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It's been a while since I've visited the forums.  In that time, web 2.0 and widgets/gadgets have become all the rage.

Just for fun I'd like to try and use CMSMS to create my own personal web portal/homepage.  I've been searching the Internet trying to find clear instructions on how to add widgets to a personal website but haven't found anything instructional.  There are a lot of sites that have widgets to add to various portals, but that's not what I'm looking for.

So... how would I add various widgets to a page in a columnar format similar to netvibes, igoogle, etc.?

Thanks!
Heather

I'm not really sure how this is a CMSms related question.

Google makes it pretty simple.  Go here, http://www.google.com/ig/directory?synd=open find the gadget you want, click add to your webpage change some settings, click get the code and presto, you have the code to add to your site.

Now the possible CMSms part:

You can either add that code to directly to your template or to the page.  For the template, just add the code, you'll probably want to wrap that code with the literal tag.

Example:
{literal}
code pasted from Google
{/literal}

For me to get it to work for just an individual page, I had to turn off WYSIWYG editing and paste the code in there.  I would still wrap the code with the literal tag as above so you can still see where it is in the page content when editing the content and so you don't accidentally delete it as it does not show up in the WYSIWYG editor.  You'll only see the literal tags, with nothing between them: {literal} {/literal}