Blogger Avatar Gadget

One of the ideas behind allowing the graphical assets of an avatar character to function outside of the editor was to make it easy to place the avatar in the context of your website or blog without the extra interface or controls. I quickly made a little Blogger Gadget (a.k.a. Widget) which places your avatar in a sidebar item for your Blogger blog. You should be able to see an example of it on this blog over to the right - yes, that's me, and yes, the beard is new ;)

I did this through the simple blogger post API, not through Google's widget format which meant I just set up a simple html page with a form and hit a button to make it happen. I haven't decided if I wanted to make something link this visible on the site/editor or not, since under the current setup, it would pull the avatar file from myavatareditor.com sucking away precious bandwidth... but maybe it wouldn't be so demanding that my server couldn't handle it, and if it is, I could always stop hosting it!

Note: Feel free to play with the page posted above. To work with your own avatar, you would need to edit the content in the blogger page that appears after hitting the Add Avatar button and replace the avatar code string with your own.

My Avatar Editor

Welcome to the My Avatar Editor blog. My Avatar Editor will be the successor to the recently removed Mii Editor. It will support all of the same features but include an entirely new interface and possibly some additions that go beyond the limitations of the Mii Editor which was confined to the parameters of the Mii™ characters on the Nintendo Wii™.

The new site will be located at www.myavatareditor.com. At this time, there is only a placeholder. Stay tuned to this blog for more information about its development.