Webuser Forums: Traffic cams on your homepage

I use "Netvibes" to personalise my own start page and found a very handy thing. It allows you to add a widget!
Now what makes this better is this.
Each week, I have to travel from the A2 through south london, then up through Blackwall tunnel and into London BUT never knew what traffic would be like.
I would often forget to check the traffic reports and usually got stuck in traffic.
Then I had an idea and did the following.

On my "Netvibes" start page tab , I clicked "add tab"
This basically gives you a while new page to add things too.
I simply clicked "External widget" (bottom of the add content menue on left).

On the new box that appears, click "Edit" and put THIS code in (copy and paste)-

<image src="CAMERA WEBSITE">
<name>cameraImage</name>
<width>362</width>
<height>272</height>
<hOffset>18</hOffset>
<vOffset>16</vOffset>
<opacity>255</opacity>
</image>

nothing will appear yet...

I opened in another tab, the Trafic for London (TFL) site on the London http://trafficalerts.tfl.gov.uk/pinpointlite/main.php and made sure only the "CCTV" camera option was ticked.
I then positioned the pointer over a relevant camera, when the image FROM that camera appeared, I RIGHT clicked on it then clicked properties and then highlight the URL address and then click on COPY.

NOW -

Go back to the new widget you added to start page. In the "Source" box where you put the html code, PASTE the URL you copied into the bit that says "Camera Website"

NB SIMPLY DELETE THE WORDS CAMERA WEBSITE THEN PASTE! SO YOU ARE PASTING INBETWEEN THE TWO " "

Then click "Add to my page"

You can repeat this as many times as you want using the same method.
You will end up with a page with various road/motorway views so you know what the roads look like/

I now have a tab on my start screen that has all the traffic cam views I need to SEE what the roads are like before I set off.
The above may look tek like but it really is a LOT simpler than it looks!

Edited by Baz94 (Fri Jun 15 2007 11:13 AM)