Weather widget only shows HTML link on sidebar

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  randomlady65 · Member · Mar 29, 2011 at 3:11 am

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  Okay, I’m a complete idiot where these are concerned apparently. I’ve used these instructions: http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2010/09/16/widgets-for-wpcom-5-weather/ and even tried this shortcode help: http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2010/07/22/gigya-shortcode-3-widgets/ and every time I’ve saved, the text widget doesn’t show the cool little weather icon. All I see is a link to a full size weather window.

  Here is the embed code I received from YoWindow: <div style=”width:220px; height:150px;”>
  <object type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” data=”http://swf.yowindow.com/wimo/hpPal/hpPal.swf” width=”220″ height=”150″>
  <param name=”movie” value=”http://swf.yowindow.com/wimo/hpPal/hpPal.swf”/>
  <param name=”allowfullscreen” value=”true”/>
  <param name=”wmode” value=”opaque”/>
  <param name=”bgcolor” value=”#FFFFFF”/>
  <param name=”flashvars”
  value=”location_id=gn:4685907&location_name=Denton&time_format=12&unit_system=us&background=#FFFFFF&copyright_bar=false”
  />
  <a href=”http://yowindow.com?client=widget&link=stub”
  style=”width:220px;height:150px;display: block;text-indent: -50000px;font-size: 0px;background:#DDF url(http://yowindow.com/img/logo.png) no-repeat scroll 50% 50%;”
  >Desktop weather
  </object>
  </div>
  <div style=”width: 220px; height: 15px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;”>
  <span style=”float:left;”>YoWindow.com</span>
  NWS</span>
  </div>

  And here is the short code I thought I had correct: [gigya src=”http://swf.yowindow.com/wimo/hpPal/hpPal.swf” width=”220″ height=”150″ “wmode” value=”opaque” “flashvars” value=”location_id=gn:4685907&location_name=Denton&time_format=12&unit_system=us&background=#FFFFFF&copyright_bar=false”

  I know nothing about HTML so you’ll have to talk to me like a 2 yr. old. so I can get thru this without throwing something. Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 29, 2011 at 4:09 am

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  Please go back to this post http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2010/07/22/gigya-shortcode-3-widgets/ a and leave a comment there and get help there.

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Mar 29, 2011 at 3:26 pm

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  Answered here:

  The gigya shortcode 3 – inserting Flash

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  timethief · Member · Mar 29, 2011 at 4:03 pm

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  ~~ Panos
  Thanks for letting us know you have helped this blogger.