Ravelry Quicktip: Queue Button with Icon

Monday, June 11, 2007

I've been sucked in by Ravelry. I got my invite last Saturday night and, uh, didn't have any trouble figuring out what to do for the rest of the weekend. ;) Holy crap is it addictive! I could gush about the site for pages but I'm not gonna. Let's just say that from the time I heard my Gmail go *pling* late Saturday night I entered into a time warp and didn't get out until it was 10:30 p.m. Sunday night and I realized I had to get to work on Monday morning.

By far one of my favorite features is the Queue where you can put all the patterns -- online or offline -- that you want to make some day, order them around, add deadlines and whatnot. The web elves have also done a handy dandy bookmarklet you can add to your browser's toolbar so you can -- get this -- add any pattern on the web directly to your queue without searching for it in Ravelry. Nice!

I already have so much crap stuff on my Firefox toolbar that it's getting difficult to find the right button without visual cues. Unfortunately, Firefox doesn't allow you to add icons directly but there's a way to work around it. Here's how.

Step 1: Go to www.ravelry.com and drag the green favicon onto the toolbar. Firefox adds a generic icon cause it's stupid that way.

Step 2: Click on the button once and Firefox should pull the correct icon from Ravelry. Here we go!

Step 3: Go to your queue but now drag the green bookmarklet onto your toolbar.

Step 4: Right click on the bookmarklet button, choose Properties, and copy all the stuff in the Location box.

Step 5: Now right click on the Ravelry quick link, the one with the green icon, and choose Properties. In the location box, delete the address and paste in the stuff you copied in the previous step. In the Name box, add a description you want.

Step 6: Click OK, and delete the temporary bookmarklet (the one without the icon). Now you have a queue button with a cute icon. :)

When you come across a pattern you like, just click on the button, add in a few details in the box that pops up, and it'll be automatically placed to the bottom your queue.

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