about a Vatican widget.
In any event, that Widget seems to need some work (video, video?)
We have just put it up on our blog. I thought, for a new thing its working surprisingly well. The video links playing within it on the Youtube button are fun.
It was odd about the slow email reply, and the need to apply for the code, I can think of two reasons, 1) they want, in "old-fashioned" Vatican manner, to vet the sites/blogs on which it is used, or 2) to get some sort of survey of how widely taken up it is.
I nearly deleted the email as too much trouble, but got my "codex" (hilarious) by return email.
Anyway, I think we should push it, for all its potential faults, as it is what Pope Benedict wants.
I received my code the other day. But when I use a HTML gadget to put the code in the sidebar nothing shows up. I tried it in a post to see if it would show up there--nothing. How did you install yours and where is it now? Did you decide not to use it?
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